Happy Valentine’s Day: Love Locks Around the World

Every country, every culture has their romantic traditions, passed down by time and shared between lovers for generations. In the U.S., we celebrate Valentine’s Day with lavish dinner dates, boxes of chocolates, and giant musical stuffed animals. Yet across the world, from the tundra to the tropics, one single romantic gesture has become increasingly popular Read More …

Wake Tech to Offer Educational Tour of Cuba

CONTACT Michelle Fauver 919.866.7113 (office) 919.410.9931 (cell) mlfauver@waketech.edu   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     Wake Tech to Offer Educational Tour of Cuba RALEIGH, N.C. (February 4, 2013) – Wake Tech will become one of the first community colleges in the nation to lead an educational trip to Cuba. The college is teaming up with Explorica, Read More …

Student Trips: Ireland and Scotland

This article was originally featured in Explorica’s 2012 fall magazine highlighting educational trips to Ireland. We’ll be sharing 20 life-changing student trips throughout the season. Transform your students’ lives (and maybe your own) with any of these exceptional educational travel experiences. As you journey around the famous Ring of Kerry’s 100 miles of road that hugs the sea, Read More …

New! Volunteer Tours for Students

It’s the kind of life you may have glimpsed only in the movies. On the silver screen, the life of a desert nomad might seem romantic, adventurous, and enviable….Find out what it’s really like for a migrant member in a Moroccan Berber tribe and help preserve a way of life now threatened by desertification on Read More …

Educational Travel to Washington, D.C.

Transform your students’ lives (and maybe your own) with an exceptional educational tour to Washington, D.C. If you love a secret, the International Spy Museum is the place for you. You’ll be blown away by clandestine antics that you’ve only ever associated with James Bond. But espionage isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in Read More …

Educational Travel Spain: Barcelona

This article was originally featured in Explorica’s 2012 educational travel magazine highlighting Spain. We’ll be sharing 20 life-changing travel experiences throughout the season. Transform your students’ lives (and maybe your own) with any of these exceptional educational travel experiences. Hear the Hall of a Hundred Columns Right from the entrance, you’re captured by the colors that zig-zag across Read More …

New Edu-Tour: The Galapagos & Machu Picchu

Go to the center of the earth. Then walk in the footsteps of Darwin, and see centenarian giant tortoises around a volcanic archipelago. Just when you get your head around the theory of evolution, take a mind-blowing hike in the cradle of Incan civilization… Our new tour to the Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu is Read More …

Educational Travel in France

This article was originally featured in Explorica’s 2012 educational travel magazine featuring high school tours to France that are teacher-led. We’ll be sharing 20 life-changing travel experiences throughout the season. Transform your students’ lives (and maybe your own) with any of these exceptional, teacher-led educational travel experiences. High School Tour France: Come Face to Foot with Napoleon Maybe Read More …

New Educational Travel Tour: San Jose and the Coastal Puntarenas

Say “pura vida” to the monkeys, sloths and parrots as the plentiful wildlife will surely put a smile on your face. Then spread joy on a visit to local students where you’ll truly sense the jovial culture of ticos. Can’t get enough? Add a splash of white water rafting! Our new student tour takes you from Read More …