#17 - Virtual Vacation | March 30, 2020

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March 30, 2020 - 10 Facts About Virtual Vacations

Today is National Virtual Vacation day.

Here are 10 cyber facts about virtual vacations that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:

1. You can go to a national park
   1. Google Earth you can actually “walk” through the parks and their trails and see all the big spots.
   2. According to USnews.com these are the top 5 parks, and they are all on google earth:
      1. Yellowstone
      2. Yosemite
      3. Glacier
      4. Grand Canyon
      5. Zion
2. You can take a trip to the Zoo
   1. Pandas, elephants, Penguins, Polar bears, koalas, giraffes, tigers
   2. Sharks, stingrays, otters, sea turtles
   3. Some of the best zoos and aquariums in the country have live streams of their exhibits:
      1. San Diego Zoo
      2. Monterey Bay Aquarium
      3. Smithsonian’s National Zoo
      4. Houston Zoo
      5. Atlanta Zoo
3. You can check out a museum
   1. You can get virtual tours of amazing museums around the world
      1. Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
      2. The Guggenheim Museum
      3. ‘Travel’ to Japan and check out the Tokyo National Museum
      4. The Louvre
      5. Museum of Modern Art
4. You can go see a stage show
   1. BroadwayHD.com
      1. This one is a subscription service, but there is a 7-day free trial
   2. Metropolitan Opera
      1. Thanks to donors, this one is free
      2. A different live show every night, and the show’s available for 24 hours until the next one is released
      3. On Roku, AppleTV, amazon devices, samsung smart tvs
5. You can take a family vacation to Disney
   1. Youtube channel “Virtual Disney World”
   2. 360° videos of all the Disney World Rides
   3. It came out a couple years ago so it even includes some older rides that have closed
      1. The great movie ride
   4. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYyJUEtYv-ZW7BgjhP3UbTg
6. You can go to Rome
   1. On the Colosseum’s website you can take tours of:
      1. The colosseum
      2. The Roman Forum
      3. The Pantheon
      4. https://www.il-colosseo.it/
7. You can visit NASA
   1. Langley Research Center and Glenn Research center are offering free online tours.
   2. If you download the Space Center Houston’s app, you can even interact with some experiences in AR
   3. https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-at-home-virtual-tours-and-augmented-reality
8. Explore Machu Picchu in Peru
   1. They have 360° views of the Inca settlement ruins
   2. There is a narrating tour guide you can choose to listen to
   3. You can check out all the popular viewing sites
   4. https://www.youvisit.com/tour/machupicchu?pl=f
9. You can get a VR tour or Tokyo
   1. https://youtu.be/OR_Y7vj66PU
   2. You can either use a headset and get 360° views or
   3. You can watch in 2D, which is still pretty cool
10. You can go to Mars
    1. Google and NASA partnered to collect photos from the Curiosity Rover
    2. They modeled a replica of the Martian surface, and you can explore Mars in 360°
    3. https://accessmars.withgoogle.com/#