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Costa Rica lives up to its promise. Students will discover vast riches contained between the coasts of this Central American country.
Immersive, interactive and intensive, it offers travelers numerous opportunities to banter with locals and for hands-on learning. Cooking classes, dance lessons, jewelry-making workshops using seeds and twine foraged from the rain forest, spanish classes, home stays and fútbol.
It's an ecotourism hot spot: active volcanoes, thermal springs, and wild life reserves. Cool off with a trek through the jungle's canopy and visit a sea turtle hatching sanctuary. Sip coffee at a plantation from beans grown onsite. Pura vida!
Opportunities for volunteerism abound, students will help refurbish a school, visit and orphanage and a remote clinic. Tourism will focus on Costa Rica's Afro-Caribbean heritage, like in Puerto Viejo Limon.
Excursions to Costa Rica's natural wonders bookend four days where students participate in an immersive, intensive Spanish acquisition program, visit a local school and billet with host families.
Shutterbugs will be delighted by all the wildlife, including the rather large, photogenic insects. Stay at various remote ecolodges while adventuring between natural wonders: waterfalls, volcanoes and such.
Hands on learning of Tico traditions: cuisine, music and dance. Students participating in a reforestration program by planting trees will feel like front-line eco warriors. And perhaps they are.
