Exploratory Teacher Trip to Costa Rica
Come visit our program in Costa Rica!
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A message from Tom Ranieri
As educators in today’s world we are called to be teachers, mentors, coaches, guides, guardians, parents, and a source of human connection and inspiration that today’s youth finds harder and harder to find anywhere else due to screen time, polarizing ideas, and pressure from a reality that has been over created in our minds wrapped by stress and anxiety.
One medicine to help with this is the opportunity and gift of travel. Seeing the world through a different set of eyes and allowing yourself to realize your neighbor or those abroad can live differently, think differently, yet still grow together as a Global Citizen is what we need. The feeling of traveling to another culture and learning to find common ground, discover the life-line of human connection, new friendships and bonds, is what will ultimately separate the future of our youth from a direction of being trapped inside their hearts and minds to a direction of opening up to the different expressions of mankind that are hidden in some of the simplest and finest moments only found when your senses come to life and you take a trip abroad.
For many teachers it is part of their calling having learned through experience or simply wanting to feel the magic they see through other teachers that have discovered the impact of traveling with students.
This is why with over 18 years of authentic student travel experience that touches the hearts of those visited and those visiting we commit ourselves 110% to Changing Lives, adapting to the times, and being pioneers of student travel models that keep up with the challenges of modern students lives.
If you don’t believe this or sounds like an epic marketing pitch for a student travel company called Global Trails then we ask you to join us on this journey for six days through parts of Costa Rica that are made of the authentic “Pura Vida” with a focus on people, community, nature, and adventure. The best part? We are offering it for FREE and we only ask from one sincere committed company that wants to make a positive impact in the world that you sign up for this trip with all intention of becoming a true Pura Vida Ambassador and traveling back to visit us with a group of students. It is because of this promise we have made with teachers in the past, that has allowed us to fund this trip, keep it going, and keep changing lives, making the future of the planet a better place one student as a time and each teacher that joins our mission has the chance to start an unmeasurable legacy of change for a better world for all humankind.
You don’t love what you don’t know and you don’t know what you don’t live and experience! Experience this trip with Global Trails and if we don’t change your life we promise you to give you your money back for the free trip we are inviting you on.


Day 1
Arrive in SJO and meet your program director and fellow teachers.

Day 2
Drive to the Turrialba Valley and learn about our homestay program

Day 3
National Geographic describes the Pacuare as “Paddling through paradise” and you’ll quickly see why.

Day 4
Today is an adventure day at the lodge with ziplining, waterfalls and a Tarzan Swing

Day 5
This is an amazing day of whitewater and you’ll see why the Pacuare is considered a top ten river in the world.

Day 6
Today we’ll drive you to the airport with luggage full of memories and a lot of Pura Vida!





