Top ten holiday travel gifts

Need any last-minute gift ideas for your favorite jet-setter? Make everyone’s travels are a little less stressful with these fantastic holiday travel gift ideas. STAY CHARGED EasyAcc® 12000mAh Power Bank 4 USB 3.5A Output Portable Charger $35 This EastAcc portable charger can charge up to four devices at once. With 500 recharge cycles available on Read More …

Holiday recipes from around the world

Staying home for the holidays? You can still take your taste buds around the world with our international holiday recipes. Spanish Roasted Turkey Breast Spain Ingredients 8–10 lb/4–5 kg boneless turkey Roasting pan with rack 1 tbsp/15 ml unsalted butter Extra virgin olive oil 6 tbsp/90 ml Spanish paprika 2 tbsp/60 ml ground cumin 1 Read More …

5 delicious foods you just have to try in Thailand

Article by program consultant Cara Suriyamongkol. Due to the vast majority of my father’s family being in Thailand, I’ve had the incredible opportunity to visit multiple times over the last couple years. And while I love the golden-glinting temples and the hum of the tut-tuts buzzing in the streets as much as any other visitor, Read More …

5 spooky tourist attractions around the world

Article submitted by Explorica Program Consultant Katie Severance. It’s the end of a cool, dark night. An icy wind passes through the air, causing you to lean in a bit closer as your friends huddle around sharing scary stories.  You sit quietly convincing yourself that the truth within is minimal and that the goosebumps that Read More …

Paris museums: 5 reasons to visit the Centre Pompidou

Visiting Paris soon? Get a fresh take on Parisian art museums at the Centre Pompidou. Recently reopened after a lengthy renovation, the Centre Pompidou was founded by the Former French President Georges Pompidou as a public place for all forms of Modern art. The museum’s rotation has included works from Salvador Dalí, Edvard Munch, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock and more, with a constant influx of newer works Read More …

Les Américains in France: Explorica staff visit the Festival d’Avignon

Article by Program Coordinator Kelly Bisbee. Kelly Bisbee and Program Consultant Meaghan Richards joined an Explorica student tour of Italy, France & Spain this summer to help out and get a firsthand look at our product. Find out just what they discovered on their trip, and what unexpected surprises awaited them in Avignon! Hopping off the Read More …

Explorica’s 2014 summer photo contest winners

The results of our 2014 photo contest are in! Thank you to everyone who submitted. We received so many fantastic submissions this year, it was tough to choose just one winner for each category. Most immersive photo The winner of the grand prize for “Most Immersive Photo” is Isabella from Ontario. Isabella’s photos were so Read More …

Teacher Appreciation Week 2014: Our favorite teachers

It’s teacher appreciation week, and we would like to thank all of you teachers out there for all the hard work you put into changing young lives every day. To show you all how much we appreciate what you do, we decided to share our stories about our own favorite teachers from when we were Read More …

Make a difference: Service learning in El Salvador

Salvadoran students and Explorica staff  raise the roof in Centro Escolar, Bernardino E. Zamora, a local school in the western hills of El Salvador. Explore El Salvador while helping out local communities in our latest addition to our “Make a Difference” educational tours, Make a Difference: El Salvador. We recently took our own trip to the Read More …