World Travel: The Jan World Tour

This week we’d like to introduce you to Jan, a high school guidance counselor who has visited 37 countries (and counting!) after catching the infamous travel bug.  She exemplifies the Susan Sontag quote, “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”  As an amateur artist, she enjoys the challenge of replicating crafts she finds Read More …

World Travel: The Martin World Tour

Say hello to Martin, a high school history teacher with visits to 20 countries under his belt and a penchant for rack of lamb & Cabot cloth-bound cheddar cheese. Since that one time he sold shoes to Bob Dylan, he’s been a guy that’s “gotta travel on.”  As one of our most adventurous, experienced and witty Group Leaders, we’d 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 …

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 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 …