Basketball Program in Córdoba and Buenos Aires

A comprehensive, cultural travel program focused on basketball including accommodations, local study visits and cultural activities, and bilingual on-site support. Students have the opportunity to experience the vibrant cities of Córdoba and
Buenos Aires as well as the nearby villages of Río Ceballos and Colonia Caroya.
▪ Orientation includes airport reception, walking tour of hotel surroundings, and info sessions with CC-CS staff
▪ Sports activities including practices, exhibition games, clinics, entrance tickets to professional Argentinian league (Liga
Nacional de Básquet) games, tours of arenas and meetings with team representatives
▪ Day trips to Río Ceballos and Colonia Caroya including visits as outlined in the program itinerary
▪ Excursion to Buenos Aires including visits as outlined in the program itinerary
▪ Lodging and breakfast throughout the program in a double room in hotels in Córdoba and Buenos Aires
▪ Lunches and dinners as specified in the program itinerary
▪ Ground transportation in private coach bus for all included study trips, excursions and visits, including arrival and departure
airport transfers at one designated time
▪ Ground transportation in sleeper bus Córdoba-Buenos Aires
▪ For one accompanying faculty, staff or administrator: all program inclusions including lodging in single rooms at the hotels
▪ Health Insurance includes 24/7 emergency assistance and staff-accompanied visits to clinics on request
▪ 24/7 support from full-time Group Leader throughout the program, on-site Resident Director and full-time bilingual CC-CS
staff
▪ Roundtrip international airfare (Group airfare quotes are also available)
Price per student (10+ students in group) … $3,220
Price based on a minimum of ten students and one accompanying staff member
This is a sample program and can be modified as per your specific programming needs
Contact: Gisella Casasnovas
The Center for Cross-Cultural Study
446 Main St. Amherst, MA 01002
413-256-0011 (phone) ~ 413-256-1968 (fax)
[email protected]
2013-2014
Overnight flight to Argentina
Day 1
Arrival in Córdoba and check-in at hotel
Afternoon orientation session and walking tour, dinner at hotel
Day 2
Breakfast at hotel
Morning Spanish language classes (two levels—basic and intermediate)
Afternoon basketball practice
Evening basketball game (dinner at arena)
Day 3
Breakfast at hotel
Day trip to the hills of Rio Ceballos
Typical Argentine barbecue lunch at a private home
Evening basketball game at Jorge Newbery Club Rio Ceballos
Dinner with Argentine basketball players
Day 4
Breakfast at hotel
Morning basketball clinic in a local club
Afternoon Spanish language classes (two levels—basic and intermediate)
Evening city bus tour
Day 5
Breakfast at hotel
Day trip to Colonia Caroya to visit a bodega, a meat curing establishment, and
Casa Copetti Immigrants’ Museum
Day 6
Breakfast at hotel
Morning basketball game
Evening departure via overnight coach bus to Buenos Aires
Day 7
Early morning arrival at Buenos Aires bus terminal and check-in at hotel
Breakfast at hotel followed by city bus tour (Plaza de Mayo, Palermo, La
Recoleta)
Lunch at restaurant, free afternoon
Evening basketball game
Day 8
Breakfast at hotel
Morning visit to basketball club and practice
Afternoon exhibition game against local team
Day 9
Breakfast at hotel
Morning visits in Buenos Aires (Museo Eva Perón, La Boca)
Lunch on own and free afternoon in “Caminito”
Evening tango show with dinner
Day 10
Breakfast at hotel, check-out of hotel
Morning visits in Buenos Aires (San Telmo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes)
Lunch on own and free time
Afternoon departure from Buenos Aires airport, end of program
Total: 9 nights/10 days
Program dates can be adjusted depending on league schedules and home match options Córdoba and Buenos Aires
Contact: Gisella Casasnovas
The Center for Cross-Cultural Study
446 Main St. Amherst, MA 01002
413-256-0011 (phone) ~ 413-256-1968 (fax)
[email protected]
The Center for Cross-Cultural Study and INSTITUTION NAME hereby enter into an agreement to develop an
Academic Program in Córdoba, Argentina, for the dates listed on the Program Calendar, in accordance with these terms:
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Any considerable decrease in the exchange rate and/or increase in the inflation rate may affect the final fees.
The proposed Program is good until stated expiration, unless extended.
Student applications are due two months prior to program start date
The Center for Cross-Cultural Study Inc. (CC-CS) makes every effort to protect the
welfare and safety of its students. However, CC-CS will not accept responsibility for
damage to or loss of property, personal illness or injury, or death while a student is
on the program.
In all matters relating to travel on CC-CS programs, CC-CS holds itself free of any
responsibility for any delay, loss, or accident occasioned by the air and land carriers
or their agents. The Center for Cross-Cultural Study, Inc., is not an agent for
students at The Center for Cross-Cultural Study, S.L., and as such holds itself free
of any responsibility for any loss or accident occasioned by the program of study
and travel conducted by CC-CS.
CC-CS reserves the right to change any arrangement set forth in announcements of
the program, offering substitutes of equal value, or to cancel the program entirely
with full refund. Rates and schedules are subject to change.
CC-CS reserves the right to dismiss any student from its programs in violation of
any published CC-CS policies.
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and its agents, officers and employees from any and all actions, causes of action,
and claims on account of, or in any way growing out of, directly or indirectly, all
known and unknown personal injuries or property damage which I may now or
hereafter have resulting from my students’ participation in any CC-CS programs.
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Contact: Gisella Casasnovas
The Center for Cross-Cultural Study
446 Main St. Amherst, MA 01002
413-256-0011 (phone) ~ 413-256-1968 (fax)
[email protected]