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Feel like you are there with me as I fly, sail and walk around the world learning and experiencing other cultures in some of the most amazing and remote places on earth. Explore the wonder of it all as I share twelve different journeys, not as a tourist but as a traveler, savoring foreign cuisines and gaining historical and traditional perspectives from other cultures. Envision seeing stunning and fascinating places, such as The Great Wall of China, Easter Island, Angor Wat, and Maccha Pichu. Imagine trekking for Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, searching for anacondas along the Amazon, evading pirates in Pirate Alley or hiking the extraordinary Coastal Path of Cornwall. Learn about each location with succinct historical information and about each culture from conversations with the local community.
Hopefully, it will inspire you to dare venturing forth into places unknown and for you to have some life changing adventures of your own.

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Publié par	Xlibris US
Date de parution	21 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669830122
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	5 Mo

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SPREAD YOUR WI NGS AND COME EXPLORING WIT H ME

MONICA SANGER PHIL LIPS

Copyright © 2022 by Monica Sanger Phillips. 843849

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

Xlibris
844-714-8691
www.Xlibris.com

Library of Congress Control Number:
2022911304
ISBN:
Softcover
978-1-6698-3013-9

Hardcover
978-1-6698-3014-6

EBook
978-1-6698-3012-2

Rev. date: 07/20/2022
PREFACE
A PANDEMIC! Whoever would have guessed that in this time and age, we would have to experience a pandemic. But we did, worldwide! It eliminated the possibility of travel to foreign places. Now, however, we are free to travel again.
When I was growing up, we did not have a television. Reading was my way to gain knowledge and to become familiar with foreign countries and the wide variety of cultures in the world. My imagination would run wild, envisioning how someday I might travel to these exotic places. Fortunately, I have been able to make many of those dreams come true, and I wish to share just a few of these journeys with you in this book. Hopefully, reading it will spark your interest and curiosity in far off lands, igniting your wanderlust to explore and experience new adventures around the world.

