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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 24 Jan 2011 | By scholarships | Views [169846] | Comments [96]
Entries closed March 28th 2011, at 2PM AUSTRALIAN Eastern Daylight Time (UTC +11)
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WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4622] | Comments [4]
Anna Zhu, winner of our Photography Scholarship is getting ready for Antarctica. She has received her Antarctica weather gear from Columbia which she had fun trying on in Sydney's mini heat wave. She has also chosen some new equipment from ... Read more >
ITALY | Tue, 2 Sep 2008 | By matt_and_mercaders | Views [2920] | Comments [5]
This story is dedicated to Terry Summerbell. 5 nights in Rome is quite a while so we thought a day at the local waterpark might be fun. Travelling is about doing stuff,we were told, rather than simply seeing stuff. So we set off on our journey - i´d ... Read more >
THAILAND | Sat, 10 Jan 2009 | By annanderson | Views [2729]
1/11/09 Samui island’s ‘cat-like’ dogs: Cats have interesting personalities -independent, yet affectionate; wild, yet gentle. They can be like lap pets - enjoying your warmth, being peaceful and serene. Or they can be running wild – chasing each ... Read more >
Tags: dogs, thailand
VIETNAM | Thu, 16 Dec 2010 | By homeless_harry | Views [2317]
Leaving a country should never make for interesting reading,
unless you have a fetish for missed flights. My obsession with such an activity
is bordering on perverse, but I still adhere to the same casual approach to
punctuality. Leaving anywhere ... Read more >
Tags: flights, friends, shopping, tattoo
INDONESIA | Mon, 15 Feb 2010 | By true-claims-stories | Views [2260]
I went diving with instructors at manta dive on Gili Trawangan in Bali and the next morning I awoke to find my body had developed a rash (which was later diagnosed as a symptom of skin bends). After speaking to a dive specialist at the diver alert ... Read more >
Tags: bali, diving, hyperbaric chamber, rash, scuba diving, the bends, true claims
INDIA | Tue, 26 May 2009 | By fartandbelch | Views [2201]
We travelled to India in May 2009. It is a part of the world we had always been interested in. The mystique, the culture, the oppulence and the poverty, the aromas and the sights of every day life. Its all there in abundance. We flew Qantas into ... Read more >
SERBIA | Mon, 7 Nov 2011 | By vagabonds | Views [1669]
Connie already had a plan for our first day in Belgrade, the capitol of the former Republic of Yugoslavia, but she kept it a secret. After we checked into an overpriced hostel less than a block from the Moskova Hotel, a really overpriced one, she ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1406]
After two days sitting comfortably in Newcastle the weather was looking a lot better. I made a decision to give up rough weather unless i get caught out there unexpectedly. with my new philosophy on cruising being that i dont have plans, i dont ... Read more >
TURKEY | Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By pauluiza | Views [1283]
Turkey (Part II) – Istanbul & Didim – beauty, elegance,
ruins and lovely friends
After 18 months in Asia, we leave Bangkok on the last day of
the Thai New Year, a great time for new beginnings, so we take a Malaysia
Airlines flight to Kuala ... Read more >
USA | Sun, 20 Apr 2014 | By kurenai | Views [1234]
April hit me like a brick of rocks and started off quite shaky. Because of that I haven’t been in the best of moods so when I was offered a spot to volunteer at the annual Taste of Japan Grand Sake Tasting event (part of the National Cherry Blossom ... Read more >
Tags: alcohol, culture, japan, sake, shochu, washington d.c.
UNITED KINGDOM | Mon, 29 Jan 2007 | By craigbyer | Views [969] | Comments [12]
Right now I am enjoying the solitude of being alone in my 7-person flat. My wireless still isn’t hooked up and most likely won’t be until sometime next week. Once again, I am writing this in Word and then transferring it to the site from a library’s ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
CHILE | Sun, 22 Mar 2009 | By karin_lang | Views [903] | Comments [1]
Nach der NAcht im Refugio und dem spaeten aber leckeren Fruehstueck bin ich zur Wanderung aufgebrochen. Die ersten Wanderer die den fruehen Bus von Pucon genommen haben sind auch schon da und so lauft man nicht allein. Der Trip ist ein schoener tagesausflug ... Read more >
THAILAND | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 | By catherine_haf | Views [830]
So what's new? last time I wrote had come back from crazy la la meditation retreat. Happy to say am back in the real world - Have an apartment (oh it is a beauty!), a bike (not so much) a few jobs here and there... Trying to live off my earnings which ... Read more >
Tags: i should have known better!
