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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By vmahmud | Views [214] | Scholarship Entry
Without a doubt, it looked like a death trap. Bangkok’s water taxis are basically large buses on the river, and in typical Southeast Asian fashion, driven like one. With few seats and maybe even fewer life preservers, these floating long boats don’t ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By alaskarue | Views [208] | Scholarship Entry
Travel the world, people say. But remember that 71% of it is actually beneath the surface. On Koh Tao, an island shaped like a turtle, it is easy to chase the horizon. The boat takes on wings, a gull dipping and soaring over the ocean. I look out over ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By amylew | Views [267] | Scholarship Entry
Where I’m from we don’t celebrate the rain.We dread it, we swear at it, we wish for its departure, but we certainly don’t enjoy it. Although it brings green to our fields and beginnings to our conversations, the average Irish person would wish for rain ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By minjon | Views [129] | Scholarship Entry
Planning, it's one of those things you do before you leave, but then the whole thing falls apart once you get there. In my case, it meant that I almost missed my flight back to Holland. It seemed fine to take a train one morning before my flight home ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By caityreid | Views [149] | Scholarship Entry
Rainy season had ended, leaving Khon Kaen in Thailand’s North East sweltering with a heavy dampness. I was doing an elective from Melbourne, a vital part of my Physiotherapy degree where I worked long days in desperately poor community health centres, ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By bigbluesky | Views [168] | Scholarship Entry
Thinking about taking a time-out from technology and social networking? Banmaichaiyapot is a perfect place for you. With only two main streets and one intersection, it is one of the smallest towns in Thailand. There is no shopping mall or theater, what ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By camirojas | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
This whole journey to Thailand turned out to be a pivotal moment of my entire life. I could never picture myself a Buddhist for so many reasons…I was born Christian; I was never even told or taught a single thing about Buddhism. It all seemed to be so ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By rebecca_wanders_the_globe | Views [241] | Scholarship Entry
Pai is blistering at this time of day – so hot even the lizards are keeping their tails curled into the shadows to avoid any glare of sunlight. Sensible creatures, I think. Earlier I made the mistake of leaning against the metal skeleton of this rickety ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By annafauzi | Views [268] | Scholarship Entry
It was a small house, really, just an ordinary family house in the middle of a fishermen’s village... The sun was hot and blazing in Krabi when we blasted off with a rented motorbike. The aim is to ride from Khongka Road to Khlong Tom to a place suggested ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By mattwolfe | Views [154] | Scholarship Entry
I awoke to a shake of the shoulder; we had arrived in Ubon Ratchathani. The sky was a mess of white forks and billowing, bleeding purple, and shards of rain were striking the coach window. It was three-thirty in the morning, and I was afraid of the dark.... Read more >
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Sun, 24 May 2015 | By vicknes | Views [146] | Scholarship Entry
A local Thai man slides the heavy metal bolt to the right, unlocking the thick metal cage door. Pulling the cage door to the right, he nods his head towards the grass area ahead of me, gesturing me forward. I look back at him disbelievingly. He expects ... Read more >
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Sun, 24 May 2015 | By emilysmallman | Views [182] | Scholarship Entry
I believe that a small dose of suspicion is good for you when travelling but suspicion, as I discovered, must always be taken in moderation. It was a dirt car park, a space almost void of light and colour, like someone had taken a bite out of Bangkok.... Read more >
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Sat, 23 May 2015 | By internationalplaygirl | Views [171] | Scholarship Entry
As my rickety boat pulled up to Tonsai beach, I was looking forward to a few days where I could relax on the beach and do yoga every evening. I was also excited to try a rock climbing lesson. The Krabi Peninsular in Southern Thailand is a haven of jagged, ... Read more >
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Thu, 21 May 2015 | By hippie_nomad | Views [231] | Scholarship Entry
The thing about revelations is that they happen when you least expect it. A moment, out of nowhere, that changes your perspective, your path, your life. It was a balmy summer's evening on the island of Samui. The air felt thick with magical possibility, ... Read more >
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Wed, 20 May 2015 | By mariahmurphy444 | Views [126] | Scholarship Entry
I felt like death I woke up that morning full of regret after seeing the empty flasks of whisky on the hostel floor. I glanced to make sure my friend had made it back to the room, careful not to wake her up from her drunken slumber. You'd think after ... Read more >
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