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Want to head for the great outdoors but don't fancy sleeping in a drafty tent? Then try bedding down under snow instead. Mountain Innovations, tel: (44-1479) 831 331, a small trekking company based in Inverness-shire, Scotland, runs "snow-holing" holidays - where your bed is literally gouged out of the permafrost. Groups are kept to a maximum of eight people and, after a compulsory day of winter-skills training, embark upon a two-day expedition over the Cairngorm and Cairn Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic...
Compared with some people, she was lucky. Yusniar, 50, was able to find them and bury them herself, before retreating to the hills where she can keep an eye on the ocean, keep it in its place, from her tent made of blue plastic sheets and Styrofoam fished out of the swamps. Neither she nor the 150 others camping with her near Banda Aceh, capital of the Indonesian province that suffered the worst destruction, are ready to come down. The relief workers haven't yet discovered them, like untold numbers of others. "The water took away everything," she says...
...Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev's Independence Square: the symbol of the civil disobedience campaign that erupted in November after Yanukovych "won" a vote marred by massive fraud and led to the Dec. 26 rerun. Yushchenko intended to call on the hundreds still camping on the Maidan to fold up their tents, and invite them back to the square on New Year's Eve to celebrate the orange revolution's victory. But as he was about to leave for the speech, two close allies, M.P.s Volodymyr Felenko and Taras Stetskiv, rushed into his office. Government sources had told them Yanukovych planned...
...Thomas' four-day Tarkine Trail ($470, including gourmet organic meals, transport from Hobart or Launceston and tent accommodation) skirts the ridge above the magnificent Eason's Creek, before plunging into the wooded gorge. It took Thomas more than 100 days to pick out the trail, following animal tracks that zigzag through giant ferns across the forest floor and following the natural contours of the land?a practice that reflects his commitment to causing minimum disruption to the environment. Along the way, walkers encounter the Tarkine Falls?a majestic, three-tiered wall of water, partly veiled by fern?and the magical...
...we’ve heard how California’s der gropen fuehrer has turned his considerable charms on sleepy, star-struck Sacramento—that under a canvas tent outside the state capitol, surrounded by sculptures and pictures of himself, the self-described “biggest star in the world” shares Cuban cigars with assemblymen from places like Oxnard and Fullerton. Occasionally, he even offers them rides back to their districts on his Gulfstream jet, and lets them bask in the light of his Hollywood-produced 67 percent approval rating in front of a hometown crowd...