Board games are a great way to introduce children to the love of travel as well as to new destinations, geography and cultures.  Here are some of our favorite geography style board games that are ideal for the entire family to play together:

10 Days In _____: Learning the countries and states in different land areas is no easy task!  With these fun, yet educational board games, you spend 10 days touring an area by plane, car, and on foot. You chart your course from start to finish, using only the resources available to you. The first traveler to make connections for the 10-day journey wins the game.  

Passport to Culture: Players travel around the world map depicted on the game board, with the goal of filling your passport with stamps. Along the way players must attempt to answer questions pertaining to the diverse peoples and countries of the world.

Ticket to Ride: This game provides players with intense strategic and tactical decisions. Players collect cards of various types of train cars they then use to claim railway routes. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who fulfill Destination Tickets – goal cards that connect distant cities; and to the player who builds the longest continuous route.

Map It: Players take turns placing randomly drawn location cards in the correct position around a given starting point. Is Bangkok north or south of Cancun? What about Mount Everest? Is it to the east or to the west of St. Petersburg? Get your bearings and try to outwit your disoriented opponents. Young minds and seasoned globetrotters alike can lose themselves in the fun of this great game of directions.