The main holiday season is fast approaching and if you are not jetting off this Easter then you may be planning a summer getaway instead. For some people, a pool, sun and sand is all you need to be able to enjoy your holiday but for others, they may want a little bit more adventure. You may often travel thousands of miles to another part of the world and yet do you really get to explore the area and the culture and find out about how the local people live?
You can learn a lot about a culture of a particular country or group of people from studying historical places, sampling the local traditional dishes and spending time with the local people, understanding more about their day to day life. Some may say that it is a bit of a waste to go all that way away from home and not get involved in exploring your surroundings but for others this may not be what they want from a holiday.
Going on a cultural holiday does not mean you cannot have time lazing by the pool or topping your tan up, it just means that within that, you get to do some discovering and sample a bit more of what that country has to offer.