Archive for February, 2012
New Explorica Educational Tour: Munich
This week Explorica introduces three new tours to our already stellar lineup. All three of these new tours were created due to customer feedback from our avid educational travelers!
Easy on the budget but still grand in its offering, Explorica offers a new single-city tour to the European capital of Germany.
Experience fun-loving Munich through the wide boulevards, scenic squares and popular parks of the Bavarian city. As you pass by Marienplatz, mechanical knights joust and coopers dance to the folk chimes of Neues Rathaus’s Glockenspiel.
Resist the food market temptations and head to Olympiapark, a new suburb built for the 1972 Olympic Games. Then, during your visit in Dachau, get an all-too-real glimpse of Nazi Germany. Walk through a gas chamber and crematorium that now stands as a memorial for the 206,000 prisoners. From its heavy history to its present-day culture, Munich is a must-do European tour.
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New Explorica Educational Tour: Northern Italy
This week Explorica introduces three new tours to our already stellar lineup. All three of these new tours were created due to customer feedback from our avid educational travelers!
Travel to a different side of the boot-shaped country as Explorica takes you on a new tour from Rome and Florence to the lakes and castles of Northern Italy.
You’ll wander idyllic villages and medieval towers along Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake. As if that isn’t breathtaking enough, feel the love in Verona, the setting of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Re-enact the famous balcony scene during your visit to the famous site of the star-crossed lovers.
Also, experience an architectural evolution at Villa Valmarana ai Nani, one of Vicenza’s urban villas. Here, learn the legend of the dwarf princess and the punishment some say lead to the stone statues. And, find intrigue behind the geometrics of La Rotonda, a square structure crowned with a dome.
New Explorica Educational Tour: Dominican Republic Highlights
This week Explorica introduces three new student tours to our already stellar lineup. All three of these new tours were created due to customer feedback from our avid educational travelers!
Venture underground, on the streets and underwater in Explorica’s newest Latin-American tour destination: the Dominican Republic. If you’re looking an experience similar to our popular Costa Rica tours while experiencing a brand new country, then this tour is for you.
Explore north of San Cristobal where 2,000-year-old drawings cover the walls of the Pomier Caves revealing stories of early inhabitants. Then snap back to modern Santo Domingo where merengue music lures you into one of the Caribbean’s most vibrant capitals. Take your time walking the cobblestone streets in the footsteps of Christopher Columbus. And take in the late Gothic architecture with Romanesque characteristics.
Then go from man-made marvels to natural wonders as you spy hundreds of species of tropical flora and fauna en route to one of Puerto Plata’s best-kept secrets. Cool off from your day of discovery as you plunge down natural waterslides and experience the Damajagua Waterfalls etched out of limestone.
An Italian Valentine
Valentine’s Day as we know it—filled with cutesie cards, teddy bears and school kids exchanging valentines in class—is customarily a no-go in Italy. (In fact, Italians consider that kind of Valentine’s rather foreign). Italians celebrate La Festa degli Innamorati (which means “the festival of lovers”) on February 14th. It’s a day for celebrating only romantic love, rather than the love of friends, family and children. And it’s very popular for Italians to express their love with a kiss. Well, a chocolate kiss, anyway, named a Baci from candy maker, Perugina (a chocolate-covered hazelnut wrapped with a love note).
Explorica receives A+ Grade from the Better Business Bureau
Explorica is proud to announce that it has recently achieved an A+ grade by the Better Business Bureau.
Through the company’s longstanding track record of open, honest and reliable business practices, along with providing timely, accurate and equitable resolutions to customer concerns, Explorica has earned the highest available rating by the Better Business Bureau.
“We are pleased to see such a well-respected institution as the Better Business Bureau recognize Explorica’s commitment to providing excellent customer service and a superior tour product,” states Explorica’s CEO, Evan Wood. “We hold ourselves to high standards, and we will continue to work hard to maintain the distinction of the BBB’s highest possible grade.”