get active this SUMMER

experience a new CULTURE

take an ADVENTURE

Don’t waste your summer sitting around the house watching television! Take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and have an unforgettable summer break while getting credit for your university, college, or high school back home. Your course begins on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica hiking through the cloudforests and rainforests, you will cross the country to a remote village in the middle of the jungle for a cultural homestay with Mestizo families. While staying in this secluded setting, you will participate in cultural and adventure activities such as rappelling down a waterfall, scaling a fifty-foot-high strangler fig tree, picking bananas, harvesting sugar cane, and completing your 48-hour solo. Continue on until you reach the Pacific coast and relish in having hiked across the entire country, learning natural history, back-country skills, First Aid and CPR. There are very few people in the world that can say they have gone from one coast to another, over mountains, by foot. Become one of them!

You’ll never have a bigger adventure while earning course credit!

Hiking will prepare you physically and mentally for the rest of your adventure. You will continue on by getting wet in the wild rivers of Costa Rica. Learn how to guide a raft and whitewater kayak Class III-IV rapids. The Pacuare, the Sarapiqui, the Pejibaye, and the Savegre all flow right through the heart of the rainforest so you will be surrounded by the towering canopy. As toucans fly past, you can hear the unforgettable call of the crested oropendola echo over the sound of the rushing rapids.

Then its off to the Pacific side of the country to discover great surfing locations on picture-perfect beaches. Your instructors will teach you fundamentals and dynamics of surfing to make you proficient in this challenging and ever-popular sport. No matter your current level—never-surfed-before to skilled—you will improve on our intensive surfing program with ever-present instruction and multimedia assistance.

Don’t let the summer pass you by - do something this year that you will never forget! Explore the jungles, rivers, and oceans of Costa Rica and at the same time look deep into yourself and discover who you are. Go back to school with pride next year, a stronger, smarter, more internationally aware you. This course has changed the lives of dozens of students since its inception—check out what some of last year’s group had to say about it!