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//Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. // ~ Mark Twain

This project involves your planning a trip to anyplace in the world. You will have a $3000. budget per person. This is not much considering travel costs are so high these days so to maximize the length of your trip you have to be careful about how you travel. (no luxury hotels!) Your budget will pay for travel, housing, transportation in country, meals, passport and visa if need be, personal spending. You should count on carrying a minimum of luggage (a carry on) so that you don't have to pay for luggage. Choose carefully when you pack:: clothes, shoes, medicine, cosmetics (remember no larger than 1 ounce bottles) Look up using your smart phone overseas, will you be needing chargers for your electronic devices? what is the electrical current, will you need adapters?

What kind of travel experience do you want to have? Do you want to have an urban experience in a fabulous city? Walk the streets, go to museums, discover fashion, art and culture; explore new eating experiences, meet new people? Or are you more interested in traveling to exotic locales and seeing spectacular outdoor places, Do you want to go hiking, climbing, biking, underwater exploring, travel on a safari, visit the great volcanoes and beaches of Hawaii, go river rafting through the Grand Canyon? Or do you want to take a tour of Europe or Latin America, Africa or Asia. You could travel by motorcycle or car and stay in campsites which are all over, inexpensive and usually provide safe and clean facilities. Take the time to figure out what you want to do. Look through the Travel guides listed here, look at the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, read the articles on the Transitions Abroad website. Spend time looking at your options!

Another activity would be to go on a volunteer trip. [|Habitat for Humanity]is an organization that builds housing for people who don't have adequate shelter. They build houses in many countries and you might enjoy going on a worl-related assignment. [] _

__**To begin the search**__
Choose the kind of vacation you want to have, look at the following travel guides, check out UNESCO. Choose a country or location for your travel. [|Rough Guides]

[|Frommers]
[|Fodor's] [|Travel Highlights from BBC's Planet Earth] [|Adventure Travel from National Geographic] [|Adventure Travel] [|Budget Travel from Transitions Abroad] [] [|Cheapest Destinations Blog] [|the Contrarian Traveler] [|Cheap Travel in Europe Articles]

[|UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization]
====known as the "intellectual" agency of the [|United Nations]. At a time when the world is looking for new ways to build peace and sustainable development, people must rely on the power of intelligence to innovate, expand their horizons and sustain the hope of a new humanism====

[|UNESCO World Heritage Sites]
- a universal effort to recognize and protect the world's cultural and natural sites. Started with an international treaty agreed upon by the Member States of the United Nations and adopted by UNESCO in 1972. Find out where they are!!! and go visit.

Official Information
[|State Department Travel Information]

[|CIA World Fact Book]
= = =__1st ASSIGNMENT - COUNTRY REPORT__=

Answer the following questions below in a 2 page essay.

 * Where will you be going and why?
 * Show a map – identify on the map where you will be traveling (cities, monuments, cultural sites, and any place where you will be spending some time.
 * Describe which cultural and/or natural monuments you will be visiting, include World Heritage Sites (link is on the website - __ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/ __
 * What are the political and economic situations? (make sure you use the US State Department travel website – link on the Travel Project page - __ http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis_pa_tw_1168.htm) __
 * Religion, Ethnic groups, languages
 * Passport, visa, shots, entry and exit requirements

orbitz.com cheapair.com travelocity.com
 * =__2nd ASSIGNMENT - BUDGET__=

**Round the World Travel Ticketers - plan a trip with multi stops - get deals**
**Editor's note: Indie — Global TripPlanner:** indie.bootsnall.com. Highly recommended new website which allows maximum flexibility in the scheduling and purchasing of round-the-world tickets, with a great intuitive interface..**Airtreks:** www.airtreks.com**STA Travel:** www.statravel.com**Star Alliance**: www.staralliance.com/en/**One World Alliance:** www.oneworld.com [|Great list of cheap flight tips] [|www.airb&b.com] [] [] __ GREAT PLACE TO SEARCH FOR INEXPENSIVE LODGING! [|www.venere.com] __ Tripadvisor.com || Your budget needs to reflect your itinerary, details about your travel (name of airline, flight nos. dates, price, hotel name, in-country travel) Itinerary:  where will you be going, what you will be doing once you get there? Will you go to one place for the duration of your trip or will you be making several different stops once you get there. =__3rd ASSIGNMENT - SLIDE PRESENTATION__= Use //no more// than TEN SLIDES and include the following: 1. **1st slide indicate your travel destination**– where are you going, why is it a great trip? Illustrate with photos. How many days long will your trip be. 2. **MAP** - indicating where you are going and why – In Powerpoint you can use the shapes tool or arrows to mark locations 3. **ITINERARY** – describe the plan for your trip different destinations from where your starting point, Your in-country travel 4.**-5-6-7-8-9 Several slides** to show Highlights of the trip including places visited, famous landmarks, museums and activities (scuba diving) 10.**LOGISTICS/ BUDGET** How much is the flight and the housing, food allowance, shopping allowance, car rentals, train or bus tickets.
 * Where to stay**
 * **Example of “in-country travel”** Let’s imagine a two week trip to Rome with a side trip to Naples which is next to Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius. Once in Rome travelers buy RT tickets to Naples (not too far) and find a hotel to stay in Naples for 2 nights. There are plenty of places to get food. The only other expense is a short RT train ride from Naples to Pompeii and back again. ||

= WHAT MAKES A GOOD SLIDE PRESENTATION? =



=GREAT EXAMPLES OF GOOD SLIDES=

THE BEST POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS IN THE WORLD from Digital Inspirations, Amit Agarwal at labnol.blogspot.com

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