Unique Vacation Ideas

The goal is to assist you in achieving the best possible nature photography images. At the same time you will be kayaking, hiking and camping in some of the most beautiful areas of the country such as the Wild and Scenic Tuolumne River in California, Bearpaw and Leigh Lakes in Yellowstone National Park or the protected wilderness of the Main Salmon in Idaho.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to both work with and learn from a successful professional photographer and also challenge your outdoor adventure skills.

What is a reality tour? Global Exchange works with local leaders and organizations designed to aid local development. They put together a reality tour package that provides you with a close-up intimate and educational interaction with local cultures. Meaningful relationships are created that build and strengthen international ties and cooperation. One example is a tour to India where learn about efforts to protect and conserve the traditional culture and endangered wildlife, visit 1,000 year old Buddhist temples, participate in a mountain yak safari, stay with the villagers in Asia’s highest village, Komic. 

At Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, in the Mesa Verde region of southwestern Colorado, is an internationally renowned institution which provides families with the opportunity to spend their vacation time helping to uncover the mysteries of the American Indian past. On a Crow Canyon archaeology adventure vacation your family will be working along side archeologists on various research projects such as excavating and reconstructing a large Pueblo Indian village dating from the A.D. 1200s.

Help study and analyze the thousands of samples and artifacts that are unearthed during a dig. You don’t need any experience, just the desire to learn and have fun learning something new and interesting. Your lodging during this unusual family vacation idea will be comfortable log cabins built in the style of Navajo hogans.

By Rusty from Kentucky - The Red River Gorge in Powell County, Kentucky is one of my favorite places to take a vacation. There are so many things to do at the Gorge that you can't do it all in a weekend, so I am a return visitor.

We sometimes get a log cabin close to the Natural Bridge and hike there and other times we just take our tents and camp in the woods. Rock climbing at the Gorge is some of the best in the world. There is no feeling like climbing 100 ft. in the air on a cliff face. Something about it is just life changing and everyone that is able should try it at least once in their life.

I can’t wait to go this year because they have a new zip-line that I want to try out. Another attraction there is the via ferrata that is just awesome. It is a big gorge that anyone at any climbing level can go and climb the rock faces with guides. No experience or equipment is necessary. They supply everything.

Take the family on an authentic re-creation of a pioneer covered wagon train. Wagons West Wyoming is a company that specializes in covered wagon treks in the Wyoming wilderness where you can experience the life of the pioneers who traveled across the country in the 1800s to settle the west. You can ride the wagon or jump in the saddle of a gentle riding horse.

Sleeping is also in the covered wagon or you can choose a tent or out under the stars. You will eat chuckwagon style meals cooked over an open fire using dutch ovens. If you enjoy horseback riding there are special guided trail rides during the trip. The covered wagon trek takes place in the Bridger-Teton National Forest and Mount Leidy Highlands along unused roads.

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