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Traveling to Learn aka Exploritas
Elderhostel conjures up images of grey haired, boring, over the hill grannies and grandpas, and is not a group I would in anyway want to be associated with. What a difference a name makes!
Traveling to learn – aka – Exploritas
Exploritas is the new name which offers trips that combines the love of travel with the love of learning. Of course Elderhostel did too but image counts for alot. Trip participants are largely the +50 crowd but in no way are younger people discouraged anymore. The bulk of the particiapants are mostly older but they tend to be involved, fit, interesting, and wise …the sort of older people you wouldn’t mind hanging out with. There are over 8000 trips offered to over 90 countries for very reasonable prices. I typed in the key word ‘birding’ and came up with 90 trips – from 3 day to 15 day adventures that would take you from Canada and the US to Iceland and Uruguay.
You'll find cactus wrens if you're birding in Arizona
Look for tours under $600, National Park Tours, outdoor adventures, women only and grandparent travel, cooking tours, history tours, boat tours…you name it.
I’m not about to give up on my epic and not so epic self guided hiking and biking adventures, but I do appreciate as I get older that adventure travel is not just for the young but also for the young at heart. Learning never goes out of style either! No matter what your age you’re bound to find something to perk your interest and what a great way to travel with an older relative!
Leigh McAdam
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I’ve been all over the world – to all continents but Antarctica and to a grand total of 53 countries. I’ve always got some sort of an adventure planned – even if it’s only a weekend. I thrive on change and travel provides that.
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You can go to the exploritas website at http://www.exploritas.org and search by activity level. 7 is the most active and 1 is the least active. You can also search for keywords like hiking, biking or rafting.