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Rcaptain: Carmen Miró: transport (FLIGHTS): plane, car, buses... and the itinerary of South Africa Teresa Perreau- look up about activities and the itinerary of Nigeria Carlota Cavallar -look up information about countries culture and history and the itinerary of Ethiopia

=**__THE AFRIKAN CONTINENT:__** Do you want to go to Africa? (Glogster)= ==

First--> South Africa Second--> Ethiopia Third--> Nigeria
 * Our three choosen countries:**
 * South Africa || Ethiopia || Nigeria ||
 * 20th Oct.-25th Oct. || 26th Oct.-30th Oct. || 31th Oct.-5th Nov. ||
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 * HERE WE CAN SEE THE MOST DEVELOPED LAND IN AFRIKA: SOUTH AFRIKA**

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 * A GEOGRAPHICAL MAP ABOUT THE CONTINENT:**

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=__**The AFRIKAN CONTINENT**__= =__**Dates:**__= =Please, help us to decide where to go. Vote on [|Doodle]= = = =[|http://www.doodle.com/rk5rv9r598an2ws4#table]=

= = =**__SOUTH AFRICA__**=



__** History **__
The history of South Africa begins with the arrival of Europeans in the region. In 1910 the four main republics of the region joined the South Afrikan settting. A black resident were not allowed to vote in this republic. The country is under control of the black majority, which constitutes 80% of the population. South Afrika is an Afrikan country located on the southern tip of Afrika.Its official name is Republic of South Afrika, and has three capital cities: Pretonia, Bloemfontein and Cape Town. It has 2,798 miles of coastline on the Atlantic and Indic oceans. South Afrika in known for its diversity of culture, languages and religious beliefs.Although English has an importance in public life and business is, however, the fifht language spoken. It has also a rich fauna and flora. =__ ACTIVITIES: __=

CAPE TOWN AT NIGHT



VICTORIA AND ALFRED WATERFRONT



CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE

NATIONAL MUESUM BLOEMFONTEIN

ROBBEN ISLAND = = =**__ITINERARY:__**=

__1st DAY-20 October__
Today is our first day in Southafrica, we've landed in the morning so we are tired. In the airport we pick up the car that we rent and we go to this hotel (the hotel where we are going to stay the 6 days):

We are going to have lunch here an in the afternoon........
 * [|The Hotel Mount Nelson] [[image:http://static.destinia.com/headers/direct04/img/redisenio_09/ski/5_estrellas.png caption="hoteles en Ciudad del Cabo"]] || valoración ** 8.6 ** ||
 * [[image:http://static.destinia.com/imglib/hotelfotos/t/049/49879_023.jpg caption="hoteles en Ciudad del Cabo" link="http://destinia.com/hotels/hoteles-en-ciudad-del-cabo/western-cape/sudafrica/africa/31312/es"]] || Orange Street - Gardens, 76 - Ciudad del Cabo [|**[ver localización en mapa**] ||^   ||
 * || price: from** 267€ ** to** 380€ ** ||  ||

__2nd DAY-21 October__

Today we are going to visit the Victoria and Alfred waterfront. We are going to go on a tour by there and then we are going to lunch in a restaurant next to the waterfront called: [|Victoria & Alfred Hotel Waterfront] In the afternoon we are going to continue visitting the waterfront. At night, with the car, we are going to sope in our sleep hotel. //On the Waterfront Pierhead,, Cape Town//

__3rd DAY-22 October__
Today we are going to visit the castle of the good hope. We go to there by car. After the tour we are going to lunch in this restaurant next to the castle: [|Hotel on St. Georges] In the afternoon we continue the tour and at night we go to the hotel to sleep. //1 Riebeek Street, Hotel on St Georges, Cape Town 8001, Sudáfrica//

__4th DAY-23 October__
Today is one of the most exciting days in Cape town. We are going to the Robben island. To go there we drive our car and then, there we rent a boat to pick us around the island. We are eating in a stall. After lunch we are having a rest on the beach. [|Robben Island Museum]

//Clock Tower, VA Waterfront, Nelson Mandela Gateway, Robben Island 8002, Sudáfrica//

**__5th DAY-__****__24 OCT.__**

Today is the day to buy souvenirs and walk around the hotel zone because at night we have a fascinating activity. We are having lunch at: [|Jardine **Restaurant**] //185 Bree Street, Cape Town 8001, Sudáfrica//

In the afternoon we are going to see Cape Town at night by helicopter.

__6th DAY-25 OCT.__
Today we are going to visit the National Museum bloemfontein. We go to there by the car. We are going to have lunch at the museum restaurant. In the afternoon we are going to continue visitting the museum. [|**National Museum** Bloemfontein] //36 Aliwal Street, Bloemfontein 9301, Sudáfrica//

__Seventh day 26th__
Today we have to wake up early because we are flying at 9:50!!!!!!!!! We must remember that in the airport we have to return the car to the company.
 * = == 590'25€/Per. == ||= == 9:50 == ||= == CapeTown == ||
 * =  ||= == 20:50 == ||= == AddisAbeba == ||

=__TRANSPORTS:__=

__**TRANSPORTS IN THE COUNTRY:**__

When we're in South Africa, we're going to rent a car t move us around the country: to the museums, the castle... but to go to the Robben Islans we're going to rent a boat to have a tour. this is the flight that we're going to catch an 26th Oct to go from South (Cape Town) to Ethiopia (Addis Abeba).


