Nalanda is know as one of the one of the world's first residential universities and said to be visited by
by Buddha during his lifetime was in news this morning.
The university was an architectural and environmental masterpiece with meditation halls, classrooms, lakes and parks which I am sure they thought are an intergral part of serene learning.

Nalanda is unfortunately still in ruins but this brings you to the 21st century version of training /learning software coding in the middle of a 14,000-acre nature preserve in middle Georgia called the Big Nerd Ranch (Sorry no horses here) which offers intensive, head- down computer programming courses taught by experts in a retreat environment specializing in Mac OS and Unix training.

Check out their schedule.  

OR

If you are not a jungle person and prefers waters; then  sail along with Neil Bauman who is Captain of Geek Cruises which offers many different types of cruises from Photoshop,Macintosh to Art and History.
                                             
Stay Tuned...........