Group+9

Central America Marita Casanovas---> will find the history and culture of each city. Inés Mayor---> is going to organise our itinerary.(with Marita and Carol too). Carolina Gil-Penna: Captain---> will search all flights and hotels in which we are going to be during our trip.
 * Group 9**

Please help us to decide where to go, vote on [|Doodle] Thank you for helping us putting an end to decide the sites where we will go.

Central America ---> 6th November to 22th November.

We are finally travelling to Mexico (Mexico City), Costa Rica (San Jose) and San Salvador (Salvador).

Mexico City --> 6th to 11th November.. San Jose --> 12th to 16th November. Salvador --> 17th to 22th November.

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We are going to fly with British Airways,but we have to stop over in London and from London we are going to catch another plain to arrive to Mexico City, and when we arrive to Mexico we are going to catch a taxi to arrive at hotel //Hilton Mexico City Reforma.// ======

There are days that we also going to eat, but we usually going by restaurants in the city.

 * Price (total) || Date || Time || Route || Company ||
 * 1667,52$ x3 passengers = || 05/113/2012 || 20:45-06:45 || Johannesburg to London || British Airways ||
 * 5002,56-57$ discount= 4945,56$ || 06/11/2012 || 14:05-19:20 || London to Mexico DF || British Airways ||

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**The culture of Mexico** is actually a melting pot of cultures. The way of life in Mexico includes many aspects of pre-Hispanic peoples and of the colonial period.

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The population of Mexico is very proud of their country, culture and lifestyle. Other important aspects of their culture are values, family unity, respect, hard work, and the solidarity of the community.Mexico has changed quickly during the 20th century. In many ways, contemporary life in the cities has become very similar to cities in Europe and the United States. However, most of the Mexican peoples follow the way of life of their ancestors. The painting is one of the oldest arts of Mexico. The cave painting in Mexican territory has about 7500 years old, and was manifested in the caves of the peninsula of Baja California. ======

**The history of Mexico**, a country located in the southern portion of North America, covers a period of more than two millennia. First populated more than 13,000 years ago, the country produced complex indigenous civilizations before being conquered by the Spanish in the 16th Century. Since the Spanish Conquest, Mexico has fused its long-established native civilizations with European culture. Perhaps nothing better represents this hybrid background than Mexico's languages: the country is both the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world and home to the largest number of Native American language speakers on the continent. In 1519, the first Spaniards arrived and absorbed the native peoples into Spain's vast colonial empire. For three centuries, Mexico was a colony, during which time its indigenous population fell by more than half. After a protracted struggle Mexico declared its independence from Spain 1810. In 1846, the Mexican American War broke out, ending two years later with Mexico ceding almost half of its territory to the United States. Later in the 19th century, France invaded Mexico (1861) and set Maximilian I on the Mexican throne, which lasted until 1867. The Mexican Revolution (1910–1929) resulted in the death of 10 percent of the nation's population, but brought to an end the system of large landholdings that had originated with the Spanish Conquest. From the end of the Mexican Revolution, to the mid-1990s, Mexico was dominated by one political party, the authoritarian Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). Beginning in the 1990s, the one-party political system established during the Mexican Revolution began to give way to a nascent democracy. True democracy was realized in the year 2000 with the election of Vicente Fox, the first president to not be from the PRI.

In Mexico City we are going to visit:

PLAZA DE LA CONSTITUCIÓN

MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGÍA DE MEXICO PALACIO NACIONAL TEOTIHUACAN

CATEDRAL METROPOLITANA
PALACIO DE BELLAS ARTES

**__SAN JOSE__**

Look at the map, we are going to stay in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica.

We are going to fly with Atrapalo to San Jose. When we reach it, a taxi will pick up and will lead us at //Holiday Inn, Aurola´s company//, the hotel in which we are going to stay while we be in San Jose. At this hotel we are going to stay six nights and seven days, in,as usually,we are going to breakfast and dinner, or sometimes also lunch.

