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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By traveltym | Views [527] | Scholarship Entry
Siem Reap Hangover I was trying to soak it all in. It was to be my last stroll through Pub Street and I just wanted to make sure I remembered every little detail that I loved so much about this place. See originally, I pictured Siem Reap to be a sleepy ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By thedavid | Views [482] | Scholarship Entry
There I was: An American in the coach-class, upper-deck nose of a 747 bound for Johannesburg from JFK in August 2001, ignoring the turbulence of recent headlines: “South Africa: The Per Capita Murder, Assault, Rape and Carjacking Capitol of the World”, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By voyageur | Views [488] | Scholarship Entry
Only Ten Minutes To Go This was my very first time to go abroad by myself along with my backpacking friends. I arrange my own backpacking to Singapore with six other people. The strongest memory left in my head is when we arrived in Changi Airport.... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By disorientednomad | Views [451] | Scholarship Entry
The start was rather auspicious, or so it seemed. We hadn't even managed to leave the bus depot before our bus collided with another vehicle...another bus. We sat on the hot, pavement in the odorous, loud bus depot, listening to the drivers yell in ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By tranquillity | Views [650] | Scholarship Entry
By Zaki Habibi It was a bright noon in a weekday, but it was so quiet. This silence sent me to another dimension then it pulled me away from my consciousness to an unstoppable ecstasy in the underwater. “Fuuuh…hahhh… fuuuh…hahhh…” My breath created ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By chrisaknight | Views [5755] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
The old man squats over the kiln and pours the molten ordinance into the cast. Made of fire-hardened teak, each mold is worn smooth by decades of use and clasped together with a frayed length of hemp twine. Black singe marks cover the block and the ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By alanaallekotte | Views [518] | Comments [3] | Scholarship Entry
Mid-way through my $400 journey across Europe, I was invited to a Viennese apartment that invoked a paradigm shifting cultural shock. I found the apartment building and entered a metal-gated stone vestibule, revealing an ornate staircase that clashed ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By renegade | Views [341] | Scholarship Entry
We alight from the bus and enter a deserted town.Most shops are closed,and the few that remain open are but small "chai" or tea shops.But with the mercury level well below 10 degrees centigrade,hot tea seems like a wonderful idea. We head ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By runningkites | Views [531] | Scholarship Entry
STILL The Sierra Nevada night is angry with rain. Drenched to the bone we reach the entrance to a fortress of adobe huts, home to the indigenous Kogi people. We've stirred the sentries. In droves they rush to meet our presence, sceptically surveying ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By bota | Views [457] | Scholarship Entry
MECCA OF POSSIBILITIES Touchdown, as central as it gets. My pulse was rushing, revolved by hustling, bustling, and a howling, twisting grid street system. Coloured air filled my nostrils making it yank slightly. Still, air you can see is reliable air ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By jewels | Views [210] | Scholarship Entry
Below the hazy orange sherbet shrouded sky scrapers, wide tree lined Shanghai side streets awaken with the creaking sounds of rusty post office style cycles & tricycles. Entrepreneurs cycle by precariously balancing their massive cardboard bounty s, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By responsible-travel | Views [4656]
I wasn’t always a sea turtle fanatic. I didn’t grow up with a pet turtle,
snorkel with green turtles in Hawaii, or even watch the Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles. I had a pretty boring
suburban US childhood without a lot of interaction with nature.... Read more >
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By sam_louiseb | Views [702] | Scholarship Entry
“Is everyone ready for takeoff?” the pilots voice comes crackling through my headphones. I nod enthusiastically until I realise there is a microphone under my chin, “Sure am” I shout and give a thumbs up from the back seat as the other passengers turn ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By lifeisjourney | Views [389] | Scholarship Entry
Life is journey and this trip was the longest path, I had walked. This village was hidden by mountains. My friend and I went to “Kor Sa deong”, a small village in Kanjanaburi, Thailand for a research about the local Karean music. After walking in the ... Read more >
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culture, adventure, journey, jungle, karean, thailand, travel, travel writing scholarship 2011, village
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By bither_traveler | Views [338] | Scholarship Entry
Flanked by snow-covered mountains, I realized that my dream was about to come true. I had always wanted to do it, I had worked hard to prepare for it, and now I had traveled quite a distance to reach it; I was going to ski in the Alps. I was 21 years ... Read more >
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