It was a long journey, but Matt Borrello and his mother, Lucille, arrived today in India on their around-the-world trip with EF.
Matt and his mom flew from Cairo to Istanbul to Delhi. After a few hours' rest, they rode several hours to Agra, where they will visit the Taj Mahal at sunrise tomorrow.
Hear Matt's initial impressions of India:
Check back tomorrow to hear what Matt says about the Taj Mahal. For more about their trip, read our original post and follow along with our interactive map.
Matt called this morning from the Cairo airport, reflecting on their stay in Egypt. Here's what he said about the pyramids, the Cairo Museum and the wonderful people:
They are now flying to New Delhi (via Istanbul, Turkey), and Matt will check in from India.
To follow along at Following the Equator, check back soon or subscribe via an RSS reader or email (in the sidebar on the right). You also can read our original post and see our interactive map.
EF Educational Tours just launched its new redesigned website at eftours.com.
The new look and simpler navigation makes it easier for teachers, students and parents to find everything they need to pick, plan and prepare for their educational tour with EF.
Among the highlights for teachers are a new section called "Leading an EF tour" that provides resources and support for the tour-planning process, a new Global Rewards site and a new "My tours" section to help group leaders manage their group and tour.
Students and parents also can find all of the information they need to learn about EF's educational tours and prepare for their trip abroad.
Let us know what you think of the new site in the comments section below, and stay tuned to eftours.com for more exciting innovations.
On the first day of sightseeing of their around-the-world trip with EF, Matt Borrello and his mother, Lucille, braved the Egyptian heat to enter the pyramids, see the Sphinx and visit Memphis.
Hear Matt's take on the tombs, the temps and tomorrow's itinerary:
Keep following along as Matt calls in to Following the Equator. For more details about his trip, check out our original post and our interactive map.
From the world's most expensive hamburger to the world's largest restaurant, there was a lot to feast on in June. We also discovered 'lost' pyramids, creative music videos and inspirational travelers. And we started following an exciting around-the-world trip.
Matt Borrello and his mother, Lucille, arrived safely today in Cairo, Egypt, for the first stop on their 18-day, around-the-world trip with EF Educational Tours.
Matt's first observation of Cairo was about the "unbelievable" traffic. He called this morning with this update:
Matt heads to the pyramids tomorrow, so stay tuned for more updates. For more details on Matt's trip, read our original post and check out our interactive map.
Matt Borrello had dreamed of visiting one or two of the world's great wonders at some point. Now, he's going to see all four over the next three weeks. He embarks Sunday on an around-the-world trip, traveling to Cairo, Egypt; New Delhi, Agra and Jaipur, India; Cairns, Australia; and Beijing, China.
Matt, a regional sales manager with EF Educational Tours, was the lucky winner of an internal EF contest to travel around the world in 18 days.
Jeremy, an English and newspaper teacher at DeWitt High School in DeWitt, Mich., is prepping his students for their EF tour this summer to Italy and Spain. His blog does a great job of providing not only tour-specific information to his travelers but also interesting insights about their destinations: Rome, Florence, Barcelona and Madrid.
In the past week, Jeremy started a series of posts called "What We'll See" to "detail some of the amazing things that we'll see on this trip." Today, Jeremy posted this video about architect Antoni Gaudí's famed Park Guell in Barcelona:
If you have a blog for your own EF group that you'd like to share, we'd
love to know about it. You can post it in comments below or just email me.
An extraordinary group of high school students from Compton, California, is planning to travel to Europe this summer with EF Educational Tours.
The students are part of Dominguez High School's AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) program, which has a 100 percent graduation and four-year college acceptance rate.
Project London—the vision of four Dominguez AVID teachers and Troy Campbell, the CEO of the nonprofit Troy Boy Foundation—aims to give these students the opportunity of a lifetime. Project London is helping the students raise funds for their EF tour to London, Paris and Madrid in August.
May was quite exciting at Following the Equator—the Telectrocope, pigeons in Venice, "The Odyssey" and several posts about our namesake, the equator.
It also was the busiest month yet for Following the Equator—not just in the United States but around the world. In the past month alone, we've had visitors from 79 different countries, including Estonia, Senegal and Nepal. In all, our blog has been seen in 92 countries.
If you missed anything in the past month, you can check out our May archive or any of our 10 most popular posts below:
