Have you heard about goecaching?
Well, it's one of the latest game that can be defined as a high-tech treasure hunt that one pays plays with the use of a GPS. Goecaching is now a worldwide phenomenon with over seven hundred thousand geocachers around the globe. A geocacher can place a geocache in the world, pinpoint its location using GPS technology and then share the geocache's existence and location online. Anyone with a GPS unit can then try to locate the geocache that can at time be a geocoin. As an organisation concerned with its community and the environment, the Society for Urban Patrimony of Quebec (SPUQ) has issued a geocoin, special trackable coin created as a signature item of Maison Chevalier, a small museum dedicated to urban life in Quebec. It thus is an active partaker in the geocaching phenomenon.
But aside form encouraging its international aspect, the SPUQ uses the geocaching idea as an educational tool to tell young and old stories about the city of Québec, its history and its traditions. On a regular basis, school groups take part in these activities and so do adults. Especially for the holidays, a series of geocaching within the Royal Square are planned. You can play the game with your own GPS, play it with a map only or do it with a group accompanied by a costumed guide who will assist you in using the GPS device. It's loads of fun guarantied.
For more information contact Maison Chevalier at 418-692-5550 or at civu@sympatico.ca