Ireland Adventure and Community Service

  Ireland

Galway

Duration of Program: 1-2 weeks
Dates: July 8 - July 20

Description: Ireland for Teens is a coed summer experience in Western Ireland for teenagers ages 13-18 which provides cultural immersion and features extensive outdoor adventure activities.

What you do

Help protect Irelands legacy by preserving the history of an ancient abandoned village, hike cliffs overlooking the sea and climb Irelands most majestic mountain, handle hawks in the ancient sport of falconry, walk the Famine Road, bike the countryside, kayak, canoe into sea caves, archery, rock climbing, Irish step dancing, pubs at night, listen to Irish music, explore ancient ruins, ride sturdy Irish cob horses, go spelunking (exploring subterranean caves with miners hats and a guide), build a fire on the beach, take midnight walks, feast at a medieval banquet in a castle, shop till you drop, photography.

What you see

The most spectacular scenery imaginable, the highest rated beaches in Europe, beautiful coastlines, ancient pubs, prehistoric forts, castles, spectacular countryside, happening cities, cathedrals, abbeys, ruins, an abandoned village (from the Famine), small villages, movie sets, the fastest growing country in Europe.

What you learn

How to surf, the history of St. Patrick, digital photography, Irish Step dancing, a few words of Gaelic, falconry, medieval customs, legends and folklore, ecology and environmental principles, Irish history, genealogy, sports, Irish cooking, Irish dancing, Irish music, the root causes of genocide, compassion, how to make the friends of a lifetime, how to give of yourself to help others.

Life Learning by Living as a Native, Not in a Classroom.

Highlights: Travel for Teens has many other various trips. This trip, Ireland for Teens, can be combined with any of the following trips. If you combine 2 trips (25 days), you receive 15% off the 2nd trip of equal or lesser value. You can also combine 3 trips for only $9,985 (37 days).

Session II:
- Discover Europe i
- Greece
- Italy
- London and Scotland
- Paris
- Spain - Galicia Language and Community Service

Session IV:
- Australia and New Zealand
- Eastern Europe
- Italy - Cinque Terre Community Service
- Spain - Seville Language Program

Travel For Teens offers, quite simply, the trips of a lifetime. We are the ONLY teen travel program which bridges the gap between classroom learning and touristic teen tours, offering the best features of each. We offer balance, providing the freedom teens crave with the security parents require, the fun teens seek with the substance parents demand. Our highest emphasis, however, is on safety and security.

Further, we feature doing, experiencing and understanding rather than merely seeing. We feel that non-judgmental immersion in other cultures is not only valuable and enriching, but fun. Travel For Teens features coed summer travel for teens ages 13-18. Each age group will have peers with whom to spend time. Our summers are designed in modules so that families can select the combination of trips, or the single trip, that is most appealing to each participant. Two of our philosophical hallmarks are choice and flexibility, so that every participant can design the trip of a lifetime for him or herself, while still traveling with a peer group. Our travelers emerge as International citizens, not tourists.

Travel Teens is the only teen travel company featured on the Travel Channel!

It was also recently featured on the Forbes Traveler website!

More Travel for Teens trips:
- Barcelona and Mallorca
- Discover Europe II
- Italy - Sicily
- London and Scotland
- Paris and the South of France
- Spain and Portugal
- Thailand

For more information on these programs, please contact Travel Teens through the contact link at the top or at the bottom of this page.

Cost in US$: $3,845 plus airfare

Experience Required: no

Age Range: 13-18

This Program is open to American and Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Ireland in Groups

Typically Participants Work in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• In-Person Interview Required
• Letters of Reference
• Phone Interview
• Physical Exam/Health Records
• Resume

Travel For Teens's Mission Statement: Travel For Teens takes teenagers from many countries to Europe and Australia for cultural immersion opportunities. We have an international staff characterized by: fluency in English plus at least one other language appropriates to the places we go. We require an impeccable moral character. We require a personality appropriate for working with teens; our counselors are outgoing, responsible, energetic, likable and intelligent. We require work experience with teens and prefer camp counselor-type experience. Geographic knowledge of the places we go is very attractive as well. Trips for 2006 include 10 days to 2 weeks in each of the following: Paris, Provence, Italy, Spain, Portugal, London, Scotland, Ireland, Eastern Europe (Prague and Budapest), Belgium, Amsterdam, Greece and Australia.

Year Founded: 2003