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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By umbriagal | Views [1208] | Scholarship Entry
“You’ll be crippled for life!” Genial laughter filled the creaky minibus on its way to Wadi Rum as the young backpackers found out I was planning to ride a camel across the wadi before my night in a Bedouin tent. “They’ll have to carry you into camp!” ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By intrepidgirl | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry
The task was simple – drive three of us to the top of the pass with our mountain bikes so we could begin our 45km journey through the Imnan Valley. But things are not always as simple as they seem. The Imnam Valley is in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By aveek | Views [346] | Scholarship Entry
Our car slowly made its way, disturbing ever resting loose pebbles, into a valley, Chatal. As we stepped down, nature greeted with all its beauty open to us and the sky blushing behind. Strokes of monsoon land slide coupled with green patches having tiny ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By ladydowse | Views [538] | 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 >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By febryfawzi | Views [179] | Scholarship Entry
This is about the journey in an unknown culture, actually I travelled nowhere but my own country, Indonesia. I always say, there's no better place than our own homes, in our own country, but I find different things. I do not recognize it, it's like out ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By little_kat_big_world | Views [205] | Scholarship Entry
The Wadi Rum desert in Jordan lies in the southern end of the country, between the ancient city of Petra and the coast of the Red Sea. Loosely translated “High Canyon,” Wadi Rum easily lives up to its name with towering red rock formations lining the ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By rikleaf | Views [705] | 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 [428] | 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 julia_stepowska | Views [189] | Scholarship Entry
Portal to Another World A school of fish hurriedly swim under my floating body. Feeling the sun’s rays once again penetrating through the icy water of the Gran Cenote, they seem to recover from crossing the dangerous, dark zone of my shadow and leisurely ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By littlemisswanderlust | Views [204] | 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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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By sabrina | Views [286] | Scholarship Entry
My eyes slowly opened as the rooster’s dutiful shrill reverberated outside my hut. In rural Hawaii, you become accustomed to rising at the sound of the cock’s proverbial music, and in fact, you come to relish it. At four in the morning, climbing out of ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By krystalsutherland | Views [657] | Scholarship Entry
I wake in the morning in the sunlight and the warmth and the air perfumed by wildflowers. I rise with the sun. There are no alarm clocks in this place, and even if there were, they would not feel right. The calm and quiet stillness has an almost spiritual ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By opauli | Views [293] | Scholarship Entry
Student Exchange Letter, 2010 It occurred to me that 2010 has been ´Chile´s Year´, because of many remarkable events which have transpired. It began with that memorable earthquake in February, measuring roughly 8 on the Richter scale and causing immense ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By cairo | Views [262] | Scholarship Entry
I happened to be in 6th of October City, a new city blooming in the neighborhood of Cairo. I had to get to the Downtown, an hour from here. Taxi, the most common means of transportation in Egypt, would cost me around 50 Egyptians pounds (around $10). ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By chocula | Views [106] | Scholarship Entry
What makes a person give up everything they know, simply to try and change another person's life? I am sitting at a table in KOTO, one of Vietnam’s most famous restaurants, on the trail of an answer. Looking out, the treetops of Hanoi’s Dong Da district ... Read more >
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