Perfect your Spanish in Peru

If you spent your winter nights learning Spanish, put yourself to the test by staying with a local family in the heart of the former Inca capital of Cuzco in Peru.

A language teaching package with courses in Andean culture is part of an educational trip, costing $3609 a person.

The 21-day trip includes visits to Inca sites in and around Cuzco, plus a visit to Machu Picchu.

By the end of the course, tourists-cum-students can expect to have developed fluent communication skills in Spanish.

A tour departs every month until August next year.

Contact: Flight Centre, freephone 0800 354 448.