1 . Peru (秘鲁) is a country on the Pacific coast of South America, a popular destination (目的地) for tourists. Here are some package tours for you.

Amazon Rainforest Tour

A short flight from Cusco takes you from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest. From there, you’ll spend one day travelling by boat to your hotel in the middle of the forest. You can then spend three days exploring the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals unique to the rainforest.

Machu Picchu Tour

This four-day walking tour will take you on amazing paths through the Andes Mountains on the way to the city of Machu Picchu. After reaching your destination, you will have a day to explore and be amazed by this ancient city. Especially amazing is the Incas’ dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together other than the perfect fit of the stones.

Cusco Tour

Spend four days enjoying the unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th century. Stay in a local hotel, visit the museums, admire the architecture, enjoy the excellent local food, and go shopping at the local markets.

Lake Titicaca Tour

Enjoy the beautiful countryside as you spend a day driving along the new highway connecting Cusco to Lake Titicaca. There, a boat will take you to stay with a local Uros family on an island for three days. Both the island and the Uros homes are made of water plants from the lake.

For more package tours around Peru, contact us at tourinfo@travelperu.org.

3 . Welcome to the Painting Competition for Woodlands Students

The International Anti-Drug Day this year is coming soon. In order to raise teenagers’ awareness to fight against drug taking, the City Art Council is going to hold a painting competition for the students in our city. Students who want to take part in the competition can hand in their own 2D paintings in either of the following two ways:

Each school will be provided with a box for students to put in their paintings. Boxes will be picked by the City Art Council on Thursday, June 23rd, 2016, before the end of the school day.

Paintings can be also handed in on Friday, June 24th, from 8:00 am to 10:00 am at the Woodlands Art Hall (175 Riverside Street).

All paintings are required to be 60 cm wide by 80 cm long or smaller. Larger sizes will not be accepted. Each student can only hand in one painting. The final decision on the competition results will be made on June 26th, the Anti-Drug Day. The name list of the winners will be made known on the website of the City Art Council on the same day. All winning paintings will be shown to the public at the City Youth Park from June 27th till the end of July.

Prizes:

1st Prize (10 students) ＝$ 300 Gift Card each

2nd Prize (20 students) ＝ $ 200 Gift Card each

3rd Prize (30 students)＝ $ 100 Gift Card each

For further information:

Visit http://www. woodlandsartcouncil. org or call 2569-8632.

4 . Most people agree that eating healthy food is important. But sometimes making good food choices can be difficult. Now，there are apps that can help people learn about the food they eat to improve their health and their dining out experience.

Open Table app

Open Table app helps people choose restaurants when they want to go out to eat. It is a free service that shows users restaurants available based on where and when they want to dine. It gives users points when they make reservations(预定) ，which can add up to discounts on restaurant visits.

Max McCalman's Cheese&Wine Pairing app

Wine and cheese can be a great combination. But which wines go best with which cheeses? Max Me Calman's Cheese&Wine Pairing app can help. It provides information about hundreds of different cheeses and suggests wines to pair with each. Max McCalman's Cheese&Wine

Pairing app is free.

HappyCow app

Vegetarians do not eat animal meat. Vegans do not eat any animal products. The HappyCow app is made for both groups. Users can search for vegetarian-vegan restaurants and stores around the world.

LocalEats app

Restaurant chains, like McDonalds，can be found almost anywhere a person might travel. But sometimes travelers want to eat like locals. The LocalEats app is designed for that. It can help you find local restaurants in major cities in the US and in other countries. It costs about a dollar.

Where Chefs Eat app

“Where Chefs Eat” is a 975-page book. Most people would not want to carry that around. But there is a much lighter app version of the same name for just$15. Six hundred chefs provide information on 3,000 restaurants around the world on the Where Chefs Eat app.

5 . If there is one thing I'm sure about, it is that in a hundred years from now we will still be reading newspapers. It is not that newspapers are a necessity. Even now some people get most of their news from television or radio. Many buy a paper only on Saturday or Sunday. But for most people, a newspaper has become a habit passed down from generation to generation.

The nature of what is news may change. What basically makes news is what affects our lives-and the big political stories, the coverage of the wars, earthquakes and other disasters, will continue much the same. I think there will be more coverage of scientific research, though. It's already happening in areas that may directly affect our lives, like genetic engineering. In the future, I think there will be more coverage of scientific explanations of why we feel as we do-as we develop a better understanding of how the brain operates and what our feelings really are.

It's quite possible that in the next century, newspapers will be transmitted electronically from the Fleet Street and printed out in our own home. In fact, I'm pretty sure that is how it will happen in the future. You will probably be able to choose from a menu, making up your own newspaper by picking out the things you want to read-say, sport and international news.

I think people have got it wrong when they talk about competition between the different media. They actually feed off each other. Some people once foresee that television would kill off newspapers, but that hasn't happened. What is read on the printed page lasts longer than pictures on a screen or sound lost in the air. And as for the Internet, it's never really pleasant to read something just on a screen.

6 . Crystal Cruisers-Luxury Every Day

What do you plan to do this summer vacation? Do you want to travel over the sea, experience the ocean wave and enjoy the wonderful sea scenery? If that’s what you want ,come and sail on a Crystal Cruise ship (游轮).We have three ships: The Crystal Queen, The Crystal Princess, The Crystal Palace.

Come and sail in Luxury (游轮) on cruisers around the Caribbean Sea for 7 or 14 days.

