Project Details

For this project, I was given an array of choices to make with the prompt, “We run an adventure and cultural tourism company and offer many week-long tours of world heritage sites around the globe. Depending on the location we might be traveling on buses, jeeps, boats, kayaks or even hot-air balloons. We need some design help. Can you help?”

Choice one

Look at World Heritage Sites and select two that are near each other geographically so they can be visited in one tour.

I selected the World Heritage Sites of Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California (The Sea of Cortez) and the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.

The Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California is a world heritage site because it is among the world’s most ecologically intact ecosystems with the site containing 39% of the world’s total number of marine mammals and a third of the world’s marine cetacean species within its 1,837,194 hectares, of which about one quarter are terrestrial and the remainder marine.

For the Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California (The Sea of Cortez) I found the diverse ecosystem an interesting visual to explore with many possibilities on how to approach the site. As a nature person, I was also drawn to more rural sites compared to cities or ancient ruins.