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Peru Teen Tours
Three Peru programs compared side by side on focus, length, ages, cost, and service hours, plus what happens between the Lima arrival, the Sacred Valley, and Machu Picchu.
Medical And Pre-Med Teen Tours
Medical professionals agree teens should never shadow doctors or touch patients. Here is what an ethical pre-med program does instead, and how we ranked the ones that get it right.
Language Immersion Teen Tours
Daily lessons, homestays, and a lot of talking to people. How Spanish, French, and Mandarin programs build real fluency, and how to pick the one that fits.
Japan Teen Tours
Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Mt. Fuji by bullet train, plus two days with a farming family in Akita. How Rustic Pathways structures a teen trip through Japan.
International Teen Tours
Supervised trips across Asia, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the South Pacific. How Rustic Pathways runs them, who leads them, and what teens do once they land.
Fiji Teen Tours
Thirty-one years of work with Fijian villages, schools, and councils. What students build there, how the service hours count, and what the reef days look like.
Cultural Immersion Teen Tours
Homestays, language practice, and cooking with people who live there, in Thailand, Peru, Japan, and the Dominican Republic. What separates this from sightseeing.
Costa Rica Teen Tours
Two decades in Costa Rica, full-time Costa Rican staff, and rafting, canopy trails, and hot springs around Arenal. What a teen trip there actually involves.
Australia Teen Tours
Scuba on the Great Barrier Reef, surfing the Gold Coast, and time with the communities in between. Australia trips for ages 14–18, and what each program focuses on.
Adventure Teen Tours
Trekking, service, and time in places teens have never been, run with supervision parents can check. Rustic Pathways's adventure tours for ages 12–18, with prices.
5 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Summer Program
Five questions worth asking any summer program before you pay a deposit. Safety systems, supervision, who leads the trip, and what your teen comes home with.
Explore Student Travel by Theme
Start with what your teen cares about, whether that is animals, photography, global health, or language, and work back to a program. A browse-by-theme index, ages 14–18.