Destination: Worldwide
There are [3150] stories and [13034] photos from Worldwide
Most Recent | Most Viewed | Most Commented | Most Interesting | Random
Latest stories from Worldwide
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By ozairrao | Views [598] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
The Bus Station in Lee Market, 9 in the morning, head buzzing, I thought “O Boy, I hope I don’t fall out”. My side of the old rattling bus which was damaged, so every bump and turn made my racing heart stop. After a wild 6 hours ride, I could feel the ... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By mjmacdougall | Views [185] | Scholarship Entry
The story begins with the fortunate meeting of my partner in crime, otherwise known as my kindred spirit travel cohort. We first met while riding camels beneath the blistering sun at the Great Pyramids. My friend Breezy and I have an alikeness that ... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By mundanas_world | Views [90] | Scholarship Entry
Definitely the trip of my life is just done. I know that whenever we travel we feel that this is the best of our travels; but in my case this one has been a 180 degree turn to my way of thinking, feeling, living and even eat. I´m talking about the "Camino ... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By bipolartraveller | Views [183] | Scholarship Entry
I was craving to run away from urban mess,and travel away my thoughts to the island of aeolian winds,ancient poets and philosophers,to the island of Lesvos Greece. I chose the hard way to get there...by the sea with a ship named after the painter ... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By branchingsix | Views [478] | Scholarship Entry
A Glimpse of the Gods After fifty-seven hours spent traveling through airports, train stations, and the Southeast Asian countryside, I browse the dusty streets of Siem Reap, Cambodia, for a suitable bed. My choices are unlimited. I enter a quaint courtyard, ... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By cjgood | Views [56] | Scholarship Entry
When the chaos and confusion of my busy life begins to wreak havoc, it is a good idea to take a break, slow down, take a breath, and appreciate the important things in life such as: family, friends, nature and fascinating cultures. Fortunately, there ... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By aj_koch | Views [234] | Scholarship Entry
SANGRE DE SALSA It begins with your feet. Before you even notice it they’re tapping away uncontrollably on the cobblestones beneath. The incessant, seductive beat demands it. Four old men stand with four old instruments on a crumbling Cuban corner ... Read more >
Tags: #2011writing, travel writing scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By phoebewright | Views [142] | Scholarship Entry
Every Westerner I meet in Peru tells me: 'don't take the cheap night buses, especially not to Bolivia'. An apparently safer, more comfortable version is only forty Peruvian soles more, but I decide I want to experience the real thing. Squashed between ... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By onehome | Views [185] | Scholarship Entry
this is my magic story.. i close my eyes i see this huge world as one big house. every room has different people with different language , different color, different religion and different culture. i start my journey inside this big home. whenever i enter ... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By mmillersd | Views [143] | Scholarship Entry
Every day at 8am from July 7th through July 14th a lone rocket bursts over Old Pamplona ritually commencing a stampede of bulls and men. As it exploded overhead several hundred others and myself begin making our way down the course. Ceremoniously clad ... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By nayus | Views [67] | Scholarship Entry
I alighted from my Tuk-tuk full with enthusiasm. My ears instantly filled with laughter of Cambodian kids playing barefooted in front of the grey gate I’m going to enter. They wave at me as I smile back in joy. Oh..how life is grand with the sun sizzling ... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By upandatom | Views [87] | Scholarship Entry
Shunting forward and careering back, the songthaew lists as it navigates the course of the hilly dried mud roadway. Never were the words 'off the beaten track' so apt. Many miles away from the so-called 'Banana Pancake' trail which snakes through South-... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By lanky | Views [190] | Scholarship Entry
Visiting India for the first time is so much more like entering an otherworldly kingdom than merely visiting a foreign land. Flying into Mumbai at midnight during the festival of Diwali, I was greeted by a dazzling web of lights, scattered liberally across ... Read more >
Tags: #2011Writing, Travel Writing Scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By andika | Views [339] | Scholarship Entry
Like the waitress who handed us our plates—whose hair was shoulder length on one side of her head and shaved on the other—Montreal has come to terms with its split personality, and the result is unexpected, spirited, and fresh. I asked Marc, a ... Read more >
Tags: #2011writing, travel writing scholarship 2011
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By viaestvita | Views [166] | Scholarship Entry
In the world of contrasts The lifeless, mélange of yellow and brown, rocky landscape of the Negev desert, which occupies about 55% of Israel’s territory, and the permanent fluctuations in blood pressure on the way back from the Dead Sea, which ... Read more >
Tags: #2011writing, travel writing scholarship 2011
More stories from Worldwide
< Previous 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 Next >