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迪拜旅游英语作文(优秀20篇)

动物园是每个小朋友都想去的地方,里面会有各种没见过的动物,也能接触到在电视上见的动物,那去了动物园后,是否要深刻记录一下呢?下面是小编整理的迪拜旅游英语作文,希望能帮到大家。

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untai Mountain -- experience of three steps a spring, five step ten step waterfall,lake scenery

Located in Henan Xinxiang, Qijue landscape, UNESCO was named the first global world geological park, the first national 5A level scenic spots, and the highest waterfall in Asia -- Haeundae grand waterfall.

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篇1:国外旅游Overseastraveling英语作文

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The above table clearly mirrors an upward trend in the number of people who prefer to travel abroad over the last decade. In 1995, there are only ten thousand tourists going overseas to take a trip. In 2000, the figure climbs to approximately 40 thousand, and peaks at 120 thousand in 2005.

There are a huge number of reasons behind this phenomenon, of which the most important one is --China‘s booming economy.

Thanks to the deepening of reform and opening-up, citizens of the Middle Kingdom enjoy a sharp improvement in their living standards. They have enormous consuming power to pursue higher level of living quality. Perhaps getting tired of visiting scenic spots at home, an increasing number of them choose foreign countries as their tour destinations.

When it comes to what impacts it would bring, in my eyes, it would give a huge boost to tour industry both at home and abroad. And it would give Chinese deeper insights into foreign cultures. Of course, the dark side of this phenomenon also exists. For instance, the uncivilized behavior of some Chinese tourists may have a negative impact on China‘s image. Anyway, overseas travel is beneficial. What really needs to occur is consumer education.

[国外旅游(Overseas traveling)英语作文

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篇2:关于旅游的英语

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Last summer vacation,my family and I went to Qingdao by train. There was always sunshine and fresh air,which made us so comfortable. We went to the seaside,the sea was as blue as the sky, and bathing in the sunshine on the beach, was really an enjoyable thing.I also picked up a lot of colorful shells with my little sister. There we bought many interesting souvenirs, I was planing to send them to my friends. We ate many tings there,such as fish,prawn, and so on. They are very delicious. Then we lived in a clean and tidy hotel, and the price was not so expensive. I like Qingdao very much, and if I got a chance, I hope to come here again, it is such a beautiful and interesting place.

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篇3:关于旅游的英语作文80字

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My whole family to yunnan travel, swim many scenic spots in yunnan is very famous, such as lijiang, shangri-la, in the big... But there is a scenic spot to let me the most amazing, the most difficult to forget, it is the stone forest.

Yunnan is known as the stone of the world. Into the stone forest, feel like they are in the fairyland.

The stone forest in the early morning mist is different. Close look at it like plumes, darkened the wonderful scenery of the day now. A gust of wind blowing, clouds disperse, a variety of wonderful scenery in sight. Look far, like a rough sea. Exposing a little sharp peaks, asing if is a desert island in the sea.

We continue to follow the tour guide, deeper the more cold, at that moment I felt a chill, one after another came to sneeze. Walking, the guide stopped suddenly, one hand high, pointing to the distant mountains, side is introduced. Originally, the towering majestic mountain is called "lotus peak". I take a closer look at the lotus peak, its shape is like a blooming lotus flower, the shape of the stone as pieces of petals, on a narrow width. With a large lotus stone, vivid. Such a wonderful "lotus peak," how can I not take it home, "click", "" lotus peak is moved, I decided to, be sure to permanently preserved the beauty.

Along the way, qifeng rocks upright. Suddenly, I saw a piece of stone, across the cliff, is difficult, the fall down in succession. But dad told me that the peak has across the cliff for millennia, there has been no break down, the stone is called "the wind stone".

Through this trip, I learned that some books to school less than, it is the most beautiful scenery in the ghost town, beautiful scenery of stone forest forever in my heart.

