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Science Tours to Ecuador

Planet Earth Tours for Schools

Casterbridge offers Planet Earth tours specifically designed for student groups. These programmes are intended to introduce young people to the values and experiences of volunteering in a community or region of your choice, linked with the level of service and volunteering you desire. We will involve your group in visits to community and/or environmental projects and 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 schools will:

  • Be you own private group. Casterbridge will never combine your group with another, for flights, projects, 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 minute.
  • Your volunteer travel tour will be custom designed to fit your own themes, curriculum, budget, and requests.
  • Be accompanied for 24 hours every day by your own tour manager/guide, who will stay with you while on service and when touring, overnighting in your hotels, eating meals with you and helping 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 when touring, 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 centred around one of these three themes: Science, Nature and Wildlife, or Community
  • Introduce your students to volunteering in a gentle, enjoyable way that emphasizes fun and wider cultural experiences. Meals will emphasis local cuisine, and many local cultural experiences involve cooking and sharing local food.

Cultural Experiences

Your students will be encouraged to participate in a variety of cultural experiences while they are on tour. These are an extremely important part of every Casterbridge travel programme. 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 programme and to custom design your group tour.

Register to plan a group service tour with Casterbridge, either online or by calling 0800-093-0810. Start planning your service travel programme today!


Eco-Friendly Science Tours from Casterbridge Tours