Catalog Tour · Far East

Down Under

This 14-day itinerary splits its time between two Pacific stops that most student tours treat as afterthoughts: Honolulu serves as the opening chapter, giving groups a first taste of island geography and American history before a long transpacific flight delivers everyone to Sydney for five full days of Australian culture, architecture, and urban life. The tour closes in Cairns, the gateway to the Wet Tropics and the Great Barrier Reef. The structure is deliberate — each city builds on the last, moving from the familiar to the genuinely foreign.

Duration14 days · 13 nights

CountriesUSA · Australia

Cities4 stops

Group size6 – 80+ travelers

Arrival Honolulu

Arrival transfer

Dinner

Overnight

At a glance

Days14

Countries2

Cities4

OvernightsHonolulu, Oahu HI 2, Aboard flight 2, Sydney 5, Cairns 4

Curriculum fit

Analyze the geographic and ecological significance of the Great Barrier Reef during the Green Island excursion in Cairns.
Compare British colonial settlement patterns in Sydney with Indigenous Australian heritage visible across the city's historic districts.
Evaluate the relationship between tourism, conservation, and reef ecology based on firsthand observation in the Cairns marine environment.
Trace the development of Sydney as a Pacific urban center by examining its harbor geography, architecture, and colonial-era neighborhoods.
Examine the cultural and historical role of Honolulu as a crossroads of American expansion and Polynesian identity in the Pacific.
Interpret how tropical rainforest and coral reef ecosystems in Far North Queensland reflect broader principles of biodiversity and climate zonation.

Drafted from the day-by-day. Use as a starting point for your syllabus.

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