South Carolina Offers Beach Fun for Student Travelers

South Carolina, known as the Palmetto State, is an attractive place to spend your student vacations. It is a small and beautiful state packed with attractions. The state has rolling mountains, green farmlands and plains that make for adventures such as mountaineering, hiking and camping. However, the South Carolina beaches really steal the attention. The Grand Strand along the sun-soaked coast is extremely popular thanks to Myrtle Beach, famous for family entertainment, amusement park attractions and recreational activities.

A string of resorts dot the coast to historic Georgetown. Charleston, one of the most elegant cities, reflects life in the early years of the United States. For an educational field trip, visit Fort Sumter, where the civil war started. South of Charleston the land breaks up into small marshy islands inhabited by the Gullah tribe, descendants of the West African slaves freed from slavery in 1865. Columbia, the capital located at the center of the state, also holds several reminders of the civil war. Each bronze star on the Capitol indicates where a cannon ball struck the building. The statue of George Washington out front lost the bottom of his cane to a cannon ball, too!

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