1 . A walking tour in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Rocky Mountain National Park covers about 41 square miles with dozens of mountain peaks. More than 250 species of birds will delight your senses and more than 900 types of wildflowers will keep you marveling at their beauty.

Your Colorado walking tour officially begins. To ensure that you arrive on time we strongly suggest that you arrive one day before the departure date.

Day 1 The trip begins at 1: 00 p. m.. Travel by bus to Rocky Mountain National Park. Check in our accommodations, enjoy a fresh lunch and head into the park for our first hike.

Day 2 During today’s hike we will cover 3.8 miles. We’ll stop to enjoy both “The Pool” and Fern Falls on our way to Fern Lake. You’ll enjoy every minute of today’s hike and then spend a relaxing evening in the town of Estes Park.

Day 3 Glacier Gorge, the main section of the Park, has some of the most beautiful attractions in the Park. Today we’ll push our boots up the trail to Black Lake, about 4.7 miles. With views of Longs Peak, we’ll hike past a major waterfall and several smaller lakes before arriving at Black Lake.

Day 4 Today we’ll head to Wild Basin, southeast of the main park area, for a hike to Ouzel Lake. Wild Basin traverses (穿过) through Aspen forest past rushing streams, to a high mountain lake where we will enjoy a picnic lunch.

Day 5 The Flat Top Mountain area will delight your senses with thick forests and meadows of abundant wildflowers. Our feet will carry us for about 8.8 miles.

Day 6 Catch the Estes Park Shuttle to Denver International Airport or continue on your own to other adventures!

2 . Boston wants to be smarter. The city has taken advantage of tiny sensors, big data and other technologies to become more responsive to its residents’ needs. But technology alone is not sufficient to make today’s cities liveable. Boston has discovered that it also needs to reach the old-fashioned low-tech community and integrate that technology with city life.

Kris Carter, co-chair of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, rolled out Boston’s smart city program in 2014. It started with an app that residents could download to report locations where sidewalks needed repair. The city collected those reports and decided which place should be repaired.

The system worked beautifully, except for one problem: most of the alerts came from wealthier neighborhoods, where the concentration of smartphone-equipped residents was highest.

Boston’s push to become a leading smart city now contains a core tenet: high-tech initiatives(方案) shouldn’t only benefit the already well-resourced. Under Carter, technology is seeping into the city’s functioning and daily life, but with a special eye to serving those populations and neighborhoods that need the most support.

Instead of letting tech-savvy(懂技术的) residents and high-tech companies drive the process. Carter’s group run meetings in local libraries and other public spaces to find out what problems people in different neighborhoods care about solving. “Some cities take the point of view that if you put out the right technology devices, people will figure out how to take advantage of them,” he explains. “We wanted to start with a grass-roots view of what challenges needed to be addressed.” Only in that context, he adds, does technology enter the picture.

When it comes to sidewalks, Boston has introduced a second method of collecting repair tips. In addition to its smartphone app, it has hired people to get out and walk the city’s 1,700 miles of sidewalks to take notes on their condition. “Combined with our other sidewalk information, that gave us an even better way to predict where faster repairs would do the most good,” says Carter. “We’re really always looking for whatever mix of approaches best solves the problem.”

3 . At the foot of the Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang, a homestay (民宿) is attracting travelers from far and wide, which has won architectural medal at the 2021 German iF Design Awards.

The owners of the homestay are a couple in their late 30s who decided to return to their hometown three years ago. Li Xiumei used to be in charge of a division at a company in Hangzhou, and her husband was a sales director. It was an ordinary situation where Li’s husband was on business trips a lot and Li still worked on weekends. City life sometimes is not easy.

In 2018, they quit jobs and went back to Dongtianmu village, which lies in a forest of bamboo. The first time they drove into the village was one late afternoon. The cooking smoke was rising from the foot of the mountain, which gave them a very different feeling from the city.

The homestay was built beside her husband’s old countryside house. The old house is preserved (保留), while a brand-new building was built on its side and the whole site is made up of four courtyards. It has been updated to have a hall, a tea room, a kitchen, a dining room. Japanese cherry trees are planted in the east courtyard. A swimming pool is placed in the west courtyard, with a bar located on one side.

Li and her husband love gardening and music, and their new home gives them enough space to continue their interests and relax in the heart of nature. Li wants to share the quiet country life, so she makes her new home a homestay. In 2019, the homestay became an online hit after guests shared their experiences on social media. “The longer I stay here, the more I feel it was the right choice to come back, and this is more meaningful than making money,” Li says.

