Would you enjoy backpacking across a country, learning a new culture and language? Maybe visiting historic sites, re-living the ancient past, is more to your liking. Perhaps eating your way through a few cities may be your dream come true. Or, you might just want to party all night, every night in an exotic locale. Whatever your preference, you can take a memorable senior trip that won't break the bank.
With activities appealing to all tastes in mind, here are the top five cheap graduation trips that are also great fun. The fact that each is on a different continent is a bonus!
Five cheap college graduation trips filled with great fun
Cruising the Mexican Riviera is a wonderful option for laid-back graduates seeking an all-inclusive vacation with activities and dining all in one place. Using websites on which travel agents post special packages, you can enjoy a seven night Cruise with packages ranging in price from $339-$999. Sailing from Los Angels aboard the Carnival Splendor, part of the Carnival Cruise Line, your trip will include four pools, a seaside theatre, a fitness center and a casino, along with as much food as you desire throughout the entire voyage.
Or, perhaps, you're seeking a bit more adventure. In that case, Kenya may be the college graduation trip for you. With more than 40 cultures and a multitude of languages, Kenya is the perfect setting for new college graduates with a sense of adventure. Offering safaris with themes from sports to scenic to cultural and more, this is the trip for the backpacker! Ascend Mount Kenya with a Kenyan warrior as your guide or take part in the Maasai Mara game safari, where you can view lions-up close and personal. Spring packages start as low as $89 per night, making this a cheap college graduation trip that is not only great fun, but filled with great memories.
On the other hand, if you're looking for an exotic locale filled with color and pageantry, look no farther than Bhutan. Tucked high in the Himalaya Mountains, the Kingdom of Bhutan offers a rich history and vivid culture. With several cultural tours from which to choose, including treks through ancient museums, lessons in traditional arts and junkets to sites of ancient medicine practices, this unforgettable graduation trip has its best prices during the off-peak seasons of summer and winter.
Then again, saving your trip until fall - when prices are best - yields delicious benefits, if Paris, France is your destination. Departing from New York City, round-trip packages for $700 will get you several days in the City of Lights where the rich cuisine, non-stop night life of Rue Oberkampf and all the cultural flavor that France has to offer will entice and satisfy those seeking diversion in an urban, very European way. This is the cheap college graduation trip where your photographs won't even begin to tell the story.
Last, but not least, is Brazil. Gorgeous beaches filled with equally eye-catching people and a pulsating nightlife that goes on and on may be precisely the graduation trip for the graduate who believes sun and fun are the name of the game. And Brazil offers all this and much more. Great music, delectable food, friendly people-what else could you want? A cheap price perhaps - and with several airlines servicing Sao Paolo, that's exactly what you'll find. This is the trip that graduates will tell their friends about - or maybe even bring them along.
So, whether its adventure, food or nightlife, there are several cheap college graduation trips that are also great fun.
Sources:
http://www.studentuniverse.com/
http://cruises.ian.com/b/c/sc.asp?display=all&i=744761&c=1&v=662
Published by Denise Fawcett Facey
A writer and educator, Denise Fawcett Facey has years of experience in education and the issues surrounding it. Additionally, with an informal background in home decor and gardening, she has experience consu... View profile
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