我们全家人到了云南旅游,云南游许多风景名胜都是十分有名的,如丽江、香格里拉、大里……但有一个景点让我最惊叹,最难忘了,它就是——石林。

云南以石头闻名世界。走进石林,有种身临仙境的感觉了。

清晨,石林的雾还真是与众不同。近看它像缕缕青烟,把那奇妙的风景遮得朦朦浓浓。一阵大风吹过,云雾散开,种种奇妙的风景浮现在眼前。远看,像一片波涛汹涌的大海。山峰露出一个小尖,仿佛是海里的一个荒岛。

我们继续跟着导游往前走,越往深处越冷,这时一股冷气向我袭来,一个又一个的喷嚏就跟过来了。走着走着,导游突然停了下来,一只手高高地指着远处的山峰,一边介绍着。原来,那座巍峨雄伟的山叫“莲花峰”。我仔细瞧瞧那莲花峰,它形状似一朵盛开的莲花,石头的形状如同一片片花瓣:上窄下宽。用一个个石头组成一朵大莲花,形态逼真。这么奇妙的“莲花峰”我怎能不把它带回家,“咔嚓”一声,“莲花峰’就搬家了,我决定,一定要把这个美景永久地保存下来。

一路上,奇峰怪石竖立着。忽然,我看见一块石头,横跨在石壁上,十分险恶,眼看就快掉下来了。可爸爸告诉我,这块怪石已经横跨峭壁上千年了,一直没有砸下来,这块石头就叫做“风吹石”。

通过这次旅行,让我认识到了一些课本上学不到的东西,这么美丽的景色真让人留连忘返,美丽的石林景色永远铭记在我心中。

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篇4:旅游的好处英语作文大全中英对照

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travel is beneficial to us in at least three ways.

first, by traveling we can enjoy the beautiful scenery in different places. we will see with our own eyes many places read of in books, and visit some famous cities and scenic spots.

second, we will meet people with different interests and see strange and different things when we travel. we can get ideas of the conditions and customs of other people, taste different foods and local flavours if we like. in this way, we can understand how differently other people live.

third, travel will not only help us to gain knowledge of geography and history and other knowledge, which will arouse our deeplove :for our m0therland, but also will help us keep healthy and make us less narrow-minded. travel does benefit us both mentally and physically.

with all these advantages of travel, it is no wonder that travel has now become more popular than ex‘er in china.

旅游有利于我们至少在三个方面。

首先,通过旅游,我们可以享受美丽的风景在不同的地方。我们将看到许多地方用我们自己的眼睛阅读的书籍,并参观一些著名的城市和景点。

第二,我们将与不同的利益和满足人们看到奇怪的和不同的东西,当我们旅行。我们可以得到别人的条件和海关的想法,如果我们喜欢品尝不同的食物和地方风味。通过这种方式,我们可以了解不同人的生活方式。

第三,旅游不仅能帮助我们获得的地理和历史知识和其他知识,这将引起我们的deeplove:m0therland,还可以帮助我们保持健康,让我们少心胸狭窄。旅行的好处我们无论在心理上还是身体上。

所有这些优势的旅游,难怪旅游现在已经成为比前任更受欢迎在中国怎样。

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篇5:暑假旅游的英语作文

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Alas! Speaking of my summer vacation, thats a really rich and colorful! The most make me happy is my mother and I to play in the window of the world, playing all day. Can be happy!

Just to the gate, a Roman glass pyramid, came into our eyes, inscribed with four Chinese characters "window of the world", the word what a magnificent! I was thinking. Around the pyramid, it is a fountain of some two meters high. Is this four characters more gorgeous and colorful!

The door to watch has ended, we bought the tickets, hurried into the window of the world, we first to a call Japan laurel detached palace, here is introducing tea, wash cup, the style of tea. Because of this, I understand the style of Japanese tea.

Then, we visited some sculptures, such as: the world trade center, Japans palace, and so on some of the building.

In this way, we then suddenly, until half past eleven we all of a sudden, forest through place, see this, I talk about playing with heart, and at work, I cant help, my mother and I immediately to start the game, wow! Good fast ah! My heart a, just relax, and nervous, just relax, and nervous,... My heart is such a.

Later, we played a lot of fun and exciting game, well, how did you feel today, I have a good time?

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篇6:关于旅游的英语作文

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I love traveling. Traveling not only broadens my horizons but also opens my eyes to the world. Whats more, it refreshes me. You can go to Disneyland and experience what its like to be “a child again!” You can visit one of the “seven wonders of the world,” such as the Grand Canyon and feel the magnificence of nature! You can taste the “magicial” ice water on a glacier, which can help you become more beautiful and make you live longer. Just forget all trifles and burdens that you have in your mind. Experience is a type of living knowledge. Youll be sure to experience many new things when traveling. You dont even need a tour guide if you long for more freedom. Just dont forget to bring your backpack!

