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Dominican Republic Service and Spanish
Trip Details
Dates Mar 24 - Mar 31
Session Spring Break
Duration 8 days
Grades 9 - 12
Tuition $1,285 + Airfare
Cities Santo Domingo, San Pedro, Bayahibe
Group Flight Details
Start Newark to Santo Domingo
End Santo Domingo to Newark
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Spend your spring break doing something meaningful and fun! Our 8 day adventure to the Dominican Republic includes 16 hours of community service, 4 hours of Spanish classes, and full day excursions of zip lining, horseback riding, and sailing to remote Caribbean islands for snorkeling and relaxing in the sun.
The Dominican Republic is a country of contrasting natural beauty and third world poverty; this carefully crafted service adventure trip aims to expose participants to both of those elements of this small Caribbean nation and foster an understanding for the needs of its people as well as an appreciation for its natural beauty. Join us on this unforgettable adventure and experience for yourself everything that the Dominican Republic has to offer. ¡Vamanos!
Day 1: Newark
The group flight takes off and the trip officially begins!
Days 2 - 5: Community Service Project location 30 minutes from Santo Domingo
Travel for Teens has partnered with an underfunded school just outside of Santo Domingo. With our help, the school will have the resources to fix crumbling walls, paint dilapidated classrooms, and/or fix up a run down building on the property to turn it into a kindergarten classroom. We'll be staying in a safe, clean and comfortable community center right across from the school where we'll have a quick but useful Spanish class in the morning before beginning the day's project.
Day trips after class and service projects
Each afternoon we'll take private bus rides to nearby sights. Explore la Cueva de las Maravillas (the Cave of Marvels) where more than 500 pre-Columbian pictographs adorn the walls then check out the nearby iguana exhibit; see the sites of Santo Domingo and learn about the city's rich colonial history; and spend an afternoon on the beach at playa Boca Chica.
Days 5 - 7: Bayahibe
After 4 days of community service, we’ll say goodbye to our new friends at the school and head east to a tiny town just outside el Parque Nacional del Este. Here we’ll spend our first full day on an eco-safari adventure that includes zip lining, kayaking, and a stop at a river with a Tarzan rope swing! You’ll also have the option of horseback riding.
Our second day we’ll sail through the bright blue Caribbean waters to an island with white sand beaches where you’ll snorkel over coral reef and see colorful marine life all around you. We’ll then walk inland a short ways to meet with a rural community of 300 people who will show us how they live their daily lives. We’ll eat lunch with them in the village before hopping back on our boat and sailing to our next snorkeling destination. After our full day of snorkeling, sailing and sun, we’ll board a private bus bound for Santo Domingo.
Days 7 - 8
For our final night in the DR, we’ll eat an incredible meal at a nearby outdoor restaurant before getting some much needed sleep for our flight home the following day.
Trip Highlights
- 16 hours of meaningful community service at an underfunded school outside of Santo Domingo
- 4 hours of language classes
- Sail on a catamaran out to tiny islands covered in palm trees and white sand beaches
- Snorkel in clear blue Caribbean water and see coral and colorful marine life
- Spend a day on an eco-safari adventure: go horseback riding, ziplining, kayaking, and swing into a river, Tarzan style!
- Eat lunch with a friendly rural community of 300 people who live on a tiny island off the coast of a national park. Learn about their way of life and how they live off the land
- Go on a day tour of Santo Domingo
- See pre-Columbian pictographs and thousands of stalactites in La Cueva de Maravillas (the Cave of Marvels)
- Eat delicious homemade Dominican food
Trip Map
