Local tours now offer visitors the chance to dress up as the Witch-king of Angmar or the wizard Gandalf, and run around in the sea of grass waving replica swords.
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But the American record companies that had propelled her from local African band tours to Western stardom cancelled her contracts and her concerts, and she moved with him to Guinea, where the president gave them shelter.
Amid the seminars (including "Pickle Bootcamp" and "Accounting and Bookkeeping for the Indie Business"), attendees enjoyed yoga classes, food tours of local restaurants and a 1980s-themed dance party.
Even some of the Hamptons' most lavish estates can be enjoyed via private garden tours advertised in the local newspaper, The East Hampton Star.
The marina makes the roster of sights visited by one local tour operator, Speedboat Tours, whose boat also zips past Hibiscus Island and a mansion whose exterior and waterfront deck stood in for a drug dealer's house.
With help from local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the group expanded into a network of eco-lodges and cultural tours that provide tourists with an authentic experience in local villages and the rainforests that surround them.
Women wishing to experience more of local life than just sightseeing can check out the tours organized by Asia Getaway ( www.asiagetaway.com), a California-based cultural-tour operator that offers travelers opportunities like learning cooking at a Thai farmhouse.
So the local couple created the Yorkshire Food Finder trails, culinary tours offering an insight into how the region's specialities are created, bred or grown.
His urban hotel has worked with local wineries to create customized wine-tasting and winemaking tours, offered healthy cooking seminars with its chef and arranged private painting demonstrations with the artist-in-residence, Jacqueline Poirier.
Many hostels now run tours and have staff member who are either local or who have lived in the destination for a long time, giving you more of a first-hand glance of the culture than you would get at a hotel.
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Local companies such as Guide Horizon run Jeep and desert buggy tours circling the rim of the crater, complete with meals and lodge-style accommodation.
The tours are led by Dr. Canh, a local wildlife biologist, and upcoming expeditions are Nov. 6-22, 1998, and Dec. 18-January 3, 1999.
She puts complimentary packets of seeds in her CDs, and as she tours the U.S., she invites local organic farmers to speak before her shows.
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The Memory Lane area will offer Shakespeare recitations, tours of the Malkin Bowl outdoor theatre and plays performed by local drama troupes.
Other Baie St Paul tours include the Flavour Trail, a two-hour circuit of local farms and food producers.
And while such close interactions with wildlife is definitely a delicate topic, local tour operators have teamed up with the World Wildlife Fund to create some best practices for the tours.
Yukon Brewing Company offers tours of this award-winning brewery, the home of such libations as Espresso Stout, made with local espresso from Midnight Sun Coffee Roaster.
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