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.

Our dreamed journey

By Xaviera Finestres and Marta Huertas

We want to go to Africa, to Sierra Leone. The Republic of Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa. It is bounded by Guinea to the North, by Liberia to the Southeast and by the Atlantic Ocean to the Southwest.

We want to help the poor people and children, and find more information about this poor country and their activities. We are interested in the mining of diamonds and coltan.

We will travel by plane on a scheduled flight from Madrid to Sierra Leone. The people there are very interested in tourism and they try to sell the objects they make. Tourists are a very important means of earning money. It is a country with a very diverse culture, a country where we can find different customs and traditions, mainly depending on the tribes. Local groups are very interesting culturally, because of their traditional dances and music. It is a country with a great tradition of masks. The people are quite nice to visitors, and English is a language that almost everyone knows.

The most important source of jobs is the hotel industry, and the mining of diamonds and coltan is the most important business. In this country, there are a lot of dealers and they have a lot of money. This money is used to buy weapons, because it is not necessary to pay workers, they are slaves in their own land. They can be children too, as they are the cheapest workers. Also, soldiers capture children and make them child-soldiers who work for their chief.

There are slaves working 24 hours per day in the mines. The extraction of the diamonds is very expensive, but when they are exported to other countries they earn a lot of money. It is a clever business, although it is very dangerous.

There are also coltan mines. This is the most important mineral in the world these days, because it is used in a lot of technological products, such as microchips, computers, mobile phones... It is very important.

This journey is very interesting because it makes it possible to see a lot of things that are different from other countries, but it is very sad to see the poor people and the ill people. Luckily, there are a lot of NGO and a lot of doctors and nurses who help them. 
We will see all kinds of things, and we want to write a book about illegal business in Sierra Leone. It will be a VERY EXCITING JOURNEY!!!

Parc de la Ciutadella

By Anastasia Macovei

My favourite place in Barcelona is the Parc de la Ciutadella, which for a long time was the only park in the city. It is a public park near the Estació de França, the Arc del Triomf, the Vila Olímpica, Pujades Avenue, Picasso Avenue and Wellington Street. This park has 17.42 hectares. Nowadays the Parc de la Ciutadella is one of the biggest parks in Barcelona. Barcelona’s zoo is inside it, and there are also some buildings constructed for the 1888 Exhibition, such as the Geology and Zoology museums.

The park has areas for walking, a lake and a waterfall. There are a lot of exotic plants and aquatic animals in the lake and you also can row in a boat. The Romantic Garden, with a big variety of vegetal species, is next to the waterfall.

In this park you can find famous sculptures too: “The Desconsol”, created by Josep Llimona in 1907, the Monument to General Prim, created by Lluís Puiggener in 1887 (it was broken during the Civil War and the sculpture was recreated by Frederic Marès in 1940), the Monument to Bonaventura Carles Aribau, created by Manel Fuxà in 1884, the Monument to Walt Disney, created by Núria Tortras in 1969 and “Mamut”, created by Miguel Dalmau in 1907.

El Palau de la Música

By Raúl Oliver and Albert Zayuelas

We believe that the Palau de la Música is one of the finest buildings in the world and a place that is worth visiting. We think that this structure is perfect and and that is why we have chosen to write about it. Furthermore, it is the only Modernista concert hall that has been declared part of the World Heritage by UNESCO.

El Palau de la Música, an auditorium located in the neighborhood of Sant Pere in Barcelona, was designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner in 1905. It is famous for its spectacular structures.

This building is the headquarters of the Orfeó Català, a prestigious institution founded in 1891 to further Catalan music and culture. Accordingly, the building’s decoration features the quatre barres (from the Catalan coat of arms). Inside the concert hall, on one side of the stage, there is a sculpture depicting the Ride of the Walkiries' and, on the other, the figure of Beethoven, sculpted by Pau Gargallo and Dídac Massana. There is a splendid central stained-glass skylight in the roof, designed by Rigalt and Granell. The façade is made of red brick and decorated with mosaics by Lluís Bru. The Palau de la Música Catalana organizes daily guided tours around the Modernista concert hall and, less frequently, the Lluís Millet Hall and the Chamber Music Hall.

Excursion to the Olympic Canal

By Claudia Beltrán

On Thursday we went on tour with the class. We went to the Olympic Canal for rowing and using kayaks. It was funny but we ended all wet!

At first it was a bit hard but then with the mates it was funny.
After finishing the kayak and rowing we went back to school at lunch time. Everyone was very hungry. It has been a very cold day and we were still all wet.

My Perfect Trip.

