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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By katievictoria | Views [169] | Scholarship Entry
We tumbled through a shaky four-hour car journey from Columbo, our driver swerving around the road, dependant on the preference of the traffic fast coming towards us. When we arrived at Unawatuna, a south-west coastal village deeply affected by the ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By abulstory | Views [245] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
It was beyond my expectation to travel around Manila, the Philippines. The position as archipelago country makes it hard to reach by land. Using aeroplane costs quite much money, but I was so fortunate because I had an opportunity to reach Borneo first.... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By macbrunetti | Views [292] | Scholarship Entry
I’ve waited until the last minute to get my ticket. Just the thought of buying the ticket to get on an airplane makes me anxious. So two days before my flight, I enter my credit card info and hit ‘book this flight.’ The trip is for ten days – departing ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By ulyssesdlt | Views [272] | Scholarship Entry
The soles of my shoes slide off everything, the tips of my fingers grasp for anything, the depths of my lungs scream for oxygen, my body desperately wants to collapse. I drip sweat and rain, forty pounds of wet hiking gear is on my back and I'm walking ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By livon_2011 | Views [183] | Scholarship Entry
I jump when I hear them howl and my candles flicker, threatening to take away my only source of light. Without the moon the Amazon sky looms above the treetops like an oil spill floats on water: thick, dimensionless, a black so palpable I fear it will ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By surenderinindia | Views [58] | Scholarship Entry
The majestic mountains of Himalayas stretch across many countries and the effect of economic growth and tourism is widely evident. Today, many villages that are spread along the shadow of the Himalayas have running water, electricity, schools and employment ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By natemarcus | Views [77] | Scholarship Entry
I knew I shouldn’t have. I knew, even before I bit down on it, causing its insides to explode into my mouth - a sort of slimy whey protein - that it was a bad idea. I knew before the gag reflex took over, sending most of it flying beneath the booth ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By tim | Views [235] | Scholarship Entry
Mumbai was quiet in the weeks following the attack. There were very few tourists and the locals seemed more somber. Initially I was concerned that the love affair I started with the city five years ago, on my first visit, was merely a timing infatuation ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By jesseb317 | Views [194] | Scholarship Entry
At the train station in Milan I looked up at the board and saw that my train to La Spezia, Italian for Spiez, was leaving on time from Track 9. Relieved that I had made it, I sank back into the seat anticipating the change of scenery I would witness ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By readerofasaph | Views [269] | Scholarship Entry
Being a tourist in your native country is an experience best savoured when you've been living abroad for ten years. After a decade of forgetting, even things I took for granted about my hometown seem at once familiar and exotic, as if I am visiting somewhere ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By dweller | Views [211] | Scholarship Entry
Ladislav’s creased and trembling hand lifts his schlaftrunk to his lips. The glass rocks gently against his bottom lip before finding its mark. “Škoda” he sighs, drawing another cigarette from the dwindling pack, a trail of smoke dancing idly upward. ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By desych | Views [199] | Scholarship Entry
People don’t just like travelling because they want to see beautiful scenery, but mostly because they expect to get a big adventure of it. For me, being in a unfamiliar place for conducting a mission, whatever it’s form, is such a big adventure and of ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By lizfields | Views [262] | Scholarship Entry
Kathmandu is mad. It’s colours, chaos and cars driving on the wrong side of the road. It’s dirt-faced children tugging on your arms whilst glamorous Nepali women in beaded saris and dotted bindis walk by. It’s fruit peddlers on bicycles laden with wicker ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By nspire | Views [148] | Scholarship Entry
A personal quest and honourable adventure ‘COURAGE’, ‘ENDURANCE’, ‘MATESHIP’ and ‘SACRIFICE’. I stood still, head bowed with the baking sun beating down on me. Thirsty from dehydration, my throat felt like sandpaper. I reflected on the four black ... Read more >
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By facethesun | Views [243] | Scholarship Entry
When the mountain ranger mischievously asked our group of climbers, “What’s the highest mountain in the Cordillera region?” we were not amused. We were sleepy and had just gone through a vertigo-inducing jeepney ride up to the ranger’s station. But we ... Read more >
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