RUP(I)ELTS Cue Card 20- A place to travel

Describe a place that you would like to travel to. You should say:

Where you would like to go
How you would go there
Who you would go with
and explain why you would like to go to this place

Sample Answer:

The first name or location, which comes to my mind, whenever I think of travelling somewhere is the country Egypt. People might think that it’s way different than what normal people will think about, whenever they plan to go somewhere because Egypt is a hot country and  a large part of the country is covered by Desert so sometimes people get surprised that why would someone like to go to Egypt. I have never been to Egypt earlier, so it’s very difficult to explain that what could be the major reason of mine for going to Egypt.

Since my childhood I have been reading a lot of documents about pyramids, mummies the treasures which have been buried under the ground below the pyramids and those things have fascinated me a lot and they are the major motivational factor behind my desire to go to Egypt, at least once in my lifetime. I have no plans what I will do over there if I get a chance to go to Egypt but I feel that I will totally enjoy my trip over there because I love history. Moreover, even at the other places where I have visited, be it a hill station or a sea resort, I’ve always looked for museums over there because I am very much attracted towards history and what better place could be to look for historical things other than Egypt. I can’t imagine, dead people being made mummies and buried over there and along with their valuables and servants, to help them in their afterlife.

If I get a chance to go, I would prefer to travel by plane because I don’t want myself to be taken down by fatigue before reaching. So, to conserve my energy to be spent over there, I will prefer to travel by plane.

As I told you earlier that it’s my love with historical things and history being the major factor behind the reason for me going to Egypt, so I don’t think that I would take anyone with me because it’s possible that things which I might enjoy might not be of interest to anybody else, so I don’t want to go over there and then do everything in a hurry or bore my partner, so I would prefer to go alone. Although my wife also loves travelling and she’s very supportive in everything I do, but I don’t want to make her feel bored so I would take her to some romantic place like Paris or London, but not Egypt, because she will not enjoy it over there. I respect her decision and so that is I prefer to go alone.

The plans, which I have in my mind if I go to Egypt, include my desire to read about the language of ancient Egypt, that is hieroglyphics. It’s a language of  ancient Egypt in which they used to describe everything with the symbols. I know a little bit about it and believe me it’s very interesting language so I would love to learn that language over there, as I plan to spend around a month over there. Then, in case the government allows me to visit the pyramids,  I would prefer to go inside the pyramids and relive the  times and imagine what those people were thinking of when they designed those pyramids. I will gather  more information about how bodies were decorated and preserved before being buried, so that they can come to life again and then they can enjoy that after life.

History is the major factor behind me going to Egypt, there’s nothing else I want to see over there in Egypt, it’s just the pyramids, their history and the language of the ancient Egypt.