GERMANY | Sun, 11 May 2014 | By mattso | Views [815]
From my travels to other parts of the world I've known Berlin to hold some of the oldest and best archeological treasures in it's extensive museum collections, so our mission for our last day here was to explore some of them. The major museums ... Read more >
Tags: museums, sightseeing
PERU | Mon, 1 Jul 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [677]
Crossing into Peru
The river Rio Macará separates Ecuador and Peru where we were switching countries. Before we crossed the bridge we needed our passports to be stamped out. Of course we had a visa (we learned from Mexico not to mess up anymore) ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 | By anita | Views [593]
So Tuesday I decided it was finally a good time to shower. Apparently, 9:00am is prime shower time as the water in the solar power shower is just warming to a comfortable temperature but has not yet hit the scalding temperatures it can reach if you ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
INDONESIA | Sun, 13 Jan 2013 | By andikabakti | Views [531]
I am a communication science student at University of Sumatera Utara, one of the biggest university in Sumatera . I am a photographer editor at SUARA USU Student Press that publish tabloid monthly, magazine, and news online. Even I must study hard ... Read more >
Tags: graphic design, photography, reading, travelling, writing
THAILAND | Mon, 24 Nov 2014 | By dinagosse | Views [514]
We leave Cave Lodge, sadly and sorely, and head back to Pai. Pai is partway between Chiang Mai and Pang Mapha, and we thought staying there for a night would be a nice way to break up our return trip from PMP to Bangkok. The road from PMP to Pai is almost ... Read more >
Tags: pai, thailand
THAILAND | Fri, 24 Jul 2009 | By dayangchi | Views [479] | Comments [1]
Bo, no puc dir que ha sigut un passeig... s'ha fet un peliu mes llarg... pero be, molt be. La ruta Valencia-Barna-El Caire-Bangkok-Sukhothai han sigut en total 32 horetes, entre unes coses i altres, pero com les esperes no han sigut llargues no s'ha ... Read more >
Tags: tailandia thailand dayangchi sukhothai avio asia
WORLDWIDE | Tue, 27 Jul 2010 | By sara | Views [357] | Video | Scholarship Entry
In the
summer of 2009 when I went to Uganda to make a documentary in an orphanage I met
a local journalist who introduced me to a very different side of Uganda. One of
the stories that touched me most was the production of waraji in a ... Read more >
Tags: 2010 travel video scholarship
GERMANY | Mon, 15 Sep 2014 | By schmodude | Views [353]
We woke up in Sungsoo’s apartment with plenty of time for people to make it to class (most of them are all in the same program together). I went back to Matt’s apartment for a shower and to plan my activities that day. Since his apartment ... Read more >
Tags: berlin, berlin mauer, berlin wall, cross from east to west, germany, history, nachos, soviets
UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 30 Nov 2013 | By jporath | Views [345]
What worried me most about traveling abroad was how Americans were perceived. I’ve had good and bad experiences with the locals in the countries I’ve visited, and I had planned on being under the radar as much as possible when traveling to ... Read more >
Tags: friends, pub, travel
CANADA | Sun, 13 Jan 2013 | By unknowndriver | Views [321]
To Live in the city with the largest skating rink in the world is amazin, its something people should experience although it may be physically challenging for some (imagine 91 olympic skating rinks attached to each other). It is definately ... Read more >
Tags: ice skating, winter
USA | Thu, 13 Nov 2014 | By karenleslieburns | Views [216]
After a leisurely breakfast in the courtyard, Cheri and I hit the courts again for one last match. We have become quite accustomed to having a ballboy to assist us with those pesky stray balls and questionable line calls. We made a quick ... Read more >