**History of San Jose** population emerged in 18th century colonial planning. San Jose presented problems of water, and that was one of the main causes of immigration. With the independence of Central America from the Spanish monarchy, Costa Rica was divided into two sides with conflicting interests.
 * Price || Date || Time || Route || Company ||
 * 447,14$ x3 passengers=1341,42$-33$discount= 1308,42$ || 11/11/2012 || 13:40-16:07 || Mexico DF to Houston || Continental Airlines ||
 * || 11/11/2012 || 17:59-20:42 || Houston to San Jose || Continental Airlines ||

__**In San Jose we are going to visit:**__

__MUSEO NACIONAL__

__MUSEO DEL ORO__



__TEATRO NACIONAL__



__MUSEO DE LOS NIÑOS:__



__PLAZA DE LA CULTURA:__



__PARQUE OKAYAMA:__




 * __SAN/EL SALVADOR:__ **



A taxi will pick up us when we reach El Salvador to InterContinental Hotel King Palace, the hotel in which we we are going to stay six nights and seven days.


 * Price || Date || Time || Route || Company ||
 * 221´10$ x3 passengers= 663´3$-33$discount= 630´3$ || 17/11/2012 || 12:20-13:40 || San Jose to San Salvador, El Salvador || Lacsa ||

**The history of El Salvador** has gone through several periods which have marked its current state economic, political and social. Before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors to American soil, the territory was inhabited by various native American peoples that had already formed sophisticated social orders. The then province of San Salvador, acquired its independence from the Spanish Empire, making their character of State in 1859. In 1931 he started a period known as the military dictatorship, where the army controls the State until 1979. **Culture of El Salvador**, between the 18th century and 19th, referred to a process of cultivation or improvement, as in agriculture or horticulture. In the 19th century, he joined first refer to the improvement or refinement of the individual, especially through education, and then to the achievement of national ideals or aspirations. El Salvador popular culture encompasses traditions and ancestral, from customs of pre-Hispanic cultures, which merged with the Spanish customs.

** LOCATION SAN SALVADOR **** AND FLAG FROM SAN SALVADOR **



 * __In San Salvador we are going to visit:__ **


 * __Museo del Arroz:__ **




 * __Parque Municipal:__ **




 * __Capilla El Salvador:__ **




 * __Iglesia Santa Teresita:__ **



__**Plaza Morazán:**__



__**Torrito's Grill:**__



__**Playa los blancos:**__




 * __ITINERARY OF OUR TRIP__**
 * __6th November to 22th November.__**

DAY 1:(6/11)

Although the official currency of Mexico is different from the Spanish, we have taken into account and we have been able to buy all the tickets and change the euro to the peso. When we reach the hotel, at 20..00 p.m. aprox., we aren´t doing anything, we will dispose our bags and we will have a meeting with which will be our guide in Mexico, then we are going to have dinner at the hotel and going to sleep that it is necessary to be well rested and to start well our journey.

DAY 2:(7/11)

We are going to wake up at 8.00 a.m and we meeting with Fer, our guide, to have breakfast together. He is going to tell us details about our visit day but we only know that we are going to la Plaza de la Constitución. We looked up in a book this place and says that this place is considered the more big square in the world after one that it is in Moscow. Plaza de la Constitución is located in the historic centre of the city, really being his heart. There is a place in which are events, festivals and protests with an environment that goes beyond the expectations of the visitor.

We are going to have lunch at Adonis, a restaurant that it is 20 minutes of the Plaza de la Constitución by taxi. We have choosen this restaurant, even though it is a little away from this so pretty square, because it is the only restaurant in Mexico City in which you eat while you listen music and while you see a show, and shows beyond much worth in Mexico. We do not know what we are going to eat, because we are going to decide already there, but we are confident that we are going to eat very luxury, and if not, we will make effort to do so, we have money and we must take advantage of it. We also must enjoy it.

After lunch, we are going to catch a bus that it will go until El Museo Nacional de Antropología, that it is located in the Park of Chapultepec.We decide visiting it because a friend recommended us and we saw it good, we can always learn about new things, for example this museum, that will mark us a before and an after in the perception of Mexico. It is one of the most beautiful museums in the world by his anthropological wealth. A thing that we did not explain before is that it is important to go to this museum if you have time and you are mood of it.

After visiting this places, we are coming back to the hotel walking, seeing more streets it is positive. Walking will take half an hour more and less, so we are going to arrive at the hotel at 10.00 p.m, we are going to dinner and after meeting another time with Fer, we are going to sleep to be as today tomorrow.

