New Brunswick: from breathtaking views to spectacular natural sites and preserved sanctuaries, there's a world of wonder waiting for you next door in new Brunswick, Canada!

Norway's cosmopolitan cities include its colorful capital, Oslo, framed by fjords and a backdrop of mountains. Over a thousand years old, Oslo has bustling waterfront restaurants, a dynamic nightlife, and fascinating museums where you can explore Norway's cultural history and Viking heritage. Bergen, a charming port city, is the gateway to the country's most impressive fjords. Also not-to-be-missed is Alesund, Norway's art nouveau fishing capital, or Kristiansund, a charming town on three islands.

With many hidden treasures waiting to be explored, a trip to Norway is a once-in-a-lifetime travel adventure.

CAYMAN ISLANDS

While travelers are most familiar with Grand Cayman, the "Sister Islands' Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, also entice visitors with their worldly, relaxed Caribbean lifestyle. Both islands are best known for their superb, world-famous diving. But the Sister Islands are also wonderful birding destinations, with over 200 species (80 percent are migrants).

Each island has an inter pretative center, a museum, walking and hiking trails, wetland boardwalks, and viewing platforms. Beautiful ceramic signs explain the biodiversity of birds, forests and wetlands, and butterflies and reptiles. And the islands are peaceful and crime-free.

Cayman Brac, whose bluff plateau is about 70 percent tropical forest, has the most resident land birds. Endemic subspecies include Caribbean elaenia, bananaquit, loggerhead kingbird, thick-billed vireo, and vitelline warbler (confined to the Cayman and Swan Islands). Found only on the Brac are red-legged thrush and a subspecies of the rare, threatened Brac parrot, Amazona leucocephala hesterna (a second subspecies, caymanensis, occurs on Grand Cayman). Counts estimate 400 parrots, with only about 60 breeding pairs. A must for birders is a visit to the National Trust's protected parrot reserve. And don't miss the Brac's colonies of brown boobies and white-tailed tropic birds.

Just five miles west of Cayman Brac lies Little Cayman, with a population under 100. Deserted sandy beaches and mangrove-fringed lagoons make for outstanding wetland birding, with over 70 migrants. There are also resident pied-billed grebe; colonies of tricolored, snowy, and yellow-crowned night-heron and black-necked stilt; and one endemic land bird, the Greater Antillean grackle. The Booby Pond Nature Reserve has the largest red-footed booby colony in the Caribbean--more than 20,000 birds--and a magnificent frigate-bird colony. Stop by the viewing platform at Grape Tree Pond, a favored breeding site for a growing population of threatened West Indian whistling-duck. The only West Indian endemic duck, the "whistler" is normally shy, but a robust conservation effort at Great Pond has made it unconcerned with visitors.

In between birding outings, you can take in the Sister Islands' many cultural sites, including historic houses that give a glimpse of eighteenth-century life.

DELTA QUEEN CRUISES

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