Word: zingaro
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Enter the Zingaro Theater in Aubervilliers, just north of Paris, and you step into another place and time. An Elizabethan-style theater-in-the-round spreads before you beneath a soaring beamed ceiling. As the show opens on the circle of earth below, a gypsy troupe sleeps as their horses gather around a waterfall. It is the morning of a great wedding feast. Bartabas, who co-founded the equestrian theater Zingaro (Italian for gypsy) in 1984, has a new show, Battuta (beat or rhythm in Romany), which also features bears, geese, dogs and acrobatics galore. But this is no circus...
Enter the Zingaro Theater in Aubervilliers, just north of Paris, and you step into another place and time. An Elizabethan-style theater-in-the-round spreads[an error occurred while processing this directive] before you beneath a soaring beamed ceiling. As the show opens on the circle of earth below, a gypsy troupe sleeps as their horses gather around a waterfall. It is the morning of a great wedding feast. Bartabas, who co-founded the equestrian theater Zingaro (Italian for gypsy) in 1984, has a new show, Battuta (beat or rhythm in Romany), which also features bears, geese, dogs...
...easy. Trekking facilities are rare to nonexistent. And the Himalayas are so vast you need a platoon of porters, a cook and a couple of guides to see you through. (Two reputable firms are Himalayan River Runners in New Delhi, tel: (91-11) 685-2602, and Zingaro Travels in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, tel: (91-1902) 52-736. Our 10-day hike cost $950 per person, including transport, accommodation at the end and a sleeping bag.) Try to do it on your own, as you can in Nepal, and you'll most likely disappear...
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