DAY 

MORNING

AFTERNOON

DAY 1

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. 

Spanish class at Central-Town Campus

DAY 4

Leave for Estacion Las Tortugas (Turtle Station) on the Caribbean Coast located at the mouth of the Pacuare River.  Take a ferry from the Mawamba dock to beach site

Assist with preservation activities of the Leatherback turtles nesting/hatching, patrolling beach, building hatcheries, measuring turtles, setting hatching loose to sea 

DAY 5

Continue projects with preservation of the Leatherback turtles, partake in an educational course to learn more about the turtles, and take a boat ride with a local guide through canals to see incredible flora and fauna.

DAY 6

Final activites and wrap up assisting with preservation of the Leatherback turtles nesting and hatching 

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

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 

Latin dancing class to learn the salsa, cumbia, and meringue 

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