Spanish immersion trip: Mexico

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Overview

Enhance your students’ Spanish language skills while they immerse themselves in new and ancient Mexican lifestyles.

On our Spanish trip to Mexico, students will engage meaningfully with ultra-friendly locals trying to preserve their pre-Hispanic traditions.

Your students will also explore Mexico City, visit the spellbinding Teotihuacan pyramids, cook like a local, play ancient games, and rappel under waterfalls.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Impacted

Trip highlights

Salsa class

Visit ancient pyramids

Pre-hispanic sauna

Tortilla cooking class

Sunrise kayak

Rappelling down waterfall

Price from $899 per person

Stay in 3* hotels & eco lodge

All included apart from international flights & travel insurance

Example Itinerary

Day 1: Arrivals & salsa class (Mexico City)

Our team will meet you at the arrivals gate and take you via a private bus transfer to your hotel in Mexico City. 

Students will get their first taste of why Mexicans are considered to be one of the friendliest and most fun people on Earth with an intro to the team and an evening salsa class.

Day 2: Explore Teotihuacan & Pre-hispanic games

After breakfast, we head to Teotihuacan to explore one of the continent’s most fascinating pre-Columbian sites.

For a real treat, we’ll take students below the towering pyramids to visit the Teotihuacan Caves. Here, students will experience pre-Columbian life by playing the ancient game Juego de Pelota.

Afterward, we travel to San Pedro Tlalcuapan for an evening meal and an overnight stay.

Day 3: Sunrise kayak & sustainable Aztec farming

Students kayak along a mystical river to reach a lookout point to see the sunrise in Xochimilco. Afterwards, head to an inspirational farm to see (and experience hands on) how locals are using Aztec farming techniques.

After a delicious lunch, students head back to Mexico City, stopping off for some free time in the former home of Freda Kahlo Coyoacán.

Day 4: Traditional farming & community immersion (San Pedro Tlalcuapan)

Today, students will learn about local Indigenous communities, the ancient methods of corn cultivation, and their vital role in Mexican culture. 

Students will roll up their sleeves and take part in a service project to help locals cultivate the land with essential products. This is an unmissable opportunity for students to practice their new Spanish language skills.

After a day working with the community, students will strap on their headlamps and head out for a memorable night hike of the La Malinche volcano.

Day 5: Jungle hike & Mexican sauna (Cuetzalan)

Listed as one of Mexico’s ‘Magical Towns’, Cuetzalan boasts beautiful Spanish colonial architecture and a diverse mix of Indigenous cultures.

After a short hike, students will visit a nearby cave and enjoy a late afternoon temazcal – a type of sweat lodge introduced by the pre-Hispanic Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.

Day 6: Service: Preserving cultural heritage (Cuetzalan)

Students explore the consequences of discrimination toward Indigenous communities in the region and in Mexico as a whole.

They will join the Tosepan Titaniske cooperative and help individual families produce coffee, cinnamon, vanilla, honey, or piloncillo, a type of sugar. In the evening, the group will try the best homemade tortillas in the world before heading into the kitchen for a cooking class.

Day 7: Rappelling under a waterfall (Cuetzalan)

Students start the day in the best way with an early-morning yoga session led by an expert instructor. After we had into the jungle where students will swim and rappel underneath gushing waterfalls.

After traveling back to Mexico’s capital, students will explore two of the city’s most vibrant and modernized areas – Roma and Condesa. 

We’ll enjoy our final meal in Mexico before staying overnight in La Condesa.

Day 8: Departures (Mexico City)

After some time to buy locally-made gifts for friends and family, your Kagumu guides will take the group on a private transfer to the airport. We’ll stay with you in Mexico City’s international airport until you check in for your flight.

Essential information

  • Locations visited: Mexico City, Teotihuacan, San Pedro Tlalcuapan, and Cuetzalan
  • Date: Anytime
  • Cost: From $899 per person (price depends on group size)
  • Teachers: Teachers travel for free
  • Language: Spanish or English

During our Spanish language trip in Mexico, your students will:

  • Enhance their Spanish communication skills with people from Mexico City, and Indigenous locals in traditional towns
  • Learn to talk about global issues with our inspirational team of leaders in group activities and reflection sessions
  • Experience a range of new cultures and expand their understanding of ancient traditions and ways of life

  • All meals (you’ll get a real taste of why Mexico has one of the world’s finest gastronomies)
  • All activities
  • All transport (private bus transfers)
  • All accommodation – hotels, hostels
  • Two native Spanish-speaking Kagumu guides
  • One free teacher for every 12 students that sign up
  • Post-trip impact report, focusing on your curriculum and our sustainability practices

Our Spanish trip in Mexico is very people-focused, allowing your students to engage meaningfully with a wide range of locals.

In Cuetzalan students will fully immerse themselves into the local culture. They will join cooperative members in their houses, learning about the range of seasonal produce grown in the area. Depending on the time of year, students will lend a hand by cultivating coffee, preparing cinnamon, and processing honey.

In San Pedro Tlalcuapan, students will tour the mountains where locals cultivate corn to make the world’s finest tortillas. After helping collect individual corn pods, students head into the kitchen of a local family to see how the tortillas are made. During the cooking time, each student will get the chance to talk with Mexican mothers and grandmothers.

Book this itinerary or tailor one to suit your curriculum by contacting us.

Carbon Footprint: 112 kg CO₂e per person = Equivalent to emissions produced from driving 186 miles in a car alone**

Includes: Accommodation, meals, local transport, guides & activities
Not included: International flights

*Based on a 7-day trip for an average meat eater
 **Source: CO₂ Everything

Daily emissions:

  • Meat eater – 16 kg CO₂e
  • Vegetarian – 13 kg CO₂e (-15%)
  • Vegan – 13 kg CO₂e (-15%)

Flight comparison (return):

  • London – 2,633 kg CO₂e (×23 the trip)
  • New York – 1,016 kg (×9)
  • Amsterdam – 2,723 kg (×24)

Learn more on our Impact Page and Sustainability Policy.

Fully Customizable

Remember we customize every itinerary to your curriculum. If you have a specifc academic focus in mind, allow us to tailor a trip for you.

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