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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By pdmcclenny | Views [160] | Scholarship Entry
Just after my neighbor’s brother lead me to a chair, I looked upward in awe, trying to figure out how they had transformed their modest backyard into a massive dining area in less than one afternoon. The ceiling definitely wasn’t a professional tent ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By spontaneously | Views [140] | Scholarship Entry
In retrospect i just can think, now: What a day! I´m smiling, smiling with a feature going through my face mentioning briefly my state of uncertainty all day, all over. I´m sitting here, sitting in this seamy run-down internet café with this mittle-aged ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By disorientednomad | Views [430] | Scholarship Entry
The start was rather auspicious, or so it seemed. We hadn't even managed to leave the bus depot before our bus collided with another vehicle...another bus. We sat on the hot, pavement in the odorous, loud bus depot, listening to the drivers yell in ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By eliza_inspired | Views [4004] | Comments [4] | Scholarship Entry
The dusty streets of Varanasi’s old town serve up a motley conglomerate of smells. I greedily inhale the mouth-watering aroma of tandoori chicken only in the next step to have the sour stench of urine fill my nose. Determined men fall in step to announce ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By hippiehappy | Views [200] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
As I gazed into the heavily opiated eyes of the tie-dye clad Tharu tribal and his 200-strong army behind him, their arms laden with bulbous rocks, one question ran through my mind– How did I get here? The irony of his symbolic (of peace) choice of clothing, ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By tranquillity | Views [629] | Scholarship Entry
By Zaki Habibi It was a bright noon in a weekday, but it was so quiet. This silence sent me to another dimension then it pulled me away from my consciousness to an unstoppable ecstasy in the underwater. “Fuuuh…hahhh… fuuuh…hahhh…” My breath created ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By angelo | Views [203] | Scholarship Entry
We boarded the bus in Arica, the northernmost city in Chile, a little man made outpost in between the Atacama desert and Humboldt current. Those two have a symbiotic relationship: the land's ambient heat causing oceanic upwellings which distribute ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By nep | Views [160] | Scholarship Entry
While visiting Vietnam, I decided hop on a bus and head for Cambodia. Travelers typically go to Cambodia to see Angkor Wat. As a bus ride from Saigon would have taken twelve hours, I opted for a shorter, six hour ride to Phnom Penh. In Vietnam, I learned ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By chrisaknight | Views [5725] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
The old man squats over the kiln and pours the molten ordinance into the cast. Made of fire-hardened teak, each mold is worn smooth by decades of use and clasped together with a frayed length of hemp twine. Black singe marks cover the block and the ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By guidelessguy1 | Views [248] | Scholarship Entry
"Good Spirits"
Because the ocean recedes so far at low tide, Nusa Lembongan’s farmers can wade out and tend to ocean-floor seaweed farms twice a day. Strips of pearl white sand separate these shadowy patches of vegetation, visible beneath ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By syrian-trip | Views [348] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Our train arrived late in Aleppo but our connection towards Jordan unfortunately departed punctually. The next train went only a day later, therefore we had to choose the bus to Damascus. One of our fellow travellers helped us to catch a taxi to the bus ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By lisap | Views [190] | Scholarship Entry
Bascarcija, the Ottoman center of Sarajevo, is a lot like the markets of Istanbul. Or, it's a lot like what the markets of Istanbul would be if they took a handful of Valium and relaxed. Nobody bustles, and nobody seems to be in a hurry. A stroll downtown ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By misshopper | Views [167] | Scholarship Entry
Delving into the unknown - Turkey in this case - is an exciting, enticing and irresistible offer. A city, a country, a continent, so different and so far, with opportunity for discovery is a dream I dare visualise. Breaking through new languages, new ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By lisaforrest | Views [172] | Scholarship Entry
“It’s easy!” he announced confidently as he skipped off the curb. I watched him saunter across the frenzied motorway in downtown Cairo, which sees thousands of cars filter through its eight-lane racetrack every hour. He wore dark diamond-encrusted ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By anaivanovic | Views [210] | Scholarship Entry
From one coast to another With the experience of 2000 miles behind us, we finally found ourselves on the smaller roads. Eccentric battle of wild nature and human need to tame it and the predestinated wind at our back leading us to the very edge of the ... Read more >
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