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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By surfohio | Views [164] | Scholarship Entry
During the early 90’s, freshly clipped from Architecture school, I ventured over to the then Czechoslovakia to live with a professor & work at a small atelier. Here’s one of many adventures…. After gotten accustomed to the land & a bit of the language, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By neev | Views [179] | Scholarship Entry
One Night in Taipei Seated fortune-tellers line the street from the local MRT station to Hsingtien temple, while blind faith healers offer head massages on the pavement outside the gates. The outer courtyard is a meeting place for quiet evening banter.... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By cecinha | Views [167] | Scholarship Entry
A Slow Dance. I’m waiting for the bus, sipping coconut water trying to decipher what Renato, coconut stand owner, is telling me while he waves his machete as an extension of his arm before he shovels it into the green coconut cutting perfect slices of ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By louisesinnerton | Views [170] | Scholarship Entry
The green looming hills stretch and yawn miles above me, with their bright blinking eyes ready for the morning’s chattering to start. The battered taxi spluttering Quechua tunes climbs nearer and nearer to the bridge that leads into the town. I’m told ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By jlemus | Views [157] | Scholarship Entry
I can picture it happening: Jaume I, during a battle, accepts that he is facing his last precious breaths. He places his hand onto his bloody chest directly over his heavy-beating heart, and in one final moment of consciousness spreads his fingers across ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By richardcrookback | Views [163] | Scholarship Entry
'THE SLOWEST AND LONGEST PUB CRAWL' I first noticed it in Amsterdam. We’d left an Italian restaurant and headed for the nearest pub, maybe called O’Connell’s. Inside a Croatian band were playing, while a Polish barmaid served English drinkers, but the ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By harryh | Views [245] | Scholarship Entry
Border crossing My expectations of the border crossing deeply contrasted the scene unfolding before me. It was my first time travelling into Eastern Europe and, to be honest, I anticipated some sort of line in the ground; a defining marker establishing ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By around_about | Views [272] | Scholarship Entry
My government warned me about the feelings I was experiencing. It was an overwhelming mixture of excitement, anxiety, fear and adrenaline. Someone at the Department of Foreign Affairs had compiled a nice list on their website of the emotional stages ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By stephaniepantera | Views [262] | Scholarship Entry
Visiting my 31st country, and a return visit at that, I experienced my first true taste of culture shock. I had returned to the jungle of Peru. It was black, except for the light of the tobacco from the shaman pipes. The “maloka”, a traditional ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By voyageur | Views [451] | Scholarship Entry
Only Ten Minutes To Go This was my very first time to go abroad by myself along with my backpacking friends. I arrange my own backpacking to Singapore with six other people. The strongest memory left in my head is when we arrived in Changi Airport.... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By hope_on | Views [62] | Scholarship Entry
RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL AUM Pitch dark, radiant skies and some faint light from our cell phone screens and we were off to trek down some unknown terrain to Kudle beach. The rickshaw driver declared its all walking after that point. So we set foot to a ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By parv | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
Travelling a 1000 miles, as I got down the long distance train with a trunk in one hand, suitcase in other and a rucksack on my back, I felt a little concerned to ask for way around the Bandra Terminus, landmark of Mumbai, India. Having grown up in a ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By ozairrao | Views [577] | 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 >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By mjmacdougall | Views [173] | 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 >
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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 >
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