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Tours for Colleges and Universities
Casterbridge offers Planet Earth tours for college and university students. These vary from introductory EcoTours to more intensive ContribuTours and VolunTours. They offer more days volunteering and a higher level of educational content than our school tours. They can be tailored to specific curriculum requirements and may count towards course credits.
While education is central to these tours, wider cultural experiences and plenty of time for recreation are also factored in.
We recommend our ContribuTours for this age range. These include 3-5 days of service in a local community or on environmental projects – or both! They are a great way to introduce young people to a lifetime – hopefully – of sharing their skills and learning with people in other communities and lands.
Specifically, Planet Earth tours for colleges and universities will:
- Be you own private group. Casterbridge will never combine your group with another, for flights, hotel accommodations, travel, or at any other time. Your flight dates will be confirmed at time of booking, and will never be changed by us at the last minutes.
- Your volunteer travel tour will be custom designed to fit your own themes, curriculum, budget, and needs.
- Be accompanied for 24 hours every day by your own tour manager/guide, who will stay with you in your hotels, eat dinners with you and help you plan recreational activities and your schedule for the next day; you will also have your own exclusive driver and bus for all coach days.
- Be in 3-star or quality 2-star hotels throughout, unless you request budget hotels; we offer accommodations that are eco-friendly and aware of sustainability issues; you can request these, if you wish.
- Be linked with your school’s curriculum and classroom teaching. All admissions will be included in your tour price.
- Be centered around one of these three themes: Science, Nature and Wildlife, or Community
- Introduce your students to volunteering in an enjoyable way that emphasizes educational travel and wider cultural experiences, as well as fun recreational activities. Meals will emphasis local cuisine, and many local cultural experiences involve cooking and sharing local food.
- Provide a safe learning and travel environment for your students.
Whatever you choose as the theme of your travel, it will be linked with the level of service and volunteering you desire. We will involve your group in visits to community projects or environmental projects:
Course Credits
Our tours can be used to attain course credits and to extend classroom learning to practical, field experience where theory can be seen in practice. You can introduce your students to the many practical ways people of the world are adapting theories to their local needs, resources, and abilities.
Examples of Community Projects
- Visit a local school in Peru and discover different ways to learn
- Serve lunch to children from an orphanage in South Africa
- Visit a home for the elderly in England
- Visit a refugee camp in Palestine
- Spend a day with Habit for Humanity in New Orleans
- Get involved with a humanitarian aid program in Kenya
- Help with disaster relief in the Caribbean
- Combat hunger in Uganda
- Visit a cultural restoration project in Italy
- Get involved with a community development project in Eastern Europe
Examples of Environmental Projects
- Perform environmental service in Utah or Arizona
- Work on a sustainability project in New England
- Help save an endangered species in China
- Get involved with a conservation program in Thailand
- Help with a reforestation project in India
- Lay a new nature trail in Guatemala
- Create a new pond habitat in France
Cultural Experiences
Your students will be encouraged to participate in a variety of culture experiences while they are on tour. These are an extremely important part of every Casterbridge travel program. They allow your group to explore your chosen local culture in exciting, interesting ways.
Your guide will also accompany you to artists’ workshops to see how local products are made, or perhaps give you a tour of the local market. He or she may even take part in a cooking or dance class with you, or in any number of other cross-cultural connections.
Casterbridge will custom design a group tour for you with just 10 participants. Contact us about your next program & to custom design your group tour.
Register to plan a group service tour with Casterbridge, either online or by calling 1-800-522-2398. Start planning your service travel program today!
