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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By keith_ruffles | Views [515] | Scholarship Entry
The darkness was almost overwhelming, so utterly black that I couldn’t even see my own hand in front of my face. I pushed forwards nervously in baby steps, searching hopelessly for a way out. How had I managed to get myself lost in a church crypt? Why ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By johndunn | Views [278] | Scholarship Entry
So there I was standing next to my motorcycle. The suspension on the sidecar completely sheared off with no way to fix it. In the middle of Mongolia on the edge of a dirt road with only six days to make it to the border before the visa ran out. I looked ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By rafe | Views [225] | Scholarship Entry
What’s your name? What’s your occupation? What are you doing in Kish? A burly airport manager bellowed these questions as I sat in a musky office. Interrogation was the only welcome extended by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Even though the small island ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By tikal | Views [289] | Scholarship Entry
A sudden knocking at our door jolts me out of my deep and soothing slumber. Confused for a moment I fight off the intrusion and rollover, then I remember where I am and whats about to happen. Steve (my brother) lets out a resistant groan denying the ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By spontaneousjourney | Views [170] | Scholarship Entry
I have not had so many thrills in my life before my journey from Semarang to Lombok, it was fascinating and enriching. A friend of mine suddenly asked me to join him in a journey to Lombok from Semarang. It was outrageous at best, since none of us ever ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By nomicallyaware | Views [311] | Scholarship Entry
In the vacant slot for destination on the
immigration pass, writing Maldives stirs up a silly churn in the belly. And
however planned we may seem, we’re determined to burst the the fun pinatas to
the max.
At least four adventures ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By spontaneously | Views [146] | Scholarship Entry
In retrospect i just can think, now: What a day! I´m smiling, smiling with a feature going through my face mentioning briefly my state of uncertainty all day, all over. I´m sitting here, sitting in this seamy run-down internet café with this mittle-aged ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By disorientednomad | Views [439] | 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 eliza_inspired | Views [4013] | Comments [4] | Scholarship Entry
The dusty streets of Varanasi’s old town serve up a motley conglomerate of smells. I greedily inhale the mouth-watering aroma of tandoori chicken only in the next step to have the sour stench of urine fill my nose. Determined men fall in step to announce ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By tranquillity | Views [644] | 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 [5741] | 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 [512] | 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 supercalifragilisticexpialidocious | Views [166] | Scholarship Entry
I am old and slow. I have about 30 years. That’s about median age of Serbian population. Likewise average Serb, I also remember the time when I worked in much larger country, in that country people were wealthy and happy. Nowadays I am used by those, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By renegade | Views [335] | 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 green_traveler | Views [72] | Scholarship Entry
Bus travel in America has acquired a pessimistic reputation throughout the years. The practicality, the danger, and the price stand against the once primary form of travel in the US. When I decided to try the American bus system for myself, I expected ... Read more >
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