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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By dax | Views [422]
The world is shrinking. Every year innovations in
transportation and technology make the world a smaller place. When I first went to china in 1996, I was one
of the few people who had witnessed the holy places of Southwestern ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By gnometrotter | Views [191] | Scholarship Entry
I sat at a picnic table under the sprawling red awnings as the rain fell in thick coils. Around me was a labyrinth of open-faced salmon sandwiches, canned caviar, and mounds of shrimp, the contours of Bergen’s fish market. Despite the weather, tourists ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By clairemcwethy | Views [217] | Scholarship Entry
It is a peculiar feeling, being confronted with your own inconsequence. Yet it is a sense that is so dauntingly inescapable when you are looking out over the vast, desolate, yet unutterably beautiful Mongolian steppe. The rich cerulean sky seems to go ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By dax | Views [389] | Comments [2]
Slowly, I backed away, my legs sloshing through the knee
high water. The tiger circled, his gaze fixed upon me. I had finally succeeded
in getting the leash on him. Now the only problem was--just that--I was holding
a lead with ... Read more >
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By callunatravels | Views [410] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
The Pomegranate City “Wait here. And no matter what happens, do not give anyone any money!” These were the orders shouted to the gringo in a dark back alley in Granada, Nicaragua. I watched as he limped down the block towards one of the many illuminated ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By elizabethtrethowan | Views [241] | Scholarship Entry
The Heat of the Moment From the moment I arrived at the busy village square, my nostrils are filled with the sweet scent of festival bread, chillied mango and roasted goat floating invitingly from the rows of street vendor carts. A soft whiff of garbage ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By njacks | Views [332] | Scholarship Entry
Up the tongue of black rock, wound a crack. She hung there, her fingernails driven in deep, her sneakers scouting for bumps and abrasions, her hair lit up in unkempt elegance. I craned my neck to watch her. Rebeca and I climbed to the top. We mounted ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By denise_t | Views [368] | Scholarship Entry
As I entered the sloping throat of Minowa subway station, the roar of a train belched from below. I clunked faster down the tiled steps into the artificial light. This was my third stay in north-east Tokyo and I thought I’d experienced the rush-hour ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By kittywerewolf | Views [210] | Scholarship Entry
The Carpathian forest creaks and rustles around me as the trees shift their weight in the late afternoon breeze. We pick our way along the semblance of a path, where the leaf litter is not so dense. Occasionally a twig cracks under foot, like a tiny cannon ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By tiasurfer | Views [368] | Scholarship Entry
Chickens On The Bus Anyone familiar with third world travel knows the term “chicken bus” all too well. With a sigh, a pinch of the nose, and a rearrangement of my valuables I boarded the bus that was to take me high into the mountains of the Dominican ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By phina | Views [265] | Scholarship Entry
It seems like we’ve been walking forever. Round one bend, then another. Stumbling over rocks and roots as we manoeuvre ourselves through the darkness. Finally, we emerge from the thickets of trees to the open air. My rattling breath catches in my throat ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By rd7 | Views [224] | Scholarship Entry
A treasure of the Peloponnese The village glistened in the shining afternoon sun – its’ ancient buildings stood quaintly along paved streets, upstairs balconies shone with the colours of flower-filled pots, national flags flew in the slight breeze and ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By willtravelfortravel | Views [278] | Scholarship Entry
In the Shoes of Giants Very carefully walking along the stone-studded alleyways of Florence, dodging the typical tourist and revving vespa, it is still easy to lose your balance; combined with the antithetical love of high-fashion heels, a woman ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By thedavid | Views [453] | Scholarship Entry
There I was: An American in the coach-class, upper-deck nose of a 747 bound for Johannesburg from JFK in August 2001, ignoring the turbulence of recent headlines: “South Africa: The Per Capita Murder, Assault, Rape and Carjacking Capitol of the World”, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By kuke | Views [400] | Scholarship Entry
A journey is about looking for another real paradise. A journey is about facing any new experiences, any unknown cultures, where all of them are so unpredictable. A journey is about me who always trying to find my own Personal Legend as The Alchemist ... Read more >
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