Travel the world with this new spark of visual and virtual experience, from online guides to film festivals, wine tasting to bird watching, there’s everything you would want to make this new year interesting sitting at home.
1.) The Amsterdam Canal
From their chocolate art shop in the red De Wallen region, a cute elderly couple team Ian and Salomé have been planning a visit to Amsterdam, right now, showing their canals quieter than you might have seen in person. The tour is organized by Vancouver-based ToursByLocals, which has presented more than 150 experiences since the pandemic began. The tour covers many places and topics, from ghost hunting in Kyoto to African and American cultures in Harlem. The sessions are broadcast live and 100% of the costs can be redeemed for future purchases, personal visits and similar guidelines.
• One hour visit to Amsterdam every Sunday; £ 70 for up to six screens,
2.) Private Lakeside In Helsinki
On a visual tour to Helsinki, the brave tourist guide Kati Pankka will guide you around a private lakeside sauna. Pankka’s understanding of traditional Finnish practices includes her taking an ice bath, combined with a winter sauna, which locals believe is a beneficial health incentive. The trip is part of a recent presentation of 15 visual experiences by Intrepid’s Urban Adventures, which aims to help support its local directors’ and guides team during the pandemic. Sessions are conducted on Zoom in real time, many of them in the guide’s home. Other options include Mandala art and meditation in Delhi, and Polish pierogi-making with a Kraków cook.
• Helsinki experience (group tour option) from £ 19.84, urbanadventures.com
3.) Bird Seeing On The Florida’s Paradise Coast
Peregrine falcons, pelicans and even bald eagles can be found among the more than 200 species of birds that use south-west Florida’s Tigertail beach. The tidal lagoons and muddy waters that flow into Marco Island are also an important winter migration route, now open to experience with a periodic online bird watching program. During the new 90-minute study tour, the bird life cycle can be viewed in real-time using virtual reality binoculars mounted on the side of the beach, supplemented with photographs. The sessions will be held monthly until April 2021, hosted by biologists Adam DiNuovo of the Audubon Florida conservation organization, and Collette Lauzau of the Rookery Bay research center. The next event is on January 16, and this month could include bird watching and other online activities during the Florida bird festival.
• $ 10 tour, rookerybay.org
4.) Know The Mary Rose Of Portsmouth
Visit Portsmouth has launched a number of tours since the start of the COVID pandemic and its latest project is guaranteed to impress emerging historians. Mary Rose’s new interactive photosphere rotates 360 degrees along the sidewalk between the wooden hull of the ship and the artifacts found during the 16th-century crash – and offers a second great advantage for a personal visit. The Mary Rose Museum holds the largest collection of Tudor artifacts in the world and the photosphere puts out all the key discoveries from Henry VIII’s favourite warship through rotating clickable icons.
• Free, maryrose.or
