Travel virtually and for free!

In this time of social distancing, why not travel virtually to discover (or rediscover) world museums, tourist spots, zoos, etc.?

You have worked hard for:

• unlock your card’s bonus
• accumulate your points
• develop your strategies
• book your flights and hotels
• prepare your travel days

Then… everything stops suddenly. We are all in the same situation in the milesopedia community, but this temporary shutdown is for a good cause and we all understand that.

Entertainment for grown-ups and kids on school break.

Discovery game to guess a location, using Google Street View.

You are catapulted into an unknown place on the planet and the only clues you have are:

• the landscape
• the flora
• the language displayed on road signs and what you can see from the road

The more accurate you are, the more points you get. Good luck!

The Disney Group has closed its theme parks around the world until the end of March, as well as stopped its cruises around the world.

In the meantime, it is possible to virtually visit the parks by walking through them as if you were there. The only thing missing is their great Dole Whip ice cream!

You can’t virtually enter the rides, but a simple search on Youtube will allow you to watch those who have filmed all the rides in the parks(like Space Mountain: Ouuuaaahhhh!! )

• At the Tembe Elephant Park Lodge in South Africa, there are webcams to watch in real time all kinds of animals
• In Canada, hike in Canadian national parks from Gros Morne in Newfoundland to Kluane National Park in the Yukon
• Or just try to see the view from the Churchill Northern Studies Center in Churchill, Manitoba (a good place to see the Northern Lights)
• Walk around Machu Pichu
• Walk on the Great Wall of China
• Visit U.S. national parks in the cold, volcanoes, caves, canyons and wetlands of Florida
• Imagine the sun, the heat and your feet in the sand of Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• See penguins at play at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California
• Or view all the webcams of several animals from the San Diego Zoo
• At the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation biology institute, see webcams of giant pandas, lions, naked mole rats and elephants
• As for the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, you can watch jellyfish, fish and other marine mammals

• There is of course the ultimate visit to the Louvre in Paris
• The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
• Or the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• Also, the excellent National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC invites you to browse its collection
• See the works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

On Google Arts and Culture, you have access to almost 3,000 museums and galleries around the world.

Plus:

• visit London’s Tower Bridge from a distance,
• find yourself at Cape Evans in Antarctica,
• see the Taj Mahal in India,
• visit the Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Japan,
• walk on the Hollywood Boulevard
• explore the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

Hours of fun!