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2010 World Nomads Travel Writing Scholarship

WORLDWIDE | Thu, 5 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [14253] | Comments [23]

Do you want to be a published travel writer? Go on assignment to Tokyo with Rough Guides! Kick start your travel writing career by going on assignment to Tokyo, Japan. After touching base with your travel writing mentor, Simon Richmond, you ... Read more >

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Day 15 - Wellington

NEW ZEALAND | Sun, 22 Nov 2009 | By momsadoc | Views [4]

11-22-2009 Overcast and cool this A.M. Had a bowl of muesli and cup of tea in the little kitchen here (wasan’t going to deal with the little packages of instant coffee.) Visited the botanical gardens, drove to what looked like the entrance on my map ... Read more >

Big in Japan!

JAPAN | Sun, 22 Nov 2009 | By lol | Views [2]

After a solid week in Beijing, we decided to go on vacation to Japan.   Lovely country – highly recommended.   We will definitely go back here – next time hopefully knowing some more Japanese. Trip overview Day Where? ... Read more >

Kathmandu and its strange, bewildering time (ive)

NEPAL | Sun, 22 Nov 2009 | By ivan_miral | Views [10]

I have wanted to visit Nepal for a very long time. It started when I was in high school and college, learning about and becoming inspired by the simultaneous social justice and spiritual movements of the 1960s. (This is why I always proudly declare ... Read more >

Sailing to Pittwater

AUSTRALIA | Sun, 22 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [4]

Too long away from the boat!  I had been counting down the days and watching the forecasts in readiness to continue up the coast.  Kerry Murphy and i drove from Mount Eliza and collected Jim and Sam directly to the airport.  With the ... Read more >


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A Fistful of Rupees: Coping with Begging on Third World Trails

INDIA | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 | By travel-tips | Views [186] | Comments [1]

Thanks so much to Jeff Greenwald from Ethical Traveler for this guest post.  Several years ago, on a solo trek in northern India, I was joined by an eight-year-old boy wearing a tattered red vest. He startled me with a phrase in perfect ... Read more >

JOURNAL 100; A century of questionable merit.

AUSTRALIA | Wed, 18 Nov 2009 | By homeless_harry | Views [56] | Comments [3]

Who would have thought I would make it this far? If anyone other than me gave any thought to it, you have far too much time on your hands and should try collecting stamps or something. My abacus must have a virus because journal entry number ... Read more >


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Travel Documentary Scholarship 2009: Maranatha's Final Doco

WORLDWIDE | Wed, 11 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [150]

Maranatha delves deep into the Vietnam social fabric and finds a story that is still very much an open wound for Vietnam. She treks  through Chau valley in North Vietnam with a medical team who offer medical relief for the people there.  She learns ... Read more >

Costa Rica

COSTA RICA | Wed, 11 Nov 2009 | By thefuegoproject | Views [117] | Comments [1]

La Cruz to Rio Sereno 12/10/09 to 3/11/09 - 952 km (total km’s 17700) Costa Rica, Pura Vida One of the joys of bike touring is not always so much about the riding, but it’s about getting to out of the way places and experiencing nature.... Read more >

INDIAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

INDIA | Mon, 9 Nov 2009 | By eva_and_sian | Views [94] | Comments [2]

Chennai (old name is Madras) We arrived in Chennai at night time, got a taxi to a hotel, any hotel we could get at that time. We only spent one day driving around in a little three wheeler “auto”. The first thing that struck me was the ... Read more >

On Top of the World

CHINA | Fri, 30 Oct 2009 | By ryanandjo | Views [90] | Comments [2]

Travelling to the “roof top of the world” wasn’t one of the easiest decisions we’ve made. It’s a place of constant religious and political tension, so the Tibet ‘story’ is a fascinating one. China has always considered Tibet to be part of its Empire, ... Read more >

Nine days in the Gobi

MONGOLIA | Wed, 28 Oct 2009 | By lol | Views [92] | Comments [5]

The Gobi desert… It’s incredibly… vast. It’s striking… Go there! And we were even there just after the first snowfall – according to Lonely Planet the least preferred time to visit Mongolia. So we pretty much had it all to ourselves. Not a bad ... Read more >


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