The Interislander Family Fare Special comprises two adults and a car travelling one way for only $190. You can also add up to five children under 18 years of age for only $20 each as part of this special.
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Monthly Archives: February, 2008
The year of the clog
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According to the Cruise Report 2008, last year was the year cruise agents started to set up up their own cruise blogs or Clogs in which they posted cruise reviews and invited customers to respond. Good on those agents who are enaging customers through blogs. Here are a couple of examples: Gill’s Cruise Centre and Save and sail Cruise Village.
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White knuckle runways #1
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Lukla Airport, which serves the Mount Everest region of Nepal, is getting a name change to Tenzing-Hillary Airport in honour of Sir Edmund Hilary and Sherpa Tenzing. Thanks to Jaunted for pointing out the exhilarating nature of the take-off – there is a 2,000 foot drop at the end of the 1,500 foot runway.
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Udjo`s Angklung Studio to hold 15 concerts abroad
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Udjo`s Angklung Studio has set itself the target of holding 15 concerts abroad this year.
“The opening concerts will be held in March – April in Turkey, South Africa and Rome (Italy),” the studio`s head, Taufik Hidayat Udjo, said on Tuesday.
He said foreigners` interest in music produced by the bamboo musical instrument had remained high.
His studio, he added, had also prepared thousands of angklungs to support the concerts.
The studio is one of Bandung`s popular musical art venues for both local and foreign tourists.
In the studio, he added, people can learn how to play angklung, watch the production process of the bamboo musical instrument and buy souvenirs.
The studio also runs a “home stay” program for people wishing to learn angklung and other Sundanese arts.
The Foreign Ministry was also providing scholarships for people from Asia Pacific countries to learn angklung at Udjo`s Angklung Studio.
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Turangalîla Symphony, Royal Festival Hall, London
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Visitors to the Southbank Centre for the latest concert in its year-long Messiaen festival were transported briefly to Indonesia: as they arrived for a performance of the composer’s colossal Turangalîla Symphony, they were met by the sounds of Javanese gamelan, performed by the centre’s own ensemble.
The sensual, hypnotic pulse of that music undeniably infiltrates Messiaen’s first big orchestral work – commissioned by conductor Serge Koussevitzky in 1945 and first performed four years later – but what is striking about the work is its ebullient eclecticism, its cheerful plundering of sources as disparate as Stravinsky and Mussorgsky, Indian rhythms and modes, even jazz.
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