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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - My Big Adventure

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By ulyssesdlt | Views [260] | 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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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - Journey in an Unknown Culture

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By livon_2011 | Views [170] | 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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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - Responsible Travel

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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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - Responsible Travel

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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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - My Big Adventure

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By tim | Views [224] | 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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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - My Big Adventure

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By jesseb317 | Views [180] | 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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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - My Big Adventure

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By readerofasaph | Views [259] | 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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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - Journey in an Unknown Culture

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By dweller | Views [197] | 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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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - My Big Adventure

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By desych | Views [188] | 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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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - The Garden of Dreams

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By lizfields | Views [248] | 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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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - My Big Adventure

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By nspire | Views [135] | 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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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - My Big Adventure

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By facethesun | Views [217] | 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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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - Journey in an Unknown Culture

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By armstewart | Views [219] | Scholarship Entry

Mind your Manners I tried to pronounce the name of the bar for a fourth time and for a fourth time Mr. Hu’s portly figure shook with laughter. He said it correctly and slowly once more as I strained to hear him over Celine Dion warbling about her on-going ... Read more >

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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - My Big Adventure

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By rodrigodiaz | Views [155] | Scholarship Entry

After High-School, began the part of my life that you could call “my life on the road”. For a while I tried to find out who I was with a series of activities that I will call a waste of time, until the day I decided to travel overseas on my own. We, as ... Read more >

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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - Journey in an Unknown Culture

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By miamor | Views [155] | Scholarship Entry

You are sitting at a restaurant in Colombia. A place that is decorated in all its liveliness and accompanied by brisk Salsa music… You finish examining the menu and you are about to order your food. A sexy Latin waitress approaches you and asks, “what ... Read more >

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