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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By yyolandaa | Views [284] | Scholarship Entry
If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too? At the moment I stood on the edge of this bridge with my arms outstretched and hearing the man behind me countdown, I realized what I was doing. Boulkrans Bridge in South Africa is the highest ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By mamablu | Views [124] | Scholarship Entry
It had been almost two years since I last saw him. My obelisk as I often refered to him in private moments of pining after him. We'd been living in the same city for a while but never gathered the courage to face each other after our last disastrous exchange:... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By vanessaltravelgal | Views [114] | Scholarship Entry
The lions' piercing eyes stared us down as they walked toward us and my heart started to beat a little faster. Our ranger, Ali's warning to stay seated in the 4x4 echoed in my ear. I grabbed my boyfriend's arm and whispered, "Mark, this can't be happening!" ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By katalinawatt | Views [436] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
At seventeen I found myself travelling independently for the first time; I had won a school competition to work with leopard conservations in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The organisers had a treat for us, but it was shrouded in mystery as we hauled into ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By mb0100 | Views [144] | Scholarship Entry
Warthog slurped brown sludge from the water hole. It was sunrise in the park, breakfast time for animals. I’d parked my hire car at Domkrag Dam, one of the few places you could get out and walk around. Anywhere else and lions might get you. "Are you ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By allenstutesman | Views [203] | Scholarship Entry
We were still twenty minutes away from the hut as the sun was setting. The sweat on my shirt was no longer from the heat, but from nerves. Looking at the clock on the dash every five seconds wasn’t helping. We needed to get to our rest camp before ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By mindspaces | Views [97] | Scholarship Entry
Everyday when I wake up I usually go through the day with a certain amount of faith, hope and trust. Faith that the day will be pretty much predictable and I can easily go about my business. Hope that I will experience something better than the previous ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By choc_smurf | Views [212] | Scholarship Entry
I'VE waited all my life for this trip. And now this? Frustration drove me up the wall by the second. A Themba Safari guide were to pick me up at 5am from the front entrance of the game lodge in Hoedspruit that I was staying at. By 6.30am, we should have ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By jd_martens | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry
I touch the water in the pool at the end of the trail and a shockwave crawls up my toe through my entire body and I shiver. I look right and tell Claire: “Check it out; it really is a gorge.” She looks up at the jagged rocks surrounding us, and the ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By izzyabraham | Views [298] | Scholarship Entry
It’s a still, cold night in early August, and I’m huddled outside a brightly-lit Hindu temple. I’m just a spectator who wants to take part in the annual celebration of Lord Krishna’s birth, Krishna Janmashtami. With the weight of a self-dubbed title, ... Read more >
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Thu, 21 May 2015 | By megcunnama | Views [148] | Scholarship Entry
Cedarberg, Western Cape, South Africa -The last day of an old year, the howling wind is whipping my hair into my face. I’m standing in the most awe inspiring place I have had the fortune to be in recent memory. Behind me, the sun is lowering in the sky ... Read more >
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Wed, 20 May 2015 | By liabeveridge | Views [185] | Scholarship Entry
I had been in Cape Town a month. I was in love with the city, it's culture, food and vibrancy but nothing had screamed at me yet. My flatmates kept saying "what is my life?" In astonishment at something we did but nothing yet had jumped at me. Then I ... Read more >
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Mon, 18 May 2015 | By student_traveller | Views [191] | Scholarship Entry
How did I even end up here? I find myself behind the wheel 1989 mark I Golf, driving down a precariously positioned road on the edge of a thousand foot drop. Only two days ago was I sat at the back of a lecture theatre thinking about potentially going ... Read more >
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Fri, 15 May 2015 | By beautyashes | Views [180] | Scholarship Entry
I love travelling, i love telling people's stories and capturing moments. I've been to United States and also travelled some few countries around my continent, thats where i developed a deep love for journalism.
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