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Exploring Venice’s Faro San Giorgio Maggiore Lighthouse with Kids
Most lighthouses tower over rocky cliffs or sandy beaches. This one stands about 15 meters tall on a Venetian island, watching boats glide past centuries-old churches reflected in the lagoon. The Faro San Giorgio Maggiore lighthouse is the 52nd addition to the DuckAbroad lighthouse sticker collection. Built in the early 1800s near the church of San Giorgio Maggiore, it remains one of Venice’s most photogenic maritime landmarks. A lighthouse built for a floating city Venice do

Chris
Jul 31, 20232 min read


Track Your Travels and Become a World Explorer
Every trip your family takes tells a story. The cities you have wandered, the foods you have tried, the landmarks your kids will never forget. With our latest DuckAbroad update, it is now easier than ever to record those stories and watch your travel map come to life. What’s New in the Country Pages We have redesigned the country pages to make tracking your family’s adventures simple, visual, and fun. Each page now shows: The stickers you have collected along the way The numb

Chris
Jul 20, 20232 min read


Keep Track Of The Airports You Visit And Collect Over 300 Airport Stickers
Today, we are happy to announce that there are over 300 airports included in the Duckwyn Travel app. This includes every countries' largest airport - at least for the countries that have airports. Our next goal is to ensure that every U.S. State has its largest airport listed in the app. If you are visiting a location and going to an airport that is not included in the app, let us know, and we'd be happy to add it.

Chris
May 31, 20231 min read


Over 150 airports are now included in your Duckwyn Travel Passport
We continue to add more airports each month to the DuckAbroad Travel Passport. Most recently, we've expanded into Africa and South America. If we don't have an airport that you'll be visiting soon, let us know. We can usually get it added before your trip.

Chris
May 3, 20231 min read


Keep track of the airports you visit
Airports used to be just places you passed through. Now they're destinations your kids can collect, track, and remember long after the trip ends. DuckAbroad's newest feature transforms every airport visit into a collectible moment. Each of the 30 available airports comes with its own sticker and tracks how many times you've been there. Collect stickers the same way you always do Check in at airports exactly like you would any other DuckAbroad destination. When you arrive, the

Chris
Feb 27, 20231 min read


Series 2: Duckwyn Collectible Travel Cards Have Arrived
We’ve finished Series 2 of the Duckwyn Collectible Travel Cards, and this one is packed with new places for your kids to explore and collect. There are 18 new cards in total — featuring five exciting new destinations, three U.S. National Parks, and three new countries to discover together. Each card is designed to teach your kids something new about the world, spark their curiosity, and remind them that learning doesn’t stop when vacation ends. If your family already receives

Chris
Jan 19, 20231 min read


Utah U.S. National Park Guides and Certificates
Your family drives six hours to Zion. You park at the visitor center. Your kids ask what there is to do. You pull out a map with 47 numbered stops and vague descriptions. Your seven-year-old loses interest before you finish reading the first paragraph. Two hours later, you've seen three viewpoints. Your kids are complaining. You're not sure if you're missing the best parts or just hitting the obvious spots everyone else photographs. The park ranger said something about hidden

Chris
Dec 19, 20223 min read


Pena Palace: History, Things To Do, and Fun Facts
Your family's car winds up narrow mountain roads. Trees give way to glimpses of colorful towers. Then you round the final bend and there it is: a palace that looks like it teleported from a storybook, perched impossibly high on a rocky peak. Welcome to Pena Palace , where families trade flat museum walks for mountaintop exploration. This isn't your typical palace visit. It's an adventure. From earthquake ruins to royal retreat The story starts with disaster. The 1755 Lisbon E

Chris
Nov 16, 20222 min read


Acadia National Park: Collectible Cards
Your kids can now collect Acadia National Park . The newest card in the DuckAbroad Travel collection celebrates Maine's coastal treasure. Acadia holds a special place in national park history: the first national park east of the Mississippi River and still the only one in the northeastern United States. President Woodrow Wilson established it as Sieur de Monts National Monument in 1916. It became Lafayette National Park in 1919, then was renamed Acadia in 1929. Why Acadia wor

Chris
Nov 2, 20221 min read


Victoria Falls: Visiting the World’s Largest Waterfall
You hear it before you see it. A low thunder builds in the distance, rolling through the trees. Then the mist rises, a shimmering cloud that catches the sunlight. Step closer, and the roar of Victoria Falls fills the air. Stretching 1,708 meters wide across the Zambezi River and plunging 108 meters into the gorge below, this natural wonder forms the largest continuous sheet of falling water on Earth. Locals call it Mosi oa Tunya, meaning The Smoke That Thunders, a name that

Chris
Oct 13, 20221 min read
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