Geography Trips & Tours
Geography Trips
Bring classroom learning to life, expanding your students’ first-hand knowledge of Latin America’s most diverse landscapes and filling them with a sense of adventure.
Students journey through Caribbean jungles, reach Andean peaks, and discover innovative projects preserving irreplaceable ecological treasures.
On our Geography trips, students will climb volcanoes, camp in national parks, learn from field experts, and unlock their potential to become a real-world geographer.
Benefits of our Geography programs
Ignite a passion for conservation
Students will join conservation projects and pioneering experts, learning how they can help protect the world.
Develop transferable skills
Students will break out of their comfort zone and develop essential teamwork, communication, and problem-solving skills – all highly desired by top universities.
Learn from field experts
Students on our geography trips will learn from local experts, ranging from geologists, biologists, conservationists, naturalist guides, and world-class mountaineers.
Learn from in safe travel practices
Safety is our number one priority (more below) and students too will learn how to plan and execute safe and risk assessed hikes.
Life-changing adventures we offer
Experience Bolivia's Salt Flats
Explore one of the world’s most remarkable natural wonders on our Bolivia Geography trip. Students will journey along these prehistoric lakes that now form the world’s largest salt flats. Alongside local guides, students will learn the science behind the salt flats formation and how its minerals are used in our day-to-day lives.
Tackle Peru's Lares Trek
Students will trace ancient Inca civilizations and enjoy some of the continent’s finest views with a multi-day hike in Peru’s Sacred Valley. This Lares trek forms part of a Geography trip that allows students to trek at a high altitude, camp underneath towering Andean peaks, and eventually reach the epic Machu Picchu.
Discover Colombia's ancient Lost City
Students joining our Caribbean Geography trip in Colombia will experience one of the continent’s most adventurous treks. The Lost City trek will take students through the highest coastal mountain range in the world. They’ll immerse themselves in local indigenous culture, learn traditions dating back to the 7th century and reach a spellbinding Lost City. We also include workshops led by the country’s leading archaeologists and native community leaders.
Trek Colombia's epic Andes
One of our Geography trips to Colombia takes students to Los Nevados - a national park boasting glacial peaks, volcanoes, and valleys of towering wax palm trees. Students will discover unique high-altitude ecosystems like the páramos - a tropical tundra only existing in these types of Andean mountains. Students will also tour an award-winning reforestation and conservation project that is working to protect native tropical forest.
Journey to Patagonia in Chile
Our Chile Geography trip takes in the “ruta de los parques” - a scenic route that extends over 2,700 kilometers. Students will take part in a native forest reforestation project that has led to the restoration of nearly 400 acres of forest with 23 native species. They’ll hike a wide range of trails boasting awe-inspiring views of snow-capped peaks and meandering lakes in the Pumalín Douglas Tompkins National Park.
Safety
Safety is our main priority and those traveling with us on our Geography trips can rest assured that we adhere to strict safety procedures. Our measures include offering full and up-to-date risk assessments, CRISIS and emergency protocols, and pre-trip guide training. Our guides all carry first-aid certificates and full mountain safety training for various treks.
Inspiring changemakers with every adventure
On our Geography trips in Latin America your students will also join impactful conservation projects, becoming inspired to take positive actions in their own lives and future careers.
Get in touch with us to let Kagumu help you tailor the a Geography trip to your curriculum.