 * NISSAN X-TRAIL 536,00 EUR**

Delibery:

Sa, 20th Oct. 2012 10:00 International Airport, Cape Town, South Africa

Refund:

Sa, 27th Oct. 2012, 10:00 Internatonal Airport, Cape Town, South Africa

=__**ETHIOPIA:**__=

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Ethiopia, officially tyhe Federal Democratic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the horn of Afrika. It´s the second most populous country in Afrika after Nigeria and before Egypt.With 1,127,127 square km, Ethiopia is the twenty-seventh largest country in the world. =====

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Ethiopia was never colonized, it has maincained independence.It´s also the second oldest nation in the world to adopt Christianisty as its official religion, Ethiopia, signed he Declaration of the United Nations, it was one of the 51 originals members of the United Nations, and more. =====

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In 1936, the territory officialy passed a part of Italian East Afrika. During the Second World War, the italian defeat in Afrika returned the power. The war with Eritrea from 1997-2000 ended with the independence of Eritrea and under auspices of the UN nad OAU was obtained peace between Eritrea and Ethiopia. =====

The Ethiopian cuisine consist of several incoming and vegetables or meat dishes, usually a stew.
=__ ITINERARY: __=

=__**1st Day - 26 October**__=

We are going to catch the airplane at 9:50am from Cape Town and we are going to arrive to Addis Abeba(Ethiopia) at 20:50 pm, it cost 590,25€ only the trail.When we arrive we are going to the Soramba Hotel, a tree stars hotel, that it cost 61€/night that it´s the most chip that we have found.It´s situated in the Belay Zeleke Road near to the San Jorge cathedral. Then we are going to go for a walk to see how is Ethiopic at night.After that we are going to return to the hotel because we would be very tired from the tavelling, that had taken 14:05 hours!!!

**__ 2nd Day __****__ – 27 October __**


We will wake up at 10:00 am, then breakfast at the hotel included in the price. At the end ,we´ll go to the city and visitshops to buysouvenirsand necessaryfor thesedays in Ethiopia. After that we want to goto a restaurant totaste the typical Ethiopianfood, that they are: vegetables , spicy stewmeatandathick , theytend to eatwith their hands. At 4:00 we would go to the Nations Ethiopic Museum, that it´s near to the hotel. There you can seeancient paintings, archaeological remains, remains ofbones, etc. .It would be very veryinteresting, I am sure because we would learn from different cultures and  their ways of livingso many years ago. Then we would go to a restaurant for dinner, surely to the Lion´s Cage Pastry, where you can enjoy avariedmenuand economic development. After that we would return to the hotel to rest and get ready for the nextday.

**__ 3rd __****__ Day - 28 October __**

We will wake up at 9:00 am because this day we will visit the National Park of Simien, a park, Contains the RasDashen , the highest peak inEthiopia andthe fourthin Afrika, with an areaof 16,500hectares Contains various types of trees, animals,thatamongst them : the Ethiopian wolf, the goat of Abyssinia andthegelada. Two ofthem areendangered. It’s a beautiful park, and most of the people like it. I think we also will like it. It’s going to be very tiring. It will be very tiringbecause ofthe vastness of thepark,becauseyou haveto doto cross iton foot,butfor many hours,or by car. Then we will return to the hotel to have dinner and go to bed because we will be very tired of the long spending day.


 * __ 4th __****__ Day -29 October __**

We will wake up at 10:00am, have breakfast at the hotel and then we will go to the Tana lake thelargest lake inEthiopia Is about 84 km long and 66 km wide.The maximum depthis 15 m andcovers an areaof 2,156 km²!!!! We will spend all morningwalking aroundthe lake andif we are luckyto rent aboatfor a spin. It’s going to be amazing and very beautiful, because we will se thesunset. We will have lunch at 5:00.But it doesn’t mater, it will have been worth. Then we will return to the city and we will go to the cinema After that we will return to the hotel, but not for super because we would have dinner so late,and we'll goto bed.

**__ 5th __****__ Day -30 October __** We will wake up at 10:00am, then we will have breakfast. Today we will visit the Ethiopian National Theatre!!!! It’s going to be amazing!!! The Ethiopian National Theatre is a national theatre group of Ethiopia, based in central Addis Ababa. We will see a typical play. Then we will have lunch at the same restaurant als the second day., and after that we will rent some bicycles for strollingandsightseeing, because tomorrow we won’t have time to do another activity. Then we will return to the hotel to sleep, good night!!

**__ 6th Day __****__ – 31 October __** This day we will wake up at 8:00 am, then we will pack up and then we will go to the airport to catch the plane.

