As part of the schedule IDEAL offers a variety of optional activities, designed to reinforce and help you utilize what you have learned in the classroom. These include conferences and lectures about history, culture, politics, and economics, as well as Mexican songs, plays, sports, games, debates, visits to landmarks and cultural places, etc. Some of these activities are in the afternoons or on weekends, and they are very important in the total acquisition of the language.

Excursions

Every weekend at IDEAL organizers plan one day of guided visits to tourist and cultural sites near Cuernavaca.

• Before the visit students receive information about the main characteristics of the area.
• A teacher guides the visit.
• The activity has an extra cost (between $12 and $40 USD)

Here is a list of some of the most common and interesting sites to visit:

• Taxco
• Teotihuacán,
• Historic Center downtown Mexico City and Main Temple,
• National Folkloric Ballet
• National Anthropology Museum
• Xochicalco archeological zone & Las Estacas (swimming resort)
• Malinalco archeological zone
• City of Puebla
• City of Toluca
• Acapulco, etc...