by Lakshmi Swami

Created on: November 08, 2009   Last Updated: July 25, 2011

Travelling  is  a new experience.  It  is something exciting not only to a child, but to an adolescent or any age group.

 The word ‘Travel’ connects a child to so many events, a remembrance of an earlier  journey on the sea or rail or air even by road covering long distances. Today travel requires planning, booking tickets in advance, hotel accommodation, or the places where the tour is planned , and things of that nature   .

Educational  tours are organized by schools or institutes where the child is reading. They are meant only to make the child witness in person the events   or  places  or parks or wild life, a sanctuary many such things that he or she must have read in the books or heard.

 Personally witnessing   them will interest the child. In an educational tour, the student gets to see things that teach him values based on experience. This ignites tremendous insight in the subject.

 A student taken to the Sea world, or Disney land or Kennedy Space centre will provide him information about everything he has heard or read or watching in the internet.

Right from the start, packing, arriving at the airport, boarding and associating himself with the co- passengers and glancing through the magazines provided in the plane, open up vast vistas of knowledge.

Seeing rare animals in a zoo other than the ones he or she is familiar with. Watching the flowing waters of the long river he has read about, seeing it in person would bring fresh thrill and excitement in life.

Going with a group of students from the school will give him opportunities to live in communion and friendship. This will encourage sharing knowledge with others of almost the same age group; he will develop new acquaintances.

There are many places in the world which would inspire a child to action. If he is fortunate to visit London for the first time, the thought of London should bring new curiosity as it is one if the most ancient cities known to the civilized world.

The child should be able to make a note of all things that he has seen or observed or studied that will help him to expand his horizon of activities. This will give him a chance to write an article for the school magazine to open up the minds of others who had not visited those areas.

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