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New Zealand Earthquake - Travel Alert

NEW ZEALAND | Sat, 4 Sep 2010 | By safetyhub | Views [340]

A strong, magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Christchurch just after 4:30 on Saturday morning 4 September (local time). There have been no reported deaths, although there has been a steady stream of injured at the city's hospitals. So far ... Read more >

Tags: travel-alert, christchurch, new zealand, earthquake, quake, travel-advice, travel-tips, travel-insurance

Is It Safe To Travel To Colombia?

COLOMBIA | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 | By safetyhub | Views [351]

Colombia, the South American country with a frightening reputation for warring drug barons and - thanks to Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan – kidnapping, is surprisingly a hot new destination for backpacking. So is it safe? WorldNomads.... Read more >

Tags: travel-safety, colombia, kidnap, travel-safety-tips, is-it-safe-to-travel-to, ecuador, south america, travel-advice, am-i-covered-if, travel-insurance

Travel Documentary Scholarship 2010 - And the winner is...

WORLDWIDE | Mon, 16 Aug 2010 | By scholarships | Views [1898] | Comments [14] | Video

Wow!  We received 178 quality entries for this year's Documentary Scholarship. Your stories took us on an exciting journey around the world to places like Africa, India, Alaska, South America, South East Asia and Papua New Guinea. We were also invited ... Read more >

Tags: documentary scholarship, travel documentaries, travel films, travel scholarship, worldnomads.com, gapadventures, nat geo adventure, travel videos, 2010 travel video scholarship

The BIG 5 and Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa)

SOUTH AFRICA | Fri, 6 Aug 2010 | By langkawi21 | Views [124] | Comments [7]

Africa - the continent of amazing wildlife, spectacular sunrises and sunsets, incredible costs to the travellers (more expensive than Europe!!), unbelievably friendly and non too friendly locals and a continent which only has 1% internet facilities has ... Read more >

highlights of a month living in siwa oasis (rose)

EGYPT | Tue, 24 Aug 2010 | By huw-and-rose | Views [117]

So, at the beginning of July (a long time ago now) we turned up in Siwa for three days and stayed a month. Why? Here's why. Exploring the aptly named Great Sand Sea I thought, seen one desert, seen 'em all, but each time we ventured out of the ... Read more >

Day 11, 12

AUSTRALIA | Mon, 6 Sep 2010 | By noone6 | Views [1]

Days 11, 12 & 13 Day 11 Today we left Kings Canyon and drove to Alice Springs, another boring drive.   We passed the t-shirt tree-again!   We stopped off at Jim’s Place which I think was at a place called “Stuarts Well” but the only ... Read more >

Trashing Ecuador

ECUADOR | Mon, 6 Sep 2010 | By responsible-travel | Views [25]

Dealing with waste (trash, recycling, composting) is one of the biggest issues that cities and destinations have to deal with in their pursuit of sustainable tourism. Generally speaking, it's rare to find recycling and composting infrastructure ... Read more >

Tags: ecuador, otavalo, green, recycling, education, organic, compost

Esperar nem sempre é bom

ITALY | Mon, 6 Sep 2010 | By vana_gwen | Views [8]

No dia seguinte me dei ao luxo de acordar um pouco mais tarde. Arrumei todas as minhas coisas e desci pra fazer o check out. Deixei minhas malas no storage e fui tomar meu café. Nao tinha companhia e havia acordado com o estomago um pouco ruim e um pouco ... Read more >

Funiculi Funicularrrrr..

CZECH REPUBLIC | Mon, 6 Sep 2010 | By vana_gwen | Views [8]

Acordei bem e cedo para aproveitar o segundo dia em Praga. Arrumei minhas coisas, deixei tudo certinho no albergue pra poder sair e desci pra tomar café. O café do albergue definitivamente é sensacional! Amei..comi bem e fui levar minhas coisas pra lavar, ... Read more >

Tags: praga praha prague

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

WORLDWIDE | Mon, 6 Sep 2010 | By astanita | Flickr Photo Gallery

Tags: Travel Photography Scholarship 2010, #2010wnphoto