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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By yeuxdoux | Views [192] | Scholarship Entry
Eleven fifteen PM; I check my watch again. A sinking feeling fills my stomach, as I realize that I am one hour behind the larger spherical clock of this Granada bus station. I peer through the vertical waiting room windows into the fluorescent lit bay ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By travelbug77 | Views [277] | Scholarship Entry
The need to escape from routine and take a break over summer led me to Sri Lanka, a country I knew little about. My knowledge was limited, apart from the fact that there had been a massive civil war waged for years between the LTTE and the government, ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By mbrinlee | Views [1263] | Scholarship Entry
A Children’s Cargolade Giggling, the young schoolboy dangles a piece of cargolade before me. "Vous mangez," he commands, sliding the snail out from its shell with ease using a small fork, reminiscent of Poseidon’s trident. As I open my mouth he quickly ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By atmosphere | Views [256] | Scholarship Entry
Today we crossed the border of La República Dominicana into La República de Haiti. An extensive border patrol was inoperative. Only a young, clean shaven soldier strapped with an M-16 stood between former adversaries. Their boundary consisted of ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By celandine | Views [216] | Scholarship Entry
The Qoyllur’Riti pilgrimage begins beside a river at the foot of Ausangate. Making the journey here with a few other foreigners, I am in search of an “authentic” experience, authenticity being a quality sometimes subject to depreciation in the more heavily ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By fakhrizal | Views [273] | Scholarship Entry
Kulu Village has a stretch of mangrove forest is practically virgin. The first time you visit it now began to be developed into eco-tourism locations. already constructed paths that cut through forests and a tourist lodge. for lovers of bird watching ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By twothousandandten | Views [247] | Scholarship Entry
To be in a country and not know the language is to feel two again. I know what I what; I want I just don’t have the means to communicate effectively. Fled the assure shores of Zadar, after 2 days of sights and parties (Leaving behind a piece of my heart, ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By bea_corbacho | Views [219] | Scholarship Entry
At the beginning of every adventure there is a love story, there is passion and a spontaneous combustion takes place inside us with the subsequent unpredictable result, a cocktail of emotions and situations which we are barely prepared to face. Symptoms ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By juliawentzel | Views [188] | Scholarship Entry
The market near the center of Oaxaca City filled the belly of an old colonial building. Making our way through this maze became an olfactory experience, from the simple smells of stands selling clothes and perfumes to the more zealous scents of the velas ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By gowithbeth | Views [169] | Scholarship Entry
I was standing in the middle of a crystal chandelier. Ribbons of watery droplets were reflecting rainbows all around me. The floors are a combination of swirls in black, red, and white pearls. I half expected to see Jean Harlow and Clark Gable sashay ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By mm_dekme | Views [303] | Scholarship Entry
I was a village boy.My both parents a subsistance farmers.In my childhood days I spend most helping both parents doing gardening.I do not know any languages apart from my mother tounge,even I do not know about whiteman. By the time I was six (6)years ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By adventurekimee | Views [381] | Scholarship Entry
When I was six years old, my father took me to the neighborhood pool to learn to swim. For three hours I sat at the edge of the pool, refusing to go in. Finally, my father picked me up and dropped me into the water and into the waiting arms of the swim ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By travis_the_traveller | Views [542] | Scholarship Entry
In early 2001 I accompanied my sister and two of her friends through Morocco’s Atlas Mountains into the medieval city of Fes. Our trip through North Africa began after a four-hour crossing of the Mediterranean Sea that landed us in Nador, a crumbling ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By mhayman | Views [113] | Scholarship Entry
The Joys of Irresponsible Travel When Antonio and I drove my 1984 Oldsmobile to Mexico in 2002, our relationship was about to end, and we both knew it. The sense of finality was reflected in our travel: there were no particular destinations on our ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By pattyhodapp | Views [109] | Scholarship Entry
Tara and I sat perched on a mustard, moth-eaten couch. On the facing wall, a yellowish stain—vomit or urine, I couldn’t tell—congealed in drip-dry formation down the peeling white paint. It was almost midnight. Two dirty, sweaty men leered at ... Read more >
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