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IMPORTANT DATES
  • 10% Deposits / Apply today! Three seats left!
  • Payment One Due: Apr 15, 2024
  • Payment Two Due: May 15, 2024
  • Payment Three Due: Jun 15, 2024
  • Payment Four Due: Jul 15, 2024
  • Payment Five Due: Aug 15, 2024
  • Payment Six Due: Sep 15, 2024
INCLUDED:
  • Airfare
  • All accommodations
  • All meals in-country
  • Bilingual on-site group leader
  • On-site BU Global Studies representative
  • All service project expenses
  • All cultural activity expenses
  • All ground transportation
  • All community donations
  • Daily updates for friends and family via social media
  • Extensive pre-departure orientation materials and support
NOT INCLUDED:
  • Visas
  • Checked baggage fees
  • Trip cancellation insurance
  • Immunizations (if applicable)
  • Extra food (beyond three meals per day)
  • Souvenirs
  • International Health Insurance

Guatemala

$2599

*NOTE: Programs are purchased for 1 traveler at a time. If paying for multiple participants, complete the registration and purchase process for any additional traveler(s) once you have completed this order.

Details & Itinerary

6-day adventure in Guatemala

Day 1 – Welcome to Guatemala!

Upon landing in Guatemala City, you will check into your accommodations and then enjoy a traditional meal before an early bedtime. You will be tired from a full day of travel.

Day 2 – Volunteer

After a traditional breakfast, you will begin a full day of service with our non-profit partners on projects that support the wellbeing of women and children. Following lunch with your hosts, you will begin your trek to Lake Atitlan. Dinner will be served at a local restaurant.

Day 3 – Volunteer

Day three begins with a sunrise paddle board experience on Lake Atitlan. After breakfast, you will embark upon another full day of service with our non-profit partners. After lunch, you will visit a local women’s cooperative to learn the ancient art of weaving! Dinner will be served at a local restaurant.

Day 4 – Explore Lake Atitlan

After another early morning paddle, breakfast will be served by our hosts. Then, you will take a private boat across Lake Atitlan to visit the many villages that dot the lakeside. Your adventure around Lake Atitlan will support multiple women’s co-ops where you will learn about their medicinal gardens, midwife traditions, and coffee culture. Lunch and dinner will be served in traditional, local restaurants.

Day 5 – Explore Antigua

Today, you’ll depart for Antigua, traveling back to colonial times. Upon arrival, you’ll set out for an orientation walk around town. Opportunities to shop for beautiful textiles and other artisan souvenirs, sip coffee, and get lost in Antigua’s narrow, cobblestone streets abound!

Day 6- Farewell Guatemala!

It’s time to pack and begin your journey home.

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Travel Program Overview

GCAC is led by professional, National Geographic Certified Educators (K-12 and University) with more than 35 years of combined experience teaching, planning, and leading domestic and international travel studies programs.

GCAC’s one/two-week experiences combine adventure, cultural immersion, community service, and global citizenship education to deepen personal understanding of and appreciation for the places we visit.

GCAC programs foster long-term and impactful connections between people, places and our planet.

Bethel University, our partner in education, offers participants the opportunity to earn three hours of transferable college credit in Global Studies 140-440. This self-paced, online, pre-departure course (specific to each destination), is open to high school juniors, seniors, and current university students for college credit. The travel study experience serves as the capstone for the course. For travelers not wishing to earn college credit, access to pre-departure educational materials is included with each program.

All travelers may apply their hours of service with GCAC toward the requirements for the President’s Volunteer Service Award. Tennessee high school students may apply their service hours toward the Tennessee Promise requirements.

GCAC Scholarships are available to students who qualify.

APPLIES TO ALL TRAVELERS

Traveler Cancellation Policy

In order to cancel your participation in a program, please email us at info@globalcitizenadventurecorps.org stating “Cancellation” in the title of the email. Please include your full name, dates of travel, and destination in the body of the message. Cancellation will only be effective when we have received from the person traveling on a program a written confirmation of his or her decision to withdraw. An email to us stating that you desire to withdraw from a program is an irrevocable notice and you cannot subsequently change your mind even if we have not yet acknowledged the withdrawal in writing. If you withdraw from your program: We will apply the airline’s cancellation policy to any flights in your package and reimburse your ground arrangements in accordance with the penalty timeline below. For cancellation of ground-only arrangements: (a) 90 days or more prior to the stated departure date, we will retain the non-refundable deposit per traveler. (b) Between 30 and 89 days prior to the stated departure date, we will retain 50% of the total booking cost and reimburse the remaining amount; (c) Less than 30 days prior to departure, we will retain 100% of the price paid by you for the package. If you leave a program for any reason after it has started, we are not obliged to make any refunds for unused services.

CANCELLATION INSURANCE

Trip cancellation coverage should be purchased by each traveler. GCAC is not responsible for securing individual policies and does not recommend a specific provider. Read the fine print carefully before purchasing.

FORCE MAJEURE CANCELLATION POLICY

If the Program is cancelled due to circumstances beyond the control of GCAC, regardless of whether such circumstances were foreseeable (including, but not limited to, pandemic, mass health issues or disease, border closures or other government-imposed travel restrictions, quarantine restrictions, lockdowns, strikes or labor difficulties, civil tumult, natural disasters, war, terrorism, etc.), you may not be entitled to a refund of any GCAC fees. In such cases, if GCAC has paid or encumbered funds on your behalf at the time of Program cancellation, GCAC cannot return those funds to you unless and until the third party to which GCAC has paid or encumbered such funds reimburses GCAC or releases GCAC from the financial obligation. In all cases, GCAC will make every reasonable effort to reduce your financial liability as much as possible. In cases where the Program is canceled due to circumstances beyond the control of GCAC, you will be subject to the following refund schedule: If the Program is canceled (force majeure), you must forfeit:
  • 10% Non-refundable deposit
  • Any non-recoverable fees already charged to you, or funds encumbered on your behalf, up to the full Program Fee

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