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1. If you want to go traveling, where are you going? 2. How are you going? What can they see during the journey  down the Mekong ? * Unit 3 Travel Journal Warming up Do you know the following places, have you ever been there? Tian’anmen Square The Great Wall Forbidden City The Heaven Temple Eiffel Tower 巴黎艾菲尔铁塔(位于塞纳河南岸) Louvre Museum 罗浮宫[法国巴黎](或译卢浮宫现为国立美术博物馆) The North Pole The South Pole Under the sea The Moon The Earth On National Day and May Day, many people including you may prefer to go traveling for a break. What do you have to consider before you decide which means of transport you will use? means of transport on foot by bike by motorbike by bus at the bus stop by jeep by car by train by ship/boat/sea at the port/ harbor by plane/ air at the airport by spaceship Can you guess the name of this river? Journey down the Mekong (Part I: the dream and the plan) unit3 Reading Which countries to flow through China Myanmar Laos Thailand Cambodia Vietnam PART 1 THE DREAM AND THE PLAN My name is Wang Kun. Ever since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip. Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she persuaded me to buy one. Last year, she visited our cousins, Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college in Kunming. They are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan Province near the Lancang River, the Chinese part of the river that is called the Mekong River in other countries. Wang Wei soon got them interested in cycling too. After graduating from college.we finally got the chance to take a bike trip. I asked my sister, Where are we going? It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from where it begins to where it ends. Now she is planning our schedule for the trip. I am fond of my sister but she has one serious shortcoming. She can be really stubborn. Although she didnt know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that