A cure for coronavirus cabin fever – watch zoo webcams, tour Alaskan glaciers or Hawaiian volcanoes virtually, tune into a Rocky Mountains dawn

Climbing into an ice crevasse, zipping down a lava tube, gazing in wonder at a Van Gogh painting – you name it, there’s a virtual tour for armchair travellers

For something less intense, try watching koalas sleep, or tune into a dawn chorus in the Rocky Mountains; it could give you an idea for a post-pandemic holiday

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On the virtual tour at Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska you can climb down into a crevasse. It’s one of many ways to satisfy your travel bug, or plan your next dream holiday, while forced to stay at home amid the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Getty Images

Published: 8:00pm, 26 Mar 2020Updated: 9:55pm, 26 Mar 2020

For people around the world who have shelved their travel plans and are spending more time indoors, virtual travel is the perfect way to explore the world from the comfort and safety of home.

You can use this time to research your next big adventure or simply indulge in some escapist armchair travel. Technology can transport you there – whether it’s to the edge of a crevasse, or the inside of a museum – and not only will it not cost you a cent, it’s carbon neutral.

Anyone feeling the pinch of cabin fever can break that sense of claustrophobia than with a trip to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. You could take the archaeological tour as a chance to revel in all those sweeping, wide open landscapes, or dig a little deeper and learn something about the formation of this impressive canyon in Arizona.

If you have got a head for heights, venture out onto the glacier at Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska and take the challenge to climb down into a crevasse. The imagery is fantastic, and you get the chance to also kayak between icebergs.

A female hiker walks in the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Here you can take a virtual archaeological tour. Photo: Getty Images

This is one of five national parks that Google Arts & Culture has teamed up with to bring the raw beauty of the natural world to your living room. My personal favourite is the virtual tour that explores Nahuku Lava Tube in the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park – I’ve never been in a lava tube before, nor traced the tunnel to the sea and seen what happens when the lava runs out of land (hint: it starts becoming land).