Global Education Oregon Menu

Walking tours of Siena, a contrada museum visit, pizza evening and wine tasting, conversation partner program, and an optional Tuscan cooking course (extra fee required).

During this three-to-four-day trip, tour palaces and cities built over 4,000 years ago by the Minoans. Visit the mountains and valleys of Crete and enjoy Cretan cuisine. Swim in the clear blue waters of the southern Aegean.

Visit the Temple of Poseidon.

Typical sites include: the Acropolis, the Agora, Kerameikos, the Plaka with its many clubs and tavernas, Monasteraki flea market and the central fruit, vegetable and meat markets.

Tour the temple of Aphaia and visit a traditional pottery workshop.

Visit Yacimiento Arqueológico Castro de Coaña and the coastal town of Luarca.

Visit Madrid's famous Prado and Reina Sofia Museums and explore the Madrid of the Borbon and Hapsburg dynasties. Spend the day in Toledo and visit the Monasterio de San Juan de los Reyes, Casa del Greco, Cathedral, Museo Sefardi and Iglesia de Santo Tomé.

Meet with a local civil society NGO in Cambodia working on human rights and land issues across the country.

Spend the day at an elephant sanctuary while learning about an NGO working towards conservation in Thailand.

Have dinner at “Cabbages and Condoms” a Bangkok restaurant run by, and supporting, an NGO fighting HIV/AIDS.