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Fri, 1 Apr 2011 | By scholarships | Views [30117] | Comments [12]
Our judging panel have been around the world, and back, and then some, reading through 1142 travel tales from you talented nomads! Riotous, insightful, disorientating, hilarious and always inspiring, your submitted ... Read more >
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 | By connectlocally | Views [2433] | Comments [1]
Every traveller seems to want to meet new people and experience
other cultures on their journeys – in short, we all want to connect locally.
However, how do you actually define what it means to make a local connection?
Does it ... Read more >
Tags: adventure, connect locally, connections, experiences, friends, local travel, locals, people, travel, turkey
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By scholarships | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By scholarships | Views [11255]
Remember Anna Zhu ?
Our 2009 Travel Photography Scholarship winner who went on assignment to Antarctica with National Geographic photographer Jason Edwards?
Her stunning photographs have captured the attentions of many including ... Read more >
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By lisamorrison | Views [974] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Clamping my lips together, I squint into the swirling russet dust. Rivulets of sweat run down my face and back. My palms grip the handlebars tightly, as my wrists and elbows are constantly jarred by jagged chunks of gravel that form this rough track. ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By nicolellen | Views [645] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
"The Journey of Taste while Living Abroad on the Euro" The best thing about living in Italy was taking the four months to indulge in pasta and gelato and not regretting a single bite. Bolognese, arrabiata, and pomodoro— all these Italian words thrown ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By yoursvicariously | Views [1106] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
‘Hiss’ as one leg is placed over the boat and gently onto the mat surface. ‘Groan’ as I transfer my weight onto my right foot while swinging the other leg around. I attempt to stand up but find myself swaying a little. I could be on a trampoline except ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By lothelo | Views [663] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Fahretin “What are these flags, Fahretin?”. The bus was making its way through the busy streets of Istanbul. Every suburb was festooned with different flags and political posters, slogans and music were blaring from sound systems mounted on trucks, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By ghobbs | Views [1672] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
We were tricked off the train some 300 kilometres short of our destination. Of course, no one is tricked willingly and it was only later that we realised, in one of those forehead slapping moments in which everything makes sense except how gullible you ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By putnica | Views [740] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
City of Flowers, City of Death Every great city of the world has been fought over but in Belgrade the evidence of conflict is ubiquitous. It seems to be manifested in her terrain, course and hilly and in her buildings ranging from the occasional small ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By scottcharlesford | Views [703] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Some big adventures grow from little errors. Ours was paying up front. We’d haggled hard and fast – we had a bus to catch that afternoon. Two little ladies snaffled our yuan and led us to the boat. They waved from the rocky shore; our skipper revved ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By raeynn | Views [912] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
I find the child walking alone through the rubble. Her dress of red flowers ragged and torn above her bare feet as she steps clumsily around a broken window frame. As I approach her she looks at me numbly. Her right hand clutches a stuffed bear, sodden ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By jcarey | Views [925] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Ants. Everywhere, ants. Swarming over our shoes, up our legs, from every branch we brushed in our headlong flight. Our headlamps illuminated dense thickets that clutched at us as we ran through the dark. At every stop, the ants were upon us, tenacious, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By keaganjoelbrewer | Views [870] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
He stepped up to me with his mink hat and his yellow teeth and said: "Hi, my name is Elvis". He bent his knees, began to gyrate, and launched with a boisterous voice into a rendition of 'You ain't nothin' but a hound dog'. Last I had checked, I was ... Read more >
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