Museums become levels, and every new country is another open world. Travel turns into real gameplay, where you are the main character who uncovers the secrets of the world, gathers experience, and opens new horizons.

Why is travel a game?

Travel combines the same elements as your favorite games: challenges, levels, achievements, and rewards. Every step in a new city is a new experience, and every little victory makes you stronger and more confident. To better understand why traveling feels so much like a game, it’s worth paying attention to a few key points:

• The unknown and challenges. When traveling, you constantly encounter tasks you need to solve on the go. For some, a plane is just transportation. But for those who love traveling, every flight turns into a quest. Choosing a flight, finding affordable tickets, packing your things so that all essentials fit — it’s like preparing for a new level in a game. Every flight becomes a field for finding solutions: quickly passing control, finding the gate, catching a transfer. Every successful flight is a small victory that opens new horizons.
  
  
  
• Levels and achievements. Every country or city is a new level, and collected memories and photos are your “achievements.” And a museum is not just a building with exhibits. It is a level full of secrets, clues, and surprises. You move through halls like a player through locations, looking for interesting details, deciphering the meanings of paintings or ancient objects. Every exhibit is like an artifact that adds knowledge and expands your “game experience.” And you can collect your own “collection” of impressions: photograph your favorite sculpture, find a rare exhibition, share your find with other travelers.
  
  
  
• The element of a game in exploration. Sometimes even an ordinary walk in a new city feels like a game with an open world — you never know what you’ll find around the next corner. Modern digital nomads — those who work and live in different countries — feel this gamelike approach especially strongly. Changing cities, they change “levels,” choose new quests: find convenient housing, learn the rules of local transport, taste traditional dishes. Every city becomes a new “setting,” and every day — a mission in which you have to discover something new, gain new experience, overcome challenges.
  
  
  
• A sense of progress. The more you travel, the more experienced you become. You already know life hacks, you navigate airports, you quickly find unusual routes. Over time you begin to notice details that once escaped you: where it’s better to pass control, how to pack efficiently, how to communicate with locals to quickly get the information you need. You no longer get confused when they change a gate or cancel a flight — instead, you immediately look for alternatives.
  
  
  
  

All these moments create the feeling that travel is not just a road, but a real game where you choose levels and scenarios yourself, and every step opens new opportunities and unforgettable impressions.

How to prepare for this “game”

To make travel truly feel like an exciting game, it’s worth preparing properly. Good preparation will help you avoid unnecessary stress and make every stage an interesting mission, not a burden.
Here are a few simple steps that will help you prepare and start this game confidently:

• Plan your route. Determine the main places you want to visit and distribute them by days. This will help avoid chaos and make it easier to navigate the city.
  
  
  
• Download useful apps. Navigation, translators, transport search, or accommodation booking — all of this is your “game inventory.”
  
  
  
• Save tickets and documents. Use a travel organizer or a special folder. Make digital copies and keep them handy.
  
  
  
• Pack wisely. Take only what you really need — this will make your trip lighter and more mobile.

Travel is not just movement. It is an exciting game in which you create the scenario yourself, choose levels, and receive bonuses in the form of impressions and knowledge. Flights turn into quests, museums into secret rooms, and the life of a nomad into a series of missions in different corners of the planet. And most importantly — in this game, there are no defeats. Every trip adds new emotions and opens new horizons. Play and travel!

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Above all, you can’t help but marvel at the Mirror Maze. It’s several hundred years old, but you can count the number of labyrinths in Europe on one hand and not just any mirrored room on the other. Finding the way out of it at the first attempt is quite problematic, and after a few unsuccessful attempts tourists start to walk the wall. Before entering the labyrinth, a corridor with crooked mirrors awaits you, creating the most incredible reflections.

Another insurmountable obstacle is the Vortex Tunnel. Staying on your feet in the tunnel is difficult. And although the floor is perfectly still, the walls spinning around will make anyone crouch down. In Puzzling Zone you’ll be stunned to discover that you’ve suddenly become a giant and then shrunk to tiny size. In the Camera Obscura you can catch your shadow, shake the hand of your ghost and even walk on water like a miracle!

There’s also a souvenir shop where you can buy the most mysterious, mystical and unbelievable souvenirs.

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The museum was founded in 1987 to raise awareness of Scotch whisky. A wide variety of whisky is on display, ranging from the cheapest whisky to the rarer and more expensive whiskies. In the museum you can see all the stages of whisky making, enjoy a tasting and even take a training course.

The museum is located in Edinburgh’s historic centre and is open daily.

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Visitors can also see an ancient Spanish astrolabe, which was used to tell the time by the stars a long time ago, and a chess set from the Isle of Lewis, still the most enigmatic find in Scotland. There are many more such objects collected from around the world.

Of the more modern exhibits – a modern scientific achievement – the world-famous cloned lamb, Dolly, also attracts attention. The range of subjects on display is very diverse. A visit to the museum is especially useful for children. They will learn a great deal about space, the flora and fauna, and the culture of various countries. There is a terrace on the 5th floor which offers a unique view of the panorama of Edinburgh from above.

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Children are, of course, the primary visitors. But adults keep up with the kids and enthusiastically explore the treasures on display. The museum has five stories filled with all sorts of things. Several floors are devoted to games and toys. Today the biggest collection of vintage dolls, toy soldiers and plush toys can be found there. If you had a favourite toy as a child, you’ll find it here. The other floors are filled with things that relate directly to children. Here you can see cradles, cots, tiny dresses that are several hundred years old, children’s crockery, and even a collection of bedpans.

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The first museum visit begins in the room where a large 17th-century model of Edinburgh is on display. The engravings and earliest photographs show little of the small historic Royal Mile Street on which the museum is located. The layout of the modern city only tells of its enlargement, but the historic part has remained intact and retains the wonderful atmosphere of early Edinburgh.

Edinburgh’s silverware is a frozen song. Collections of crockery are not just everyday items from which dukes and kings ate; they are works of art. only Scottish craftsmen can carve and engrave like this. The technology of engraving on glass is still protected and handed down from generation to generation by a few dozen craftsmen. The exceptional painted porcelain pieces are no less interesting.

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