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篇7:关于旅游方式的优秀英语四级作文鉴赏

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Modes of Travelling

1.有人选择随团旅游,有人喜欢独自出游

2.随团旅游和独自出游的利与弊

3.对我而言,最佳的旅游方式

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Modes of Travelling

College students, curious and energetic, love traveling; summer and winter vacations provide them with golden opportunities to travel. There are two major modes of travellingtraveling by oneself or traveling in a group organized by travel agencies.

Those two patterns offer different travel experiences, with respective advantages and disadvantages. For the solitary traveler, the greatest advantage is freedom. He is perfectly free to choose his itinerary and plan his schedules, thus he can visit whatever his curiosity leads him to and contemplate over a historical site or a cultural relic for as long as he desires. The trouble is he cannot share his perceptions and excitement with any partners. Moreover, it is time-consuming and difficult to buy train tickets and look for accommodations and in emergency situations an individual traveler is largely helpless. Those problems are non-existent for group travelers because travel agencies take care of everything. Within a group, people who used to be strangers soon become friends. However, the fixed itineraries and tight schedule prevent travelers from satiating their individual curiosities. In addition, tourists are often subjected to forced shopping by tour guides who are more concerned with securing commissions than providing services.

[关于旅游方式的优秀英语四级作文鉴赏

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篇8:初二英语作文:自助旅游Self-helpTraveling

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Today, as our economy develops fast, people live a much better life than before, they start to pay attention the chase fun. When people have holiday, they will choose to travel, most people will give money to the organization, while some people choose toSelf-help traveling. Self-help traveling can save a lot of money, people can save the money which is given to the tour guide. What’s more, self-help traveling can bring people a lot of fun. People can visit the site as long as they want, sometimes they can find the interesting things in the small place. While the tour guide will always take people to the commercial place. Self-help traveling is becoming more and more popular now.

今天,由于我们国家的经济快速发展,人们的生活比以前好很多,他们开始注重寻找乐子。当人们有假期,他们会选择去旅游,大部分人会给钱旅游机构,然而一些人选择自助旅游。自助旅游可以节省很多钱,人们可以把给导游的钱省下。而且,自助旅游能带给人们很多乐趣。人们可以随心所欲地观看景点,,有时候他们会在小地方发现有趣的东西。然而导游总是带人们去商业点。自助旅游如今越来越受人们的欢迎。

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篇9:旅游英语年级

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I went to three cities to play during last summer holidays. They are

Beijing, Dalian and HuHehot.

I went to Beijing more than eight times. Beijing is the capital of China.

It’s a big city. I am very familiar with Beijing. It takes an hour and forty

minutes from Nantong to Beijing by plane. There are many tall buildings in

Beijing. It’s a modern city. My family visited the Great Wall, the Summer

Palace, the Palace Museum, the Beihai Park, the Space Museum, etc. I went to the

countryside of Beijing to go boating and fishing. It was very interesting. I

went shopping in WangFuJing. I bought lots of souvenirs and other things. I like

eating Beijing snacks. They are delicious. Don’t mithe Beijing Duck. It is

really nice.

Dalian is a beautiful city. Dalian is close to Beijing. I spent 5o minutes

on the plane. Dalian is near the sea. I smelled the salty taste in the air. The

roads are clean. There are lots of trees and flowers near the roads. There are

many esplanades and Japanese buildings. There are some fountains in one of the

esplanades. Some people flew kites and walked on the esplanades. We went to see

the beach and the sea. The sea is blue. There were many swimmers in the sea. I

lay on the beach to see the sky.Dalian is a very nice place to live.

Huhehot is in Inner Mongol. There are lots of large grasslands. The

grasslands are endless. The sky is bright blue. There were a lot of horses and

sheep. They were running or eating grass. I rode a horse on the graland. I

picked some colourful flowers. We drank the tea with milk. There is a small

desert, it was very hot when I walked on it. The sand could sing.

These trips helped me open my eyes. I enjoyed my day.

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篇10:我喜欢旅游英语作文

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喜欢旅游,旅游可以观赏风景;我喜欢旅游,旅游可以增长知识;我喜欢旅游,旅游可以提高写作水平。下面小编为你整理了我喜欢旅游英语作文,欢迎大家阅读。

I most like to travel! Travel makes me have fun, and can learn a lot, then I to introduce you to the place where I feel funny, everybody follow me go travel together!

Every time I go to the most place is hangzhou, go to all feel a lot of fun. Summer can go to west lake for a walk, play would be.

You can go to the prince bay park in March to appreciate the beautiful cherry blossoms and gorgeous tulips.

If students want to get a lot of knowledge, I suggest that we can go to hangzhou science and technology museum, there are a lot of science show allows us to try myself.

