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Looks like tent, feels like hotel
If for some reason you decided to hike for three-four hours on the amazing flowering, watery, yet slightly exhausting trail of Nahal El Al, it would be nice if there would be a pampering Jacuzzi waiting for you at the end of its rocky steep ascent. You can arrange this. All you need to do is stay at the new yurts for couples at the Waterfall Campsite of the Indian Village. Whoever has heard the name or visited here will definitely be thinking of the Indian teepees that have been at the campsite for the past ten years. But the yurts are new upgraded tents, and when you peek into one of them you will definitely not think about sleeping bags and camping in nature. Maybe it is the parquet floor, or the large space of the round interior, maybe it is the double beds, the spa robes next to them, or the air-conditioning or LCD televisions.
Tight security for revived Fashion Week
The Bangkok International Fashion Week 2007 (BIFW) organised by Siam Paragon, which started last Thursday, has attracted a moderate crowd amid tight security.
Visitors had to be checked three times before going inside the fashion tent - at the entrance to Siam Paragon, at the gate to the fashion tent and just in front of the tent. Some understood the security measure while others were annoyed. Apart from media and fashionistas, the audience also included foreign buyers. The organisers, including the operators of Siam Paragon, Siam Centre, The Emporium and Siam Discovery Centre, invited 400 foreign buyers and leading media representatives. Presided over by Her Royal Highness Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana, BIFW began with hair trends by L'Oreal Professionnel's Nude Colours showcase.
Brunswick holding on to boy's memory
During the weeklong ordeal, hundreds of volunteers staged in an open field along Canal Road and across the street from the entrance of the trailer home park where Christopher lived. It was always a beehive of activity. But Friday morning it was empty save for one small tent and four empty chairs. .
Where mines ruled, wines now reign
FAIR PLAY, Calif. -- California has always been something of a mythical destination. As historian Kevin Starr observed, it is a place "at the edge of the American dream" where a person can get a second chance at life in the sun and with the help of nature's abundance. This was never more true than during the Gold Rush. Beginning in 1848, when gold was first discovered in Coloma , in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, thousands of adventurers poured into the state hoping to find their El Dorado, or at least some lucrative ore. Gold mining turned out to be difficult, dangerous work and most miners moved on to other pursuits in less than five years. But their effect on the collective psyche and the landscape of California was profound. Many of the mining communities were little more than tent towns where rude shacks were thrown up overnight and torn down a few years later.
Reedsburg puts brakes on tent sites for bicyclists
A pitch to allow pitching tents in Reedsburg collapsed recently under a shower of paranoia, but the effort will be revived at a different site, city officials promise. Reedsburg will attempt to set aside space in a public park to accommodate a few of the more than 40,000 bicyclists who annually pedal the 400 State Trail between Reedsburg and Elroy. They will not roll out the welcome mat in Webb Park, however. The popular, easy-rolling bicycle trail skirts or travels through Elroy, Union Center, Wonewoc, LaValle and Reedsburg, and provides wondrous vistas of Wisconsin hill, dale and riverside. What it doesn't provide in Reedsburg - considered a starting or ending spot on the trail - is a place for a bicyclist to put up a tent for the night. .
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