We’ve been hiking with our kids around the world for more than a decade, and some of our favourite trips have been built almost entirely around time on the trail. The best family hiking vacations are the ones that give you enough trail options to match your kids’ ages and abilities, while still leaving room for good food, interesting towns, beaches, wildlife or other activities along the way.
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17 Amazing Places to Kayak with Kids (and Paddle Board too!)
Kayaking with kids has become one of our favourite ways to add a little adventure to our family trips. It gets everyone out on the water, gives kids a fun way to experience a destination, and often lets you explore places you just can’t reach as easily on foot.
9 Best Hiking Songs For Your Family
I loved hiking as a kid! Hiking with my family was filled with endless adventures and discoveries. I remember great laughs and lots of hiking songs. It seemed like my Mom knew all the lyrics to all the hiking songs in the whole world and I loved singing them all.
Family Travel on a Budget – Our 23 Best Tips
Traveling with kids can be expensive. Planning a family vacation means buying additional flight tickets, attraction passes, meals and find larger hotel rooms. The cost of traveling with kids adds up quickly! As a frugal person, I take this cost personally and make it my personal challenge to plan family travel on a budget.
25 Tips for Hiking with Kids
Before kids, hiking was one of our favorite things to do as a couple. When we had kids, we wanted to share our passion for hiking with our kids. Over the years, we’ve made a few mistakes while hiking with our kids (we all do), but our efforts seem to have paid off. The good news is that all of this experience has paid off and we learned a lot about hiking with children.