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Change Yourself by Changing Your World!
Imagine the Difference challenges all Americans to experience our world by traveling internationally to serve others while being exposed first-hand to a new culture.

Imagine the Difference offers schools, churches, and social clubs the unique opportunity to travel as a group with a completely customized itinerary. We'll take care of all the arrangements for you including:

Lodging either in a hotel with all the comforts of home, or more adventurous travelers have the option of full cultural immersion by staying with our warm host families
Travel, including great prices on group plane tickets and all ground transportation, ensuring you'll be met at the destination airport by an English-speaking guide
World-class meals of nutritious and exotic local cuisine
Exciting sight-seeing excursions
Unique volunteer opportunities such as tutoring children, working in schools, and helping improve infrastructure in impoverished areas

Excite your spirit!
Currently Imagine the Difference offers service adventure trips in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is an ecological gem located in Central America, bordered to the east by the Atlantic and to the west by the Pacific. Between the costal regions, rainforests and mountains it is estimated that Costa Rica is host to approximately 5% of the world's biodiversity, even though the tiny country only covers .01% of the earth's surface. Locals, who are lovingly called "Ticos" are a very peaceful people. Costa Rica doesn't even have an army, preferring to instead spend their money on social services and educational initiatives.

As you work immersed in the colorful latin culture of San Jose you'll be surrounded by rolling hills of lush forests. Exciting excursions will take you to private tropical islands, dense forests, and active volcanoes. You'll have the opportunity to see and touch the local wildlife including exotic butterflies, crocodiles, toucans, and spider monkeys.

Challenge your senses!
Service adventure excursions with Imagine the Difference provide you the opportunity to challenge yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually. As you work side-by-side with those you're serving you'll hear their stories of heartbreak and triumph. Feel the joy of success and selflessness as you push yourself under physically demanding circumstances. Find courage you never knew existed as you jump off a platform 8 stories high to fly through the rainforest on a zip line.