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Itinerary - Africa and Asia Venture

Itinerary

GETTING THERE

You will fly to Ecuador's capital, Quito, arriving in the late afternoon/early evening on Sunday, and be met by our representative. You will start your adventure with the Spanish Course/home stay and will be whisked off to the Mariscal area of the city to meet your hosts and be briefed up on your course.

SPANISH COURSE AND HOME STAY

This will be a three-week activity guaranteed to improve the Spanish and cultural understanding of everyone who takes part. Home stay families are carefully selected for their friendliness and cooking ability! You will stay as an individual with a family and immerse yourself deep into the life (and language!) of the Ecuadoreans. From Monday to Friday, by day, you will join the others in your group and attend three to four hours of Spanish at the level appropriate to you - absolute beginner to advanced. The rest of the teaching days are spent in the city doing some practical exercises, designed to bring on your confidence, and your evenings will be spent with your family or out on the town with AVs and other friends you will make. Apart from dance classes and cookery lessons, which are laid on in the language school, we will arrange some sightseeing for you at the weekends.

DEPARTURE FOR SANTA LUCIA

On Sunday morning, the whole group will enjoy a 3½-hour coach journey through the suburbs and out to the Andean foothills, valleys and cloud forests northwest of Quito. You will disembark at the bottom of the mountain and your bags and equipment will be loaded onto mules. Then begins the two hour climb that will take you to your home in the cloud forest for the next four weeks - Santa Lucia! The views are breathtaking and the air is clean. The first day will be spent on induction, where safety, history, culture and customs - amongst other topics - will be discussed.Then, it will be four weeks of work, with the local community,on whatever's seasonal.

INDEPENDENT TRAVEL

This is your chance to really go out there and explore Ecuador with some friends. The Pacific provides some pretty amazing beaches; the Andes some extraordinary sites of natural beauty and the Amazon Basin's rain forests. Oh yes! There are also the people, the Indian markets, a number of volcanoes and a lot of adventures to be had! You'll have 18 days to enjoy them.

QUILOTOA TREK

The four-day trek is a mixture of culture, fun and adventure and begins from Quito. You will travel with the AV group and experienced, English-speaking guides from Andean Face, who describe the area you will walk in as "Indigenous, remote, high and dry." It will be a wonderful experience that will allow you the chance to see some incredible scenery and an Indian people who have remained culturally unchanged for centuries. Your last night will be spent back in Quito.

HOME OR COSTA RICA

The final day will see the group split up. Some of you will fly home and some continue with travelling.  

 

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