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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By nicolasandrade | Views [197] | Scholarship Entry
I ended up in Arayuno (this Amazonic village) after an unfortunate night-time bus crash. With the road now closed for 3 days, the conditions were perfect for initiating a new journey to another unknown culture within my country. It began by meeting Oscar ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By outthere | Views [185] | Scholarship Entry
A city of legends The perfect time at the perfect place. Sitting on the grass, sun-bathed, eating a refreshing lemon hand-made ice-cream, next to all sorts of people, listening to regional music played by a group of old men in a kiosk, who along with ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By mystickynotes | Views [164] | Scholarship Entry
It is common that the reason behind traveling is to get to know other cultures. As travelers, we want to know more about cultures other than our own. It is simply an act to experience something or somebody else. But, with my latest traveling with couchsurfing, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By jessiwa | Views [255] | Scholarship Entry
When traveling and even retelling adventures you always come across people who inspire a journey so vividly described that it ends up on your must do before death list. Syria more specifically Damascus ended up on mine after a few nights in a cold dublin ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By worldly-adventures | Views [131] | Scholarship Entry
The sizeable steps up to the Propylaea make me sweat. Its columns rising high above me. So high I have to crane my neck upwards to see the very top. The narrow path through the Propylaea is littered with tourists, their brightly coloured clothes contrasting ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By rohan_m | Views [190] | Scholarship Entry
You know that dream, where you want to run, but as hard as you try your legs just won’t work? That’s exactly how it feels, as I coax myself into climbing the dusty staircase of earth and stone stretching above me. After three hours of climbing at 4200m, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By outofmind | Views [213] | Scholarship Entry
“Don't go hitchiking to Spain! No one will pick you up! Especially the four you! “- But we still did... The general scenario for the four of us -me, a guy and three girls- was to have at least one thumb (out of eight) always out smiling at every car.... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By tom_parfitt | Views [194] | Scholarship Entry
The beachside car park was full with campervans, station wagons and 4WD’s, their doors open wide and their windows down. Sleeping bodies dozed in backseats and in crudely strung hammocks, sleeping off hangovers from the night before. The air was thick ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By tanita913 | Views [433] | Scholarship Entry
ATOP A POLITICAL STORM I could see neither the beginning nor the end of this massive procession but I knew, like all in Argentina, that today marked the 127th day of this enduring mêlée between government and ruralists that would determinedly end at ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By neerajnarayanan | Views [519] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
The breeze cooled my face as the bus picked momentum. A popular number was playing in the background and I nodded my head in beat. We were headed for Baratang Island, a hundred-odd kilometers from Port Blair. The city’s cleanliness still fascinated me.... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By ariel1122 | Views [230] | Scholarship Entry
Journey in an Unknown Culture Walking through the maze of narrow alleyways of the Maloro Market, it’s easy to get lost in the sea of smiling, bloody faces. Not literally bloody of course, but from an outsiders perspective it sure ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By zeinab | Views [216] | Scholarship Entry
Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most ancient and important monuments, including the Giza Pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza; the southern city of Luxor contains a particularly large number of ancient artefacts such ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By worldround | Views [175] | Scholarship Entry
As daylight dims, I come across two signs. One reads, “All Places From Here,” the other, “View End Of The World.” Both point to a path creeping farther up the mountain. Near the peak, I see flashes of vibrant red and green as a Jordanian flag blows ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By faroutman | Views [175] | Scholarship Entry
"If we whistle, the breeze will come..." chirps our Sherpa, Rudra. We are a day into our three-day walk in the Khatmandu Valley where the trail is arid, the climate, summer: a mixture of balmy sub-tropical and alpine. The scent of pine smoke ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By swingingdaily | Views [234] | Scholarship Entry
We flew over the ocean at a speed that resembles the one that sound reaches, especially when it travels like now - mumbling smuggled in the depth of my ears. JFK opens its doors for me and with each new place I go, I wonder if actually I am the one opening ... Read more >
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