Maybe you have dreamed of visiting Australia to scuba in the warm waters or photograph the kangaroos in the outback. Or you have thought about an African safari vacation to see wild lions, panthers and tigers in their natural habitat. Perhaps it was a visit to Thailand, to ride an elephant or blissfully lie on the white sandy beaches of Phuket. Maybe your dream is to visit St. Petersburg and photograph the architecture of the Menshikov Palace or St. Isaac's Cathedral.
Visit a country during the holiday season or an annual celebration when inhabitants are sure to be in a friendly frame of mind. Go to London before Christmas and catch an authentic Scrooge play or shop the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris for Christmas gifts. Perhaps you prefer to visit the Black Forest of Germany during Oktoberfest and pick up an authentic cuckoo clock or ski the slopes of the Alps by day and relax before a roaring fire at night.
Choose a short culinary course vacation as you relax in a four-star hotel by night, but learn to cook authentic Italian and Sicilian food by day. After the course, travel to Rome to visit Vatican City, explore the foods of Tuscany and wonder how much longer the Tower of Pisa can lean that way without crashing. Or, perhaps you would prefer to learn French cooking in Paris, where you can listen to jazz at night and view the Mona Lisa or Picasso exhibits by day.
