DOHA: With an objective to broaden the students’ horizon and global cultural awareness and to provide an opportunity to relate the classroom learning to the real world situation, MES Indian School organised an international educational tour to Turkey, a nation with cultural connections to ancient Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires.
The touring team, comprised eighteen students of various age groups from Classes VI to XII was accompanied by three teachers in the term break.
During the five-day tour, the students visited Keyseri, a place named after Caesar and formerly known as Ceasaria, historic land of Cappadocia, Cappadocia, a city with exquisite poetry carved in rocks along with rows of rock houses built ages ago, Istanbul, a major city in Turkey, Bhosphorous Bridge, which is also called the ‘First Bridge’ connecting Europe and Asia, Uludag Mountains, also known as ‘great mountains’ in Bursa Province, with an elevation of 2,543m and Sulthan Ahmed mosque popularly known as Blue mosque, built on the site of the Palace of Byzantine emperors, which has six minarets and eight secondary domes.
The educational tour was organised in association with ITL World, Doha-Qatar.
‘Memories of school Educational trips are among the most prominent during the formative years, largely because they act as a welcome break and refresh besides prepare students for the next academic session,’ said the School Principal, Hameeda Kadar
