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An adventure in Africa

30th June

Dear Aihua

How are you ?sorry I haven’t written for so long. I’ve been quite busy planning my holiday with my older brother. Colin. Do you still remember the trip I told you about ? I told you Colin and I would spend a few weeks traveling before he goes to university. Well. now we’re ready to go ! We’re going to visit so many exciting places and do lots of astonishing things. We will go to Africa first . I can’t wait! Have you been there

We leave London on 15the July. and we’ll be flying to Morocco. In northern Africa. We’re going to travel on camels throuth the Sahara Desert. It’s the biggest desert in the world-about the size of the US! I expect it will be very hot, dry and dusty there. We’ll be traveling by camel, with local guides ,camping in tents and sleeping on the ground in our big, thick sleeping bags. I’ve heard that we can see beautiful stars on clear nithts. I’ll bring a torch with me so that I’ll be able to see in the dark.The whole trip will take six days. That means I’ll have to sit on a camel for almost a week-how uncomfortable! I hope my camel likes me!

After the trip by camel. we’re going to travel down the River Nile. We’ll start at Lake Victoria. A little way down the river from Lake Victoria. the water actually gets quite rough. So ,we’ll go white-water rafting. It’s quite dangerous, but very exciting! You have to wear special clothing, a helmet and a life jacket, just in case your raft gets turned upside down or sinks . After white-water rafting, we’re going on a trip to see wild animals in Kenya.We’ll live with the local people in their villages. and eat and drink whatever they do. Including cow’s blood! Do you think I should drink it ?

Since we’ll be walking every day for almost two weeks. I’ll need to buy a large, strong, light backpack to carry my supplies of food and water. During the day. we’ll walk across the land. following the footprints of big animals such as elephants, lions and giraffes. We’ll try to get as close as possible to the animals. even though they’re dangerous. So that I can take some really good photos. But don’t worry about me-our guides will have guns with them to scare the animals away if they come too close. I really want to see an elephant up close. Colin wants to see a giraffe.

After that , we’ll be moving on to Tanzania, where we’re going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Mountain climbing can be very tiring, and many people feel sick as the air gets thinner, so Colin and I will make sure that we will get enough rest after sunset.

The African part of our trip will take about four weeks. Then we’re going to the Himalayas. I’ll send you postcards from all the different places we visit! Love,

Toby

Project Making a travel leaflet

Shangri-la

Would you like the chance to discover a place of mystery and beauty in the south-west of China”, if your answer is ‘yes’, consider a trip to Shangri-la

How to get there

Start in the city of Dali and driver northwards, along the Yunnan-Tibet Highway until you reach Zhongdian(Shangri-la),the capital of Diqing, Zhongdian is 659 kilometers away from Kunming and there are regular flights between Zhongdian and Kunming .

The world-famous Chinese Shangri-la

The world “Shangri-la” first appeared in the 1933 novel lost horizon by the British writer James Hilton. HE described a beautiful kingdom where three rivers joined together ,snow –caped mountains reached to the sky, and fields of long grass covered the earth, in this perfect world lived people who had discovered how to stay young forever.

Which place could officially take the name of this wonderful land?

There were arguments in China over which tourist spot would win the names of Shangri-la. Many years after the book was published, some people realized that the Shangri-la of the novel perfectly described the county of Zhongdian in Yunan Province, China. IN September 197,the government of Yunnan Province claimed that Zhongdian is where Shangri-la is in Hilton’ story. What you will see in Shangri-la

Three mountains , Meili, Baimang and Haba, which are covered with snow, tower over the land. These snowy mountain tops form a beautiful picture that will make any viewer speechless.

Lakes, surrounded by vast grasslands, look like jewels, sheep, cows and horses feed freely on the green grass and the forests around are home to lots of birds and animals. In this heavenly world, people live in perfect harmony with nature and the outside world is forgotten.

Nature has provided Shangri-la with endless natural treasures, making the land a happy home for the local people.

What Shangri-la means

In the Tibetan language, Shangri-la means the sun and the moon in one’s heart. Today ,Shangri-la has become a common English word, meaning heaven on earth.

What the weather is like

The weather changes so quickly that people say you can experience four seasons in one day, he best times to visit Shangri-la are spring and autumn because the temperature is at its mildest .

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