IELTS Cue Card Question 876 With Model Answer

Describe a journey – e.g. by car, plane, boat] that you remember well

: You should say

where you went
how you travelled
why you went on the journey
and explain why you remember this journey well

: Model Answer

Journies are always pleasant to people. The trips are useful to remove the monotony of daily life. There are several ways of travelling and most of the time people prefer the air journey as it is the quickest and trouble free mode of transportation. But, to me, an air journey appears to be mechanised. I prefer travelling on waterways

I had the luck to have a boat journey on a moonlit night on the River Ganges in a participation of my family members in this year. The journey is made annually by my family and has been observed for years. It was a highly pleasant journey for us all. Usually, people travel by boat on day time but the journey was planned about 20 days back to be held at the night of a full moon. All of our family members (who were available in the city) were invited to participate in the journey

In the beginning of the journey, we hired a boat with three boaters with the condition to stay the full night with us. The boat we selected was able to run both by manually and automatically. It was a large boat and perfectly accommodated us all (45 people) on it. We started our journey after the dusk and took our special meals with us to be taken during the boat ride. We also had food provisions for the boatmen too. The journey began from a Ghat of Varanasi at around 6.30pm. Then the boatmen slowly started moving the boat towards the centre of the River

The Ganges is considered as a holy religious spot for the Hindus and many of the people of Hindu religion come here to purify themselves. It is our family tradition to take boat journey on the River annually but we do not pay any forms of tribute to the River. Simply we observe the moonlit night and the journey helps us to remove the monotony of our regular life. The surrounding environment is calm and quiet and at times some small lights are seen in a far distance. The city lights are also found and the views are astonishing. The mild wind blowing over the River creates a sense of satisfactory feelings which is unavailable in the city life

The journey is an ever reminding one for me. This was the very first journey for me and earlier I was discarded from the traveller’s list for my tender age. I have seen moonlit night but had not the chance to observe the beauty from a boat. The moon shadow created a highly romantic environment there. Everyone including the pet dog was silent too during the trip. Everyone was gazing at the silvery moon like moonstruck. The waves breaking down on the boat created an impressive situation. Thus, I will remember the journey forever in my life