There’s a vast difference between reading or being told about ancient history and standing where ancient empires rose and fell.
There’s a difference between reading about fierce Roman gladiators in textbooks, and actually being in Rome training to be one.
There’s a real contrast between looking at pictures of the Greek Parthenon, or actually walking beneath it, admiring every chiselled detail.
I wasn’t much interested in history in school growing up in Canada until I took a school trip to Quebec City, the only remaining walled city in North America. The narrow lanes, the stone parapets and buildings, the sense of time travelling to the time of colonists and fur traders, of French soldiers fighting from their fort against the British for the future of global empires, suddenly made history real.
That blend of travel and history became a deeply connected passion, leading me to teach history and travel to places rich in historical layers. Now I create and organise historical school adventures.
When I was originally taught history it was about remembering dates and events, but history really becomes exciting when it is about real human stories told through the ages from locations where the events took place.
With Educating Adventures, teachers can offer their students the same kinds of experiences that first sparked my imagination and shaped the way I see history. Students explore archaeology, political systems, architecture, important events and cultural change through curriculum relevant locations and activities. Being there allows better critical thinking and unravelling of abstract timelines.
We offer tours that take in the well-known and popular Ancient World sites like Rome and Athens, but why not consider fascinating alternatives as well? You can study both the Ancient Greeks and Romans in one country, Italy, with a tour that travels from Rome to Pompeii, to Paestum and the island of Ancient Greece’s Magna Graecia (Sicily)!
Why just do a lightning visit of the Peloponnese only to Olympia, home of the original Olympics, when you can instead visit a whole host of ancient sites- from ultra-ancient Mycenae famous for Agammemnon and the Trojan legend, to the great Acrocorinth walls at Ancient Corinth’s Acropolis, recently used as a location for the upcoming The Odyssey film. See the ghostly stone ruins of the final capital city of the Roman Empire, Mystras, after Constantinople fell to the Ottomans.
These ancient sites come alive when you experience them with all your senses - something a classroom just can’t match.
Here are just some ideas for your Ancient History Adventure!
· Ancient Greeks and Romans: 2 Civilisations; 1 Country: VIEW SAMPLE TOUR ITINERARY
· Best of Ancient Greece: VIEW SAMPLE ITINERARY
· Ancient Greece and Italy Classic History Tour: VIEW SAMPLE ITINERARY
· Ancient and Modern History: VIEW SAMPLE ITINERARY
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