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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

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

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

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

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

Imagine standing in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, surrounded by towering peaks and ancient ice. Banff National Park , established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park, is the oldest national park in Canada. By 1930, the Canadian National Parks Act officially gave it the name we know today. Here, families can explore some of the most impressive glaciers in North America. The park is home to several major icefields, including the famous Columbia Icefield, the largest uninterrup

Stand on the Yorktown battlefield where cannons once thundered. Walk the Jamestown shoreline where English settlers first landed. At Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia, your family traces 174 years of American history from fragile colony to independent nation. Two sites tell this story. At Jamestown, you see where it all started in 1607. At Yorktown, you stand where it was won in 1781. Together, they bookend two pivotal moments in early American history — colonial

Saxon Switzerland National Park, established in 1990, is one of Germany’s most dramatic natural landscapes. Located just south of Dresden, the park is divided into two sections within the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, an area famous for its towering rock formations and deep forested gorges. The scenery rises sharply from the Elbe River valley, where calm waters wind through the countryside, to rugged peaks that reach up to 556 meters above sea level. Families can explore narrow r

Here are 5 national parks in Iceland, Austria, Croatia, Germany, and Turkey that you should visit along with our recommendation for what you should not miss while exploring each of the parks. Göreme National Park    Göreme Historical National Park in central Turkey features soft tuff rock carved by wind and water over thousands of years. The rocky formations are connected by an ancient network of caves. Back in the 4th century, people built underground communities, including

Plitvice Lakes National Park is one of Croatia’s oldest and most breathtaking national parks, and it feels like something pulled straight from a storybook. Families come from all over the world to walk its wooden pathways, listen to rushing waterfalls, and explore a landscape that looks almost unreal. The park’s most famous feature is its chain of 16 terraced lakes, all connected by a network of waterfalls and limestone caves. As you move from lake to lake, the water shifts