There will be plenty of spots across the United States to watch the next total solar eclipse in 2024, but one of the best viewing spots may be from the sky.
29.09.2023 - 20:23 / thepointsguy.com
SeaWorld has U.S. parks in Orlando, San Diego and San Antonio, and they have "whale-y" big news for what's to come in the new year: All three parks are slated to open family-friendly, marine life-themed attractions in 2024.
This exciting news shouldn't come as any big surprise to theme park fans who have been following SeaWorld's other major developments in recent years. Since 2022, SeaWorld Orlando has added two thrilling coasters to its lineup — Ice Breaker and Pipeline: The Surf Coaster — bringing the park's total coaster count to seven. That's more than any other individual Orlando theme park.
SeaWorld San Antonio also added a new "screaming swing" attraction in 2022 called Tidal Surge, and this year, SeaWorld San Diego opened an all-new area for kids called Rescue Jr. The Rescue Jr. area uses rides, play areas and real-life equipment and experts to promote the park's message of animal conservation and education in a kid-friendly way.
It's clear 2024 is shaping up to be an even bigger year for SeaWorld parks across the country, with more attractions and more fun.
SeaWorld Orlando is already the coaster capital of Orlando, but it'll soon have an even tighter grip on that title when Penguin Trek opens in 2024. This family-friendly launch coaster will send riders on an icy rescue mission through Antarctica aboard ride cars designed to look like snowmobiles.
The coaster travels indoors and out, has two heart-pumping launches and reaches a top speed of 43 miles per hour. With a minimum height requirement of only 42 inches, Penguin Trek is a coaster that the whole family can enjoy together. When you reach the end of your ride, you'll exit into the park's real-life penguin habitat, where you can observe the very animals you were on a mission to save while on the coaster.
Jewels of the Sea: The Jellyfish Experience will be an interactive and educational attraction in SeaWorld San Diego's "Ocean's Explore" area. The immersive experience will make guests feel like they are in the colorful underwater world that jellyfish call home, with aquariums featuring many different varieties of these ethereal creatures.
The exhibit will have three distinctly themed galleries and some of the tallest jellyfish cylinders in the world; this includes an 18-foot-tall jellyfish habitat, a 10-foot-tall "living arch" of jellyfish that guests can walk under and more. Guests will also have the opportunity to upgrade their jellyfish experience with a behind-the-scenes, hands-on tour for an additional fee.
When it opens in 2024, Catapult Falls will be the world's first launched flume coaster. It will also feature the world's steepest drop in a flume ride and North America's only vertical lift in a flume coaster. The project was
There will be plenty of spots across the United States to watch the next total solar eclipse in 2024, but one of the best viewing spots may be from the sky.
American Airlines is betting that a trip to New England might be in the cards for you this summer.
Nearly a decade ago, I woke up in the middle of the night thinking that I should travel to the Grand Canyon solo — the first National Park on what would become a yearslong personal quest.
American Airlines is gearing up for the new year with several new flight routes to popular summer destinations in 2024.
While I was born and bred here in New Zealand – or Aotearoa, the country's Māori-language name – I’ve spent enough years away to understand how it’s a destination that can feel comfortingly familiar and completely strange to visitors all at once.
On Saturday, October 14 a major solar eclipse will come to North America. From a narrow path through nine states in the U.S. Southwest a “ring of fire” will be seen as the thin outer ring of the sun’s disk remains visible while its center is covered by the smaller dark disk of the moon.
A handful of restaurant tables in New York just became even more coveted reservations. Tacking onto the 15 New York additions to the Michelin Guide announced in September, the Michelin Guide just added 11 more restaurants.
Skygazers in eight western U.S. states will be treated to a rare “ring of fire” eclipse on Saturday, Oct. 14. With the moon covering all but the outer edges of the sun, it will briefly look as though there’s a blazing ring of fire igniting the sky.
In Panama City, Panama, a historic city core juxtaposes with modernity in the most intriguing ways. The Central American destination has a skyscraper-studded skyline, almost reminiscent of Miami’s Brickell neighborhood, yet uniquely its own.
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For fans of nostalgia TV as well as avid animal and travel lovers, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom is back in a big way. Sixty years ago, this beloved show innovated the nature adventure genre, enthralled viewers with its global destinations, won multiple Emmy Awards and galvanized conservation goals and gains. It offered an eagerly anticipated, families-gathered, weekly gaze at creatures in far-flung locales to a television audience that averaged 34-million Americans for much of its initial, astonishingly lengthy 25-year run. Between then and now, weaving through subsequent decades, Wild Kingdom had been transformed again and again, showcased on Animal Planet and as a web series. Now there is a fresh fourth project, the all-new Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild, which will premiere October 7 on NBC-TV (as part of its “The More You Know” programming block on Saturday mornings), as well as via NBC.com and NBC VOD. It is co-hosted by wildlife expert Peter Gros (who joined the original series in 1985) and wildlife ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant, Ph.D., a National Geographic Society research fellow and host of the PBS podcast Going Wild. Currently primed for 26 episodes set in North America, Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild kicks off with journeys to California’s super-parched Mojave Desert for desert-dwelling tortoises, the Maine Coast for Atlantic puffins (nicknamed “parrots of the sea” because of their colorful triangular beaks), the Florida Coast for aqua-agile manatees and Austin, Texas, for high-soaring-quick-swooping Mexican free-tailed bats. I reached out to Gros and Wynn-Grant to share their behind-the-scenes insights and inspirations, as they forge modern Wild Kingdom paths, while still applauding the footsteps of legendary zoologists Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler, who, as co-hosts of the documentary show’s dawn in 1963, put this legacy wildlife wonderland on the map.
Touring New England in search of autumn’s changing colors has become so popular it has sprouted its own subculture of “leaf-peepers.”