Natural paradises


By Islena Ferreira


Coron, Palawan

Inside the group of Clamian islands, in the north of the province of Palawan in Philippines, we can see  Coron island. The place is famous for being a zone of some japanese shipwrecks during the second world war. It is a big paradise of Philippines for its little white sand and its landscape.

Dongchuan Red Land

It is a district under the jurisdiction of Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. Dongchuan was upgraded to a city in 1958. In 1998 Dongchuan city was merged into Kunming city and became one of its districts. Dongchuan borders with Sichuan province.
The best time for visit the Dongchuan Red Land is in September and December, but any time is good for visiting it.


Wakatobi National Park, Indonesia

Wakatobi is an archipelago which has 25 groups of coral reefs. A survey conducted in 2003 identified 396 species of coral belonging to 68 genera and 15 families.
The types of vegetation found in the national park are Mangrove forest. 

"Beautiful Views in Philippines"

By Daryl Gay Anciado

Hello guys! I am Daryl Gay De Chavez Anciado of Philippines :)
This are the top 10 beaches:
1. Boracay Beach

2.Pagudpud Beach


3. Mactan Island

4. Panglao Beach

5. Camiguin Beach

Camiguin Beach Resort

6. Dakak Beach


7. Honda Bay


8. El Nido


9. Pearl Farm Beach

Pearl Farm Beach Resort

10. Siargao Beach

Siargao Beach Resort

HUMAN PLANET EXPLORER

By Carlota Pérez

There are people who make reports to discover amazing human stories from around the world and show them on television. Some of them work for BBC. They take you at the ends of our planet in each episode. They have filmed nearly in 80 locations around the world: the arctic, mountains, oceans, jungles, grasslands, artic oceans, deserts, rivers and even the urban jungle.

The main explorers of this team are:

*Elizabeth White: Elizabeth is the director of Frozen Planet.

*Matt Swarbrick: Matt lived in Antarctica studying penguins and seals.

*Dan Rees: He is the producer and director, he is specialized in stories about the relationship between people and nature.

*Charlotte Scott: She is a trained marine biologist/zoologist.

*Fredi Devas: He worked on polar series (Frozen Planet), and in Damibia desert.

*George Mcgavin: He is expert on tropical insects.

*Chandden Hunter: He has been the filmmaker for over 10 years. He is (currently) the director on Frozen Planet.

SLOW TRAVEL

By Berta Ros & Anna Sopena

Slow travel is a new way to travel. With Slow Travel you experience a different type of travel by staying in one place longer and seeing the things that are near you. It is an easier, simpler and slower way of traveling. There are two ways to travel in this way: •You can spend a week in a place, on a trip to whatever destination. •You can visit what is near you instead of taking long day trips. Planning your trip takes time and work. You have to read guidebooks before you go to a place. It is also better to book your hotel six months or a year before you go, so that your journey will be perfectly planned. You can use a travel agent but it is better to make the reservations yourself. You can organize tours when you arrive. Remember that if you go too far you have to spend a few days recovering from jetlag.

Traveling to the Moon

By Marson Mesa

In 2008 NASA invited citizens of Earth to add their name to a list of people destined to travel to the Moon on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

If you “Send your name to the Moon”, you will form part of the wave of lunar explorers. The LRO mission is the first step in NASA's plans to return humans to the moon by 2020, and your name has reached it first. How cool is that?

Bryan and I did it because we want to travel to the moon, it will be fantastic, and we won’t go alone, we will go with all our school class.

A birding trip

By Nico Ordax

My dream journey is a great bird-watching trip. I'd like to take a trip to Morocco, to see all the birds there. I would go with Adouin Birding Tous (http://www.audouinbirding.net/)

Cristian Jensen Marcet and Iben Hove Sørensen established the company in 2005 to offer their own tours and activities. Their bird-watching trips are great, they are very nice people, and they know a lot about their job. Their trips are really interesting and you learn a lot from them.

The trip I am referring to is 11 days long and goes through the whole of Morocco. It is designed to present all of the typical and best birds in Morocco.

The first days comprise the arrival and a trip to the Massa National Park, to see some waders and other coastal and dryland birds. There is an excursion scheduled to another region, where visitors can see one of the rarest birds in all the Western Paleartic (a region which includes Europe, North Africa and East Asia), the Northern Bald Ibis.

The fourth day is a transition day, but with good options for seeing migrant raptors, waders and passerines on the journey to Tinerhir.

The following three days are based in Tinerhir, looking for very interesting desert birds, such as sand grouses, warblers, larks and many others, on the Tagdilt-Track. One day, a Houbara-Bustard, an extremely rare bird, was seen just ten meters from a car.

Days eight and nine are transition days, but you can also see some interesting raptors, especially falcons like the Lesser-Kestrel and Lanner Falcon.

The last "real bird-watching ing day" is the tenth, when the travelers go to a ski resort at an altitude of 2,600 meters in the Atlas Mountains, where some really special birds, such as the Levaillants Woodpecker and Crimson-Winged Finch can be found. In the afternoon there is an optional visit to Marrakech.

On the last day there is not much time for bird-watching (only a little bit in the morning) before going back to the airport.

ALTERNATIVE TOURISM

By Xaviera Finestres and Marta Huertas

Alternative tourism is an alternative to conventional tourism. If you like travelling, knowing different cultures, enjoying ecology and landscape, alternative tourism is for you.

This tourism has become a new way of enjoying free time. The contact with nature, the peace of the landscape and rugged terrain make visitors understand the world around them in a different way and they also rediscover themselves.

It is a type of tourism that respects nature, it is based on a new attitude towards the environment. These tourists preserve it and they value things that seem unimportant in everyday life. Alternative tourism is a combination of nature tourism, adventure tourism, ethnological tourism, mystical tourism, etc.

Alternative tourism encourages tourists to participate in activities taking place in the local communities of exotic countries that have very different customs from ours. For example, they can participate in farm work. The important thing about this alternative way of tourism is that tourists come into contact with nature and have a good time with their family and friends, or on their own.