una ruta = una excursión?
Como viaje de fin de curso, quieríamos hacer una ruta por Marruecos, así que contratamos un viaje con XX Tours.
In the above sentence, does hacer una ruta means take a trip? When I put it into translation, it only came up with to make a path or a route, which obviously doesn't make sense.
Thanks.
5 Answers
The word "ruta" is common in that context.
"Hicimos una ruta = un circuito durante una semana por el país para visitar las ciudades más importantes" = a tour.
"Uno de los días, hicimos una excursión por el desierto" = a short trip to somewhere, usually for a day.
Yes, there is a difference. ¨Hacer una ruta¨ is to take a specific route or direction to get somewhere on a journey. ¨Ir de gira¨ is to go on a tour or a trip. In order to make a journey or ¨viaje", you would follow a route or ¨ruta¨.
quieríamos hacer una ruta por Marruecos
Here is my take on it:
We would like to make a trip / plan a route by way of Marruecos.
I think "plan a route" might end up making more sense, but without knowing what was said before it's hard to say.
Por Marruecos would mean by way of Marruecos; para Marruecos would mean to Marruecos.
Thank you, Cordobesa. This makes perfect sense and I'll make a note of that. However, when I looked in my dictionary under tour, it gave a translation of gira. So, is ir de gira has the same meaning as hacer una ruta, or is there a subtle difference?
Thanks, Jermias.
No, there isn't anything before. The rest of the paragraph was a short description on how it all went wrong, the hotel was dirty, the guide was no good, who then was sick and they had to do the rest of the journey themselves, etc. It was a bit of reading comprehension and learning the preterito. I was struck by the word "ruta" and wondered why they didn't use "viaje" or "excursión".
Interesting point about por and para. But that's for another day.
