Trips in this category: Personalize a Trip
Conservation Meets Cultural Immersion for Families
Osa Peninsula turtle work & sustainable community visit
The perfect combination of conservation work and meaningful cultural immersion. Work side by side with local biologists to monitor local sea turtle populations. Participate in mangrove reforestation. Next, head to a small mountain community to explore the cloud forest and engage in community activities.
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- Trip Length:
8 days / 7 nights - Available Trip Dates:
Year Round
10-day Turtles and Rainforest Student Science Trip
Making Science Fun in Costa Rica!
Hands-on scientific research immersion for students in Costa Rica! Explore Veragua Rainforest Park's 4,000 acre private reserve and learn about global sustainability at the grassroots level. Work with local researchers and study bats, butterflies, insects, owls and frogs. Travel to the Caribbean Coast and spend two nights helping to protect nesting leatherback sea turtles at a sea turtle conservation project. Help tag turtles, transplant eggs to a protected area or release hatchlings into the ocean.
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- Where:
Costa Rica - When:
mid-March through mid‐July (during the turtle nesting and hatching seasons) - Trip Length:
10 day / 9 night - Available Trip Dates:
mid-March through mid‐July (during the turtle nesting and hatching seasons)
9-day Costa Rica Caribbean Ecology Trip
Work with turtles on the coast & conduct research at Veragua Rainforest Park
Explore the ecology, ecosystems and people of Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast. Help protect leatherback sea turtles, participate in research at Veragua Rainforest Park, tour a small family farm and swim in the warm Caribbean waters of Cahuita National Park.
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- Where:
Costa Rica - When:
mid-March through mid‐July (during the turtle nesting and hatching seasons) - Trip Length:
9 days / 8 nights
10-day Costa Rica Coast to Coast
Turtle Conservation & Tropical Forest Exploration
Patrol sea turtle nesting beaches on the Caribbean Coast, spend a night with a local farm family, explore Arenal Volcano National Park and then travel to the northeastern region of the country to explore Rincon de la Vieja. Along the way, visit Pacific beaches, raft, zip line, hike and more!
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- Where:
Costa Rica - When:
mid-March through mid-July (during the turtle nesting and hatching season)
8 day Costa Rica Conservation Meets Cultural Immersion
Osa Peninsula turtle work & sustainable community visit
The perfect combination of conservation work and meaningful cultural immersion. Work side by side with local biologists to monitor local sea turtle populations. Participate in mangrove reforestation. Next, head to a small mountain community to explore the cloud forest and engage in community activities.
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- Trip Length:
8 days/ 7 nights - Available Trip Dates:
Year round
9-day Essential Costa Rica
Our Most Popular Costa Rica Student Trip!
This Costa Rica student trip is packed with a variety of educational activities. You customize your own itinerary by selecting from a list of projects, places and educational experiences. You might assist a leatherback turtle as she lays her eggs, visit with local schoolchildren, spend a day with an indigenous community or work with members of a sustainable community in the cloud forest.
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Costa Rica - Trip Length:
9 day / 8 night - Available Trip Dates:
Year round (turtle work only available March to July)
11-day Classic Costa Rica
Turtle Work, Indigenous Community & Family Stays
Travel to the Caribbean Coast to patrol the beaches for nesting sea turtles, spend a night or two with a local farm family, participate in a local reforestation project, visit an indigenous community and fly through the rainforest on a zipline tour.
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- Where:
Costa Rica - Trip Length:
11 day/10 night - Available Trip Dates:
March through mid‐July (during the turtle nesting and hatching seasons)
9-day Ecuador Highland Exploration
Culture & Service
Our Ecuador Culture & Service itinerary is the perfect balance of exploration, authentic cultural exchange and community service work. Start your adventure with a tour of historic Quito, visit Mitad del Mundo, spend three days in San Clemente where you'll stay with a local family and immerse yourself in the local culture. End the trip in Otavalo where you'll shop in South America's largest handicraft market and take a boat ride in Lake Cuicocha.
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- Where:
Ecuador - Trip Length:
9 day / 8 night - Available Trip Dates:
Year round
Asis Wildlife Rescue Center Service Trip
Get up close & personal with Costa Rica wildlife
Volunteer at Asis Wildlife Rescue Center and work with rescued animals, from monkeys to peccarys, kinkajous, macaws and more! Also, have a chance to explore the town of La Fortuna, walk on lava beds in Arenal Volcano National Park, visit an organic farm, and more!
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- Where:
Costa Rica - Trip Length:
7 days / 6 nights - Available Trip Dates:
Year round
Caribbean Sea Turtle Service Trip
Conservation work with sea turtles
Spend several nights at a remote sea turtle project patrolling the beach in search of nesting leatherbacks and hatchlings, explore local canals for wildlife, visit a butterfly farm and local school. At the end of the week, relax on a white sand beach before heading back towards the central valley and home.
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- Where:
Costa Rica - Trip Length:
7 day / 6 night - Available Trip Dates:
mid-March through mid‐July (during the turtle nesting and hatching seasons)