Angkor Wat - one of the 10 Sights to expand your children’s horizon

July 11th, 2006

chicagotribune.com has this article in their July 09 2006 issue:

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How do you impress kids glued to iPods and DVDs? Rock their world by showing it to them.

Here’s a list–OK, a wish list–of 10 places to take the kids before they graduate from high school. As parents of grown  has listed a wish list–of 10 places to take the kids before they graduate from high school. As parents of grown children have learned, college, careers and love lives make family trips a lot more difficult to coordinate. So go now, while you have the chance. With its sense of exploration and discovery, travel truly is a classroom without walls.

1). Washington DC
2). Disneyland/World
3). The Grand Canyon
4). The Great Wall
5). Hong Kong
6). Taj Mahal
7). Paris
8). Machu Picchu

9). Angkor Wat. Chances are, your children will never formally study this massive 1,000-year-old capital of the Khmer empire. And yet, they may know that actress Angelina Jolie came here to campaign against the land mines, adopting an infant son in the process. Located near Siem Reap, Cambodia, the temple complex, spread over 40 miles, was built at the beginning of the 12th Century. Scaling the steep temples to view the sunset is a memorable (and dizzyingly athletic) experience. What’s most poignant, though, is meeting the local residents who openly discuss what it was like to survive the deadly years of the Khmer Rouge

10). Jerusalem
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I could not agree more with them especially when they say “travel truly is a classroom without walls“!

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com

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