Provo Ponies
We ride our horses and ponies along quiet dirt roads and trails to Long Bay Beach, a 4 mile long secluded beach. We don't do nose to tail type rides. More experienced riders are given the chance to trot or canter along the beach depending on the tides. The shallow waters of the Caicos Banks off Long Bay make it an ideal place to take your horse into the ocean. You can book a one hour ride for $75 per person or a 90 minute ride for $90 per person. We can arrange transportation to and from your hotel. We recommend wearing long pants and full shoes (sports bras for the ladies and briefs for the men may make your ride more comfortable too!!) If you want to bring a camera we provide fanny packs and will take pictures for you once we arrive at the beach.
Reservations are required. A Visa or Mastercard number is necessary for all reservations, as well as weights and experience levels of all riders in your group so that we can properly assign horses to riders. Please read our table below to see how to evaluate your riding ability. Our cancellation policy is we'll charge 50% if you cancel the day before, and 100% if you cancel the day of the ride. This does not apply if you have a medical emergency or if the ride is cancelled due to bad weather.
Before each ride, we brief groups on saftey, do equipment checks and give basic one on one riding instruction in the arena so that all riders are comfortable and in control before we head out on the trail. This can add an additional 30-45 minutes to the excursion, so please consider this when planning other activities around your ride, for the day.
Providenciales
Sunday, August 21, 2011
White-sand beaches, calm clear water and a bountiful barrier reef make the Turks and Caicos island of Providenciales a hot spot for families, snorkelers and divers. Some call rock-free Grace Bay Beach the best in the world. For an unusual experience, divers can walk along the ocean floor at Smith's Reef, where underwater signs describe the reef's ecosystem. Additional destinations include Iguana Island (home of endangered rock iguanas), the country's only golf course, art galleries and a casino.
Traveler recommended attractions :
Sapodilla Bay
Grace Bay
Chalk Sound
Bight Reef
Turks & Caicos Explorer II
Little Water Cay
Sail Provo
Northwest Point Beach
Caicos Corral
Princess Alexandra National Park
Hagia Sophia Istanbul Turkey
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its dedication in 360 until 1453, it served as the Greek Patriarchal cathedral of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople of the Western Crusader established Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931, when it was secularized. It was opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.
The Church was dedicated to the Logos, the second person of the Holy Trinity, its dedication feast taking place on 25 December, the anniversary of the incarnation of the Logos in Christ. Although it is sometimes referred to as Sancta Sophia (as though it were named after Saint Sophia), sophia is the phonetic spelling in Latin of the Greek word for wisdom – the full name in Greek being Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, "Church of the Holy Wisdom of God".
Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture." It was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520. The current building was originally constructed as a church between 532 and 537 on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and was the third Church of the Holy Wisdom to occupy the site, the previous two having both been destroyed by rioters. It was designed by the Greek scientists Isidore of Miletus, a physicist, and Anthemius of Tralles, a mathematician.
The church contained a large collection of holy relics and featured, among other things, a 49 foot (15 m) silver iconostasis. It was the seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople and the religious focal point of the Eastern Orthodox Church for nearly one thousand years. It is the church in which Cardinal Humbert in 1054 excommunicated Michael I Cerularius – which is commonly considered the start of the Great Schism.
In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II, who subsequently ordered the building converted into a mosque. The bells, altar, iconostasis, and sacrificial vessels were removed and many of the mosaics were plastered over. Islamic features – such as the mihrab, minbar, and four minarets – were added while in the possession of the Ottomans. It remained a mosque until 1931 when it was closed to the public for four years. It was re-opened in 1935 as a museum by the Republic of Turkey.
For almost 500 years the principal mosque of Istanbul, Hagia Sophia served as a model for many other Ottoman mosques, such as the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque of Istanbul), the Şehzade Mosque, the Süleymaniye Mosque, the Rüstem Pasha Mosque and the Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque.
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