To help you further understand Chinese culture, our school will organize trip to the Confucius Temple. I'd like to share some details about them with you.

As scheduled, we will to meet at 7:30 a. m. on Thursday at the school gate. We will first visit the Confucius Temple, where we can learn much about Confucius but have a deeper understanding of the traditional Chinese culture. Then, we will visit several ancient building. After that, we were going to enjoy some puppet shows. You will be great impressed. Finally, we will taste some special snacks, that are truly delicious. By the way, knowing briefly about the Confucius culture on advance would be quite helpful.

Please be sure to arrive at the appointing place in time.

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6 . There’s nothing quite like a holiday abroad with your girls, and as we look forward to a more positive 2021 these places should be at the top of your bucket list.

Cannes

When you think France, often the famous romantic capital Paris comes to mind. However, you’re with your girls. So why not have the journey south to Cannes? This holiday is for the girls that want to live like the stars for a weekend or two. Not only does it offer a beautiful view, you will feel like celebrities(名人) as you wander around the place film stars call home during the Cannes Film Festival.

Brazil

For the girls group with the most reveler(饮酒狂欢者), the place for you is Rio de Janeiro. The iconic Rio Carnival, is truly where Brazil comes to life in an explosion of colour and passion. Full of parades, shows and dancing in the streets, the perfect party, Brazil is the perfect destination for a girl’s holiday.

Thailand

From the crystal clear waterfalls, the elephant home and the full moon parties Thailand offers countless adventures for a girl’s trip.

Start with Bangkok, the city of angels. For the girl’s trip that’s all about sightseeing, a visit to Wat Pho is must. While you’re at the temple you can stop to receive a traditional Thai massage(按摩).

Amsterdam

Known for its artistic heritage, elaborate canal system. Amsterdam is packed with adventures waiting to be had. Start your trip right with a canal tour. The history of Amsterdam is closely connected with water. Floating down Amsterdam’s canals is one of the most magical and memorable ways to discover the city especially with a glass of wine or two.

9 . When you think of a national park, you generally picture fresh air and wild animals, right? Well, now you're going to have to add tea shops and something called “the Underground” to your definition, because London, England has signed up to be the first “National Park City.”

London was founded by the Romans around 2,000 years ago and people have continually lived there since then. In all that time, however, nobody had the idea to replace all the parks with big box stores or high buildings, which means London already has a much lower urban density(密度)than most of the world's cities. Nowadays about a third of the city is green space.

In July 2019 London announced its willingness to become the world's first National Park City. Now the city is moving toward the goal of achieving 50% green space by the year 2050 by connecting and increasing public parks, greening unused parking lots and the private yards of existing and new houses, and fixing some green roofs an existing building.

“Encouraged by the aims and values of our rural national parks, the London National. Park City is basically about making life better in the capital through both small everyday things and long-term thinking,” Daniel Raven-Ellison, who began the movement to make London at National Park City six years ago, said. “We've been doing that in London for centuries, which is why London is so green.” It's about going further to make the city greener, healthier and. wilder; making the city richer in wildlife.

London will have a much easier job achieving this type of green transformation than more. densely-urbanized cities like Paris and New York, which have. 10% and 27% green space. respectively. But that doesn't mean it's not possible — the National Park City Foundation hopes to include 25 more cities in addition to London. by the year 2025. Glasgow, Scotland and Newcastle upon Tyne in northeast England are both considering becoming National Park Cities.

Located in the Haidian Disrict, northwest of Beijing, the Summer Palace is 15 kilometers away from the downtown area, which     1     (consist) of Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake,     2     (cover) an area of 2.9 square kilometers. Being the largest and most well-preserved royal garden in China, it     3     (great) influences Chinese horticulture (园艺) and landscape with its     4     (fame) natural views and the works of humankind.

Originally     5     (name) Qingyi Yuan or the Garden of Clear Nipples, the Summer Palace was first constructed in 1750. It later became the main residence of royal members in     6     end of the Qing Dynasty. However, like most of the gardens in Beijing, the Summer Palace was destroyed by fire and was razed to the ground by the Anglo-french Allied Forces. The Summer Palace was rebuilt in 1886,     7     was supposed to serve as a summer resort for the Empress Dowager Cixi. In 1900 the Summer Palace suffered another hit by the Eight-power Alied Forces. Then it took the government two years     8     (repair) the Summer Palace. In 1924, it was open     9     the public. The Summer Palace was added to the World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 1998, and became one of the first national AAAAA tourist     10     (attraction) in China.