Our seven-day cruise costs $2,000 and our two-week cruise is $3,500.

A typical one week cruise:

Day One- set off from Miami

Day Two- free day in Nassau, in the Bahamas

Day Three- near Haiti

Day Four- Visit Puerto Rico and Antigua

Day Five- free day in Barbados

Day Six- free day in Port of Spain, Trinidad

Day Seven- travel to Caracas, Venezuela

Day Eight- fly home

All food and drinks is included in the price of your cruise (except for the wines).Our cruise ships all have a cinema, a five star restaurant, a theatre, a library and a gym (健身馆).However, you have to pay extra money to enjoy the films and plays.

If you prefer to go on a cruise in another part of the world, we also organize cruises in the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean.

Our ships carry over 2,000 passengers and we have nearly 600 crew members in all.

So come on board today for the holiday of a lifetime!

Call immediately: 020-4455832

I’m sure you will enjoy your luxury cruise ship journey very much!

7 . Black Box Thinking

—By Matthew Syed

This book is a new approach to high performance,a means of finding all edge in a complex and fast-changing world.It is not just about sport,but has powerful implications for business and politics,as well as parents and students,in other words,all of us.Drawing on a dizzying series of case studies and real-world examples,together with cutting-edge research on small gains,creativity and courage,Matthew Syed tells the inside story of how success really happens—and how we cannot grow unless we are prepared to learn from our mistakes.

Map Stories

—By Francisca Matteoli

In the book,the author tells 20 surprising stories on the geography of the world and,using beautiful maps from all countries and times,she explains the birth of the most magical places on Earth.The book is a journey through space and time,and a lesson about the world as it is and our place in it.

Making It up as I Go Along

—By Marian Keyes

It is a funny look at the absurdity of modern life and recognizes that we are all clearly making it up as we go along.It includes Keyes,guide to breaking up you’re your hairdresser,and her warning about the dangers of fake tan（古铜色）.And there is some secret truth about writers,or at least about Keyes.

Mog and Me and Other Stories

—By Judith Kerr

Judith Kerr was born on June 14,1923 in Berlin but escaped from Hitler’s Germany with her parents and brother in 1933 when she was nine years old.Judith went to 11 different schools and worked with the Red Cross during the war.For the past 30 years,she’s worked as an author and illustrator of children’s books.Come and play with everyone’s favorite family pet,in this huge board book collection of stories especially for younger readers.

9 . KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

Don’t hesitate to click your mouse and you will experience a different lifestyle in our bookstore.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jane is sent to live with her kind uncle, but he soon dies. Jane can’t stand living with her evil aunt. At the age of ten, she is sent away to a boarding school. Later she becomes a teacher at the school but decides to leave and becomes a private teacher at Thornfield Manor, a big house in the countryside. Here she meets Mr. Rochester---a man with a dark secret that will bring them close to disaster.

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to Count Dracula’s castle in Easter Europe to sign for a house he wants to buy in England. The Count is charming at first, but as time goes by, Jonathan discovers some strange things. Why does the Count avoid seeing Jonathan during the day? How can he climb up the wall like an animal? The Count leaves Jonathan as a prisoner and disappears. In England, Jonathan’s fiancée is followed by a large, mysterious “wolf’’. The wolf has jumped off a ship from Eastern Europe.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

A group of schoolboys survive when their plane crashes on an island. Ralph becomes the leader, and the boys work together to find food and water to stay alive. Jack takes charge of a group, hunting animals. But Ralph wants to find ways to get off the island. Some boys go with Jack, and the other stay with Ralph.       

The Hobbit by J.R. R. Tolkien

Bilbo Bagins enjoys living a normal life. This changes forever when Gandalf the Wizard asks him to go on an adventure to get back a lost kingdom and treasure. Bilbo meets many characters, both good and evil, along the way. Gollum, an evil character, keeps Bilbo in a hole, but offers to free him if he can solve a riddle. Bilbo, finally escapes after he finds Gollum’s magic ring.

10 . Cruise(巡航)lines worldwide suspended sailings March 13 because of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Now companies such as Carnival and Disney are pushing out their return dates and canceling more trips, meaning passengers can receive full refunds for the price of their trips.

Those who want to take their chances and postpone — even though there’s no firm date when this pandemic will end — can choose to receive a credit for a future cruise. Just remember: If you choose a credit, you have given up your refund. Cruise companies want you to stick with them, and are offering extra perks(津贴) and credits to keep you on board.

Carnival Cruises

On Wednesday, Carnival Cruises announced it would suspend Alaska sailings through June 30 and scrap all San Francisco cruises for the rest of the year. Typical five-day cruises along the California coast called at Catalina Island and Ensenada, Mexico, before returning to the Bay Area.

The company also canceled cruises aboard Carnival Radiance (an upgrade of the Carnival Victory) through Nov. 1, and Carnival Legend, through Oct. 30. Carnival Legend typically sails from Seattle to Alaska in summer months.

Passengers whose trips have been canceled may opt for a refund or a future cruise credit.

Disney Cruise Line

Disney Cruise Line on Monday extended its suspension for sailings departing in April. Passengers who had tickets on any of its four ships through April 28 may receive a refund or a cruise credit for a trip within 15 months of their original departure date, according to the company’s website.

Disney also warned passengers about sailings aboard the Disney Wonder that are scheduled to resume April 29. The itinerary(行程) calls for a stop in Vancouver, Canada, but Canada has closed its ports at least through July 1.