Geo Caching: Outdoor Treasure Hunting Game
Geocaching is a real-world outdoor treasure hunting game. Players try to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, using GPS-enabled devices and then share their experiences online.
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In Matmata you can actually sleep in Luke’s home. The Hotel Sidi Driss served as the interior of the Lars homestead. Aunt Beru’s kitchen is still there, but except for some fiberglass and wooden frames, and the fresco on the dining room ceiling, you won’t find any props. Even so, it is easy to get excited when sitting in the very same dining room that the Lars family used. The hotel also has a well stocked bar with lots of Star Wars memorabilia and a Star wars inspired menu.
Our next destination is Tataouine, located in the south of Medenine. The planet Tatooine got its name from this town, and that’s about the town’s only contribution to the movie. Most of the scenes were shot in the hills and villages surrounding the town. A little further south is located Ksar Ouled Soltane a beautyful ghorfa (grain storage facility) that was used to as a background for some of the Slave Quarters shots in Episode I.
Star Wars Vacation
Die hard Star Wars fan might know this already but for the rest, here’s your next vacation: Tunisia. Four of the Star Wars filmed in Tunisia (as the planet Tatooine) and most of the buildings are still in good shape, which means you can visit it. It’s Star Wars, but instead of being a galaxy far, far away, it’s on Earth.
Sex and the City Tours
Today, the experience of cities is a scripted phenomenon for many, precisely tailored to the expectations they hold out for their lifestyle. For example, take tours of New York based on “Sex and the City” such as this one or this one. Vanity Fair reports on one and YouTube contains this clip of what you might expect to see.
Tourist Rave - A friend documents her recent experience in Koh Phi Phi, Thailand - a serene beach turned tourist party destination.
Atlas Obscura | Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations
A user-generated database of obscure travel destinations
Time Travel with Augmented Reality
In China, France, Switzerland and Germany, reconstructed images of past landmarks are being overlapped with the computer generated graphics to give tourists the sensation of traveling back in time. With the advent of
augmented reality travel apps and Google’s release of augmented reality glasses
, tourists may come to prefer augmented travel to the real thing.
Make Your Dream Vacation a Virtual Reality
What happens if virtual reality replaces the need to visit popular tourist destinations in person? Why get on a plane when you can travel virtually for a fraction of the cost?
Bingeing Your Way Across the New Grand Tour
The Guardian explores the phenomenon of gap years.
The new hotspots on the backpacker trail
Back in 2005, the Guardian looked at the transformation of backpacking from a relatively underground pursuit taken up by hippie-types to a international party scene.
Vang Vieng, Laos: the world's most unlikely party town
The Guardian looks at how a remote Laotian farming community becomes a destination for drunk and high backpackers.
Satellite Images Of Spanish Ghost Towns via Business Insider The attached image is of Salou, a tourist town that is empty even in the summer.
Martin Parr - A Small World (1996)
Taking A Walk Into the Lives Of India's Street Kids
On City Walk, a tour of how street children live in India, run by street children.
Mathematically Random Vacations
Sam Minter’s Random Trips chronicles a series of trips that one individual made over a number of years, choosing destinations using “mathematical formulae to determine evenly distributed latitudes and longitudes on the surface of a sphere.”
