Paper 2 Activity 1

Navarra: A place to visit.

By: Gustavo A. Hernández C.

I lived many experiences that caused an impact in my life like seeing my first trains and experiencing another type of culture.

A lot of people like to travel around the world. There are a lot of reasons that the people travel. One of those is to know new places that they don´t know before. Second, people like to have fun in the places that they already know. Finally, the people that want to have really good vacations and they want to rest. The people said that travel is living. There are many places around the world that are amazing; one of those beautiful places is Navarra. I went there in the winter of 2010. I lived many experiences that caused an impact in my life like seeing my first trains and experiencing another type of culture.

The first thing that made me impressed was seeing trains because Guatemala does not have trains. The characteristics of the train that I took were: clean, fast, and safe. The cleaning was amazing because it did not have anything of trash in the train. Another thing that I really like was the velocity that the trains have because the velocity of the trains is more and less 100 kilometer per hour. And the most important thing was that the train is a very safe way to travel because are a very few accidents of trains.

The culture in Navarra was fantastic because make me know things that I did not know. The most important details were the people, the food, and construction. The people were so nice with me they invite me to make a walk in the city and they are respectful. The food was delicious and makes me taste a lot of flavors in my tong for example the Paella. And the construction in Navarra is very different to Guatemala; there are not so much houses because only the rich people have one and the majority live in apartments.

I only were 3 days in Navarra but were a really incredible days. The trains for me were the best thing that I see. And the culture is amazing and you can learn a lot of things for example eat a delicious food like Paella. My recommendation is that if you have the possibility to travel to Navarra you will know a beautiful place and you will learn a lot of things of a different culture.