MesoAmerica Tour

While on this MesoAmerican Tour you will enjoy these memorable experiences:

 

• Snorkeling the blue Caribbean

• Spotting monkeys and crocodiles

• Climbing ancient pyramids

• Hiking through a rain forest

• Visiting prospective Book of Mormon sites

• Staying with an LDS family

• Exploring interesting cities, including Mexico City - one of the largest in the world.

• Interacting with people of different cultures

• Having free time

• Making some of the best friends of your life.

 

Click HERE for more information about the 2006 Meso America Tour

 

Click on each of the following for more information:

 

Cost

Dates

Requirements

Disclaimer

Courses

Application

Contacts

Photo Gallery 

 

 Cost

Cost of the tour is $2,495.00 (plus tuition)

This includes:

All transportation (round trip air fare to and from Salt Lake, bus/boat fare, airport taxes)

All meals and lodging in MesoAmerica

All lodging in MesoAmerica

Entrance fees/tickets to attractions

 This does not include:

Tuition (currently $ 106 per credit)

Souvenirs, film, camera, snacks, water (about $1/day)

Passport application fee

Extra activities during free time

Books, supplies for classes(Scholarship and financial aid apply)

Expenses for your stay in Rexburg (We suggest you stay with a friend, bishop, or professor)

 

 Dates

Tentative Dates: 1st summer term, April 26 through June 9

 

We will will stay on campus approximately two weeks (April 26-May 5) and travel in MesoAmerica 4 weeks (returning by June 9).  Exact dates will be determined by airline ticket costs and availability.  We'll announce final dates as time draws closer.

 

 Requirements

Physical Condition

Participants should be in sufficient health to be able to fully participate in a vigorous travel schedule. Brigham Young University cannot be responsible for any illness that would occur on the tour. Persons with heart disease, high blood pressure, or other physical impairments that could hinder them from normal participation with the group should contact the tour director, Jerry Hansen, before submitting an application. While you aren't required to climb all the pyramids, go on every hike, swim in every river, etc., that's half the fun.  Be in shape before you go.  Also, you will be asked to fill out a health form.

LDS Standards

While traveling you are ambassadors of the church.  As such, all participants are required to maintain high standards of honor, integrity, and morality in harmony with the values of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  This includes abstinence from coffee, tea, alcohol, and narcotics, as well as following the LDS standards of chastity.  Participants will dress modestly and appropriately for the occasion.  Participants must also be willing to follow the directions of the tour directors and cooperate as a group. Violation of these standards or directions could result in a student being sent home at his or her own cost.

 

 Disclaimer

Brigham Young University Idaho Travel Study Programs reserve the right to make changes or substitutions in this offer as a result of increases in fares, hotels, currency rates, or other unforeseen circumstances prior to departure. We reserve the right to cancel the tour if deemed necessary for circumstances beyond our control such as strikes, walk-outs, riots, wars, acts of God, etc. In such case, Brigham Young University Travel Study Programs or its agents have no responsibility beyond refunding all deposits and moneys paid. Such refunds will be made within 30 days.

 

 Courses

Click HERE for a list of classes offered on this tour

 

Students must take at least 5 credits and can take up to 10 credits.

We will register you for classes. Tell us your final choices by the end of February.

You must have a new Bishop's endorsement, pay all debts to the college, and be enrolled in BYUI (this applies to EVERYONE unless you've just applied to BYUI for the first time and have not attended any other semester before summer.)

All courses will have scheduled class time.

All students will take at least 1 credit of anthropology, either Anthropology 101 or 290.

 

 Application

To Apply:                                                                                     

A. Fill out the application on the last two pages of the packet.  Get the necessary signatures (parents/guardians and witnesses).

 

 B. Take your application to the Cashier's office and pay your $300 deposit.   The Cashier's Office will stamp your application.  You may pay with a credit card (usually even by phone).

 

C. Take/send application to Sis. Moen in Smith 356.  (Fax: 208-496-5462.  Address:  Joelle Moen, English Dept., Rexburg, ID 83460-0820).   If Sis. Moen isn't in, slide the application under her door or leave it with the English Dept. office in Smith Annex 110.  Your application is NOT complete until Sis. Moen has it.  If the tour fills before Sis. Moen has your form, you will be on the alternates' list .

 

Click here for an application in PDF Format

 

Additional Forms:

Communication Equipment Release Agreement

 

 Contacts

Joelle Moen

SMI 356

208-496-1462

moenj@byui.edu

 

John Griffith

BEN 294A

208-496-2026

griffithjo@byui.edu

 

Greg Palmer

TAY 224 

208-496-2236

palmerg@byui.edu