There’s a new specialty in the travel market, and it doesn’t get more niche than this.
How about exploring where dinosaurs once roamed?
Dinosaur Trips creates paleontologically-focused, stylishly-curated travel experiences for families, adventurers, and those who just want something completely different in their travels. Dinosaur Trips is a new travel company creating group departures and tailor-made private itineraries, across the globe, centered around dinosaur digs, discoveries, experts, and incredible access into the world of our prehistoric planet through dinosaurs and paleontology.
And if you think this has childish overtones, you’re absolutely right.
“To be honest, I’m living out a childhood dream, that’s what it really comes down to. Or more accurately, it’s my childhood dream meeting with grown-up tastes along the way," said Zach Vanasse, founder and director of the new company, in a statement. “As a kid, I dreamed of being a paleontologist. I envisioned going out into the badlands to fossil hunt and dig for dinosaurs with paleontologists like Dr. Philip J. Currie. Well, I didn’t end up becoming a paleontologist. And as an adult, that whole world of paleontology still seemed almost mythical, or at the very least, extremely inaccessible to regular folks. But as I dug back into an interest in paleontology and dinosaurs as an adult, it became apparent that there’s a whole planet of scientists, fossil hunters, and incredible characters from the world of dinosaur research out there. The entire globe can be explored through the lens of dinosaurs and paleontology. Someone just needed to put it all together.”
Fossil-rich Alberta, Canada, home to some of the greatest and most famous dinosaur discoveries in history, is the inaugural Dinosaur Trips destination. This summer and fall, Dinosaur Trips guests will explore the western Canadian province.
The first Dinosaur Trips small group departure, Badlands & Beyond, will explore Calgary, Drumheller, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Grande Prairie, Wembley, Canmore & Kananaskis, and Banff from July 2-13, 2023.
As part of this all-inclusive 12-day / 11-night prehistoric journey across the province of Alberta, Dinosaur Trips’ guests will have the opportunity to hunt for dinosaur bones with legendary paleontologist Dr. Philip Currie as part of a distinct four-day fossil dig program that supports the work of the Dinosaur Research Institute, a non-profit charitable organization funding dinosaur research in western Canada.
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