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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By tanzina | Views [163] | Scholarship Entry
The thinly sliced chicken crackled over fire as the vendor turned the sticks skewered to the meat. Searing clockwise for a minute or two, she brushed the sweet peanut sauce, oil dripped over charcoal making sizzling sound. The sweet smoky smell of the ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By strictnomadicjoy | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry
I awake with confusion and fear as I look up to see two ominous looking German Shepperds and three armed guards standing above us telling us to leave immediately. It is 3:30am and there is a frigidness in the air that I have not felt in months. My body ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By travel_addict | Views [269] | Scholarship Entry
In
a very brief visit to Australia, there I was in Hobart, Tasmania. As an Indonesian
girl with less overseas travel experience, being a volunteer at the 2011
Australian Wooden Boat Festival for 4 days was tremendous. There were over a
hundreds ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By the_internationalist | Views [159] | Scholarship Entry
I recommend that you travel by train in India. To fully grasp this nation of contrasts and the diversity of its people, one should travel once, in general class. The polluted horizon levelled with the train tracks. The sky was an apocalypse grey with ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By mike_and_johannan | Views [157] | Scholarship Entry
A Champagne Adventure Every year thousands of tourists flock to Épernay, 25 kilometres south of Reims in northern France, to visit the great champagne houses gathered along the avenue de Champagne. We visited the Moët et Chandon cellars on a cool autumn ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By yeuxdoux | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
Eleven fifteen PM; I check my watch again. A sinking feeling fills my stomach, as I realize that I am one hour behind the larger spherical clock of this Granada bus station. I peer through the vertical waiting room windows into the fluorescent lit bay ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By travelbug77 | Views [286] | 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 fakhrizal | Views [277] | Scholarship Entry
Kulu Village has a stretch of mangrove forest is practically virgin. The first time you visit it now began to be developed into eco-tourism locations. already constructed paths that cut through forests and a tourist lodge. for lovers of bird watching ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By mm_dekme | Views [312] | Scholarship Entry
I was a village boy.My both parents a subsistance farmers.In my childhood days I spend most helping both parents doing gardening.I do not know any languages apart from my mother tounge,even I do not know about whiteman. By the time I was six (6)years ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By adventurekimee | Views [386] | 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 travis_the_traveller | Views [550] | Scholarship Entry
In early 2001 I accompanied my sister and two of her friends through Morocco’s Atlas Mountains into the medieval city of Fes. Our trip through North Africa began after a four-hour crossing of the Mediterranean Sea that landed us in Nador, a crumbling ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By prmontgomery | Views [472] | 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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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By tigerlilymoptop_travels | Views [335] | Scholarship Entry
Sri Lankan Surprise “Shh...Come quickly,” whispered Guhadesa, our hotel chaperone. Illuminating the dark terrain with his torch, he marched swiftly ahead, expertly weaving through a labyrinth of misshapen trees and thatched huts. I struggled to keep ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By heidisiefkas | Views [385] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
With only a backpack, ticket, and dreams, I left Miami heading to the farthest point South that I had ever explored, Punta Arenas, Chile. That January evening, I was embarking not only on a solo adventure into the Patagonian wilderness, but also through ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By zuzana | Views [251] | Scholarship Entry
Bang-bang-bangbangbang-bang–in the light of the fire, a necklace of wrought silver and ivory shines on the bare chest of the Kandyan dancer,the rhythm is passed on to the bracelets on his arms and ankles. Bang-bang-bangbangbang-bang–red ribbons hang from ... Read more >
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