Added: 06/30/2005 |
Eager For Unusual Family Vacation?Below you will find 3 spots for unusual family vacation.
Bahamas. Swim with dolphins, learn about the pirate life at the Pirates of Nassau Museum, see exotic wildlife at Ardastra Gardens... and your kids will have fun too! Many New Providence Island and Grand Bahama Island resorts offer all-inclusive packages and lots of kid-friendly activities.
Your kids will do remember this lifetime experience of swimming with dolphins. Do not be nervous - everything is well-thought and organized. After a short boat ride out into the ocean, you will stop in a lagoon. There you will listen to an information session about the dolphins and how to swim with them. Believe, after swimming with the dolphin your kid will want to take him home. Dolphins are gentle and sweet. Major tip: bring some goggles, so you can open your eyes and see the dolphin swimming beside you.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Do you like active travel and sight-seeing? If yes, this variant is for you. Ride the Grouse Mountain Skyride, North America's largest aerial tramway, to the top of Grouse Mountain, only 15 minutes away from this exciting city. Be sure to choose a hotel near the practically inexhaustible Stanley Park, with its Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, totem poles and expansive views. Visiting the Vancouver Aquarium is a wonderful and educational experience for your kids. Althought it is not a huge facility, it still houses large fish, dolpins, sea lions, beluga whales, and sea otters.
Oaxaca, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast
What do you say about visiting and making photos of your family at the magnificent ruins at Monte Alban? Ancient and colonial Mexico live on in this magical inland city. The magnificent ruins at Monte Alban, a twenty-minute drive from Oaxaca, are the last vestiges of a city founded by Zapotec Indians around 500 BCE. According to legend, if you eat a grasshopper (sold by street vendors in the Zocalo, or central plaza), you will return to Oaxaca. Dare your kids -- and yourself!
Monte Alban was at one time home to 50,000 Zapotec people. The builders of Monte Alban artificially levelled the top of the mountain, which overshadows the three surrounding valleys of Oaxaca. The site emerged as a political centre in around 400 BC, and later developed as an important cultural centre between 500 BC to AD 700. The site was abandoned by the Zapotecs when they began to lose political power, which resulted in conflict between them and the Mixtecs, who moved into the Valley and used it as a burial ground. It was later invaded by the Aztecs and then by the Spanish who gave the site the name Monte Alban, meaning White Mountain, due to the white flowering trees that grow in the area. It is splendid place to see and remember!
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