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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 | By sairaakram | Views [272] | Scholarship Entry
WHERE FAIRIES BATHE IN GLORY “Malaysia! Here I come!” I said, mesmerized by my discovery while researching for a tourism project on my first job. My friends chuckled, for the idea seemed as unrealistic as someone wanting to walk on the moon one day. ... Read more >
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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 | By travelgirl | Views [295] | Scholarship Entry
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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 | By freeasabird | Views [271] | Scholarship Entry
The travel bug hit me from a ripe early age. It was instigated when my folks took the family to visit Malta our ‘Mother Island’ with a fleeting stopover in Roma. So years later, when my partner at the time Peter, who had a Bosnian background mentioned ... Read more >
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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 | By clearingcustoms | Views [225] | Scholarship Entry
His black curly hair stretched upward, blending into the darkening sky. Tears, in single file, traced the edge of his strong jaw line, clung to his chin, and then fell onto my sweaty forehead like plump, heavy raindrops dripping from a thatched roof.... Read more >
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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 | By camdool | Views [266] | Scholarship Entry
“…Now, for good luck, cast an old shoe after me” -Proverb It is 3am, it is pitch black. I am completely alone, in a forest, in the middle of Northern Spain. I can’t see the Camino de Santiago trail markers. I am torchless and scared. Sunlight ... Read more >
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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 | By rachelblundy | Views [366] | Scholarship Entry
I looked along the jetty from the safe shore of Beyin, my skin cloying in the clammy Ghanaian heat. The muddy water lapped at the old, paint-chipped canoes, rocking them steadily against the soft sand. I watched with apprehension as our guide, Evans, ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By historicaltourism | Views [87] | Scholarship Entry
I still remember when I went to Istanbul, Turkey, in 2001. I was invited by one cellular producer. Only me from my country gone there, but in Istanbul, i met many people from many countries too. When arrived istanbul, I was excited looking the city.... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By ferrerlane | Views [293] | Scholarship Entry
They came from every dark outlet. Hundreds of men in white gowns, accompanied with the roaring sound of their thousand running footsteps. The narrow streets overflowed, like blood running through veins. They sprinted toward a mosque, topped with a gold ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By sanya | Views [212] | Scholarship Entry
Pakistan may be not much think-able for many travelers due to bad image created by local and international media, but there is a lot of interest to Visit Pakistan. Pakistan is the real India where every thing began, the Indus civilization, the scripts ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By samueljfry | Views [193] | Scholarship Entry
Please see www.samuelfry.co.uk Extract: 'The Kayak that wasn't, the Hitch-hike that wasn't and the cave that didn't It was time to make like Jenson Button and pull over for a pit stop. We'd reached Vientiane: capital of Laos. The city of Temples, wide ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By ueclimbergrl | Views [296] | Scholarship Entry
You know as soon as you enter the site: It smells like exploring. For buildings, it’s the smell of age and disuse, dirt rubbed into carpets and left to ferment. Sad clothing that’s lost the smell of its owner long ago. Wet newspapers. Piles of ancient ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By robertisenberg | Views [329] | Scholarship Entry
Walking the Bay of Fundy By Robert Isenberg We set up our tents in the fog. Nova Scotia is famous for its gray weather, and mist subsumed the campground. On a clear day, we might see the rocky beach and grassy marshlands, but instead everything was ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By chantelles_travel_adventures | Views [882] | Scholarship Entry
Surfer’s Paradise, on the Gold Coast of Australia, sparkles. It looks as though the entire suburb rose out of the sea this morning, clean and new. Walking across the scorching sand I watch this pleasure periphery worship the sun. The water is speckled ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By anita | Views [568] | Scholarship Entry
Humble Ode to my Beloved Chicken Buses The current exchange rate is 7.797 Guatemalan Quetzales to 1 US Dollar, putting my 12-Quetzales chicken-bus ride from my home in Comalapa to the bustling Guatemala City at just over $1.50. In the two hours it takes ... Read more >
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 | By spirit | Views [283] | Scholarship Entry
Six countries. Twelve months. One backpack. By Caroline O’Driscoll As much as everyone felt the need to advise and direct me on my big adventure I had other ideas. I left Ireland on a rainy October morning with a couple of grand in the bank, saved up ... Read more >
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