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My Favorite Tours: My Favorite Tours Lei Zhu
zhulei@interchange.ubc.ca LIBR500 Foundations of Information Technology
SLAIS, University of British Columbia January 2006
Let’s first have a quick look at the starting point of the tours…: Let’s first have a quick look at the starting point of the tours…
Slide3: 6,200 square kilometers. 25 million population
Canada 32 million?
China 1,300 million! four distinct seasons China’s financial center
US$40 Luxury Tour (1990): US$40 Luxury Tour (1990) Right after graduation from university, my best friend Weidong & I went on a long awaited tour without a second delay. In the next two weeks, we traveled 5 provinces in China,
climbed 2 of China’s top 5 mountains (Huangshan & Lushan),
swam in the biggest artificial lake (Thousand Island), and
visited China's capital of porcelain (Jindezhen) and another historical city (Nanjing), with an expenditure of …
US$40 Luxury Tour (1990): US$40 Luxury Tour (1990) $40?
Sorry, wrong answer. I came back with a
$5 surplus ! (1 US dollar = 8.5 CN Rmb in 1990)
Hello, Uncle Sam! (1996): Hello, Uncle Sam! (1996) Golden Gate Bridge was amazing.
Disneyland@LA was really fun.
View from Empire State Building was incredible.
The roar of a Harley Davidson was deafening. But what impressed most was actually…
NYC Museum Mile (1996): NYC Museum Mile (1996) Nine world-class museums are located along the Fifth Avenue in Manhattan! Unfortunately, I only got time to visit four of them: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Click)
American Museum of Natural History (my favorite) (Click)
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (Click)
Guggenheim Museum (Click) But I got compensated with…
Grandest Party of the Century (23:59:59 pm Dec 31, 1999): Grandest Party of the Century (23:59:59 pm Dec 31, 1999) Times Square, NYC Ball Drop Countdown 1.5 Million People Beers and Cheers I WAS AMONG THEM! Millennium Eve
AdventureBus! (2000): AdventureBus! (2000) What a killer trip!
an converted bus full of laughters
13 tourists from around the world – Australia, China (that’s me), England, France, Israel, and U.S.
14 exciting days touring great places
14 campout nights under the stars around a bonfire
Breathtaking National Parks: Breathtaking National Parks AdventureBus! (2000) Arches | Bryce Canyon | Grand Canyon | Grand Teton | Monument Valley | Yellowstone | Zion
Fascinating Towns & Cities: Fascinating Towns & Cities AdventureBus! (2000)
And More…: And More… AdventureBus! (2000) AdventureBus! Experience of a lifetime.
Last But Not Least : Last But Not Least
Next Stop? Greater Vancouver! (2006): Next Stop? Greater Vancouver! (2006)
Slide15: "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.“
St. Augustine
Slide16: Bibliography Clip arts, sounds and animations were from http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
All photos were taken by the author of this presentation.