Our Top Suggestions for Your Next Geography School Trip If you're looking to take a school geography trip abroad in the coming year, here are our top suggestions: Iceland From the hot springs at Geysir to the Seljalandsfoss waterfall, Iceland’s varied and stunning landscape is a geographer’s dream. A four or five day tour packs plenty in and is sure to enthuse your young geographers, providing them with life-long memories. All our tours to Iceland include a guide for your safety when visiting the various excursions. Here's an example 4 day geography school trip to Iceland: Day 1: Fly from the UK to ...
The Land of Ice & Snow! Iceland from a school group's perspective. If you're thinking of a geography trip to Iceland, the best way to find out about the possibilities is from a group who have experienced it. This week's blog is by Hall Mead's Geography team who recently travelled with Select to Iceland: In the October half term, the Geography department, led by Miss Brighty took 45 Year 11 students to Iceland. The country’s majestic beauty, spectacular tectonic features and sustainable energy made it the perfect fieldwork for our budding geographers. The excursions included: waterfall drenching; tectonic-plat ...
What Makes Sicily a Geographers' Dream? Sicily is separated from Italy by a strait just 1.9 miles wide at its narrowest point and is the largest island in the Mediterranean. It is also one of the most diverse in terms of flora, fauna and geography. The volcanic landscape is unlike any other, with the skyline dominated by Mount Etna - Europe’s largest active volcano. A visit to Mount Etna gives students a rare opportunity to get close to an active volcano. With a guided tour an expert will discuss volcanic processes and landforms along with showing examples on site, and you can explo ...
NEW Unique Excursions in Iceland Geography! Iceland, with its stunning landscape, volcanoes, geothermal features, waterfalls and glaciers,is an excellent destination for a geography school trip. Select has two exciting new additions to the Select Iceland excursions not to be missed: Glacier Walk on Sólheimajökull Glacier Groups now have the opportunity to walk through the dramatic glacier valley and black sand flood plains to the Sólheimajökull Glacier where they’ll put on their crampons and explore the crevasse riddled outlet glacier with its stunning ice formations, sinkholes and jagg ...