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November 9 to 18, 2008 The mystery has now been revealed. This exchange is going to Trujillo, Peru, located on the north coast of Peru, north of the capital city of Lima. Trujillo is surrounded by archeological ruins and temples. Your hosts are planning a full program of cultural activities and sightseeing and have set aside plenty of time to spend with you in the comfort of their homes. A $500 deposit is required along with your completed application. Hurry, these exchanges fill up fast! Belem, Iguazu Falls and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Join the Friendship Force of Eastern Nebraska for two weeks in exciting Brazil. Enjoy one week of home hosting Festival at Sea - South America
January 15 to February 4 2009 Join us for a fun-filled festival on the high seas with friends from all around the world! The trip will begin with a two-night hotel stay in Valparaiso, Chile followed by a 14-day cruise aboard the Celebrity Infinity leaving from Valparaiso, Chile. You will be cruising around the horn of South America, a route made famous by Captain Cook. The cruise will end in Buenos Aires, Argentina followed by a two-night hotel stay and tour of this beautiful city by the sea. For price details, please contact Bruce Wazorko.
See an entirely different side of Thailand! Former Peace Corps Volunteer Lawrence Nahlik introduces you to the natural beauty of both northern and southern Thailand. To start out the program, you will spend time in a Wildlife Preserve and work alongside research scientists. After a few days in Bangkok (where you’ll share a dinner with the local club members) and incredible Chiang Mai, you’ll visit the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in the mountainous north. Then experience life in a hill tribe village in the Golden Triangle, while giving a little time to help the community with much needed repairs. This exchange ends in Phuket, where you will experience firsthand the beauty of our planet’s unspoiled beaches and snorkel pristine reefs; then compare them with others devastated by the 2004 tsunami. These experiences will definitely have an impact on you. This itinerary is designed for the adventuresome!
Lush tropical rainforests, volcanoes, waterfalls, mountains, beaches and cloud forests all await you on a nature You’ll start off with a 6 night hotel tour to visit volcanic thermal springs, wildlife refuges, hanging bridges, rainforest Bogota/Cartagena, Colombia and Panama City, Panama
February 17 to March 3, 2009 Fly to Colombia with our ambassadors from the FF of Los Angeles and meet our hosts from the vibrant FF of Bogota. Our journey will begin with 7 days homestay in beautiful Bogota. Then we will fly to Cartagena, a magnificent spanish colonial city on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. On February 27, we will fly to Panama City where we will board the MV Pacific Queen to transit the Canal and to visit the Embera Indian village. A $300 deposit is required along your completed application due by 09/30/08; balance is due by 10/31/08. Howick and Christchurch, New Zealand and Blue Mountains, Australia
February 19 to March 18, 2009 Join us as we leave from LA bound for Christchurch, New Zealand. During our weeks home stay we will have three tours of the area including the mountain area where “Lord of the Rings” was filmed. We will visit Picton and then spend a night in Wellington before continuing on by train to Auckland through the interior of the North Island. The Howick club will be our hosts for the first week of March and a highlight will be the chance to experience the Maori culture. We will then spend a week in Sydney with the Blue Mountain club SW of Sydney – these fine folks were our guests this past June here in Kansas and have promised us a warm welcome! The middle of March will find us in Cairns for a two day visit. The Great Barrier Reef tour will include lunch with the opportunity to snorkel as well as experience the view from a glass bottomed boat. We return to LA on March 18 with fond memories of a truly outstanding visit “down under”. The cost of the trip will include all air and land travel as well as excursions and admissions. Hotels for the four nights with breakfast and transfers as well as the exit fee for leaving New Zealand will be included. A deposit of $500 will be needed by October 15th in order to hold plane and hotel reservations. The balance will be due by November 15th. This is a truly great price for almost a month’s travel and sightseeing. Please let your membership know of this opportunity and feel free to contact me with any questions. March 4 to 11, 2009 Join the ambassadors from Western North Carolina in celebrating Ghana’s Independence Day on March 6 with
Explore Guatemala and visit with local families who are interested in creating The Friendship Force of Guatemala. Your trip will start in Guatemala City, the capital, a bustling and fast paced city home to a multicultural population of more than 2 million, and the location for your four-day homestay. The rest of the journey includes a visit to Antigua, a World Heritage site with 16th and 17th century architecture. Visit Lake Atitlan and Panajachel both framed by massive volcanos with shores lined by Indian villages. You will see the famous market town of Chichicastenango where market days bring hundreds of local merchants with handicrafts and goods to sell. The premier Mayan sites in the world at Tikal and Flores will also be part of this tour and the impressive ruins will give you a sense of the true history of this country. Be part of this unique opportunity to discover Latin America the Friendship Force way!
