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Sun, 24 May 2015 | By kari | Views [214] | Scholarship Entry
Five steps was all it took for the outside world to disappear. I’ve heard it before, told again and again by both tourist operators and locals: the Amazon rainforest is a living creature, and if you let it, it can swallow you whole. We’d travelled ... Read more >
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Sat, 23 May 2015 | By howardwalfish | Views [228] | Scholarship Entry
We were somewhere between Cusco and Urubamba when our van hit the wall. It was almost 6am, still pitch black and pouring rain, and the wall – about a foot high and made up of rocks about the size of grapefruits – stretched across both lanes of the road.... Read more >
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Sat, 23 May 2015 | By thelovelynomad | Views [221] | Scholarship Entry
While volunteering in Lima, Peru on a two week trip with my university, I was deeply moved by the people I met there. We were working in the shanty towns and helping build sets of stairs to assist residents in walking up the massive sand dune hills to ... Read more >
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Sat, 23 May 2015 | By loraexplora | Views [219] | Scholarship Entry
"I'm pretty sure my neck is going to fall off." My travel partner looks at me and laughs, water droplets bouncing off his face, his hair flying in 10 different directions. Using all of the muscles in my neck, I steady my head to look around me. ... Read more >
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Fri, 22 May 2015 | By fiona_la | Photo Gallery
Pictures from my exchange semester in Europe
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Fri, 22 May 2015 | By fiona_la | Views [459]
Here I was, 2 years ago I decided to do an exchange programme. The chosen place: Munich. Yes, the capital of: Oktoberfest, Bayer Munich football team, BMW and Bavaria. How is it to a latin american student flying more than 15 hours, crossing the Atlantic ... Read more >
Tags: exchange semester, germany, munich, oktoberfest
Thu, 21 May 2015 | By costisbarbas | Views [202] | Scholarship Entry
Looking for Amazons to shoot down mosquitoes… Amazons, the women warriors that gave their name to the South American selva, used to cut off their right breast in order to shoot more effectively with their bows. Fortunately times have changed and breathtaking ... Read more >
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Thu, 21 May 2015 | By jchesters | 
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This is how it starts: with a trek across the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
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Thu, 21 May 2015 | By jchesters | Views [455] | Scholarship Entry
In hindsight, falling down the stairs just days before I was to leave for Peru was not my finest hour. But the strange thing is, after 5 days hiking on bruised and blistered feet, when I stood at Inti Punku and looked down on the "lost" city of Machu ... Read more >
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Thu, 21 May 2015 | By lyndseywhale | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 21 May 2015 | By samkat | Views [218] | Scholarship Entry
The views, the cliffs, the towns, and the weather were constantly changing as we went up and down the mountains in a tiny one-lane road. I close my eyes now and I can see the Sacred Valley and the ruins in the distance, I can smell the rain and feel the ... Read more >
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Tue, 19 May 2015 | By dwt | Views [324] | Scholarship Entry
Barefooted children stomped in the street’s deep mud as our taxi crept by in the town of Oropesa. The tallest of the bunch, gangly and wearing a dirty Yankees cap, carried a mischievous grin, like at any moment he might splatter us with a glob of the ... Read more >
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Mon, 18 May 2015 | By finally | Photo Gallery
Vendredi 15 mai 2015 est le jour du Machu Picchu! :-) Mais quelle aventure pour y arriver, nous l'avons bien mérité.
Voilà l'histoire en résumé: juste avant d'acheter les billets de bus pour aller de Cuzco à la station de train qui va à Aguas Calientes, ...
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Sat, 16 May 2015 | By finally | Photo Gallery
Well, well. Finally we took the airplane instead of a bus. While the 24 hour bus to Cuzco was tempting, we were still recovering from some altitude sickness. And don't forget we still did the overnight bus from the Cordillera Blanca back to Lima to catch ...
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Tags: cuzco, maray, moray, pisac
Sat, 16 May 2015 | By joeynash | Views [282] | Scholarship Entry
As I sat on the bus unable to sleep due to the sheer drops and erratic driving, I felt a mixture of emotions. I love the great outdoors, but I don’t consider myself an experienced hiker. The highest mountain I had ever climbed was Ben Nevis, its peak ... Read more >
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