Shaoxing is the place where I have been to the deepest impression, why? Because the day I first go to shaoxing shaoxing hospital, I had a high fever 40 degrees, also want to know when I was only 4 years old ah, can put the ssi urgent is broken, straight Shouting regret taking me out to play, then mom said to me, if you want to swim in shaoxing, tomorrow I must be able to keep the fever down. Strange to say, in order to swim the day I really cooled down, is really god to help me also. Ha ha, is also a doctor attributed to aunt! The next day I play a day, a good thing they have been dying for ssi also always think Im good. In shaoxing, I visited the former residence of lu xuns grandfather, ancestral, swimming for yu ling, herbals, shen garden, etc.

Then I want to say, hengdian is fun place. Theres really big ah, every scenic spots have to spend two or three hours. Theres a lot of film and television production, I saw a lot of performances, there the first time I have bought a 褀 robe.

Say again lets own here, we have yuhuan park, agricultural sightseeing garden, I think may the students have been to all of these, I think is interesting, there is a place that is mom took me to the LuPu rape and pick strawberries to eat. Im having a great time that day.

I most like to travel!

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我最喜欢旅游了! 旅游让我既玩得开心,又能学到很多知识,接下来我向大家介绍一下我觉得好玩的地方,大家跟着我一起旅游去吧!

我去的最多地方就是杭州,每次去都觉得很好玩。夏天去可以西湖走走,宋城玩玩。

三月份去就可以去太子湾公园欣赏漂亮的樱花和绚烂的郁金香。

如果同学们想要获得很多知识,我建议大家可以去杭州科技馆,那儿有很多科学展示可以让我们自己动手去试。

绍兴是我去过的地方印象最深的,为什么呢?因为去绍兴的那天我首先逛的是绍兴医院,我发高烧了,还40度呢,要知道当时我才只有4岁呀,可把老爸老妈急坏了,直喊着后悔带我出来玩,后来老妈对我说:如果想游绍兴,到了明天我必须能退烧了。说也奇怪,为了能游我真的第二天退烧了,真是老天助我也。哈哈,其实也是医生阿姨的功劳!第二天我就好好的玩了一天,这件事情对老爸老妈来说他们一直后怕也一直觉得我好厉害。在绍兴我参观了鲁迅爷爷的故居,祖居,游了大禹陵,百草园,沈园等。

接下来我要说的好玩地方就是横店。那儿可真大呀,每个景区都得花个两三个小时。那儿可是很多电影、电视生产的地方,我看了很多的表演,在那儿我还第一次买了一件褀袍。

再说说咱们自己这儿吧,我们这儿有玉环公园,有农业观光园,我想这些地方可能同学们都去过了吧,我还有一个地方觉得也有意思,那就是老妈带我去芦浦看的油菜花和摘草莓吃。那天我也玩得非常开心。

我最喜欢旅游了!

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篇11:英语写作素材积累:生态旅游

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生态旅游的内涵更强调的是对自然景观的保护,是可持续发展的旅游。下面是语文迷网为大家带来的关于生态旅游英语作文的句子,希望对你有帮助。

1.we will establish some ecological demonstration zones and ecological agriculture counties. Specifically, high-efficiency ecological agriculture will be developed;抓好生态示范区和生态农业县的建设,发展高效型生态农业;

2.We will expand ecological demonstration zones.加强生态示范区建设。

3.The regional ecological system is fragile.区域生态系统脆弱。

4.Environmental protection in the places embodying cultural, historical and natural relics will be promoted. Integrated planning and management of tourism will give priority to the development of ecological tourism and improvement of forest parks and scenic resorts.加强有关文化遗产和自然遗产的环境保护工作,加强旅游业统一规划管理,开展生态旅游,强化森林公园和风景名胜区建设。

5.A variety of tourism products designed around sightseeing, conferences and contests, vacations, business trips, academic studies, cultural explorations, technology, sports, ecological tours, and traditional customs shall all be improved.完善观光旅游、会奖旅游、度假旅游、商务旅游、修学旅游、文化旅游、科技旅游、体育旅游、生态旅游、民俗旅游等旅游产品。

6.Promoting the construction of ecological agriculture?

加强生态农业建设。

7.economic development and ecological equilibrium经济发展与生态平衡

8.system analysis of ecosystem生态系统的系统分析

9.Sub-plan for Environmental Protection生态环境保护专项规划

Though there are no exact figures for the ecotourism segment, a government-sponsored push for rural tourism —— usually involving staying with farmers —— has become popular in China in recent years.

