Les GéoTours maintenant disponibles dans l’Application Geocaching®
Nous entendons souvent des géocacheurs dire qu’ils aiment le jeu car il leur permet de découvrir de nouveaux endroits comme un local. Nous aussi nous adorons cet aspect du géocaching.
Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que les GéoTours – collections personnalisées de géocaches faites pour vous présenter de nouveaux endroits – sont désormais disponibles dans l’application Geocaching® ! Il est encore plus facile que jamais d’explorer les plus de 60 GéoTours existants à travers le monde.
Oft hören wir, das Geocacher das Spiel lieben weil sie neue Orte wie ein Einheimischer entdecken können. Das lieben wir auch an Geocaching.
Wir freuen uns bekanntzugeben das GeoTours – Sammlungen einzelner Geocaches, erstellt um Dich an neue Orte zu führen – jetzt in der Geocaching® App verfügbar sind! Es ist jetzt einfacher als jemals zuvor die über 60 GeoTours weltweit zu entdecken.
We often hear geocachers say they love the game because they get to experience new places like a local. We love this about geocaching too.
We are excited to announce that GeoTours — custom collections of geocaches designed to introduce you to new locations — are now in the Geocaching® app! It’s easier than ever to explore the 60+ GeoTours currently available around the world.
We’ll admit — assigning the Okavango Delta a label like “Geocache of the Week” feels incredibly insufficient. This place is so far removed from the world of mysteries, FTFs, gadget caches, and lock-n-locks, it can hardly be reduced to a point in a GPS treasure hunt game.
Just look at this:
Photo by jagupril
That being said, if you should happen to be lucky enough to live near or visit the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana, you might as well do what’s required to log this EarthCache. The EarthCache itself will probably not be the highlight of your trip. Rather, the highlight is more likely to be the incredible wildlife you encounter, the things you learn from the people you meet, or the sensation of gliding through channels of reeds with only an inch or two of mokoro (canoe) separating you from water that will, incredibly, never make its way out of Africa — according to the cache page it will instead disappear into the thirsty sands of the Kalahari Desert.
Photo by AhMi
As you’re walking through a dry plain of low grass and sand, keeping an eye out for big cats, rhinos, elephants, and any number of other large fauna that might be lurking nearby, it will seem abstract and irrelevant that the Okavango is not, strictly speaking, a delta at all, but rather an alluvial fan.
That sort of detail will become more important when you’re answering the required EarthCache questions and you learn about the geological history of the Okavango.
Photo by TheGlobetrottingBebbis
You will probably never find another geocache where it feels appropriate to upload the photo of the lion cubs you saw clambering over their mother in clumsy attempts to be fed.
Same with that photo you captured of a hyena bathed in morning light.
Photo by bridge_player
Many geocaches are out of reach to many people. Actually, most geocaches are out of reach to most of us. Heck, there are 2.9 million geocaches on the planet right now! As humans with lives and jobs and limited lifespans we’re forced to pick and choose our geocaches.
If at all possible, pick this one. It will be worth it.
Photo by MiskiSanko
Continue to explore some of the most amazing geocaches around the world.
Check out all of the Geocaches of the Week on the Geocaching blog. If you would like to nominate a Geocache of the Week, fill out this form.
