After almost two decades of publishing Wandering Educators, I have come to believe that cultural travel is the most useful phrase in the traveler's vocabulary. It names what most of us actually want from a trip: to learn something from the people and place.
The trouble is that the phrase has been borrowed by tour companies, marketing copywriters, and bucket-list publishers until it nearly means nothing.
After almost two decades of publishing Wandering Educators, I get the same question from teachers more than any other.
Where do I find an education travel adventure that is actually worth the time and money?
It is a reasonable question. Search the phrase, and you will find tour companies first, marketing copy second, and very little real guidance written by someone who has actually traveled with educators, watched what works, and seen what falls flat.
This article is your guide.
I have been publishing Wandering Educators for almost two decades. I have a PhD in international education. My passport has stamps from places I have lived, and places I have passed through too quickly.
For much of my early years experiencing and writing about travel, I was wrong about almost everything.
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