虽然生态旅游方面还没有确切的统计数据,不过近年来由政府资助推出的乡村旅游项目(通常被称为“农家乐”)却已在中国广受欢迎。

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篇12:关于旅游的英语日记100字

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A new language opens up a whole new culture. A foreign language gives us access to another culture, and our lives take on a new dimension. The great German poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, said in 1827: "Whoever is not acquainted with foreign languages knows nothing of his own." Seen like that, learning a language is almost comparable to a journey of discovery - and if we remember the great explorers and the 18th century gentlemans grand tour, you might almost call it a British invention.

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篇13:写英语旅游日记

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So heres how it works: you take what you find (listed below) and literally GLUE it into your journal as you go, and then write about the events of the day around the items. Yes, its that easy! Here is how your journal may look:

我的旅行日志开始于2009年,当时我第一次去欧洲。它是这么一回事:我在旅行中把找到的东西直接贴在日记本上(后文有内容清单),然后,在贴的东西旁边写下当天发生的事。对,就这么简单!下图就是日记本的样子:

It may sound daunting, but taking time out of your trip to sit down at a cafe, glue stick, pen and journal in hand, with a cup of coffee (or glass of wine), is not as time-consuming as you may think. Most people respect the quiet time youre having.

这听起来似乎挺麻烦。不过,在旅行中悠闲地找个咖啡馆坐下来,手里拿着胶棒、笔和日记本,品着一杯咖啡(或红酒),其实没你想得那么费时间,很多人都会羡慕你的悠闲。

And I promise, you will love looking back on your journal years later to remember the feeling you had when purchasing that meal, taking that tour, or visiting that historic site. It really is magical. I consider my journals some of my most priceless possessions. Now remember to grab that glue stick before you go!

而且我能保证,几年之后,当你用它来回忆你吃饭、旅行或参观那个历史景点的感受时,你会爱上这种翻看日志的感觉,这种感觉真的很有魔力,我觉着日记本是我最宝贵的财富。所以,出发前记得带上一支胶棒吧!

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篇14:英语旅游日记

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Today, the weather was fine and I take a bus to Hangzhou, the students play, starting 7:00 am this morning, we have toured the West Lake, where boating. Afternoon, we went to the zoo, we saw many interesting animals, and there taking pictures, we play very much. When we go home, we very tired but very happy.

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篇15:2024年中考英语作文热点话题预测:旅游介绍

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请你阅读你的加拿大网友tommy的e-mail,根据e-mail的内容,给他写一封回信.

dear li lei,

i havent heard from you for a long time. im glad to tell you that ill visit beijing this summer vacation. it is said that beijing is a great city with a long history and more changes have taken place since the 2008 olympic games. i would like to know something about beijing, such as places of interest, the environment, traffic and people there.

im looking forward to hearing from you soon.

yours,

tommy

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dear tommy,

im glad to know you will come to beijing.

beijing, the capital of china, is one of the largest cities in the world. there are many places of interest, such as the summer palace, the forbidden city and the great wall. all of them are beautiful and well-known to the world. great changes have taken place in beijing since we successfully held the 2008 0lympic games.

now, people pay more attention to the environment. more trees and flowers have been planted. for the traffic, it is very convenient for people to travel around beijing, because several new subway lines have been built. if you come to beijing, you will find people here are very friendly and helpful. whats more, a lot of people can speak english. beijing is really an attractive city with a long history.

im looking forward to hearing from you soon.

yours,

li lei

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篇16:旅游污染英语tourismpollution

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Responsible travel is very well expressed in the famous travelers saying: Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time. Travelling is every one’s way of getting away from the hustle and bustle of life and sometimes, because we are so engrossed in our desire to enjoy and have fun, we tend to forget that the we only have one earth to live on and that we are all responsible for it. Very often, we are not conscious enough to realize that one little candy wrapper that we threw outside the bus while travelling could one day contribute to the blocking of the drainage system and could cause flooding in the area; we are not aware enough of the fact that the litter we throw away carelessly might one day turn the place into a trash dump; we are not considerate enough to see the tree we attempt to climb might be over 500 years old and can hardly bear our weight.

I think we should understand that travelling should not be seen as something that is human-centered.

It should be understood that when we travel, we should feel honored that we could still see and enjoy the beauty of the world.

We, as a human being, should be responsible for the few of the remaining beautiful places in this planet. Being responsible doesn’t necessarily mean that we are required to do something grand for the environment. It’s those little things that matter the most. If everybody starts doing those little things, I bet it could change the world.

