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Scoot through rainforest in Queensland’s Lamington National Park on an all-terrain Segway. Segway tours are open both to guests and day visitors at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat (Lamington National Park Rd., via Canungra, Queensland 4275, Australia; phone +61 7 5502 4911 or, within Aus., 1800 688 722).
To ride a Segway, you must have closed shoes and weigh 100 to 265 pounds, with no heart or balance conditions, etc.
In southeastern Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, the botanic garden and art gallery Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim (Rua B, 20, Inhotim, Brumadinho, MG, Brazil 35460-000; phone +55 31 3571 9700) spans 5,000 acres and offers two dozen art pavilions with contemporary art by Brazilian and international artists.
Admission is free on Tuesday, BRL20 ($10) Wed.-Thurs. and BRL28 ($14) Fri.-Sun. Extra, a BRL10 pass gives use of hop-on/hop-off electric vehicles driven by staff between three stops in the park.
Starting in the Renaissance, European royalty began assembling Kunstkammers, collections of “curiosities and wonders” from both the natural and man-made worlds.
Want to see a model of the Tower Bridge made of 264,345 matchsticks? How about the Beatles sculpted in chewing gum? Or Marilyn Monroe’s makeup case, a Mini-Cooper covered in more than one million Swarvoski crystals or a maze of mirrors to meander through? These and hundreds more objects, from the wacky to the disturbing, can be seen in London at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (The London Pavilion, 1 Piccadilly Circus, London W1J 0DA, U.K.; phone +44 [0] 20 3238 0022), one of Ripley’s 30 “odditoriums” worldwide.
The Posture+ by BackJoy Orthotics (Greensboro, GA; 800/222-5569) is a portable sitting device designed to prevent pressure points from developing by tilting your pelvis upright and distributing your weight evenly. I tried the product over several weeks while working and did have a more upright posture when sitting and a decrease of pressure on my tailbone.
The last operating section of Latvia’s historic Stukmaņi-Valka narrow-gauge train line, which opened in 1903, runs through picturesque countryside between the towns of Gulbene and Alūksne. Departs Gulbene daily at 1 and 6 p.m., reaching Alu¯ksne at 3:25 and 7:55 p.m., respectively. 2.40 lats ($4.30) each way. Purchase tickets on board.
The free information service Cayman Concierge is staffed by a team of Cayman Islands experts; some have worked for the Department of Tourism for 20 years. The team informs visitors of the many experiences available on the islands, such as bioluminescence kayaking, rare blue iguana tours and helicopter flights to spot turtles and eagle rays.
You can e-mail Cayman Concierge (concierge@caymanislands.co.uk) seven days a week and phone (in London, +44 020 7491 7771) 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. (GMT), Mon.-Fri.
In Berlin, the Reichstag closed its dome to visitors in 2010 due to terrorist bomb threats. The dome reopened in April 2011, but every visitor must register a few days ahead. As of March 2012, registration cannot be done by phone and must be done on the Internet or in person.
The dome is open 8 a.m.-11 p.m. daily. Admission is free, and a self-guided, 20-minute tour of the building and dome (using a free audio guide) begins every quarter hour.
To mark the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Nefertiti bust at Akhetaton, the exhibit “Amarna 2012 — 100 Years of Nefertiti” will be held in Berlin’s Neues Museum (Bodestrasse 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany; phone 030 266 42 42 42), Dec. 7, 2012-April 13, 2013.
