Our Staycation Guides bring some of our greatest past adventures to you at home. Check out these resources to take virtual journeys to daydream-worthy destinations alongside Princeton faculty.

We invite you to fill your wine glass with a selection from Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Alan Mann’s list of favorite wines from Southwest France. While you raise your glass, enjoy these resources to explore the Prehistoric Caves and Premier Wines of a region rich in culture and history.

• Watch Prof. Mann in conversation with Princeton research scholar Laura Kahn on the diet of our pre-agricultural ancestors.
• Journey back in time and into the caves with virtual tours of Lascaux, Chauvet and Font-de-Gaume.
• Enjoy an online library of articles, videos and podcasts dedicated to Bordeaux's wine and culture from the Cité du Vin museum.
• Make virtual visits to the Musée d’Aquitane to check out highlights from their collections.
• Grab your wine glass and savor a selection from Prof. Mann's Southwest France wine list.
• View images from our 2017 trip to Southwest France: Prehistoric Caves & Premier Wines.
• Watch Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Get lost in one of the following books:
  • Essential Guide to Bordeaux Wines
  • What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
  • Families of the Vine: Seasons Among the Winemakers of Southwest France

In 2019, we traveled to one of the planet's top stargazing destinations to witness the total solar eclipse. Now, we invite you on a journey from Chile to the cosmos with voices from Princeton's Department of Astrophysical Sciences.

• Begin in Santiago with virtual tours of the National History Museum, the National Museum of Fine Arts and Palacio La Moneda.
• Explore 360 degree views of Moon Valley and the salt flats in the otherworldly Atacama Desert.
• Set off for the cosmos with tours of the Paranal Observatory and Las Camapanas Observatory. Then read about the latest findings of the ACT telescope's research team.
• Hear from Maria Teresa Ruiz *75, first female president of Chile's Academy of Sciences, in an interview with Al Jazeera.
• Take a crash course on the universe with Joshua Winn in The Great Courses' “Why Stars Shine,” and listen to Jo Dunkley's She Roars Podcast interview.
• View the eclipse, then explore the Princeton Art Museum's Eclipses in Art exhibit and understand the Solar Eclipse in 90 Seconds.
• View images from our 2019 trip to Chile: Total Solar Eclipse. 
• Read a book or two: Our Universe: An Astronomer’s Guide and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

We hope you find insight and inspiration in this virtual tour of Jerusalem & the Holy Land, featuring voices from prominent alumni and former Princeton staff now living in Israel.

• Spend a day in Jerusalem with 360-degree views of the city's best known sites, then take a virtual tour of the Israel Museum's vast collection of antiquities.
• Visit Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, and explore its online exhibitions, digital collections and a library of online lectures.
• Catch a glass blowing demonstration with Sheva Chaya '97 in the mystical city of Safed.
• Discover Tel Aviv's highlights, then explore the Israeli Art Collection at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
• Read about Yadin Kaufmann '80, venture capitalist at the center of Israel's 'Startup Nation,' and watch his TEDx Talk on social change through business.
• Hear from Ariel Fisher, study leader for our 2017 journey and former Princeton campus rabbi now living in Israel.
• Complete the adventure with panoramic views of some of the Holy Land's sacred sites.
• View images from our 2017 trip to Jerusalem & the Holy Land: Israel Past & Present.
• Get lost in one of the following books:
  • Israel: A History (The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies)
  • The Fifth Son: A novel
  • In the Land of Israel (Harvest in Translation)
  • Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Experience the art, history and wildlife of Southern Africa with Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu, who specializes in indigenous, modern and contemporary African and African diaspora art history and theory.

• Learn about contemporary South African art through an expert panel featuring Prof. Okeke-Agulu, then take a photo tour of The Short Century, an exhibit he co-curated.
• Discover Women and the Arts of Africa, a Princeton Art Museum exhibit.
• Take a guided tour of Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, and explore the online exhibits of the Apartheid Museum.
• Check out virtual views of Cape Town and Victoria Falls, then raft down the Zambezi River.
• End your journey with some time at the watering hole with live cameras streaming wildlife from South Africa's private game reserves and Kruger National Park.
• View images of our 2017 trip to The Pride of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
• Read a book from the following:
  • Seven stories about modern art in africa
  • Cry, the Beloved Country
  • Art and the End of Apartheid
  • History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa

Travel to the Egypt of the Pharaohs with Deborah Vischak, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology and co-director of the North Abydos Expedition, which excavates one of the most important sacred sites in ancient Egypt.

Travel to the Egypt of the Pharaohs with Deborah Vischak, assistant professor of art and archaeology and co-director of the North Abydos Expedition, which excavates one of the most important sacred sites in ancient Egypt.

• Learn about the North Abydos Expedition and connect with Prof. Vischak's work on Facebook, Instagram and Vimeo.
• Embark on a newly released series of virtual tours through Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, including:
  • the tombs of Queen Meresankh III, Ramesses VI, Menna, Mehu, Wahti, Ty, and the Two Brothers
  • the Step Pyramid of Djoser
  • the Funerary Complex of King Unas
  • and the Tutankhamun Collection at the Egyptian Museum.
• Explore Princeton University Library's papyri collections.
• Tour Old Cairo with Egyptologist Tarek Swelim, who accompanied our 2019 journey, then visit the Pyramids of Giza.
• View images of our 2019 trip to Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs.
• Read a few of the following books:
  • Community and Identity in Ancient Egypt: The Old Kingdom Cemetery at Qubbet el-Hawa
  • Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
  • The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs
  • Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt
  • Ancient Lives: Daily Life in Egypt of the Pharaohs
  • Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids

Take a virtual and mental journey through the Great Libraries and Literature of England with legendary Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, John V. Fleming *63.

• Take a virtual tour of the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge, and browse its digital collections.
• Explore the Princeton Art Museum's exhibit on nineteenth-century British literature and the visual arts.
• Listen to Prof. Fleming's in-class lectures on Geoffrey Chaucer during his final semester, then tour the Canterbury Cathedral online.
• Take a virtual tour of the Charles Dickens Museum, and explore the vast literary collections of the British Library.
• Read Prof. Fleming's blog post on the 2018 Princeton Journey.
• View images of our 2018 trip to Great Libraries & Literature of England.
• Read Library: An Unquiet History, In Search Of England, A Traveller's History of England (Interlink Traveller's Histories) or The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason