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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1979)
Thursday, deccmber 13, 1979 pamish isnstractor to visit meoca 'V A MJ ? m Photo by Tom Gessner Suzy Prenger By Alice Hrnicek A new year. Suzy Prenger, coordinator of the UNL Overseas Opportunity Center and Spanish instructor, is both ex cited and apprehensive. " Prenger is spending 1980 in South America, traversing its climates which fluctuate from the cold of the snow capped Andes Mountains to the heat of the Amazon River and surrounding jungle. She must fit all the clothes she needs into one backpack. , ; She will climb mountains, run river barges, interpret Spanish, write travel journals and chat with the natives all of which she has never done before. But Prenger is not alone. Accompanying her will be nine people, all professionals in one or more areas of traveling. r . . - . People on the trip consist of the trip director, from Australia, two Swiss, three ' British, two Canadians, another Australian and herself. Prenger has met only one of them, director Al Town sing. In 10 months to a year, the group hopes to put together a photographic essay and a documentary film on overland traveling, she said. The project will not concen trate on the Latin American culture, but rather on logisti- cal problems of traveling with private transportation across the continent, she said. TOWNS1NG ORIGINALLY came up with the idea when he was guiding two-to-three month tours in South Imported Coffee, Tea Herbs, Spices & Accessories If your Christmas budget is stretched this year, try something different instead of expensive. SfrGift boxes from$3 i $5.00-$20.00 ? Many Unique Items to Make Christmas Special Phone 475-5522 427 So 13th mm ccccrch? Thesis? FAST?? XEROX 9400 QUALITY COPIES m' 'Mi U Lf C (NO MINIMUM) ' iitiiii.Hyv SO lb. long grain bond paper o DISSERTATIONS OUR SPECIALTY ;, FREE. COLLATING . 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They will pass through the Angel Falls area of Vene zuela onto the Transamazonian Highway into Brazil where they wilr see the Yanamamo Indians in the jungle. . .IN MATO GROSSO they will' be side by side with Pan tanaal wild life, which the Canadians wish to photo graph extensively, Prenger said. In the Paraguayan Chaco region, they will visit a Mennonite settlement and speak with an expert in Guacho folklore. 'This area relates so much to Nebraska, with its cow boys and the plains experience." - After winding around the southern tip of South America into the Andean Mountains and Atacama Desert the group will climb Mt. Aconcagua, the highest mountain on the continent. Prenger said she is looking forward most to visiting Macchupicchu, an old Incajettlement. The troupe will climb several volcanoes in Ecuador and go to the Galapagos Islands, after which they will return to Cartugena. Preparations for the trip have been extensive, Prenger said.' 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