A Describing tourist destinations

DESTINATION: SURINAME

If you’re the type of traveller who wants to escape the crowds¹, get off the beaten track² and get back to nature³, take a closer look at Suriname. Suriname’s tourist sector⁴ is relatively modest and the emphasis is on what makes the country different for the discerning⁵ traveller. Other Caribbean nations may boast⁶ better sand, sea and sun, but because of that, you won’t find hordes⁷ of people in Suriname. What you will fi nd is a wealth of⁸ wildlife with a huge range of flora and fauna⁹. More than 12% of the country is given over to national parks¹⁰ and nature reserves¹¹ and large tracts¹² of the country are covered by virgin¹³ rainforest. So, if you are seeking something out of the ordinary¹⁴, click here for more information.

• ¹ go where there are not many people
• ² go to places tourists don’t normally go, somewhere diff erent/unusual
• ³ live a natural, rural style of life
• ⁴ tourist industry; formal
• ⁵ showing good judgement, especially about style and quality
• ⁶ this use of boast is for listing the good qualities of a place; formal
• ⁷ crowds, in a negative sense
• ⁸ large amount of; formal
• ⁹ plants and animals; a fixed phrase (Latin)
• ¹⁰ areas of a country that are protected by the government because of their natural beauty or because they have a special history
• ¹¹ areas of land protected in order to keep safe the animals and plants that live there, often because they are rare
• ¹² areas of land; collocates with large, vast, huge
• ¹³ original and natural
• ¹⁴ looking for something different (seek is rather formal)

B Travel advertisements

• ¹ /ʌnˈwaɪnd/ relax, reduce your general level of stress
• ² get back your energy (like recharging a battery)
• ³ wild, areas covered in grass, bushes or trees (especially in Africa and Australia)
• ⁴ pronounced four by four; vehicles with driving power on all four wheels
• ⁵ on the edge of the sea or of a river
• ⁶ extremely beautiful
• ⁷ no other company can offer cheaper ones for the same service
• ⁸ it fills you with a sense of the power and beauty of what you are looking at
• ⁹ these words represent a scale of length and difficulty: a ramble is a long, pleasant walk, not too demanding; a hike is more demanding, suggesting more diff icult terrain; a trek is usually of several days over wild country
• ¹⁰ no other holiday programme can match this
• ¹¹ having views of the attractive, natural things in the countryside
• ¹² a perfect place or situation (often collocated with tropical when describing somewhere hot and sunny)
• ¹³ the business of organising holidays in a way which helps local people and does not damage the environment
• ¹⁴ enjoy or taste (often used in advertisements)
• ¹⁵ the inland areas furthest away from the sea or from borders with other countries