My Favorite Tours

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My Favorite Tours
LIBR500 Foundations of Information
Technology SLAIS, University of British Columbia

• Lei Zhu
• zhulei_at_interchange.ubc.ca

January 2006
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Lets first have a quick look at the starting
point of the tours
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Shanghai Sweet Home

• 6,200 square kilometers.

• 25 million population
• Canada 32 million?
• China 1,300 million!

• four distinct seasons

• Chinas financial center

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US40 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 Chinas 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
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US40 Luxury Tour (1990)
40? Sorry, wrong answer.
I came back with a 5 surplus !
(1 US dollar 8.5 CN Rmb in 1990)
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Hello, Uncle Sam! (1996)
Golden Gate Bridge was amazing. Disneyland_at_LA was
really fun. View from Empire State Building
wasincredible. The roar of a Harley Davidson
was deafening.
But what impressed most was actually
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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
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Grandest Party of the Century(235959 pm Dec
31, 1999)
Beers and Cheers
Millennium Eve
Ball Drop Countdown
Times Square, NYC
1.5 Million People
I WAS AMONG THEM!
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AdventureBus! (2000)

• What a killer trip!
• an converted bus full of laughters
• 13 tourists from around the world Australia,
  China (thats me), England, France, Israel, and
  U.S.
• 14 exciting days touring great places
• 14 campout nights under the stars around a bonfire

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Breathtaking National Parks
AdventureBus! (2000)
Arches Bryce Canyon Grand Canyon Grand
Teton Monument Valley Yellowstone Zion
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Fascinating Towns Cities
AdventureBus! (2000)
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And More
AdventureBus! (2000)
AdventureBus! Experience of a lifetime.
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Last But Not Least
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Next Stop?Greater Vancouver! (2006)
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"The world is a book and those who do not travel
read only one page. St. Augustine
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Bibliography

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• All photos were taken by the author of this
  presentation.