Culture in Puerto Rico
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Stories of a rich culture and history, exceptional food, majestic mountains and welcoming Puerto Ricans — all packed into one sun-kissed Caribbean journey to paradise. Here, as you engage with local people, you’ll feel like you are family instead of just a visitor. Around every corner, in this off the beaten path journey, you’ll find a celebration of life, a vibrant cultural experience, food for the soul, and a captivating rhythm.
Discover Puerto Rico through encounters with local experts and people while exploring the history and culture inside and outside the walls of Old San Juan and the southern majestic City of Ponce.
Self-Awareness and Healing in Puerto Rico
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This retreat will offer a safe space in which to reflect on your childhood, however supported or unsupported it may have been. It will guide you to be curious about how your adult life today is influenced, and sometimes sabotaged, by those experiences. It will introduce you to your inner child: the part of you that was wounded during your childhood and that is reactive when it is triggered. It will offer you the skills both to recognize what was positive about your childhood, and to re-parent yourself in the ways that you wished you had been parented.
Taino Indian Culture
Taino Indian Culture
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If you have ever paddled a canoe, napped in a hammock, savored a barbecue, smoked tobacco or tracked a hurricane across Cuba, you have paid tribute to the Taíno, the Native people who invented those words long before Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492.
Discover Puerto Rico while exploring the history and culture of the southern majestic City of Ponce and the Taino Indian culture in the municipalities of Jayuya, Adjuntas and Utuado located high in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico.
Journey Leaders
Pedro Schuck
Marcos Carvajal
Marcos Carvajal
Pedro Schuck was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. His 50 years in the field of education represent an accumulation of professional experiences as elementary school teacher, corporate training and development specialist, community educator and consultant, professor and administrator in higher education institutions. After 25 years in Cambridge College, in 2015, Pedro became Professor Emeritus.
A graduate from Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Harvard and Boston universities, Pedro specialized in instructional design, learning environments, social education and educational administration. Pedro was also the founder of the Cambridge College Puerto Rico Center, implementing graduate programs in education, management, and counseling psychology.
In 2000 Pedro founded Travel & Learn to provide travel experiences for educational and art organizations interested in the cultures of Cuba and Puerto Rico, framed by the understanding, respect and appreciation of the historical contributions made by their people in the fields of arts, community education and general wellness.
Marcos Carvajal
Marcos Carvajal
Marcos Carvajal
Marcos Carvajal is a visual artist-educator, a visionary and Journey Leader, and founder of Travel and Learn.
Born in Santos Suarez, Havana, Cuba, Marcos started to study art with his father when he was nine. His formal studies continued at the University of Havana Medical School. He continued studies at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts in Boston, and Cambridge College. He taught art courses at Montserrat School of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts, Jájome School of Art in Puerto Rico, the University of Puerto Rico, and the School of Fine Arts / Tufts in Boston.
As a visiting faculty member at the SMFA, Marcos facilitated courses such as "Painting in the Rain Forest of Puerto Rico" and "Making Art in Cuba: An Interdisciplinary Exchange" for the International Department. Presently, Marcos works from his studio in Sarasota, Florida.