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Thu, 2 Feb 2012 | By scholarships | Views [9649]
The 2011 winner of our Travel Writing Scholarship to Turkey, Zoe Smith, is soon to be back on the road!
She has just been asked by Rough Guides to return to Turkey in the spring as a staff writer. On her scholarship assignment, she worked on ... Read more >
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 | By mimoso_666 | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 | By chris_and_dusk | Views [682]
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this stage of the trip we were counting down the bus trips left. It was our
second overnight bus trip in a week and we really weren’t looking forward to
it. The Turkish buses weren’t quite up to the standard of South American buses
ie no lazy ... Read more >
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 | By rachelina | Views [2667]
For the third time in 24 hours we climbed onto a long distance bus, already desperately in need of a shower and exhausted. It started off well - the conductor of the bus made the bus pull over in the middle of nowhere, panicking over our tickets, calling ... Read more >
Tags: asthma cave, chasm of hell and heaven, kizkalesi, maidens castle, mediterranean, mersin, narlikuyu, overnight bus, silifke, turkey
Fri, 9 Dec 2011 | By rachelina | Views [3112]
This is what overnight buses do to you. Overnight bus number 2 took us to Antakya, 55 miles from the Syrian border. Reading the guidebook, we were charmed by the writer's conviction that Antakya was the 'Jewel of the Mediterranean'. This was ... Read more >
Tags: antakya, archeological museum, bus, hatay, local transport, mosaics, sleep deprivation, turkey
Fri, 2 Dec 2011 | By rachelina | Views [2018]
And so I arrived in Istanbul, ready for three and a half weeks of backpacking with my 18 year old brother who - to put it gently - is a travel novice. He had arrived the day before me and in that 24 hour stretch had managed to get himself trapped ... Read more >
Tags: aga sofia, blue mosque, cappadocia, goreme, horse riding, istanbul, jackson, kaymakli, turkey, turkish tea
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 | By chris_and_dusk | Photo Gallery
Heading off the beaten track
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Fri, 25 Nov 2011 | By chris_and_dusk | Views [808]
We didn’t get much sleep on the night bus to Cappadocia. The
bus stopped every hour or so, turned the light on and basically woke everyone
up. I think I got a bit more sleep than Chris, his long legs make it difficult
to get comfortable on buses. ... Read more >
Tue, 8 Nov 2011 | By mrbrightside | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
My name is Ilyas i'm 23 years old and I live in central Russia. I do photography only for six month. I have a degree in law but when i started to learn photography i found out that it was the only thing in my life that i was really passionate about. I ...
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Mon, 7 Nov 2011 | By tlwhite1 | Views [1047]
Turkey has character of culture, history, landscape, outdoor activity and most importantly its people demonstrate an open curiosity of others, devoid of hostility or skepticism. https://s3.amazonaws.com/aphs.worldnomads.com/tlwhite1/31557/DSC_0228.jpg ... Read more >
Mon, 7 Nov 2011 | By roomman | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
EXPLORING has always been the main headline of my life. Resulting from a life with family across several continents, I started thriving for a more complete, a more deep picture of the world. I started travelling and documenting the places which are ...
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Tags: #2011wnphoto, travel photography scholarship 2011
Mon, 7 Nov 2011 | By jipy_travel | Photo Gallery
Fell in Love with Istanbul: Gate of Orient
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Tue, 1 Nov 2011 | By chris_and_dusk | Views [710]
In Fethiye we decided to do the twelve island boat
trip. Having discovered that it is
always better to shop around in Turkey we headed off down to the wharf and checked
out the boats. All the boats do pretty
much the same itinerary so it all comes ... Read more >
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