Archive for September, 2011

Timeline of a Typical Tour of Costa Rica

September 25th, 2011

The average tourist spends any place between 7 to 10 days, but many tour companies are offering full 10-14 day tours. One Costa Rican-based company called Costa Rica Tours t offers tourists an 11 day tour where you’re doing different things for the entire 11 days and it’s first-rate planned out because you’re seeing a lot of the land on their itinerary.

The first night is usually when you’re getting settled into your hotel and then day 2 is to commence by visiting a coffee plantation since coffee is the products produced out of Costa Rica that is was well a mainstay in their economic background. Day 3 you’re visiting a village in Cartago to where the tour guide provides you with some background information about a young girl witnessing an apparition (she testifies bearing witness on seeing the Virgin Mary) and the tour continues on to another town where you spend the night time at a plantation lacking Lake Angostura. » Read more: Timeline of a Typical Tour of Costa Rica

The Village People – Where are They Now

September 23rd, 2011

Whenever we hear the letters Y, M, C, or A, it is hard not to think of The Village People. A disco group made up of an Indian, a police officer, a construction worker, a cowboy, a military man, a biker and, on occasion, a sailor, it’s fair to say that this group of people were about as original as they come. Selling over 85 million albums and spawning such hits as Macho Man and In the Navy, the music of the Village People is still a staple at wedding receptions and high school dances everywhere. But as for the people themselves – the people behind the Y, the M, the C, and the A – where did they go Did the cowboy ride off into the sunset or the biker find himself leader of the Hell’s Angels Well, not exactly, but you might be surprised to find out that The Village People are still around….and singing.

The Village People were brought to the scene to launch a new kind of disco music and a unique way of performing that had never been done before it doesn’t just take a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to make macho men with mustaches a hit. » Read more: The Village People – Where are They Now