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Unit2 Travelling around PERU is a country on the Pacific coast of South America with three main areas:narrow,dry,flat land running along the coast,the Andes Mountains,and the Amazon rainforest. In the 1400s and 1500s, Peru was the centre of the powerful ancient Inca Empire. The Inca emperor lived in the now-famous site Machu Picchu. Spain took control of Peru in the 16th century and ruled until 1821. It is for this Be Happy!1 reason that Spanish is the main official language of Peru. Date:__________ Name:__________ Unit 2 Travelling around A short flight from Cusco takes you from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest. From there,you'll spend one day travelling by boat to your accommodation in the middle of the forest.You can then spend three days exploring the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals unique to the rainforest. Machu PicchuTour--This four-day walking tour will take you on amazing paths through the Andes Mountains on the way to the city of Machu Picchu. After reaching your destination,you will have a day to explore and be amazed Be Happy!2 by this ancient city. Unit 2 Travelling around Be Happy!3 Especially amazing is the Incas, dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together other than the perfect fit of the stones. Cusco Tour Spend four days enjoying the unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco,the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th century. Stay in a local hotel,visit the museums,admire the architecture,enjoy the excellent local food,and go shopping at the local markets. Unit 2 Travelling around Be Happy!4 Lake Titicaca Tour Enjoy the beautiful countryside as you spend a day driving along the new highway connecting Cusco to Lake Titicaca.There,a boat will take you to stay with a local Uros family on an island for three days.Both the island and the Uros homes are made of water plants from the lake. So come and experience what Peru has to offer, everything from the ancient Inca culture and centuries-old Spanish villages to deep rainforests，high mountains,and a beautiful coastline.For more brochures about other package tours around Peru,contact us at tourinfo@travelperu. org. Unit 2 Reading for Writing Be Happy!5 Dear Xiao Li, My time here in China is going well. I love my new school and classmates. Over the October holiday，my parents and I are planning to go to Xi'an to see the Terracotta Army. I've heard that it is an amazing sight,and I can't wait to go. To me,the story of the Terracotta Army is almost unbelievable. It's amazing that there are more than 8,000 statues, and no one in modern times knew about them until the 1970s. Date:__________ Name:__________ Be Happy!6 Unit 2 Reading for Writing We're also planning to visit several other places in Xi’an. My dad and I are both looking forward to going to the Shaanxi History Museum,because my dad loves history and I have heard that this museum is known as a "Chinese treasure house"! We're also going to the Xi'an City Wall and a few other famous sights. Be Happy!7 Unit 2 Reading for Writing We’re taking the train,leaving the day before the October holiday begins. We're arriving at 9:30 a.m. and will start sightseeing right away, so I hope we sleep well on the train! I guess that's all for now! I'll write again soon and send photos! Do you have any plans for the coming holiday? Hope to hear from you soon. Your friend, Richard Unit 2 Reading for Writing Be Happy!8 TERRACOTTA ARMY Come and see the Terracotta Army,more than 8，000 statues were made in the third century BCE to guard the tomb of the Chinese Emperor Qinshihuang! Each statue has a different face,leading researchers to believe that each one is a copy of a real soldier. The statues fill only one part of the emperor's huge tomb,which still has not been completely unearthed. More than 700,000 people worked for nearly 40 years to build this tomb. However,no one in modern times knew about the tomb or the terracotta statues until 1974,when some farmers discovered the tomb while they were digging a well!