Geocaching - a modern scavenger hunt

Geocaching is a modern scavenger hunt that uses a GPS device to search for containers that have hidden followers of this fascinating hobby and whose coordinates have been published on the corresponding page on the Internet. Also in the Allgäu you can go on an exciting GPS scavenger hunt and have a lot of fun.

Geocaching is a kind of electronic treasure hunt that originated around the turn of the millennium in the USA and is now very popular all over the world. Equipped with a GPS device, such as a smartphone with integrated GPS receiver, you go on a search for the hiding places (geocaches), whose coordinates are published on the page geocaching.com. A geocache is usually a watertight container containing different exchange items and a logbook. Anyone who finds a geocache can keep the object contained therein and deposit something else approximately equivalent. Then the finder signs in the logbook to document his successful treasure hunt. In addition, the find can be noted on the website, so that the hiding person also knows when and by whom his geocache was found. Meanwhile, there are various geocaching variants, which include, in addition to traditional geocaching, in which the coordinates of the hiding place are specified, puzzle caches and multi-caches, in which one is guided by clues from one to the next way station. Geocaching is a lot of fun and has of course now also reached the Allgäu around Füssen. In the electronic treasure hunt here, which is especially for Groups and families with children very well suited, you get to know your holiday home and can enjoy the wonderful landscape.

To get started, it is worthwhile for families and groups, such as school classes or company employees, to participate in a professionally organized geocaching event. This is carried out by an experienced game master, who explains the process to each player and provides all rental materials such as the GPS device as well as notes and pens. In Füssen, the company “Querfeldeins” regularly offers various geocaching events for groups. In addition to classic geocaching, this also includes events such as crime crime geocaching, in which the participants have to slip into the role of an investigative team and solve a murder case, or geocaching. Children's birthday party, where the little ones trace hidden secrets. Horror geocaching and geocaching company trips are also among the company’s offers. More information about the offers can be found on the page www.querfeldeins.org There the events can also be booked immediately.

If you would rather go on your own treasure hunt, you should create a free user account on geocaching.com or download the official geocaching app on your smartphone. There you will learn which geocaches are hidden nearby and can be navigated there by his GPS device. Around the forest experience center Ziegelwies, the top family excursion destination in Füssen, for example, five caches are hidden, which can be searched for independently at any time.

Geocaching is a lot of fun and is a great activity that makes the holiday in the Allgäu even more exciting and beautiful. If you have now come to the taste, you should simply try the electronic scavenger hunt – good luck in finding the caches that are hidden around feet.