To understand what GEOGRAPHY is about, we are traveling to a region of your choice. Money is unlimited but time is limited to about 8 to 10 days.  On a daily itinerary basic, identify the regions / cities that you would like to visit and explain the reason behind your choices (can be popular tourist places or remote hard to reach places depending how adventurous you are !) 

• Review Chapter 2 : Concepts in World Regional Geography
• Pick a Chapter from the textbook from Chapter 4 to Chapter 11 (exclude Chapter 3 for Europe and Chapter 12 for North America). This will determine the region of your travel.
• For the purpose of this assignment, going from one place to the other can be assumed to be instantaneously.
• There must be a theme for each day's activities and you should be able to write down some basic facts and what you expect to see or experience. 
  
• You must include themes from both "physical geography" and "human geography"
• Examples of Physical Geography or Natural Environments:
  hiking/mountain biking/climbing/aerial views in the mountain ranges/plains/plateaus, cruise/white water in the rivers, adventures in the forest/grassland/dessert, or just visit places with special natural resources or ecosystems etc.
• Examples of Human Geography :
  visiting places with historical significant, unique culture or religion centers, local customs etc.  You can visit a local family/restaurant and write something what the "local custom" or "local cuisine", or visit a local school and write something about the education system, or have a shopping trip to write something about economy, or visit a government agency to write something about politics.
  
• Maps, graphs of various data/statistics are strongly encouraged to be included. 
  
• Relevant photos should be included also but please do not overdo it.
  
• You can use any internet resources, books, tour guides, travel brochures, government information etc.  But you must identify clearly the source in your paper. 
  
• You must submit your assignment electronically to syoh@kean.edu on or before the due date.
  NO PAPER COPY WILL BE ACCEPTED.

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Structure of your paper Day 1 : Starting at ??????
    Description of the theme of today's activities. 

Day 2 : ...
    Description of the theme of today's activities. 
...
for 8-10 days

Summary :

Discuss ONE (1) contemporary issue that you will likely to discuss with the tour guide or local people when you visit. It can be a very specific issue for a local area, or a bigger issue related to the country. Find out briefly how the issue is currently being addressed (can be locally or internationally).