International travel for HS Students

_andy
Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:03:43 +0000

Rustic Pathways is a high school travel program that goes all over the world (South America, Southeast Asia, China, Africa, Fiji, Australia, etc.) A lot of their trips are community service trips but there’s some that you can just go to visit and tour a new country. There’s also some targeted to kids with specific interests like soccer, surfing, and photography. I went last year to Thailand, Cambodia, and China for two months and did mostly community service (building/painting schools and houses, teaching english to kids, working in rice fields and doing other field work). You don’t have to go that long though… you can put together different trips so you choose where you go, how long you go for, and what you do. I love the program, and am going back this summer again.