By Joselyn Guerrero

I've always wanted to go to Puerto Rico, passing first by Los Angeles, New York City, Dallas and, of course, Miami. And after visiting EE.UU, I wanna go to all the islands of Caribean. Why these places?

Well, I'm gonna to start with Los Angeles, the perfect city, there you can live your life however you want. This place has got fashion on every street, has got parties on every pub and has got sun on every beach. Amazing.

Let's talk about New York, the big apple, the city which never sleeps. You can do everything, you can meet people of the whole world and learn a lot. I think it is the perfect place to mature, because it is really hard to do easy things easily, you have to work so much, if you wanna be an importat person on NY.

Now Dallas, I think Dallas is like a little town but it is a city,so you can live really calm, because everybody knows you and of course you know everybody. This is a "family city", because, if you have children, they can grow up happy, on a big house, with dogs and maybe live on a big farm.

Miami, the Spanish city on a English country. In this city live boricua, cuban, colombians, ecuatorians... There you don't have to learn English if you don't want, because everything is in two languages. Miami is the city of opportunites for poor people who dreams every day with the American dream.

And the rest of the Islands, just for the parties, the dances, and the mad and unconcerned life that I want to live.

Finally, Puerto Rico. I wanna get married there, I wanna have children there and spend the rest of my life there. In my opinion these island has got all the things you need for enjoying, and the calm that sun and the beaches get you. You have got mountain, jungle and beach in the same place, old things and new things too. It is the perfect end for my trip.

Summer holidays
By Anastasia Macovei

Summer holidays are to rest, because all the year we worked, or studied or did somethig else and we have this time for relaxing ourselves. Teenagers have more time to rest than adults. Adults usually work 11 moths in a year and I think that this is too much.

We go to the beach in summer, we spend more time with our parents, with our friends, with these people who we couldn’t see when we studied or worked. The beach is one of my favourite places to go in summer, it relaxes me a lot, and I love swimming, because when I do it I forget completely all. Another thing which I like doing is to meet friends, because when you are at school you can meet them only at weekends. You have to study for the exams or you have to do your homework in your free time.

We have also a short break at Christmas, but we haven’t enough time to rest, and we can't go to the beach, the only thing that we can do is to go to ski.

You can visit interesting places too or you can travel to another country. Doing that you will have more culture, and you will learn how people live in other countries, and I think that is the best that you can do.

ENJOY THE SUMMER!

Educational travels in the summer
By Ada Agustí

Nowadays it's very usual young people go abroad in summer. Young people make trips to learn about other cultures, other languages, to do sport or have a good time. It's a way to spend the time in summer, since it's not good that teenagers stay all their holidays at home in front of theaTV or the computer.

It has a big disadvantage: it's very expensive, because you stay for a short time there. The host families receive few money too, and some of the organized activities aren't interesting. But I think that they are a good and a great experience. You have a lot of companies to choose: EF, Interway, Cie, kingsinternational, Living Languages, etc... And they offer different destinations to different countries.

Travelling
By Marta Nicolás &Guzel Nasibulina

We love travelling. It’s a wonderful activity because you can know different types of food, cultures, musics, religions,…There are different ways of travelling, although some people have never travelled out of their town.

Some people are pleased with sunbathing on the beach or walking around a city all day with a map. A lot of people haven’t really thought about an alternative for their holiday destination. Here you have some ideas:
If you like walking you can go to the Great Wall of China. In this country you can eat different Chinese food, learn about their culture, music,...
You can go to Canada too. There are a lot of beautiful forests and you can see fantastic views and lakes, but the weather is very cold.
If you like hot weather you can go to Brazil, Argentina. There aren’t rich cities but they are magnificent. In Mexico you can eat hot food and drink vodka.
You can go to Egypt. There are pyramids of pharaons. It’s very cool, but the weather is really hot.
If you like touristic cities, you can go to London. There are fantastic monuments, museums, parks and places to visit, for example Big Ben, London eye, Piccadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace (around it there are beautiful gardens with squirrels) and, moreover, you can go by boat in the Tamesis river.
You can go to New York to see skyscrapers. New York is a very big city. If you go there stay more than 6 days. Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Washington are other typical American cities visited for tourists.

A day in Mas Banyeres
By Lydia Giménez

On 28th September 1st ESO students went to Mas Banyeres. We left the school at a quarter past eight and we arrived there at ten o'clock.
First we had breakfast. Then we played different games until lunch time (Chinese football, "Tot si que val",...) We ate sandwiches, paninis and fruit; and drank water, cocacola,... After that, we played the "Tirolina" and archery.
Finally we came back home at half past five. It was a wonderful day and we had a lot of fun.