=**__ ACTIVITIES: __**=

ADDIS ABEBA AT NIHGT

GO BY BOAT BY THE LAKE TANA



ETHIOPIC NATIONAL MUSEUM



SIMIEN NATIONAL PARK

=__ TRANSPORTS: __=

__ FLIGHT FROM CAPE TOWN TO ADDIS ABEBA: __

 * = ==590'25€/Per.== ||= ==9:50== ||= ==CapeTown== ||
 * =  ||= ==20:50== ||= ==AddisAbeba== ||

**__TRANSPORTS IN THE COUNTRY:__**
We will use the bus, to move us in all the city

= __**NIGERIA:**__ =

= __**HISTORY:**__ =

Nigeriahas an ancient history from the earliest human population around 9000BC.
The Kanem-Bornu Empire dominated northern Nigerian for almost 600 years, prospering

In Nigeria 521 languages are spoken.
=__ ACTIVITIES: __=

ABUJA CITY

DISTRICT OF MAITAMA



YANKARI NATIONAL PARK



MILLENIUM PARK



ASO ROCK = = = =

= = =**__ ITINERARY: __**=

=**__1st DAY-31 October__**= //Transcorp Hilton Hotel//

We're going to catch the airplane at 9:40 hours from Addis Abeba and we're going to arrive to Abuja at 12:40, it cost 475,28€. When we arrive we're going to go to Transcorp Hilton Hotel, it cost 377,000 N/Per night and it's situated in 1 Augiyi Ironsi Street Maitama. When we already are installed in the hotel we're going to dinner in the Abuja International Restaurant and we're going to eat te Jasaga Stew Menu, it cos $ 15.00. At night we're going to visit Abuja. At 23:00 hours we're going to sleep to the hotel. = = = = =**__2nd DAY-1 November__**= //Yankari National Park//

We're going to wake up at 6:00 hours and at 6:30 hours we're going to go to the Yankari National Park by the rent car but efore we're going to by some snadwiches for eat in the National Park. We're going to arrive at 13:00 hours approx. In the Yankari National Park we're going to see a lot of animals: lions, elephants, buffalos, monkeys... and we can see the Wikki Spring, one of the most popular springs in the park. At 18:00 hours approx. we're going to return to the hotel. We're going to arrive to the hotel at 24:00 hours approx. = =

=__3st DAY-2November__= //Millenium Park//

We're going to wake up at 10:00 hours and we're going to catch the rent car for visit the Millenium Park. We're going to arrive from the Millenium Park at 11:00 hours. In the park we're going to see the two areas, the first area is devoted to the study and exhibition of the multitude of diferents elements in the natural area of Nigeria and the second area, is the area dedicated to scientific study and observation of nature. At 14:00 hours we're going to eat at the same restaurant an the first day: Abuja International Restaurant because is the most cheep restaurant of Abuja and we0re going to eat the Ekwang Menu, it cost $15.00. We're going to return to the hotel at 19:00 hours.

=**__4th DAY- 3 November__**= == //Maitama Hills//

We're going to wake up at 9:00 hours and we're going to buy some sandwiches because we're going to do excursion in the Maitama Hills. We're going to walk to arrive at the District of Maitama, it's situated in the north of the city, next to the hotel. We're going to take a strollin the Maitama District, it's the most beautiful district in Abuja. After lunch, we're going to do excusions in the Maitama Hills. At 18:00 hours we're going to rwalk back to the hotel.

=__**5th DAY- 4 November**__= //Aso Rock//

We're going to wake up at 9:00 and we're going to catch the rent car and buy some sandwiches for go to the Aso Rock, it's a large rocky outcrop. We're going to arrive from the Aso Rock 11:00 and we're going to see old the large rocky outcrop.We're going to eat in the Aso Rock at 14:00 hours. We're going to return to the hotel at 18:00 hours.

=__6th DAY-5 November__=

We're going to wake up at 8:00 hours, because this is the last day and we're going to collect everything and we're going to refund the rent car.Good bye Africa!!

= = = __TRANSPORTS:__ =

**__FLIGHT TO ADDIS ABBEBA FROM ABUJA:__**

 * == 475,28€/Per. == || == 9:40h == || == AddisAbeba == ||
 * || == 12:40h == || == Abuja == ||

= = =__TRANSPORT IN THE COUNTRY:__=

We're going to rent a car for visit old the places in these country like: The Millenium Park, The Aso Rock...

=__**Kia Cerrato 1'6**__=

Deliberity
31th Oct. 2012 at 13:00 Eurapcar Officine of Abuja

5th Nov. 2012 at 10:00 Europcar Officine of Abuja
 * Refund: **

Final Cost: 557.63 EUR

=__**CONCLUSION:**__=

We learned a lot of things doing this work. First, as travel to other countries. Second, we learn that we can visit a lot of places in only 16 days. And finally, the most important thing that we learned is the history, the culture and the beauty of South Africa, Ethiopic and Nigeria

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