Experience the People, Try a Cultural Tour

If traveling to another westernized city and staying in a standard hotel on your next vacation seems very similar to your last vacation perhaps booking a Cultural Tour is the change you need. Cultural Holidays are immersion based travel experienced to allow you to really connect with the culture of a specific country and sometimes even specific regions of a country.  This is about getting real experiences within a cultural setting through the history and traditions of the people.

A Romanian holiday will take you to the seldom explored north of Romania and Transylvania. Romania is in many ways untouched by major technology advances and the people live much as they have for the past hundred years. Few know much about the area and the experiences here including the incredible painted churches and stone castles, all perched among post card like scenery will fill you with stories to tell on your return. 

Perhaps the mysteries of Sri Lanka are more to your inquisitive mind. This beautiful country is a lush jungle island and although small has a great deal to offer visitors trying to get off the beaten path. Over 400 birds reside here and the tiny island is home to 9 world heritage sites, is famous for it’s tea and the sandy beaches that touch the Indian Ocean. While here try the hike from Baker’s Falls through the Horton Plains National park to see the incredible views from World’s End before the clouds return and hide it again.

There are about 2000 more options for Cultural Holidays around the world. A little research will find a place your heart wants to take you. 

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Cultural Holiday Tours Abroad

Immersion tourism at its best: Bali, Burma and more

Special travel deals on all-inclusive cultural tours

An escape for your soul means something different to each individual. It is the time of year when families travel in groups or utilize the holidays to unwind.. Bargain-hunters also know it’s a great time of year to find travel deals to the best of places.

Holidays for Humanity is offering a handful of options, from a sailing adventure trip, to all-inclusive cultural tours. The choices that may be viewed at holidaysforhumanity.com include:

Zen Sailing in Burma

Discover Burma on a 9-day sailing adventure, and dive into an aquatic playground that is truly one of the world’s best-kept secrets. Sailing through these islands offers the chance to travel back in time and experience the traditional clothing, local foods and martial arts of Burma’s virtually untouched island cultures. 

Classical Jordan Uncovered

 From Petra, to the Dead Sea and magnificence of Wadi Rum, enjoy a fully-guided look at ancient Jordan. This all-inclusive cultural and historical experience offers guests a chance to relax, have a little adventure and learn about one of the new seven wonders of the world.

                          Bali’s Beautiful Hanging Gardens

 The spectacular resort of Ubud Hanging Gardens is located in the Buachan Village in Ubud. The resort offers a range of cultural activities and tours, enriching guests' minds with the indescribable beauty that makes up the region, and which is immersed in the natural and cultural richness of the area.

Come to life in Matera’s De Grotte Vita

Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita lets guests experience a lost age of Italian history. Daniele Kihlgren, the Swedish-Italian entrepreneur, hotelier and philanthropist, spearheaded the campaign to resuscitate the abandoned caves Matera, a Basilicata village. This breathed new life into them, while respecting past generations that called these caves home.

Wild Panda Habitat Exploration

China’s natural panda habitats are in a wild and scenic region. Explore the unique cultures of China’s most famous natural panda habitats: the bustling queen city of West China, the city along the Southern Silk Road, the historic city in northwest China and the Capital of the People’s Republic of China.

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In Pursuit of Wellness: The Popularity of Yoga and Spa Retreats

What a difference a few decades can make in the way we behave, the way we eat, the way we travel. Isn’t it extraordinary how popular wellness retreats and yoga weekend getaways have become? No longer simply a fad or niche, they are in fact the fastest growing tourist sector.

Whether it’s an exciting cycling excursion in Northern Spain or a Wholeness Resort in Sedona, more and more people are taking fresh perspectives when they travel. The novelty of going abroad is now in the added value factors. In breathtaking foreign locals, travelers are getting back to basics, breaking away from their comfort zones and cutting loose from the stresses of modern living.

In French chateaus and Austrian manors, in Turkish yachts and Alpine cottages, weekend yoga getaways are the optimum form of total body detox.  What counts now when we holiday is making every moment count; being present, savoring every location and appreciating every last breath of air on a remote mountain peak. Being at peace with your body, and with the landscape, watching the bright orange sun sink over Southern Thailand, your muscles and joints stretching into eternity along the soft silky beach.

From the Mediterranean to the Caribbean, from the Carpathian Mountains of Romania to the white sands of Aruba, you will find meaning and replenishment in the wellness retreats of the world. Recharge your batteries. Take time out. Travel with more than a destination in mind. Travel with a purpose.

Going the Distance: Adventures on the Danube

Know Thyself

As we become more self-aware as a society, the manner in which we interact with the world changes. We become more ecologically and socially conscious, for instance. We become more respectful of the cultures we encounter and also of our own bodies. With the rise of health and fitness tours it’s clear that the way we vacation is changing, just as the way we eat and exercise is changing.

