DAY 

MORNING

AFTERNOON

Students arrive at San Jose Airport.  Drive to meet and stay with home stay family or at our lodge.

DAY 2

Spanish class in the open-air classroom (rancho) at Eco-Green Campus

Explore the 7 "barrios" (neighborhoods) of Atenas with a Scavenger Hunt.  Potluck dinner at Eco-Green campus.

DAY 3

Community Service Project at local coffee, fruit, sugarcane, and fish farm to help cultivate, harvest, and bring goods to market

Trip to the capital city of San Jose to tour the National Museum of Culture and National Theater

DAY 4

Community Service Project cooking and serving lunch for the homeless in Atenas and surrounding towns

Latin dancing class to learn the salsa, cumbia, and meringue at Central-Town Campus 

DAY 5

Leave for the rainforest in Monteverde, acclaimed as one of the most outstanding wildlife refuge in the New World Tropics

Zip-line through the rainforest canopy from platform to platform observing many species of butterflies, hummingbirds, monkeys, etc   

DAY 6

Hiking in Monteverde to investigate the exceptional rainforest biodiversity.  Monteverde has the largest number of orchids in the world.  

Travel back to home stay families or lodge in Atenas, stopping at a small village for dinner

DAY 7

Visit Volcano Poas, the world's largest crater and hike to a nearby sulfur lake.  Go to the artisan town of Sarchi to visit painters, woodworkers, and other hand crafts.

DAY 8

Spanish class at Central-Town Campus

Community Service Project either cooking and serving lunch for the homeless in Atenas and surrounding towns or working with local children writing and binding books in Spanish and English 

DAY 9

Trip to Jaco beach on the Pacific coast to a zip-line through the tropical forest, surf, (this will be the site of the 2009 Surf World Champions), and play beach volleyball, frisbee, and soccer.  Final dinner at Eco-Green campus.

DAY 10

Students depart from San Jose Airport