Month: October 2024

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Lower Tons River Expedition – Experience A Rafting Adventure This Summer

If you want to take a summer break and are looking for an adventure tour program in the lap of the mighty Himalayas, then you can consider rafting tours in Uttaranchal of North India. The Tons River flowing through Garhwal region in the western part of the state acts as a paradise for river rafters visiting Uttaranchal. Cascading from an elevation of 20,720 ft from Bandarpunch Mountain, which is the biggest tributary of the river Yamuna.

Rafting in the Tons River was first undertaken in the year 1980. Subsequently, it has become a must-do activity for the many adventure seekers visiting the region. The main place for rafting is located nearby Mori village, situated around 435 km away from Delhi in the Uttarakhand. Although rafting in Tons River can be experienced by novices, certain sections on this river might not allow them to undergo rafting adventure at ease. However, if you are an experienced rafter, then you can descent on the hardest area such as from Khunigad – Tiuni. You will come across challenging rapids while accomplishing your river journey.

To make your trip more adventurous, you can consider staying at camps alongside the Tons River. By staying here, you can plan for overnight trekking into the neighboring hills. After enjoying the beauty of this place, you can consider driving to Tiuni, situated around 30 km away. As you reach this small town, you can resume your rafting trip from the meeting point of Pabbar and Tons rivers till you reach the Icchari dam.

In order to experience comfortable river expedition in the Lower Tons River, you can consider contacting some of the tour operators in India. Not all areas in the river allow easy and safe rafting tours. Therefore, you can ask some reliable tour operators to provide you assistance during your entire tour program. There are some tour service providers who are known to provide rafting tour packages as well as food and lodging to the travelers. They offer adventure tour program including attractions like rafting, camping, trekking and lots more. You can consider contacting them before scheduling your river expedition in Uttaranchal.

Now, for easy searching of tour operators, you can think about using theInternet. There are a few reliable tour operators who operate websites to contact visitors residing in different parts of the country. You can consider browsing websites to collect contact information of credible tour service providers.

So, plan for Lower Tons River expedition and get your summer trip organized by the professional tour operators.

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Picking A Name For Your New Restaurant Business

Naming their new restaurant business is something most owners spend a lot of time thinking about, dreaming about and testing on friends, family and strangers. In reality, the name of the restaurant isn’t really that critical to its success, but because that is the identifier in the new owner’s mind, they give it undue importance and significance.

There aren’t really any hard and fast rules about picking a good name in terms of what name will do better than others, but there are some things to keep in mind generally about selecting a name that will be more user friendly. Don’t pick a name that is hard to spell or hard to say. Even if you are using a name for a restaurant business that may serve French food, try to not to pick a difficult to spell or pronounce French name for the restaurant. Don’t pick a name that will be easily confused with another restaurant. Aside from potential trademark issues, you just don’t want to accidentally send business to the wrong restaurant.

Don’t pick a name that might have a second meaning or that could be misconstrued as negative, or worse as bigoted or insensitive. Don’t pick a name that is too “adult” or risqué, as just the insinuation may turn off a lot of people even if the inside may be more family friendly. Don’t pick a name that doesn’t fit with what you are selling. If you call it a diner, some people are going to expect meatloaf on the menu. If you don’t plan to serve meatloaf, make sure the name fits. Café and bistro are two more examples of restaurant names that will imply a certain kind of menu.

Don’t worry about picking a name that starts with an early letter of the alphabet. Although people used to suggest that as a way to get into the front section of the yellow pages listings, the yellow pages are on the way out, and this isn’t the way most people choose a restaurant anyway. Do try and pick a name for which you can register the accompanying domain name (www.restaurantname.com) that ends in .com. If you can’t get the exact name, check the website for the name you have picked to make sure it doesn’t link to something unsavory, or worse, to local competition. You can check domain name availability at register.com.

Overall, just pick something you like that is easy to spell and say and has a domain name you can get, or something close. But don’t spend too much time worrying about the name, as it is one of the least important factor in your restaurant’s overall success.

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Summer Camps Fill Up Fast in a Weak Economy, So Don’t Wait Too Long to Sign Up!

You’ve heard it before: Summer camps have limited space availability which fills up fast, so you better sign up soon or you might not get in. Sometimes this sounds like a sales pitch more than anything else.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But the truth is, popular camps fill up much faster than others, and your chances of getting in is indeed limited by the camp’s enrollment capacity.

It’s kind of like getting reservations on an airplane: When the last seat is gone, it’s gone for good. They can’t just add another seat to accommodate you, and likewise, the camp can’t make room for “just one more kid.”

Here’s a point about camp enrollment more relevant now than ever: Camps generally fill up faster than usual in a poor economy.

Maybe it sounds like an oxymoron, but summer camps often thrive in weak economic conditions. Here’s why.

In a bad economy, parents will generally cut back on everything they view as non-essential. But history shows us that the very last items they’ll cut from the family budget are products and services for their kids.

So while mom and dad might decide against spending $10,000 for a family vacation, they’ll shell out $2,500 to send their kid to camp instead.

During the recession of the early 1990’s, camp enrollment was impacted across the board. This phenomenon — higher enrollment in a weaker economy — can largely be attributed to the many families who would have otherwise taken a family vacation, but with less discretionary income stayed home, thereby increasing their childcare and summer camp needs and filling camps to the brim.

Sending their kids to camp in any economy is often viewed by parents as an American pastime. What does this mean for consumers? Simply this: you might want to start looking for summer camps sooner rather than later if you want to get in to the camp of your choice.

Otherwise, somebody else might beat you to the punch next summer and take your child’s spot.

So when is the best time to start looking, and where should your camp search begin?

Most popular camps fill up by April or May. But if you wait that long to sign up for camp next summer, it could be too late. Start your search in the beginning of the year and you should be on the safe side.

One of the best places to find a camp is at http://www.findacamp.com, the American Camp Association’s camp search web site. You can search for camps by various criteria such as type of camp, location, price and more.

Just start looking for summer camps as soon as possible to make sure your child gets his or her first choice!

Happy Camping!

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