by Howard Clemens

Students who travel around the world have been enjoying America’s Duck Tours.  This is one of the most unique historic tour experiences you will find yourself climbing on board for in America’s hottest cities.  These WWII amphibious landing vehicles drive through streets while tour guides point out America’s treasured historic sites, then hop in the water to see the city from another perspective –by waterway.  Children and adults alike love Duck Tours. In Philadelphia, everyone gets their own duck quacking whistle, and learns something about American history with the most fun possible.

When visiting the East Coast, consider taking the Duck Tours in Philadelphia, Washington D.C. or Boston.  These professional tours are led by informative and skilled public speakers who love their jobs and the cities they live in – showing off the riches of Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Boston to student travel groups.

There was a Duck Tour of New York City, but it was discontinued, much to student travelers dismay.  Hopefully another Duck Tour of NYC will emerge again soon.

Philadelphia Duck Tour: City Of Liberty
An educational travel company representative should purchase Duck Tour tickets in advance of touring to ensure the student travel group secures enough seats.  These high view Duck Tour seats offer a premium vantage for seeing some of the most dramatic sites of America’s fight for independence.  See where the founding fathers forged and signed the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin’s first print shop, and Betsy Ross’s house where she sewed the first stars and stripes to Old Glory.  Then drive right into the water at Penn’s Landing and float down the Delaware River to see Washington’s Crossing, one of the most dramatic stories of a struggling young nation’s courageous first generals, making his place in history to become America’s first president.

Student Travel Groups go to Washington DC to Study the Seat of Freedom
Board the Duck Tour of Washington D.C. at Union Station where you will drive by America’s most visited house: The White House.  The tour provides snippets of fascinating audio news clips as well as some of the most important speeches by the likes of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  The American Capitol has never had a more interesting tour down Pennsylvania Avenue. Driving by some of the finest architecture of any nation in the world, heads turn to see the Duck vehicle, a unique addition to city streets.  Student groups will remember seeing the famous Washington Monument from the water.  Coast down the Potomac River to see the flowering cherry trees in the spring, a vision of beauty millions of people travel from all over the world to see, but no one will see them quite like this, unless they take a Duck Tour.

Boston’s Duck Tour Gives a Unique Perspective of American History
Student trips to Boston, Massachusetts are more exciting when they include Duck Tours. From Bunker Hill to the Battery Wharf, come see Boston as many patriots and new arrivals in Boston saw it at first glance – from a ship. See the site of famous Bostonian Mary Barrett Dyer’s hanging, executed for her religious beliefs in 1660.  Ride by the magnificent Old State House and Longfellow Bridge – just a couple of the other historic landmarks you will also get to visit.  See the famous Boston pub Cheers, made notorious by its popular television sitcom.  After driving through the streets of Boston, student groups on the Duck Tour plunge into the world famous Charles River for a view of Boston and Cambridge no other tour could possibly present to the group.

Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. are not the only cities that offer Duck Tours.  Seattle, San Francisco, Branson and Austin, as well as some other U.S. destinations, also provide the opportunity to take Duck Tours.  Students and teachers say that taking Duck Tours is the most fun and exciting educational experience out there today.  There is no better way to spend time with classmates and learn about history when visiting these great American cities. Be sure to ask a student travel group leader to put a Duck Tour on the itinerary.