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篇17:去广州旅游的英语日记

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Guangzhou also called Yangcheng. Guangzhou is a beautiful city in China, but it’s very noisy . The population of Guangzhou is about seven million two hundred thousand .

Guangzhou is a good place to visit. In Guangzhou, there are many beautiful parks, museums, temples, etc.There are also many interesting places such as White Cloud Mountain, Yuexiu Park, the long grand amusement park and so on. So many people like going to visit Guangzhou. An other reason people like to visit Guangzhou is it has convenient traffic.

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篇18:英语旅游日记

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The Yellow Mountain is one of the most famous mountains in China . It lies in the south of Anhui . Every year thousands of Chinese and foreigners pay a visit there . Its not far from here . It takes you about three hours to get there by bus . You can also go there by train or by plane . While you are climbing the mountain , you can enjoy the sea of clouds , wondrous pines and unique rocks around you . In the early morning when the sun rises , the sky looks very beautiful . Its really a nice place to visit .

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篇19:旅游英语日记200字

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climbing The Great Wall

During the summer holidays, my fahter and I visited Beijing. On the second day after we got to Beijing, the guide took us to climb the Great Wall. On that day, it was sunny. It took us forty minutes to reach the foot of the Great Wall. It was for the first time that I saw the Great Wall. Oh, how grand and magnificent it is!

I couldn‘t wait to climb upward, taking my father‘s hand. How many people climbing the Great Wall are! My father and I took photos among the crowd as we climbed. After half an hour. I felt a little tired. My fahter encouraged me in the words, "Teng Teng, do you know that you are not a man if you fail to reach the Great Wall? Come on!" Hearing that, I refreshed myself and tried my best to climb up. In the end, I reached the Hero Slope. I felt very happy and proud, standing on the Hero Slope. I felt myself to be a real man now.

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篇20:故宫旅游英语

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Lying at the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong, in Chinese, was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Now known as the Palace Museum, it is to the north of Tiananmen Square. Rectangular in shape, it is the worlds largest palace complex and covers 74 hectares. Surrounded by a six meter deep moat and a ten meter high wall are 9,999 buildings. The wall has a gate on each side. Opposite the Tiananmen Gate, to the north is the Gate of Devine Might (Shenwumen), which faces Jingshan Park. The distance between these two gates is 960 meters, while the distance between the gates in the east and west walls is 750 meters. There are unique and delicately structured towers on each of the four corners of the curtain wall. These afford views over both the palace and the city outside. The Forbidden City is divided into two parts. The southern section, or the Outer Court was where the emperor exercised his supreme power over the nation. The northern section, or the Inner Court was where he lived with his royal family. Until 1924 when the last emperor of China was driven from the Inner Court, fourteen emperors of the Ming dynasty and ten emperors of the Qing dynasty had reigned here. Having been the imperial palace for some five centuries, it houses numerous rare treasures and curiosities. Listed by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 1987, the Palace Museum is now one of the most popular tourist attractions world wide.

Construction of the palace complex began in 1407, the 5th year of the Yongle reign of the third emperor of the Ming dynasty. It was completed fourteen years later in 1420. It was said that a million workers including one hundred thousand artisans were driven into the long-term hard labor. Stone needed was quarried from Fangshan, a suburb of Beijing. It was said a well was dug every fifty meters along the road in order to pour water onto the road in winter to slide huge stones on ice into the city. Huge amounts of timber and other materials were freighted from faraway provinces. Ancient Chinese people displayed their very considerable skills in building the Forbidden City. Take the grand red city wall for example. It has an 8.6 meters wide base reducing to 6.66 meters wide at the top. The angular shape of the wall totally frustrates attempts to climb it. The bricks were made from white lime and glutinous rice while the cement is made from glutinous rice and egg whites. These incredible materials make the wall extraordinarily strong.

Since yellow is the symbol of the royal family, it is the dominant color in the Forbidden City. Roofs are built with yellow glazed tiles; decorations in the palace are painted yellow; even the bricks on the ground are made yellow by a special process. However, there is one exception. Wenyuange, the royal library, has a black roof. The reason is that it was believed black represented water then and could extinguish fire.

Nowadays, the Forbidden City, or the Palace Museum is open to tourists from home and abroad. Splendid painted decoration on these royal architectural wonders, the grand and deluxe halls, with their surprisingly magnificent treasures will certainly satisfy "modern civilians".

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