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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By wandermentations | Views [692] | Scholarship Entry
Arriving somewhere unfamiliar at night is always disconcerting. I came on a motorbike, along a rough road of red dirt and rock, through sparse, scratchy bush and acacia, passing the odd giraffe or baboon as the hues of dusk faded to black. When the ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By kristinetay | Views [184] | Scholarship Entry
On top of Mount Howitt, the air is thick with Bogong moths. Thousands of wings swirl from the rocks and crevices on the darkening mountain, and stars as thick and dense as land are starting to show. On the horizon I can just make out the lights of the ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By footsteps | Views [934] | Comments [18] | Scholarship Entry
It felt like in the middle of a war zone as a part in breaking the world record for “The Most People Scuba Diving Simultaneously” on 17 August 2009. Organized by Indonesian Navy on our country 64th National Day celebration, we successfully broke the record ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By helloimlost | Views [250] | Scholarship Entry
Ever been to the Olympic city of Nagano in Japan? Well, I have, and let me tell you, it’s a pretty amazing place. Maybe this information doesn’t surprise you, after all, it’s the only city in the world that was cool enough to host events from both the ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By yusraj | Views [133] | Scholarship Entry
It is 3 days since I have arrived and enjoyed the hospitality of my friends in Vienna, everything was close to perfect, to be surrounded by people you are friends with and can enjoy the smallest detail with. Despite the joy of meeting old friends the ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By yezad_791 | Views [204] | Scholarship Entry
What’s the going rate for culture? In 1947 when India and Pakistan split to become two independent countries, the princely state of Junagadh was given a choice, at least on paper, to accede to either of the two. The state’s Nawab, Mohammad Mahabat Khanji ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By ekimpraim | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
The clouds that hover over Cuba are as complex as the people who inhabit it. In several shades and imaginative formations, they cast their shadows below. They accumulate and heave heavy drops and create a mirror for themselves. But it doesn’t last long.... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By olga | Views [166] | Scholarship Entry
You are a passer by, on your way from one forest scenery to a next. The indigenes – they really are – seem busy and not to notice you, but then seem disturbed. There is nothing with you but a rucksack and an open heart. But it has been unlocked only ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By bean | Views [205] | Scholarship Entry
Seems unlikely that I would find myself at Mayan ruins on the tail end of a work trip, but here I am lying under a huge pine tree in the midst of what was once at important city: Iximche. What remains now, forces your imagination to run wild: important ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By gulliblestravels | Views [1143] | Scholarship Entry
“Ever been to a Turkish bath Joey?” isn’t a line from the comedy classic “Airplane”, but for years I thought it was. The pilot actually asks the young boy visiting the cockpit if he’s ever been to a Turkish prison. Interestingly though you can switch ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By coffeecat | Views [167] | Scholarship Entry
Everyone we met advised us to skip Venice or go there last, as no European city drained a bank account faster. My British travel companion had recently studied art history there and insisted we go because he knew a well-kept secret: the real Venetian ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By viktorija | Views [71] | Scholarship Entry
A man dressed in black ordinary clothes keeps on pretending to be an accidental passer-by and not my ‘guardian angel’ who is trying to grasp every single word I mumble into my cell phone. That’s the gratis escort you get if you come to an election observation ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By williamc | Views [180] | Scholarship Entry
Canoe Cedar Trying to beat the black-fathomed water’s afternoon chop, our group waterbugged the sea kayaks across Esperanza Inlet, a mile-wide fjord fingered into the remote serrated west coast of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island. Flanked by misty, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By caroline1212 | Views [155] | Scholarship Entry
We dismount at Chefchouen, uncertain of what we will find there only that the travel books either say it’s well worth the treck, or fail to mention it at all. Unfortunately, the bus stop isn’t immediately reassuring: a barren strip of gravel, punctuated ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By equineocean | Views [220] | Scholarship Entry
FINDING MY WAY IN BARCELONA Barcelona seems an unfinished city, not afraid to acknowledge that nothing is ever complete. I sense this on my first night in the city, passing noisy side streets whose names mean nothing to me yet, hearing Spanish tones ... Read more >
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