Sunday 25 October 2009

Plan a Trip of the World

Task

Congratulations, you have just won the most amazing prize!  You have won a two week trip around the world.  Everything will be paid for.  All you need to decide is where you want to go and how much you want to see.  The two weeks includes travel so you need to plan your route carefully to ensure that you don't spend too much time in an aeroplane.

For each place you want to go to:
  • explain briefly why you want to go there
  • explain briefly what you will see
  • provide a photo / s of the place so we can see what it looks like
Here is a list to give you some ideas of amazing places you could visit on your trip.
  • Grand Canyon, USA
  • Venice, Italy
  • Koh Samui, Thailand
  • Petra, Jordan
  • The Colosseum, Rome
  • Christ Statue, Rio de Janeiro
  • Angel Falls, Venezuela (highest waterfall in world)
  • Macchu Picchu, Peru
  • Eiffel Tower, Paris
  • The Himalayas including Mount Everest, Nepal
  • Taj Mahal, India
  • The Alps, Switzerland
  • Tower of London and Big Ben, London
  • The Great Wall, China
  • Serengetti National Park, Kenya (for wild African animals)
  • Table Mountain, Cape Town
  • Statue of Liberty, New York
  • The Running of the Bulls, Spain
  • Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
  • Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
  • The Pyramids and Abu Simbel, Egypt
  • Mountain Gorillas, Uganda
  • Bali, Indonesia
  • Skeleton Coast, Namibia
  • Santorini, Greece
  • Las Vegas, USA
  • Stonehenge, England
  • The Golden Pavilion, Japan
  • Milford Sound, New Zealand
  • Bahamas, West Indies
  • St Petersburg, Russia
  • Dead Sea, Jordan
  • Yosemite National Park, USA
  • Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
  • Antarctica
  • Wailing Wall and Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
  • The Monasteries of Meteora, Greece
  • The Forbidden City, China
  • Cappadocia, Turkey
  • Chichén Itzá, Mexico (amazing ancient temples)
  • Angkor Wat, Cambodia
  • Great Barrier Reef, Australia
  • Uluru (Ayers Rock, Australia

For Example


Week 1

Day 1 - 3:  Uyuni Salt pans (Bolivia)
The Uyuni Salt Pans are the largest salt pans in the world.  There is a thin film of water on top of the salt which creates amazing reflections.  The salt stretches for many hundreds of kilometres.  In the middle of the salt, there are "islands" with cactuses growing on them. This is great for photos.  At Uyuni, there are also some beautiful rock formations and lakes.  We will explore the area in a four wheel drive with our own guide so he can show us all there is to see.  At night, we will stay in a hotel made only from salt.








Day 3 - 6:  Inca Trail (Peru)

The Inca Trail is a hike through jungles and mountains that leads to the sacred Inca city of Machu Picchu. The route follows the course of an old Inca road built in the 1400's.  It combines a beautiful mix of Inca ruins, mountain scenery, lush cloud-forest and rich subtropical jungle.  We plan to cover the 45km trek in 4 days, arriving at Machu Picchu at daybreak on the final day.




Day 7:  Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu was built by the Incas sometime in the 1400´s, not long before the Spanish arrived. It was then mysteriously deserted at the end of the century for reasons we can only guess at. There are many theories which only add to the mystery. The Spanish never discovered it and the city lay unknown for hundreds of years before its discovery by an American in 1911.  The Macchu Picchu ruins are beautiful and are situated in a beautiful mountain setting.  We will spend the day exploring Macchu Picchu and will take many photos.  We will walk up the mountain above the ruins so we can see it from above.




Week 2

Day 1 - 4
And so on

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