Vacation with a Purpose

The growth of fitness tours, adventure holidays and wellness vacations demonstrates our desire to make the most of our travel time. The logic is unassailable. When we incorporate activities such as hiking, cycling or yoga into our vacations we help forge experiences that function as more than simply getaways. When we vacation abroad we should take the opportunity to grow and develop ourselves as people. After all, globe-trotting is a privilege. If a health and fitness tour isn’t really your thing, do something you enjoy, like hiking or cycling.

Cycling on the Danube 

If you’re short of ideas, consider taking a cycling expedition tour from Vienna to Budapest. This cross-section of Central and Eastern Europe is much more than simply a fitness tour. It’s an experience of a lifetime. Bookended by two extraordinary cities, your journey will take you through some of the most picturesque landscapes in Europe, resonant with history and culture. Your route will follow the famous Danube River, itself a witness to so much turbulent history.

The Danube winds its way from the Black Forest in Germany all the way to the Black Sea. After the Volga, it is the longest river on the continent. On its mighty 2,872 km journey, it passes through four capital cities. For hundreds and thousands of years, this great river has played a role in the myths and the histories of the peoples who have lived on its banks. It lives in their music, their stories and their imaginations.

A Better Place

The cycle takes six days and each evening you can chill out in one of the many inns and family hotels along the way. This is the perfect choice for anyone seeking replenishment or invigoration. This is a fitness tour where fitness isn’t a chore. It will leave you with a sense of real accomplishment. At the end of your journey you will find more than an historic and breathtaking city. You will find your body and mind in a better place.

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An Adventure for the Senses: Communing with Awe in Kho Pi Pi

Everybody has their own notion of adventure and their own ideal of what an adventure vacation should be. Some of us seek danger and exhilaration. Others seek a feeling or team-bonding and comradeship. For certain people, getting on a plane is adventure enough. The quintessential impulse of any adventure vacation must be the desire to be awe-struck. The sense of wonder and profound isolation we feel when confronted with the majesty of nature. We feel it when we stand on a mountain top or snorkel in a barrier reef. This is the one sensation no adventure vacation should be without.

Islands at the End of the World

The west of Thailand has one of the most extraordinary coastlines in the world. The sight of the Andaman Sea, as its glistens turquoise in the sun, is a moment sufficient to that sense of wonder. Adventure is to be had here among the tropical environs and the welcoming local people.

Phukey to Kho Phi Phi

To travel from the island of Phukey to Kho Phi Phi by boat is to chart an unforgettable tangent from the mainstream of your life. 

This is an adventure vacation of unparalleled beauty and sumptuous luxury. Summon to mind the hypnotic calm of that sea journey, waves lapping at the hull as you sleep through tranquil never-to-be-forgotten nights. The diversity of marine life. The sparkling horizons.  All attune with your senses.

This Side of Paradise

The Phi Phi islands can be found between Phukt and the mainland along the Strait of Malacca coast. They consist of a group of six islands. In the year 2000 the islands were brought to the attention of the world when the movie The Beach was filmed on Ko Phi Phi Leh. Ecologically, the islands are well known for their spectacular coral reefs, startling cliffs and stunning bays.

Make it an adventure for the senses. Commune with awe on the white sandy beaches. 

Redefine your whole notion of an adventure vacation! 

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Sailing to Ko Phi Phi

Culinary Concoctions: Why a Holiday Is No Longer Just About Lying On the Beach

The High-Concept Society

Increasingly as a society we seem eager to bundle ideas and concepts together into quick new constellations. Sometimes it is out of necessity or pragmatism. After all if your bookshop needs new customers why not bundle it with a café?

In other ways it is a symptom of a world that is diversifying continually, looking for niches within niches. So people when they holiday today are not just going somewhere to relax. They are going with a plan. People are not just going to interesting places. They are now going there to do interesting things, perhaps to learn something new, perhaps to volunteer or even to improve their well-being. Why not go someplace new and pursue things you love doing?

Why a Culinary Tour?

For the foodies of the world, the natural extension of this is the culinary tour. The whole idea behind a culinary tour is that it’s a focused and alternative way of experiencing another culture. You get to know a lot about people from the food they eat. Just as much perhaps as you would from seeing their paintings or their architecture. Food has long been an integral part of encountering another country but now it is becoming central.

Which Culinary Tour?

Well, let’s take a leap into the darkness here and assume that you’re a wine lover.  What would be more appealing than to travel around Spain’s Wine and Castle Country? 

The culinary tour lasts five nights and takes in three, sometimes four hotels. Among the attractions is the famous Museum of Wine.  Each morning you’ll energize yourself with a continental buffet breakfast before setting out in a rented car, to wind your way through archaic villages under ancient castles where Cervantes’s characters once walked.  

Purpose is Preferred

Maybe we are becoming a high–concept society but we are also becoming more sensitive to the ways in which we spend our time. If you are going to journey to the other side of the world, it might as well be with a purpose. Too many people go on holiday and leave the best part of themselves behind; their interests, their hobbies, their obsessions. The Rioja Wine Country trip is just one of many culinary tours offered by Holidays for Humanity. All our high concept packages are constructed around the ideal of an ethical travel experience. See if we have something for you.

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Spain's Culinary Tour