Aracena Mountains - Sevilla - Cordoba - Granada
Itinerary *
Days 1 - 2
• Board your overnight flight to Spain and arrive in Sevilla on the following day • Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader at Sevilla's airport and transfer to accommodations in the mountains • Visit local organic farm for your first day of activities. Learn about sustainable farming and environmental protection. Visit free roaming Iberian pigs in their natural habitat • Spend some time at the farm at your leisure before dinner |
Day 3
• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader • Second day of activities at the farm • Engage in hands-on culinary activities at the farm: picking vegetables from the garden, cheese making, baking local pastries and bread. • In the early evening, visit Gruta de las Maravillas (Cave of Marvels), a spectacular natural landmark. Explore chambers of stalagmites and stalactites, limestone ceilings and interior lakes. • Have some free time to enjoy a stroll along the streets of the village or to do some shopping |
Day 4
• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader • Board bus and travel to Sevilla’s city center • Have lunch and then visit Parque de Maria Luisa. • Check in your hotel or Meet host families, followed by dinner. During the homestay program, breakfast and dinner will be with the host family. Box lunch will be prepared by family daily. |
Day 5
• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader • After lunch, you will have a sightseeing tour that includes Sevilla’s cathedral, the Alcazar (Europe’s oldest active royal palace), and Santa Cruz historic Jewish quarter. • Free time to stroll through the historic city center and do some shopping • Return to accommodations in the evening |
Day 6
• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader • Visit and and attend classes at a local school. You will meet with your Spanish buddy, accompanying them in their classes • Have some time to explore Sevilla's historic city center at your leisure • Visit the Museum of Flamenco and then attend a live performance on site • Return to accommodations after the show |
Day 7
• Visit a traditional farmers market, located on the remains of an ancient castle • Spanish tapas cooking workshop • Stroll along the historic banks of the Guadalquivir river, followed by a sightseeing river cruise, admiring the city’s monuments from a different perspective • Have some time to explore Sevilla's historic city center at your leisure |
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Day 10
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• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader • Board bus and travel to Cordoba. The students will visit the Mezquita, an impressive 10th-century mosque, famous for its red and white candy cane style arches, that curiously houses a 16th-century Renaissance cathedral. They will explore the historic Jewish quarter, which has been preserved for centuries, and visit one of three original synagogues remaining in Spain. • Boar busses and continue to Granada. • Hotel check-in and rest |
• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader • Today the students will visit the crown jewel of Granada, the Alhambra, a 13th-century Moorish fortress comprised of patios, gardens, palaces and fountains. • After the Alhambra, the group will have time to shop around the arabic market El Zoco, or enjoy a taste of Morocco in one of Granada's many North African teterías (tea houses) located in the whitewashed neighborhood of the Albaicín. • Free time to walk the ancient streets of Granada's historic city center. • Visit the Cathedral, where they will see the tombs of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in the Royal Chapel. |
• Transfer to Malaga airport • Board your flight back home |
Add extra day
Portugal
Stay an additional night in Aracena Mountains and spend the day in Beja. An authentic Portuguese town of winding streets and quaint squares. Students will visit Beja's castle and its Roman ruins.
Add € 129 per student
Mountains Day Camp
Stay an additional night in Aracena Mountains and spend a day at a youth day camp in the mountains on the way to Sevilla. Your students will engage in fun outdoors activities, such as orienteering, raft-building and archery
Add € 175 per student
Doñana National Park
Stay an extra night in Sevilla to visit Doñana National Park. This UNESCO World Heritage natural reserve is considered a haven for birdwatchers. It is notable for the great diversity of its biotopes, especially lagoons, marshlands, fixed and mobile dunes, scrub woodland and maquis. It is also home to five threatened bird species.
Add € 135 per student
Stay an additional night in Aracena Mountains and spend the day in Beja. An authentic Portuguese town of winding streets and quaint squares. Students will visit Beja's castle and its Roman ruins.
Add € 129 per student
Mountains Day Camp
Stay an additional night in Aracena Mountains and spend a day at a youth day camp in the mountains on the way to Sevilla. Your students will engage in fun outdoors activities, such as orienteering, raft-building and archery
Add € 175 per student
Doñana National Park
Stay an extra night in Sevilla to visit Doñana National Park. This UNESCO World Heritage natural reserve is considered a haven for birdwatchers. It is notable for the great diversity of its biotopes, especially lagoons, marshlands, fixed and mobile dunes, scrub woodland and maquis. It is also home to five threatened bird species.
Add € 135 per student
* suggested itinerary, subject to change.
