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We don’t teach culture. Our students live it.

Arrive as a tourist.
Leave as a towner.

towner noun
a local — someone who knows which street is worth walking, and how the trains actually work.

Fourteen days in Australia, Brazil or Japan for students aged 11–17. Classes with local teachers, cities they learn to navigate themselves, and a project they present on day thirteen.

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TOWNR students on camp photos/hero.jpg — students on the
Mt. Fuji day, with signed media consent.

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Australia

Sydney · Melbourne

The Opera House, Manly Beach, wildlife parks and Queen Victoria Market — with city projects built around the students’ own questions, and two weeks of learning to read a timetable in a language they already speak.

14 daysAges 11–17Opposite season See program schedule →
Sydney Opera HouseOpera House from the ferry
Manly BeachManly Beach
Australian wildlife parkWildlife park, close up
Queen Victoria MarketQueen Victoria Market

Brazil

Rio de Janeiro · Paraty · São Paulo

Christ the Redeemer and Copacabana, then two full days in UNESCO-listed Paraty including a day under sail, and a samba class taught by someone who has danced it their whole life.

14 daysAges 11–17Year-round See program schedule →
Christ the RedeemerChrist the Redeemer
Paraty under sailParaty under sail
Samba classSamba class in progress
Ipanema beachIpanema, golden hour

Japan

Tokyo · Mt. Fuji · Osaka · Kyoto · Nara

Origami, takoyaki and sushi taught by local instructors, TeamLab, a full day at Mt. Fuji, Fushimi Inari and the deer at Nara — and a metro map they will be reading unaided by the second week.

14 daysAges 11–17Spring & summer See program schedule →
Fushimi Inari torii gatesFushimi Inari, torii gates
Sushi making classSushi class, hands on the rice
Mount FujiFuji from Chureito Pagoda
Shibuya crossingShibuya crossing at night

End of the road — three programs, three continents, two hemispheres.

Four sisters, one very old van

Our father drove a Towner. He took us camping in it, and on the best road trips of our lives — which is why the van is in our logo, and why the company is named after what he made us into: towners, wherever we happened to be.

We built the camps we would have wanted at thirteen. That is the whole idea: not a coach window and a checklist, but two weeks of actually living somewhere.

Our father at the wheel of the Towner van, with one of us on his arm

The original Towner. Our father at the wheel.

For agents and schools

Interested in learning more? Contact us and we’ll send itineraries, net rates and our full safety documentation.

hello@townrcamps.com