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    The Leap: Costa Rica, Conservation + Surfing + Spanish

    The Leap: Costa Rica, Conservation + Surfing + Spanish

    Details

    • Listing Type: Gap Year Programs
    • Program Delivery: Residential
    • Destinations: Costa Rica
    • Credit Awarded: None
    • Program Length: Four Weeks
    • Start Month: January, February, March, April, June, July, September, October, November
    • Category: Travel/Cultural Immersion
    • Selective: No
    • Gender: Coed
    • Ages: 18, 19
    • Housing: Other
    • Application Fee: $200
    • Accreditation: Gap Year Association - Program
    • Affiliation: Gap Year Association
    • Financial Aid: Not Available
    • Minimum Cost: $1,000 - $2,999
    • Call: 01672 519922
    • Meeting: Schedule a Meeting
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    Overview

    Join our exciting 4 week road trip across Costa Rica, where you will reach places, people and wildlife that are way off the backpacking route.

    Your journey starts in Quepos, close to Manuel Antonio National Park where you will combine community contribution with jungle adventure, before helping with turtle conservation, working in a remote wildlife sanctuary and exploring the famous Cloud Forest.

    This dynamic programme enables you to head off the backpacking route, allowing you to hit the ground the running and experience local life.

    Your journey starts in Quepos, close to Manuel Antonio National Park where you will combine community contribution with jungle adventure - heading into the park to see the wildlife, jungle and dramatic waterfalls as well as working with local communities.

    Next up is a turtle conservation phase at a very remote sanctuary - to give you the desert island feeling combined with a spot of surfing and yoga at Samara beach, before heading into a remote wildlife sanctuary for your third week. Here you will help care and feed the animals whilst helping the team develop the infastructure. The last phase will be spent in the famous cloud forest of Monteverde - where you will trek, explore and possibly zip wire through the canopy.

    So, backpacks at the ready, you are off to embrace the Pura Vida of Costa Rica.