Adventure awaits 30 students from the Isle of Wight as they prepare to depart for Vietnam on a once-in-a-lifetime history trip tomorrow (Monday, October 16).
Students from Carisbrooke College, Medina College and the Island VI Form, all part of the IW Education Federation, will spend ten days travelling from North Vietnam to the South via key locations in the central regions.
They will first visit the capital Hanoi, along with exploring the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the cities of Hue and Hoi An, and the Mekong River delta, before finishing the trip in Saigon.
Joe Briscoe, trip leader and Mandarin teacher, said: "To complement their learning in the classroom, students will actually be able to live and breathe the places they've previously only studied.
“We will be exploring key locations from the Vietnam War that they've only read about in books, but just as importantly, each of them will find themselves immersed in a culture, a climate and a world that is very different to anything they've experienced before."
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