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Bolivia Experience
Regarded by backpackers as the most impressive country to travel in South America - if you don’t get the travel bug here, then you never will!
The Bolivia ExperienceWeek One – Introduction to Bolivia
An introduction to Bolivian culture, the Spanish language, and others on the programme. You will be based in the heart of Bolivia’s second city Sucre, within touching distance of markets, bars, cafes and salsa clubs.
Week Two – Helping the locals
Choose from 1 of 3 volunteer projects. Learn more about solutions to poverty in Bolivia. This opportunity offers exciting hands-on work and a meaningful cultural immersion, working alongside local children from deprived backgrounds.
Option 1: Educational Support Centre
You will be teaching maths, languages, history, sciences, geography, and also helping to cook, sweep, paint, wash dishes and help carry out general duties around the centre.
Option 2: Day-Care Centre for Children
There are 30 children aged from 1 to 6 at the centre. You will interact with the children and work with the teachers in all activities; help the children to paint, draw, sing, dance, teach numbers and colours and to play with them after they finish their activities.
Option 3: Teaching Centre for Disabled Children
Classes are run for children with different physical and mental disabilities. Volunteer activities can include playing football with the children, joining in with music classes, painting, and helping with tasks around the school.
Week 3 – The best of Bolivia
A guided tour that will take you to see some of the most surreal and extraordinary places on earth that you will never forget!
Week Four – Wildlife and Indigenous Community project
After flying from La Paz over the beautiful Andes Mountains you will arrive at the town of Rurrenabaque in the Amazonia region of Bolivia. You will then take a voyage along the Beni River through the rainforest to San Miguel del Bala where the indigenous Tacana people live.
Location
The city of Sucre, high in the Andes Mountains
Accommodation and Meals
- Week One: Host Family accommodation, breakfast and lunch will be with your host family, dinner will be a snack at a local cafe. Remember the main meal in Bolivia is lunch!
- Week Two: Student residence, on a shared basis. No breakfast or lunch included but you will be provided with a snack at dinnertime.
- Week Three: Accommodation will be in small, basic lodges. Rooms will be based on 6 people sharing.
- Week Four: Two nights at a simple hotel (pre and post community stay). 6 days in the jungle in simple cabañas made of wood and palm trees.
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Programme Overview
Duration & Prices:
4 weeks £999
How to book & pay:
£195 deposit to secure place, balance due 12 weeks before departure.
What is included?
Accommodation
5-day language school, with meals
Cultural activities
Bolivia excursions
Volunteering
One-day jungle excursion
Flights La Paz-Rurrenabaque return
Participation certificates |
What is not included?
Flights
Extra activities not on itinerary
Travel Insurance
Some meals
Flight from La Paz to Sucre
Bus from airport to Rurrenabaque
Soft drinks, beer, wines and spirits |
Programme Summary:
This experience of a lifetime will take you off the beaten track. Learn the language, live with welcoming indigenous tribes; visit bright red lagoons, seemingly infinite salt flats and the highest city in the world.
Other Bolivia gap year programmes
Arrival dates:
First Monday of every month, please aim to arrive the Sunday before.
Bolivia Travel Advice:
Visit our Bolivia Travel Advice page for useful travel information. |
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