Adventure Travel Abroad in Central America

Globe Aware coordinates, organizes and leads volunteer vacations, service vacations, working holidays and service trips to two Peru locations (Andes and Cusco/Machu Picchu), Costa Rica, Thailand, Cuba, Nepal, Brazil, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, India, Jamaica, Romania, Ghana, Mexico, and China.

Central America boasts an interesting mix of Indian and European culture, and is home to some of the most pristine forests and wildlife in the world. Month long Experiment in International Living programs for high school students are offered in Belize and Costa Rica. These programs let participants delve into the region's beautiful biodiversity and meaningful heritage.

International Volunteer HQ (IVHQ) provides safe, quality and extremely affordable volunteering placements in developing countries all over the world.

Who Should Volunteer at the Clinic? Anybody can volunteer at the clinic! You do not need any formal health care training to qualify! Social workers, physicians, retired people, students, nurses, lawyers, teachers, EMTs, civilians, surgeons, the general public, veterinarians, armed forces personnel, specialty physicians, dental hygienists, pharmacists, general dentists, specialty dentists, po...

Earn practical experience, professional skills, and a global perspective through World Endeavors' intern abroad programs.

VISIONS assists organizations that serve under-resourced communities. Participants are challenged to grow thoughtfully and intentionally within a community of peers and adult leaders. Through service work and dynamic experience, VISIONS offers new perspectives and deep learning while working for and with under-resourced communities.

This unique approach to international volunteering provides intercultural education in a service learning environment. The sharing of everyday life, both with the local community and among the international volunteers, is an integral part of the learning and serving experience.

All expeditions contain hands on multi-focused opportunities, in-depth training programs and various adventure side trips and activities.

For nearly 40 years, Earthwatch has protected our shared planet. Now, in the face of today's most pressing environmental emergencies—climate change, declining ocean health, unsustainable resource management, and threatened cultures—Earthwatch is mobilizing like never before.

Rustic Pathways' adventure travel programs offer heart-pumping activities and rewarding challenges set amidst unspoiled wilderness in spectacular locations across the globe! We have trips that suit all levels of adventure seekers.

All Access Volunteers (AAV) is a volunteer placement organization, with partnerships across Central & South America. Projects include building, teaching, health care, conservation, community development and working with children. AAV makes all project arrangements including accommodation, transportation, basic travel & medical insurance and extras, such as language classes and adventure tours.

Here at Give and Surf, spend your days volunteering in our preschool for the indigenous Ngobe indians ages 3-5, an after school program, adult English classes, and more! At Give and Surf you will have an incredible cultural immersion volunteer experience in a small island community and be living oceanfront while you explore the many wonderful parts of this island archipelago. For those intere...

Projects Abroad has 224 programs in 26 different locations. Programs are offered in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica and 21 other countries.

We have crafted our unique programs to engender love for travel, hunger for learning, curiosity about differences, appreciation of similarities across cultures, and an understanding of what it means to be a global citizen. We look forward to traveling with you!

We offer projects that are unusual, exciting, fun and beneficial at the same time! We also have lots of exciting Extras and Specials you can do while on your Project - different ways to add extra experience and extreme fun to your traveling adventure.

A Broader View Volunteers Corp has 41 programs in 19 different locations. Programs are offered in Chile, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana and 14 other countries.

Sea|mester delivers unique educational journeys where students spend their entire semester at sea, sailing between islands, countries and even continents throughout countless global locations. We offer students the opportunity of discovering… the world by sea, knowledge beyond the classroom and their utmost potential.

Ever Imagined being the victim of a shipwreck and have to survive on an island Robinson Crusoe style? Or did you ever brag you would be able to do a better job surviving on a Deserted Island? This is the opportunity to prove yourself! This is your chance to experience how to survive on deserted island in the middle of the ocean with nothing but a bit of wreckage, some palms and your own will...

Today, CPI is the only Spanish immersion school in Costa Rica with campuses in three diverse regions of the country. Our method emphasizes conversation and provides the students the opportunity to speak Spanish from their first moment in class. We tailor our programs to the academic goals of the student. The professors are open to teaching survival skills and grammatical structures which are mo...

Explore one of the most bio-diverse areas in Latin America, and discover why the national phrase, "Pura Vida", or "Pure Life", is the perfect choice of words to describe life in Costa Rica. Experience of a Lifetime Costa Rica is a vibrant country, renowned for its warm people and very progressive, ecologically-conscience government, but the country still faces a myriad of problems related...

Spanish by the Sea / the River has 2 programs in 2 different locations. Programs are offered in Costa Rica and Panama

Cloud Forest School has 5 programs in 1 location. Programs are offered in Costa Rica

ShuarHands, Inc. has recently opened a medical clinic in the western highlands in Guatemala. This is a non-profit social clinic offering services to adults and children. We also provide a pharmacy, laboratory and dental office. Many of our patients live in poverty or extreme-poverty. We also travel to rural area providing assistance. You arrive in Guatemala City on Saturday. On Sunday we pro...

Guatemala is the travel destination for 2013! You can organize your trip with Do Guatemala, a unique travel agency, located in Guatemala but with foreign expertise and quality. We arrange travels and tours in Guatemala, but what makes is unique is that we also organize your Spanish lessons and volunteering in an efficient and professional manner. For tours and accommodation, Do Guatemala wo...

Biking, hiking, whitewater rafting, sea kayaking, rock climbing, horseback riding, canopy touring and caving are just a few examples of the high adventure activities that await. We take you off the beaten track where you'll experience authentic cultural encounters, not places populated by mass tourism.