Cultural Immersion Trips
Cultural Immersion Trips
On our cultural immersion trips, students connect with people from different backgrounds, gain invaluable new perspectives, and open their minds to new ways of living.
Students cook alongside Mexican mothers and grandmothers, weave bags with women from the Arhuaco native community in Colombia, and learn traditional hunting techniques from Ecuador’s Kichwa community.
Choose from our array of Latin American itineraries or contact us to customize the culturally-immersive experience to align with your curriculum.
Popular cultural destinations
Benefits of our cultural immersion programs
100% immersion
Students will engage meaningfully with locals, from our cultural exchanges with local high schools to our multi-day homestay programs.
Ethical experiences
Sustainability is at the forefront of our mission and students will appreciate different cultures and visit new communities in a responsible way.
Learn by doing
Whether making tortillas, dancing salsa, creating street art, or painting ceramics, students experience the craft of new people with hands-on activities.
Gain a new global perspective
Students will meet inspirational and pioneering locals, giving them a new outlook on pressing world issues we face.
Frequently asked questions
What is a cultural immersion trip?
A cultural immersion trip is a carefully planned journey to another destination that allows travellers to interact with people from different backgrounds. These tours should give people the opportunity to learn new traditions, experience unique customs, and develop a new outlook on the world.
What do you learn on a cultural trip?
A culture trip can be life forming. You can learn from people from foreign countries whose traditions and outlook on the world will be vastly different to yours. These experiences can shape the person you are.
Where is the best place to go on an cultural trip?
We believe that South and Central America holds vastly different cultures that are new, colourful, engaging, and enthralling.
You can learn Quechua traditions in Peru’s Sacred Valley or trek in the jungle with the indigenous Wiwa communities of Colombia. Travel to Ecuador’s Amazon jungle to experience ancient hunting techniques or feel the vibrancy of Mexican people with a unique homestay.
What are examples of cultural immersion?
Cultural immersion can take many forms. Participants can immerse into a culture with a language exchange or by enjoying a workshop that engages you in a custom or tradition. Generally the longer you immerse into a culture, the more you will appreciate the new way of life. A homestay experience is a great way to genuinely learn about people and their day to day lives.
What are good cultural activities?
Good cultural activities, which immerse visitors into a new way of life, include cooking classes, language exchanges, sporting activities, weaving workshops, local market visits, and homestay experiences.
Which is the best country for culture?
New cultures are all around us! Even in your own country. However, in Latin America you will find a rich mix of cultures from those dating back to Pre-Columbian times to modernised ways of living in bustling cities.
How do you travel and immerse yourself in the culture?
The best way to immersive into a new culture is to create genuine interactions with people from different backgrounds. You should leave you preconceptions behind and open your mind to a new way of living. You can also try to speak the local language, try local food, and learn about local traditions and customs.
Read our blog on how you can prepare yourself and students for a cultural immersion program.
What does a cultural immersion trip in Peru look like?
Students traveling with us to Peru will experience the way of life of the Quechua community with complete cultural immersion. Each student will join a local family, living with them for a few days, learning to cook in Pre-Hispanic ways, experiencing Andean farming techniques, and making ceramics with local artisans. This emotional cultural immersion trip will also open students’ eyes to how a community uses self-sustaining methods to benefit every family.
What does a cultural immersion trip in Colombia look like?
Prepare for a truly life-changing experience as students become immersed into indigenous cultures on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is home to four native communities who see themselves as the Guardians of the Earth. Students discover their beliefs in protecting the natural world through cross-cultural learning experiences, cooking classes, bag weaving workshops and even an exclusive overnight stay in an ancient lost city.
Genuine cultural immersion
Thanks to our long-standing relationships with communities in Latin America, we offer responsibly-run and educational trips.
We ensure students gain a greater appreciation of new cultures and expand their vision of the world.
Get in touch to tailor a cultural-immersion program to your curriculum.
