With active volcanoes, beautiful beaches and pristine rain forests, you're sure to take away a wealth of incredible experiences from any of our Costa Rican adventures. Now Grand American Adventures is offering you the opportunity to give something back by adding one of the following rewarding volunteering experiences on to your Costa Rican adventure.

Experience a homestay with a Costa Rican family, while you help to build homes for underprivileged families in the local community. Stay in a tropical forest reserve and help to conserve the native flora and fauna of Montezuma. You will also have the opportunity to learn to surf, supporting the local surf school business. Help safeguard Costa Rica's endangered sea turtles on the Pacific or Caribbean coasts.

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    Volunteer Building Homes with Families Interested in building futures? You'll have the chance to work closely with the local community on all aspects of building and renovating homes, improving the quality of life for local families. Thousands of people in Costa Rica live in sub-standard housing without adequate sanitation or safe weather protection. By volunteering you could help ongoing efforts to help improve this situation, while you make friends for life in the process.

    > View Volunteer Building Homes with Families package


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    Volunteer Conservation and Surf Want to protect a real-life paradise and learn to surf in the process? Living in a reserve of 300 hectares including two beaches and a tropical dry forest, you will help to protect the indigenous plant and animal species, while also supporting the local surf school. This is rural living at its most beautiful, with the opportunity to immerse yourself in Reserve life and feel like a real eco-warrior!

    > View Volunteer Conservation and Surf package


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    Volunteer Turtle Conservation Turtles are under threat in Costa Rica following considerable poaching of turtle eggs, leading to the species becoming endangered. Much work by local communities has been done to help preserve the turtles, however these initiatives do not receive any government funding and rely heavily on the help of volunteers. If you're interested in beautiful beaches and helping to protect endangered marine turtles this projects is for you!

    > View Volunteer Turtle Conservation package