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Fly to Rome, Italy from Miami, Florida
Flying with American Airlines, you will board the plane at 2 pm at the Miami Airport and will fly to the Rome Intercontinental airport Leonardo Da Vince in Italy. You and your partner will stop once in Phillidelphia, Pennyslvania and then will arive in Italy at 8:55pm. This trip is about 7 hours long so you will be able to sleep on the plane.
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Challenge 1: Celebrate Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception with natives
At The Pantheon church in Rome, native Italians will be celebrating the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception. There will be a special mass at this church and your challange is to attend it. There will also be parades, music, and feasts everywhere in Italy. THe Pantheon is a CENTRAL CITY (the urban area that is not suburban, generally, the older or original city that is surrounded by newer suburbs). -
Take a taxi to the Pantheon
Take a taxi from the Rome Airport to The Pantheon church, an ancient ARCHITECURE (the style in which a building is designed or constructed, especially with regard to a specific period, place, or culture) that is a renowned church. This trip is 35 minutes long and will cost you and your partner $30. You will arrive at The Pantheon around 10pm. -
Leonardo Da Vinci Rome Airport Hotel
Chech out at this hotel for the night. It is conviniently next to the airport and will prepare you for your flight to Algeria tommorow. It will cost you and your partner $124 for one night. -
Take Taxi to hotel
Take a taxi from the Pantheon back to the Leonardo De Vinci Hotel. It will cost you $30. -
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Fly to Algeria
At 7:45AM you will board Iberia airlines in the Rome airport. This one way flight cost $536 to get to Algeria and will have 1 stop on the way. You will arive in Algeria at 1:10PM. This flight is 5 hours and 25 mins. Algeria is a DEVELOPING COUNTRY (a poor agricultural country that is seeking to become more advanced economically and socially) in Africa. -
Challenge 2: Buy a "Cheche"
The locals in Algeria wear "Cheche's" to protect their heads from the burning sun. You and your partner must go to a local store and buy one to fit in with their culture norms. A "cheche" is a CULTURAL TRAIT (a single element of noral practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban) in Algeria. -
Fly to Sri Lanka
Once you arrive at the airport you will board Qatar airlines at 3:30PM and will arive in Colombo, Sri Lanka the next day at 8:10AM, with 1 rest stop. This trip is 12 hours and 10 minutes and cost $1,561.40 for a one way trip for you and you partner. Because this trip is so long, you will be able to get your full day of sleep on the plane. -
Take a taxi to a local store
Considering that the airport is not very far from the center of the town this taxi trip should cost no more than $15. -
Take a taxi back to the airport
Take a taxi cab back to the Algerian airport, where you will board your next flight. This trip should cost no more than $15. -
Take taxi to Kandy, Sri Lanka
You and your partner will take a taxi to the Kandy Lake Club in Kandy, Sri Lanka. This trip will be about 2 hours and will cost about $74. You should arrive in Kandy around 10:30AM. -
Challange 3: Watch a Kandyan Dance Performance
You and your partner must go to the Kandy Lake Club at 5;30PM to watch a Kandyan dance performance. The dancing will last for an hour and then you will go outside to watch the dancers do a firewalk, that will last 10 minutes. Entrance fee in Sri Lanka is 500 roubees but $7.91 in US dollars for each ticket. It will cost you $15.81, but have money ready to tip the dancers. Sri Lanka is the CULTURE HEARTH (Heartland, source area, innovation center;place of origin of a major culture) -
Take a Taxi back to Colombo, Sri Lanka
This will cost you and your partner $74. -
Fly to Argentina
Once you return to the Colombo airport, board Turkish Airlines at 9:20 PM for your flight to Buenos Aires, Argentina. This flight will cost $2,683 for both you and your partner. -
Arrive in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is a fragmented country in Southern Asia, below India. Sri Lanka is a MULTILINGUAL STATE (countries in which more than one language is spoken). Their official languages are Sinhala and Tamil. Sri Lanka is famous for Kandyan Dancing, a LOCAL CULTURE (group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness). -
Check out for the night at Design Suites Buenos Aires
Because your flight arrived at 10: there is not enough time to complete a challenge. Check out at the Design Suites Buenos Aires for the night. It would normally cost $76 but because you purchased your flight with expedia you will get 55% off.Therefore your stay at this hotel will only cost $41. This hotel is conveniently located in the SUBURBS (A subsidiary urban area surrounding and connected to the central city) of Argentina. -
arrive in argentina
You will arive in Buenos Aires, Argentina at 10:05PM with 2 stops on the way. -
Take a taxi to hotel
This trip will cost about $20 and is about 35 minutes long. -
Take taxi to Cafe Tortoni
Take a taxi to Cafe Tortoni from the Buenos Aires airport. This trip will take about 30 minutes and will cost you about $20. -
Leave Hotel at at least 10AM
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Challange 5: Watch Tango performance
After you eat brunch, schedule yourself to watch the next Tango perfomrance in the back room of the Tortoni cafe. This performance should cost about $21 US dollars. Argentina is the CULTURE HEARTH ( Heartland, source area, innovation center;place of origin of a major culture) of tango dancing. Those in Argentina believe their custom of dancing the Tango to be a MATERIAL CULTURE (the art,housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people). -
Take taxi back to Buenos Aires Airort
Once you have finished watching the tango show and eating brunch you may wallk around Buenos Aires with the natives until atleast 5PM. Then you and your partner will take a taxi ($20) back to the BUE airport to board your next flight at 6:15PM. -
Board Flight to Costa Rica
Your flight will take off at 6:15PM to San Jose airport in Costa Rica. You will land at 9:26PM after 2 stops. Because this flight is longer than 7 hours you will be able to sleep on the plane and getting a hotel is not nessessary. This flight will cost $2,105.50 for both you and your partner. -
Challenge 4: Have brunch at the Cafe Tortoni
You and your partner must eat brunch at Cafe Tortoni, a local cafe, and try local foods. For example you and your partner can eat Empanadas, Asado, Carbonada, Locro, and more amazing dishes. You should spend no more that $30 US dollars. Argentina is deffinitaly not a FOOD DESERT (area characterized by a lack of affordable, fresh, and nutritious food). -
Arive in San Jose, Costa Rica
Your flight is expected to land in Costa Rica around 9;26 AM. Costa Rica used CULTURAL APPROPRIATION (The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit) from Spain. This happened because Spain had COLONIZED (the act of setting up a colony away from one's place of origin) part of central America, including Costa RIca. -
Take a taxi to the Mirador Ram Luna restaurant
Take a taxi from the San Jose airport to this restaurant close by. You should spend no more than $10 on this ride at most. -
Challenge 6: Eat lunch at the Mirador Ram Luna
This restaurant located in San Jose provides excellent Costa Rican cousine, and put on a cultural performance that includes mariachi and entertainers dancing TRADITIONALLY (term used to indicate originality within a culture or long-term part of an indigenous sosciety). This restaurant also provides an amazing view of San Jose. You and your partner have $50 US dollars to spend here. -
Take Taxi back to San Jose airport
After you leave the Mirandor Ram Luna, you and your partner may walk around San Jose with the natives until at least 4:30PM so that you have time to board your next flight to Miami at 5:10 PM. -
Board Avianca flight to Miami
At 5:10PM you will board Avianca airlines for your next trip to Miami, FL. This trip will cost you and your partner $891.31. -
Arrive in Miami FL
You will arrive in Miami FL at 1:57PM. On the way though, you will have one 15 hour stop in Guatemala City. -
Amazing Race complete
You and your partner traveled a total of 25673 miles on this trip!
