Trees on the island of Tree Island by Mark Hopper

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In travelers from Auckland Airport, flights up

In travelers from Auckland Airport, flights up
Statistics on the top in September largely by Auckland airport with the statistics of China, about a quarter of the initial period a year earlier, in a rebound phase of infection by the H1N1 influenza virus.


Tuesday, statistics from the airport, put the number of international arrivals last up 4% from September 2009 to 263,530, and global production rose 5.9% to 270,482.


For the September quarter, the initial exercise of the society, international arrivals increased by 4.4% and international departures increased by 4.8%.


As the number of Canadian travelers increased by 4.3% in the month of 525,301, and increased 4.1% during the quarter to 1.55 million.


The numbers have increased in number inside the back of sustained increases in the numbers of flight, the airport said. Internal transfers of aircraft increased 1.1% to 9.261 months ago, while international travel increased 3.1% in 3544.


Chinese passenger numbers rose 24.3% from the last one for 7497 and increased to 65.5% in the quarter to 24,800.


People of Australia rose 2.4% in the month of 52,617, although in the quarter fell to 1.4% to 139,693.

Tourists fined for approaching Yellowstone Old Faithful

Tourists fined for approaching Yellowstone Old Faithful

Many tourists and their leader were fined $ 125 each to ignore the warnings of increasingly close to the famous Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park is old.


There are frequent warning signs in several languages ​​in order to prevent visitors from getting too close to dangerous boiling geysers, thermal pools and mud pots.


But the warning could not stop a group of about 30 tourists taking a too-near the Old Faithful geyser that shoots sporadically water is as hot as 200 degrees Celsius.


Four group members were captured on foot to the geyser opening, followed by other group members.



Speaking on the issue, the spokesman for Yellowstone National Park, Al Nash said, "You never want to be near a geyser that or, frankly, looking down the column as apparently some of these visitors were. "



Over three million tourists hit Yellowstone National Park a year and a handful of them illegally venture off the bridge around several thermal characteristics of the park. The spokesman said Park, an average person burns a year.