March 9 to 16, 2009 Come join us on our exchange to the Central American country of Costa Rica. This is a diverse nation of tropical
Ambassadors from all over the Friendship Force World are invited to apply for this wonderful Discover Ireland Exchange. You will begin your tour of Ireland in Dublin where the newest Friendship Force Club is in its formative stages. Take a full day to explore the Ring of Kerry, the uintessential image of Ireland, a coastal road that threads its way through towns and villages, flanked by rugged seascape and lush countryside. Visit the rugged Cliffs of Moher and Galway. Have a full day in Connemara National Park and visit charming Clifden and Kylemore Abbey. Explore Donegal and travel to the old walled city of Derry, where members of the Causeway Coast Friendship Force will be meeting us. A two night homestay will include a visit to the Giant’s Causeway. A tour of Ireland would not be complete without a visit to Belfast, including a visit to Stormant, the Parlaiment Buildings of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Finally, we return to Dublin, with its thousand years of history, as the River Liffey flows through its timeless expanse and the old and new stand side by side. Savor 250 years of brewing history at the Guinness Storehouse. The members of the newly formed Dublin Friendship Force will be thrilled to meet our ambassadors.The itinerary is designed for the modern traveler who would like some options and free time along the way. This program has a moderate degree of difficulty as exploring castle walls, backroads and cliffs will require a certain degree of physical fitness. This wonderful Discovery of Ireland is priced at 990 Pounds Sterling, excluding air so you may plan as you wish before or after the program. Humanitarian Exchange to South Africa
Calling all musicians, former or current music teachers, and those who simply enjoy music! Come support The Participants can also assist their Mispah hosts serve the community at their food kitchen and sit down with local
This program begins with a four-night stay at the Wenhai Ecolodge in Lijiang. Here activities include biking,
The Beijing Summer Olympics, along with intriguing
glimpses of life in China, recently enthralled the world.
Now Friendship Force International offers you an
opportunity to explore much of this fascinating country
without facing the hordes of visitors that descended
on China during the Olympics. FFI’s program,
Discover China, starts in Shanghai May 18, 2009
and ends June 4 in Beijing. Jack Cang from Nanjing,
China, and currently a member of the FFI Board of Asia Pacific Festival: Wine and Roses
The Friendship Force of Oregon’s Mid-Willamette Valley welcomes you to the lush growing land of our valley. During the Festival you will stay in Salem, the State Capital. At the height of the rose-blooming season, you will attend the world famous Grand Floral Parade in Portland, the City of Roses. The Rose Festival began in 1907 and its parade is the second largest all-floral parade in the USA. You may choose to visit and have tastings at several wineries of distinction, including the state’s oldest established in 1933. In three days of selected tours you may also experience rose and iris gardens, the World Forestry Center, the Oregon Garden, a micro-brewery, an art gallery, a carousel with hand-carved horses, and the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum where the massive Spruce Goose resides in a soaring gallery filled with over 80 historic aircraft and exhibits. At this location there is also an IMAX Theater and a wine tasting room. Home hosting is available for four days after the Festival. With your hosts you may visit other areas of the great Pacific Northwest.
Please come join us in the celebration, as we welcome the
world to our 10th Anniversary as members of Friendship Humanitarian Library Project in Vietnam
The Friendship Force and PeaceTrees Vietnam are teaming up to build The Friendship
Peace Library in Axing Commune, Huong Hua District, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam.
The area, approximately the size of King County, WA, 2000 sq miles is mostly
agricultural. It was the most severely bombed battleground in the history of the world. When the war was over, these unexploded ordnance (UXO) and landmines, which can
be active for up to fifty years, remained. Quang Tri Province is home to indigenous people who cannot read or
write Vietnamese and so cannot understand warnings about UXO and landmines and because of this, Quang
Tri Province has one of the highest rates of injury and death from UXO and landmines in all of Vietnam. The
Friendship Peace Library will serve as a community center and learning center to teach landmine awareness and
teach the children to read and write Vietnamese.
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