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DATES: 6/23 - 7/13, 7/16 - 8/5
Duration: 21 Days
tuition: $4,890
Arrive/Depart: San Jose, Costa Rica
Grades: 8th & up

Costa Rica
International Adventure

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Introduction to Spanish Language
  • Sea Kayak the Golfo Dulce
  • Hike Corcovado National Park
  • Explore the Savegre Cloud Forest
  • Assist Sevegre Villagers
  • Surf the Nicoya Peninsula
  • Help Preserve Sea Turtles
  • Whitewater Raft the Pacuare River
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ACTIVITIES
  • Backpacking
  • Community Service
  • Cultural Immersion
  • Hiking
  • Language Immersion
  • Leadership Training
  • Sea Kayaking
  • Surfing
  • Whitewater Rafting
  • Zipline
Trip overview
Our Costa Rican teen summer program is an exciting combination of diverse wilderness travel and stimulating cultural immersion in an unspoiled tropical paradise. From sea kayaking, to rafting jungle rivers, to hiking amidst exotic birds and wildlife in lofty cloud forests, this 21-day teen summer program not only offers high adventure but the cross-cultural education of a lifetime.

Introduction to Spanish Language

Our introduction to Costa Rica begins with an orientation and a fun day of informal Spanish language instruction in San Jose. Here, we’ll begin to adjust to the “Pura Vida” and “Tico Time” before we move on to the Osa Peninsula.

Sea Kayak the Golfo Dulce

With an abundance of scarlet macaws, colorful toucans, howler monkeys, sea turtles and dolphins, there is no better place to see wildlife than on the pristine Osa Peninsula and the adjoining Golfo Dulce and Corcovado National Park. We’ll spend our first 3 days paddling the Gulf and camping on pristine sandy beaches under a star-lit sky.

Hike Corcovado National Park

Next we’ll be off for 3 days of exploring the jungle, where we’ll be amazed by the lush forest canopy and amazing wildlife it supports. Then, we’ll rappel down cascading waterfalls for a different perspective of the jungle ecosystem.

Explore the Savegre Cloud Forest

From the tropical jungle, we’ll move high into the cool cloud forest where we’ll explore pristine waterfalls amidst spectacular mountain scenery filled with colorful parrots.

Assist Sevegre Villagers

In the Sevegre, we’ll visit a local community where we’ll spend a day assisting one of our service groups with a meaningful and needed project. That evening, we’ll dine with the local villagers where we’ll gain further insight into their life.

Surf the Nicoya Peninsula

Moving back to the Pacific Coast, we’ll spend 3 days learning to surf the gentle breaks along the sunny Nicoya Peninsula and, at the same time, help with a much needed environmental project. For 3 days our local surf instructors will teach us the basics of paddling, standing up on the board and riding these famous warm-water waves.

Help Preserve Sea Turtles

From our surfing base camp, there will be plenty to do each evening as we assist with a sea turtle conservation project to help preserve the endangered sea turtles. Our 3-day project will involve nighttime beach patrols where we’ll record our sightings and assist with turtle nest protection and learn about sea turtle ecology.

Whitewater Raft the Pacuare River

Next we’ll head to the Pacuare River where we’ll spend 2 days rafting world-class whitewater. Hearts racing, we’ll negotiate Class III and IV rapids on one of the world’s finest tropical whitewater rivers. From our campsite along this pristine river, we’ll be afforded an opportunity to soar through the jungle canopy on one of the largest ziplines in Costa Rica. Few words can describe the feeling of being so close to the world of monkeys, toucans, and other colorful tropical birds. Our 3-week journey concludes with our traditional tropical feast in San Jose before our departures home.
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International Teen Summer Programs by Wilderness Ventures:

Since 1973, Wilderness Ventures has been offering the best, most fun and most substantive teen summer programs in the United States. For the past 15 years Wilderness Ventures has been offering international teen summer programs in Costa Rica and many other international teen summer program destinations.

 

Any of our teen summer programs adventuring to an international teen summer program destination receive years of careful planning and preperation before we even offer a teen summer program to that destination. Unlike other teen summer programs, we do not venture into teen summer program destinations and countries simply because they are exciting and trendy. We take the upmost care of planning the safest most immersive international teen summer programs possible.

 

Besides our Costa Rica teen summer program, we offer international teen summer programs in South America, Europe, Australia and the South Pacific. Our teen summer programs are fantastic, once-in-a-lifetime teen summer program experiences -- well supervised, with fantastic leaders and a fantastic group on teen interested in having the best, most immersive time in the most fantastic environments imaginable. Call Wilderness Ventures today to learn about our Costa Rica teen summer program, our other international teen summer programs and all of our wonderful, domestic-based teen summer programs.