Student travel leader, Danielle Mullings, has confirmed the group’s arrival in Miami. Students are heading through customs and on to their connecting flights home or to the airport hotel for the evening. Welcome back, students!...Read More
After many tears, hugs, and laughs, we finally managed to say goodbye to the students and watched them safely pass through security at El Alto airport. Its been an incredible three months and as I write this, I find myself in disbelief that its......Read More
Dear families and friends, We are right now at the Isla del Sol, the mythical birthplace of the sun in Bolivia. We are using these last four days to reflect in our experience during this semester. We are using the three core values of Dragons to......Read More
Extending from Sunch’u Pata, the ceremonial hill top, runs a path. Marked by a Peligrosa! sign, the trail balances on a ridge, splitting cliffs that plunge thousands feet down on both sides. The path feels like it divides two worlds,......Read More
Dear Spring 2019 Andes & Amazon Group A Semester Families, It is hard to believe that 3 months have passed since your student embarked on this incredible adventure! It won’t be long until students will be boarding their planes back home. We......Read More
As our time in South America winds down to its final days, it is time to reflect upon the most important aspects of our course, the parts of this program that have made it unique and rewarding, the areas that challenged us and provided us with......Read More
On the morning of Wednesday the 24th in a town called Yanama, alarms went off around the campsite at 5 am. In my tent, the celebrating began immediately as we remembered that there was no trekking that day. We had finished one of our hardest treks......Read More
We recently completed our trek in the Sacred Sister of Machu Picchu – Choquequirao. Here are some scenes from the trek through breath taking jungle terrain. Enjoy!...Read More
When your day starts at 4:30 in the morning and you are on hour 8 of a 12 hour day, with still 4 hours of uphill to go, there is very little holding your mind back from completely unhinging and your body reverting to exclusively mechanical......Read More
Our hour long solo walk through the Valle of Sondondo was an awakening experience for my brain. As I told our guide Miguel, ¨¡Yo no puedo creer mis ojos en estes lugares!¨ (A phrase I picked up from watching Spongebob with my fellow Dragones)......Read More
I´ve always been a kind of idealist. Daydreamer, romantic, nose always buried in a book. My mom would say it´s my artistic nature. My friends would say it´s because I´m a Pisces. Myers-Briggs says it´s an INFP thing. Most of the time, I believe......Read More
Dear friends and families, We are in our second of three days in Ayacucho. We have been trekking in the valley of Sondondo for the past six days. The experiences in this part of Peru have been totally breathtaking. We saw so many beautiful......Read More
Our most recent trek spent in Valle Sondondo Peru, was full of vicuñas, beautiful sunny days, and so much learning from our guide Miguel. We went to a vicuña reserve and learned about the most expensive wool in the world. We went to a condor......Read More