DAY 3: (8/11)

This day we are going to sleep a little more than yesterday, we are going to wake up at 10.00 a.m., we are going to have breakfast and we are catching a taxi to go to pick up Fer. The same taxi will take us to Palacio Nacional. If you look, places that we are visiting are very cultured. Taking advantatge that we are in el Zocalo, we will also visit la Catedral Metropolitana. After that we are going to the hotel by taxi, we are going to lunch there and at the afternoon we going shopping and walking through Mexico. We are going to arrive at the hotel next shopping at 10.00 p.m. aprox. We are going to dinner and going to bed early as always.

DAY 4: (9/11) We are going to breakfast at 8.00 a.m. in the hotel, so we have to wake up more early than usually, we have to exploit a lot the day in Teotihuacan, we do not why but we will stay there during all the day, we are going to have sandwiches for lunch... we only know that we are going to return at the hotel at 11.00 p.m., we will have dinner if we do not do with sandwiches too, and we are going to go sleep.

DAY 5: (10/11) Between we go from one place to another, either by bus, taxi or on foot, we are sure that we will entertain with all that we see even if it is in the planning or not... So it will not be much more to be seen. This day will go to the Palacio de las Bellas Artes, we are going to enjoy a relaxed day, because we will spend all the morning there, and we are going to go back to the hotel and stay there, that there is a conference of one important Mexican that will come after dinner to explain us more things to know about this espectacular city in which we are know staying. After this briefing we are going to prepare us our bags because at we catch the plain to arrive at time at San Jose on 11th September and go on with our trip.

DAY 6: (11/11) We are going to spend this day on the plain.

DAY 7: (12/11)

The first day we spent in San Jose, Costa Rica, we have also visit the National Museum.We plan to grab a bus about 9:00 o'clock in the morning in the square in front of the hotel, it will cost 2.20 colones per person. When we get there, we booked the tickets for the museum and the guide. Before entering the museum we will visit all Outdoor xona because the museum is housed in a beautiful and emblematic square.

When we finish cojeremos the same bus which will go to the museum and return to the hotel, eat there and get ready for the evening will go to peseo to visit the most famous streets of the city, I guess for some dinner restaurant near the hotel.

DAY 8: (13/11)

The second day we spend in the city visit the museum of gold, for it cojeremos a taxi as we did not come out very expensive because the hotel is quite close to the museum. When we get there, we prepared a sightseeing tour around the outside of the museum that cost us13.20 colones per person, when we finish the tour will enter the museum which is free. Take the opportunity to see an exhibition that is exposed only at the museum for 15 days and justcoincided with our visit to the city. When we finish walking back to the hotel to vsisitar and walk the city streets. When we come because we will prepare a show that has been prepared in the national park of the city where several young people involved.

When you finish this show dinner at some restaurant near there and return to the hotel.

DAY 9: (14/11)

The first day we spent in San Jose, Costa Rica, we have also visit the National Museum.We plan to grab a bus about 9:00 o'clock in the morning in the square in front of the hotel, it will cost 2.20 colones per person. When we get there, we booked the tickets for the museum and the guide. Before entering the museum we will visit all Outdoor xona because the museum is housed in a beautiful and emblematic square. When we finish lunch in a restaurant in the square where encuantra theater and when we finish we will walk to thehotel.

In the afternoon visit the most important streets of the city where arem photos, shopping ...

At night have dinner in a typical restaurant in San Jose that is a bit far from the hotel, thenreturn to the hotel.

DAY 10: (15/11)

The fourth day we spend in San Jose we will devote to gastronomy. For starters we have hired a gastronomic guide that will lead us to the most typical restaurants of the city.

We get up at nine o'clock to be ready at ten in the holl of the hotel, where we expectRamiro, our gastronomic guide. First of all let's go to a restaurant called Tin Jo, which is located near the National Museum where estubimos the other day, to go up there we willgrab a taxi when more or less it will cost 12.30 colones.

When we get to the restaurant our guide we will explain the most typical dishes of the city and choose the more we feel like.

One of the most typical dishes, so you know, are, the sea bass ceviche which is a mixtureof onion, celery, Libon, tabasco (which is a spicy ingredient widely used) is also verytypical chicken breast with cream, which are pechigas chicken with cream of mushroom.

