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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By ladydowse | Views [545] | Scholarship Entry
One year before the earthquake and tsunami struck I left Japan. I’d been teaching English in a remote mountain village. Before leaving I wrote a love letter to the country I had fallen head over heels for. Now it seems all the more poignant. ‘Words seem ... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By rikleaf | Views [716] | Scholarship Entry
Carpe Diem Connoisseurs For our little family this has been the Year of the Snail, as we have Quasimotoed our way around the world with our home on our backs. My wife, Zara and I, sold our house in Canada to spend a year traveling with our son Zion, ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By saktinuzan | Views [436] | Scholarship Entry
The surrounding air has just got thickened to moist. I tiptoed over hundred steps of weathered stairs, drowned in a pandemonium of lush, moss-glittered tree limbs. Eerily crying grey macaques loomed all over the verdant bushes only several inches ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By littlemisswanderlust | Views [205] | Scholarship Entry
It was a far cry from the skyscrapers, laundromats and raucous taxi horns of New York City. I’d traveled 4000 miles from my nine-to-five life to work my way through Italy on organic farms. Perledo was like a hundred fairytales in one village. Cobblestone ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By travelbug77 | Views [304] | Scholarship Entry
The need to escape from routine and take a break over summer led me to Sri Lanka, a country I knew little about. My knowledge was limited, apart from the fact that there had been a massive civil war waged for years between the LTTE and the government, ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By adventurekimee | Views [388] | Scholarship Entry
When I was six years old, my father took me to the neighborhood pool to learn to swim. For three hours I sat at the edge of the pool, refusing to go in. Finally, my father picked me up and dropped me into the water and into the waiting arms of the swim ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By prmontgomery | Views [479] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
When most people think of Shanghai they envision the pointy sci-fi-orific Pearl tower, the glimmering European-esque stretch of the Bund, or the ethereal fog that clings to the city like cotton candy to children’s fingers; but for those who dare to venture ... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By hevc | Views [422] | Scholarship Entry
Interrupted by the shrill, dawn chorus of resident Macaws, I awoke roughly from my outdoor siesta; the sweet, fresh aroma of Eucalyptus invigorated me as I attempted to shuffle free from the captivity of my 70s-style, striped hammock. I could see the ... Read more >
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Wed, 23 Mar 2011 | By scholarships | Views [81271]
Dat Vu, winner of the 2010 Travel Photography Scholarship, went on assignment in December with National Geographic photographer Jason Edwards to Bhutan.
They travelled for a week exploring historic buildings and monasteries, picturesque villages ... Read more >
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 | By emily_mcd | Views [539] | Scholarship Entry
The waves crash in the side of the tiny passenger boat as we rise and fall across the ocean. All I can see if the blue of the ocean and the sky, so pure I feel as if I were crossing a liquid sapphire. The wind whips through my hair and spray hits my face.... Read more >
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Tue, 22 Mar 2011 | By madaussie | Photo Gallery
Winter 2010 - 2011 with my brother
Still have to upload many.. sifting through the hundreds that were taken is taking me a while!!
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Tags: brother, europe, exciting, fun, journey, travel, winter
Tue, 22 Mar 2011 | By jkayigema | Views [64] | Scholarship Entry
I was walking along a beach, by the sea. It was a hot day. The sun was burning down on my head. I was hot and tired. I was walking slowly…more and more slowly…I stop. I sat down on the sand. I looked at the sea and picked up some small stones from the ... Read more >
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Tue, 22 Mar 2011 | By parth | Views [111] | Scholarship Entry
We all travel for different reasons – some known, some perennially strung together towards the unknown. I travel for periodic ruminations, to escape the urban couth that is much too suffocating at times. The mountains are a frequent choice. The area ... Read more >
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Mon, 21 Mar 2011 | By adammacisaac | Views [91] | Scholarship Entry
There are many things that a city like Bangkok, Thailand can offer to those who are adventurous travelers but by far the one thing not to miss is a sort of shady, tucked away market that transforms a regular shabby clay parking lot into a collectors bartering ... Read more >
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