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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By hellomister | Views [177] | Scholarship Entry
My passport is a major attraction for the officers on duty this afternoon. One after the other they flip through the pages, curiously looking at the stamps I collected over the years. Sometimes they would whistle out of astonishment and move their lips ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By beyondborders | Views [252] | Scholarship Entry
My big adventure was a trip to Mozambique. I had a limited budget, not much time and precious little travel information. The capital city, Maputo, was my first stop and would serve as my base. The next leg of the trip was getting to a small town in the ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By emmakate08 | Views [198] | Scholarship Entry
The taxi’s dashboard has a thick coloured fringe of multi-coloured dreadlocks, swinging as the car weaves along the narrow, dusty streets. The driver wears a battered cap and wide sunglasses, and sits on a seat covered with round wooden beads the size ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By cairo | Views [194] | Scholarship Entry
I happened to be in 6th of October City, a new city blooming in the neighborhood of Cairo. I had to get to the Downtown, an hour from here. Taxi, the most common means of transportation in Egypt, would cost me around 50 Egyptians pounds (around $10). ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By chocula | Views [106] | Scholarship Entry
What makes a person give up everything they know, simply to try and change another person's life? I am sitting at a table in KOTO, one of Vietnam’s most famous restaurants, on the trail of an answer. Looking out, the treetops of Hanoi’s Dong Da district ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By tanzina | Views [146] | Scholarship Entry
The thinly sliced chicken crackled over fire as the vendor turned the sticks skewered to the meat. Searing clockwise for a minute or two, she brushed the sweet peanut sauce, oil dripped over charcoal making sizzling sound. The sweet smoky smell of the ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By strictnomadicjoy | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
I awake with confusion and fear as I look up to see two ominous looking German Shepperds and three armed guards standing above us telling us to leave immediately. It is 3:30am and there is a frigidness in the air that I have not felt in months. My body ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By travel_addict | Views [243] | Scholarship Entry
In
a very brief visit to Australia, there I was in Hobart, Tasmania. As an Indonesian
girl with less overseas travel experience, being a volunteer at the 2011
Australian Wooden Boat Festival for 4 days was tremendous. There were over a
hundreds ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By the_internationalist | Views [140] | Scholarship Entry
I recommend that you travel by train in India. To fully grasp this nation of contrasts and the diversity of its people, one should travel once, in general class. The polluted horizon levelled with the train tracks. The sky was an apocalypse grey with ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By awholewideworld | Views [217] | Scholarship Entry
Across the Forgotten Country We crossed into Laos from Hanoi, stopping first in Vientiane, the nation’s capital and most populous city. With two thirds of the population Theravada Buddhist, monasteries and monks are a frequent sight, adding the gentle ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By kayira | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry
I will never forget my trip to the mangrove forest, the home of Royal Bengal tiger. I felt the thrill of walking across the king’s territory without endangering my life. Back in November 2003, I had just finished the final exam of grade six. So I was ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By mike_and_johannan | Views [137] | Scholarship Entry
A Champagne Adventure Every year thousands of tourists flock to Épernay, 25 kilometres south of Reims in northern France, to visit the great champagne houses gathered along the avenue de Champagne. We visited the Moët et Chandon cellars on a cool autumn ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By yeuxdoux | Views [177] | 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 [260] | 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 [1239] | 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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