When we finish, we will walk in the city, discovering monuments, sculptures and beautifulstreets of the city.

DAY 11: (16/11)

This day is not going to give things more time to visit this beautiful city, because we haveour flight at 12:20 p.m. and we must be in the airport at 10:20 p.m., therefore, we will have breakfast in the hotel.

DAY 12: (17/11)

The first day here in san salvador we are going to visit typical things also we are going to eat in tipical restaurants where we can eat typical food.

We have arrived at the airport in San salvador then we will go to our hotel called Hotel King Palace there will leave our luggage and then go to visit the Museo del arroz, to be able to know a little of culture and history. The entrance to the Museum cost US 40 colones (in san salvador 1€ is equal to 8.75 colones), after collecting a bit of information about the culture and history of san salvador we will go to eat at the restaurant called torrito's grill. Below will be walking through crafts market seeing things made by hand and after there, take a taxi and we'll go to the hotel to rest since ti will be already night.

DAY 13: (18/11) The second day in salvador in the morning go to have breakfast somewhere very typical called cafeteria Tin in which his specialty are the buns. Then we go to stroll through the Centre of the city visiting the streets. Then we go to see the parque municipal where the entrance on Thursday the is free so it was perfect for us, after a long walk by the park then we went to eat somewhere that we have recommended by our hotel we ate well but not so typical things like the previous day. After eating we went to the hotel to put the bathing suit on because we plan to go to the beach, a beach taht there is one of the wonders beaches, it was called the playa los blancos was a very nice beach with fine and white sand and warm and transparent water were you could see even the fishes. When just we finish to be there, in that wonder beach we went to the hotel to change and to have a shower and to fix us to go out to dinner in an elegant restaurant.



DAY 14: (19/11)

On the third day we were excited to see what we had seen here in san salvador that we'll love what we are going to visit so today will be a wonderful place and after eating we will visit two sites more normal. When we woke up we went to breakfast at the buffet of the hotel and then we will go to the plaza morazan because already many people said that is really good going to visited. Then we will go to eat at some place for fast food so then we will have a guided tour of the Capilla de El Salvador and after this visit we'll go visit another sacred place called La Iglesia de Santa Teresita the two seem very nice and we believe that they are really nice places for visit. After all the visits go for a dinner and we'll go towards to the hotel already we were very tired because we were walking much.

DAY 15: (20/11) The 15th day we will not wake up soon because we have a visit to La ruta del cafe at 13 hours so we will wake up at 11 hours because all those days ww will go to sleep very late and we have awakened soon to take advantage of the maximum time and be able to see the more important things in El Salvador and not lose time. We will have breakfast near the place where we will go to that take a bus because we are left a bit away from where we are going to go so hopefully there will be some bars to take something to eat when we get there. We will go to visit the Ruta del cafe where is a very typical place that were one of the first civilizations which produced large quantities of coffee. When we will finish this tour we'll go to eat and then in the afternoon we will go somewhere typical to take souvenirs to our families and then already we will go back to the hotel.



DAY 16: (21/11) The 16 day is going to be our last day here in San Salvador because the next day we will be almost all day in the plane on the way to our next destination. So today we will wake up soon because we will go to visit two new extensive and distant places and in one of them we have hired a guide tourist to know more. When we wake up we go to have breakfast at the buffet of the hotel, then take a bus that we have rented (has cost US 26 colones per person) and will take us to El Pital a not high place but very enblematic place, then we will eat in a restaurant that we will find any rural food that we're out of the city and later the bus take we will take us until Los planes de renderos another beautiful place so we decided to go with a good pair of shoes now that I will rather walk. Where we caught the guide is here in Los planes de renseros. When we finish we will go to the hotel we have dinner at the restaurant of the hotel and go to our rooms to collect our luggage and we'll go to sleep soon since our plane leaves very soon.



DAY 17: (22/11) We are going to get up early because we catch the flight between 9.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. and we have to be at the airport at 7:00 a.m. to arrive at time at Yakarta.

[|THE GLOGSTER:]

__ Conclusion: __ Doing this project we have learnt a lot and we through too the work that you have to do if you have to plan a trip. You had to organise very well as it was a very dense project. We think that we have learnt to how to work in group.

      

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