Band 7: tell me about your journey (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I'm studying tourism curriculum, and this has helped give me a lot of opportunities to wander across the country. I want to tell you about the most adventurous journey that happened to me a few months ago. It was in October or November, if I'm not mistaken. We went to Turkestan together with our group mates, our teachers, and our tour guide, who explained to us everything about how to behave on a tour and how to guide other people. During the journey, we had a lot of interesting stories because we were there without our parents, and nobody controlled us, not even our teachers. It was exceptional, even in my whole life. We were staying up together with our friends until morning, and we were at a hotel that wasn't big enough. However, it was comfortable because we had a great bedroom, a hair dryer, and so on. This journey included many interesting stories, such as eating together, having breakfast, sleeping together, going places together, shopping, and seeing some of the best attractions and tourism landmarks in Turkestan. It was truly a delightful tour in my whole life. However, we were not there as tourists; we were there as customs and staff who were working. We combined work with relaxation, and it really helped me recharge my batteries during the trip. We traveled there by bus, which took 13 hours from Alma to Tel Turkestan. Definitely, during the journey, I had a headache and some pains in my body, but I put up with everything. In the end, this journey gave me a lot of experiences and emotions that I've never felt before.

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I’m studying tourism curriculum and this is helped give me a lot of opportunities to wander across the country and I want to tell about the most adventurous journey which happened with me a few months ago. So it was on October or in November if I’m not mistaken. We went to Turkestan together with our group mates, with our teachers and with our tour guide who explained us everything how to behave yourself in tour and how to guide other people and so on. During the journey we had a lot of interesting stories because we were there without our parents and nobody controlled us even our teachers and it was exceptional even in my whole life. We were sandwiching together with our friends till morning and we were at the hotel which wasn’t big enough. However it was comfortable because we had great bedroom, hair dryer and so on. This journey included many interesting stories such as eating together, breakfast, sleeping together, going to somewhere together, shopping and seeing one of the best attractions and tourism landmarks in Turkestan and it was really delightful tour in my whole life. However we were there not as tourists, we were there as customs and staffs who were working however we worked and connected it together with relaxing and it really helped me to recharge my batteries and taking it up and up during the way because we went to there by bus it took 13 hours from Alma to Tel Turkestan. Definitely during the walk away I had headache, I had some pains in my other organisms however I put up with everything and in the end this journey gave me a lot of experiences and emotions which I’ve never felt.

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