Language tourism in Santander, November 15-21

What is the language tourism week?

It’s the perfect combination of relaxation, adventure, and learning. During the language tourism weeks, you’ll enjoy an unforgettable vacation because every day features a series of Spanish lessons and surprise activities designed to help you put your Spanish into practice and discover the best of Colombian culture and the region’s tourist attractions.

Duration

There are 7 days and 6 nights of activities.

Activities of the language tourism week in Santander

In our programs, the surprise factor is always in the air and that is one of our secrets to make learning Spanish very effective. However, here are some of the activities that are part of the program of the language tourism week in Santander.

• Tour in Bucaramanga
• Tour in Charalá
• Tour in Barichara
• Visit to Cerro del Santísimo, where the largest standing sculpture in Latin America is located.
• Visit to the Chicamocha National Park, a natural canyon deeper than the Colorado Canyon in the United States.
• Horseback riding through the mountains in Charalá
• Visit and bathing in waterfalls and natural wells
• Ancestral crafts workshop
• Regional cooking class

Academic content of the classes:

• Tutear and ustear
• The imperative, beyond orders
• Conditional sentences using the subjunctive
• The difference between the imperfect preterite and the indefinite preterite.
• Spanish to persuade: sales and ideologies.
• Structures of politeness in Spanish.

We visited 5 municipalities, slept in 3 of them

• The trip starts in Bucaramanga, we will stay 1 night and the next day we will travel to Charalá and sleep there in a hotel for 2 nights. Afterwards we will go to Barichara and also sleep 2 nights. Finally, we returned to Bucaramanga to spend the last night there.

For whom this trip is ideal

Spanish level: it is ideal for people who have a level of Spanish equal to or higher than A2. Although we have content for everyone, we have a series of exercises that can be adapted to different levels of language proficiency. It is possible that people come with companions who do not speak Spanish, we can make special guides for them in English, although they would not be part of the daily Spanish lesson we have every day.

Age: the trip is for people over 18 years old.

Physical Fitness: People of any fitness level are welcome to join; however, due to the environmental conditions and the type of activities we’ll be doing, we recommend that participants be able to move freely so they can participate in and enjoy the walking excursions (on one day, we may go on 1-kilometer hikes in the mountains) and who can tolerate Santa Marta’s climate, as temperatures in the city often exceed 30 degrees Celsius. If you have any dietary restrictions, please notify us in advance.

Interests: Anyone who is curious about Colombia, who enjoys music, the mountains, and the flavors of the Andes; anyone who wants to learn about new cultures, is passionate about the world and its diversity, and is eager to try new experiences—such a person will be able to fully enjoy the language tourism week.

What is the price of the experience and what is included?

Thisexperience is $2790 USD per person, or $4390 USD per couple if sharing a room.

Included in that money:

• Admission to the activities mentioned in the program
• Welcome kit: trip book, hat, trip t-shirt, notebook, pencil and Spanish tula with Maria.
• Lodging in private room for 6 nights and 7 days (if you are a couple traveling together, you share the room)
• Transportation from the airport to the hotel and from the hotel to the airport.
• Tourist guide in each of the destinations we will visit.
• A daily Spanish class and accompaniment by Maria in the activities.
• Traditional cooking class.
• Traditional arts and crafts class.
• Guided tuc tuc tour around barichara
• Entrance to the Juan Curí Ecopark.
• 6 Breakfasts at the place of lodging
• Lunch or brunch 6 days according to the week’s schedule
• Water and snacks daily.
• Hotel insurance: however, the student must have additional travel insurance that covers accidents.
• Transportation from the hotel to each of the day’s activities.
• Transportation from the airport to the hotel and from the hotel to the airport.
• Photographic record of the trip.
• Transportation from Bucaramanga to Charalá, from Charalá to Barichara and from Barichara to Bucaramanga.
• Entrance to Panachi
• Entrance to Cerro del Santísimo Ecopark

To reserve your space, you must pay 500 USD as soon as possible and then you have the possibility to pay the remaining amount (2090 USD in up to 3 payments that you can make up to 20 days before the start date).

If you want to pay in installments, please write me at maria@espanolconmaria.com

For each trip to take place, we need at least 7 registrants. See all terms and conditions here.

Airfare is not included, nor anything that has not been explicitly detailed here. Participants are responsible for arriving at the meeting point on the starting day of activities.