Planning Your Mountain Holiday

Use an Atlas to find the place you are planning to visit.

•	Which continent and which country is it in?
•	What are the names of the main mountains nearby?
•	How high are they?

Use the Internet to find out...

•	Where is the nearest airport?
How much would it cost to fly there?
How long would it take?
•	What is the weather like at different times of the year?
•	What sorts of things could you do while you are there?
•	What different activities are available at different times of year?
•	What tourist attractions are there in the area?

Useful Internet Sites:

www.lonelyplanet.com/dest 
The Lonely Planet Guide. Click the link for SubWWWay and choose the continent that interests you.

www.peakware.com/encyclopedia/pwindex_ranges.htm
If you know which mountain range you want to investigate.

www.peakware.com/encyclopedia/pwindex.htm
If you know the name of a particular mountain you want to visit.

(NB The Peakware site is very useful but it does have advertising banners – Just ignore them!)
Planning Your Mountain Holiday

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The nearest airport is ……………………………………………………… 
To get there I would fly from ……………………………….………. A return flight would cost £…………….…
And the flight would take ……………… hours.

Here is some information about the climate in ………………………………………

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Some interesting places to visit in the area are:    …………………………………………………………………………
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Activities
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A Few Mountainous Places and Some Useful Internet Sites To Find Out About Them

Grindelwald in the Swiss Alps
www.grindelwald.ch/defaulte.htm

Katmandu in the Himalayas
www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/ind/kat.htm
www.info-nepal.com/ 

Mount McKinley in Alaska (Rocky Mountains) 
www.nps.gov/dena/
Grand Canyon in Colorado (Rocky Mountains) 
www.kaibab.org/gc_homjm.htm

Quito in Ecuador (Andes)
www.ovpm.org/ovpm/sites/aquito.html
matrix.crosswinds.net/~joyner/quito.htm