INTRODUCTION
This book contains numerous options for your adventures, a composite record of several different types of world journeys, whether it be solo or with family and friends. How about the thrill of a wildlife safari with so many bird species and animals, that they are too numerous to count? A personal spiritual walk through the Holy Land? How about the feeling of your body rocking back and forth with the motion of a camel in the Sahara Desert; or for even more fun, the exhilarating and thrilling roller-coaster sensation of a 4X4 spinning and zipping up and down sand dunes in Dubai or on a jet boat in New Zealand? Heart stopping adventures, such as, when trekking to find mountain gorillas, the troop matriarch gives you a punch in the arm, or having pirates following your speeding cruise ship? A trip back in time to tour the valley of the Kings and the magnificent tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt? Seeing architecture so beautiful that it blurs the lines between art and structure?
The tales of journeys in this book are meant as an inspiration for you, to know you too can do what you have dreamed about and expand yourself in far-flung lands feeling the power of connection with people from afar. The essence of travel as described within, is this, and so much more. It is an expansion of personal perspective.
Each journey’s account provides some history, geography, general information of the country, and my personal perspective of what I experienced and learned. Also included are accommodations where I stayed, offering great hospitality that made me feel at home and safe after a long day of exploring. My hope is that this book can serve as a guide for you to plan an adventure of a lifetime in amazing destinations that appeal to you.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
1. Poland, Tracing Ancestral Heritage
2. New Zealand, Land Of Picturesque Landscapes And World Renown Agriculture
3. A Trip Down The Amazon, The Earth’s Mightiest River
4. Exploring China And The Yangtze River
5. A Thrilling Cruise From Singapore Through The Middle East To Egypt
6. An African Big Five Safari, Trekking Mountain Goriallas And So Much More
7. Hiking The Coastal Trail Of Cornwall, England
8. Wonders All Around The World In 24 Days
9. A Family Adventure: On Safari In Tanzania
10. Israel, Walking In The Footsteps Of Jesus
11. Four Lady Friends Explore The Iberian Peninsula
12. Belgium, Land Of Medieval Towns And Historical Berlin, Germany
Afterword
POLAND, TRACING ANCESTRAL HERITAGE
September 5th – 12th, 1996
I was eager, for I was “going to my grandfather’s homeland”, I have thought of this trip and country since I was a little girl growing up in Wisconsin on the family farm. My grandfather, Ignace Dolata, immigrated here in the late 1800’s and took up farming in the fertile loam soil of northern Wisconsin, my father following in his footsteps. He married in 1895 and started a family outside Krakow, a small unincorporated village in Shawano County. My grandmother and father said that part of grandfather’s heart always remained in Poland, and whenever possible he would purchase Polish savings bonds. He took pride in having served in the Prussian army before he could legally leave the country. At that time, 1795 to 1918, Poland was split between Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and Russia and thus, had no independent existence. Now, I would see for myself, his country and the Polish people in which he had such a strong affinity.
I glanced around at the people waiting to board the plane for Poland. It was hard to distinguish who would be a Pole. There was a sprinkling of Oriental male businessmen, several students with an international look, no children, and the rest of the passengers were an assortment of adults ranging from 20 to 65 years of age and equally divided between the genders. There were no African Americans, and the majority were quite fair skinned with blue eyes.
It was just my husband, Kermit, and I taking this self-designed journey. We were now airborne, and the young lady that was sitting next to me on the plane, told me she is leaving her homeland in Windsor, Canada to teach English in Warsaw. Her husband would be meeting her in Warsaw. He was able to get a less expensive faire if he flew to Frankfort, Germany and hitch-hiked from there to Warsaw, where he would be teaching English also. She mentioned that they would have to reside in a youth hostel for a while, as they would have no money for food if they paid $600.00 on apartment rent for the first three months.
WARSAW
The buildings were generally non-descript, gray cement block buildings, but if one looked beyond them, you could see the budding of new growth, a skyscraper, and a sprinkling of modern architecture, new gas stations, and pretty parks.
We stayed overnight at the Hotel Europejski. It had a beautiful lobby, but our room was quite plain and worn. The food in the hotel restaurant was very tasty: pickled herring, followed with apple and pork with horseradish appetizers, the main entrée was beef with potato pancakes, dessert a most delicious apple cake with vanilla ice cream and a bottle of French wine. The wait staff spoke English and were most delighted to be serving American tourists.
After a restful ten-hour night’s sleep, we watched the BBC channel on the room’s little television, for they were reporting on the damage wrought by Hurricane Fran in the coastal community of Wilmington, North Carolina. Fran peaked at 120 miles per hour, a Category 3 when it made landfall, but it appeared that Kermit’s rental properties in the area were spared, and it did not affect our home two hundred miles inland.
We had an unbelievably delicious breakfast, a huge array of polish sausages, chesses, fruits, yogurts, eggs, pastries and coffee. Kermit had three servings, which spook of both his hunger and the great taste of the food.
Now we were off in our little rental car into the countryside. It was still as green as it would have been in June. It was not uncommon to see both horse-drawn and modern tractor harvesting machinery in the fields along the roadside. The highway was crowded with manic drivers that believed a 2-lane highway was meant for at least four cars wide, and they were out to prove it. It didn’t take long for Kermit to think he could play that game too, and he joined the other drivers in this suicide mission. I on the other hand, became a “backseat driver”.
ZELANZOWA WOLA
Our first stop was Zelanzowa Wola, the birthplace of Chopin, a charming home set in a large park-like estate. Chopin’s father was a tutor, and his mother was a relative of the Count who owned the estate. When Fryderyk was only seven months old, they moved to Warsaw permanently. But today, they hold Chopin concerts here regularly and take great pride in that he had been born here. We purchased several tapes of his music for our listening pleasure at home.
NIEBOROW
Our second stop for the day, was the Radziwill Palace in Nieborow. The village of Nieborow has an interesting history, its first church was founded in 1314 and the Cardinal Radziejowski, Primate of Poland, built this Baroque palace in 1697. In 1774 the palace went to Michal Radziwill who collected sculptures, paintings and filled the vast library. During the German occupation of World War II, it was a meeting point for the Polish Resistance Movement. Since 1945, the palace and garden complex has been cared for by the National Museum in Warsaw. The Radziwill name became quite known in the United States when Caroline, the sister of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, married the Polish aristocrat, Prince Stanislaw Radziwill, in March 1959. Upon her marriage, she became Her Serene Highness Princess Caroline Lee Radzi will .
We were looking for a noted restaurant in Lodz for lunch, but we were unable to find it. We didn’t know it then, but we were glad later when we came upon a man gril