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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By dentaa | Views [282] | Scholarship Entry
Overcrowded neighbourhoods, dilapidated buildings, overflowing garbage bins with an indescribable stench, artificially created footpaths where there once might have been a well manicured lawn, cluttered balconies and groups of people sitting outside watching ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By thejourney | Views [229] | Scholarship Entry
It always made it to my “Bucket list”. Never did I imagine that I would do it for real. It all happened on my first trip to South Africa. Apart from being a melting pot of different cultures or the home to the unique and varied flora and fauna, South ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By worldnomadsscholarship | Views [419] | Scholarship Entry
A neat dollop of potently pink shrimp paste, glistening red chilli slivers, finely diced garlic and galangal, and a handful of cheeky shallots chopped with precision lit up the sterile silver bench, each perfectly portioned into tiny white ramekins. Immaculately ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By emilyjennings | Views [295] | Scholarship Entry
A city baked by the sun, peach and tangerine buildings surround, cocooning me in warmth. A humid haze, the belly of the city is always moving. Buzzing, a moped nips through the traffic, buses rev and wheeze to a stop. I am welcomed with a hug and a ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By zuraida27 | Views [151] | Scholarship Entry
A few weeks ago, I visited my friend at Mega Timur village, in Kubu Raya district, 4 km to the north of Pontianak. It is about 40 minutes by motorcycle from my house in Pontianak. She asked me to come to her house because one of her brothers would get ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By forestnomad | Views [318] | Scholarship Entry
Our speedboat stops at last, and we pull over to a floating warung. I climb out of the boat and hasten to the roughly hewn bench to sit next to the driver. The Ibu brings our drinks, tankards filled with bitter tea the colour of caramelised sugar, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By miru | Views [235] | Scholarship Entry
I’d always wanted to get out of Khartoum and visit the sites, finally the opportunity had arrived. My camera and I had set off into the desert to take in some of Sudan’s breathtaking history! The Lion Temple at Naga and Musawwarat were sites that ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By theredheadedtraveler | Views [148] | Scholarship Entry
The austere look of the school had been transformed into a myriad of enticing colors.The children at the orphanage where I am volunteering are anxious to share the memory of their loved ones with visitors such as myself.In my culture death is regarded ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By aliceirvin | Views [230] | Scholarship Entry
Bangladesh smells like petroleum and human excrement and fried foods. It’s a distinctive smell that has a way of reaching back at you years later, in airports or walking the streets of some Western city. It’s the smell of the dead and dying. It has a ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By dirty-road | Views [201] | Scholarship Entry
Traveling through the Peruvian jungle is not easy. There is no proper tourist infrastructure. You can never actually tell when a boat will be leaving, what kind of boat will it be, when or where will you be getting to. But that's part of the fun. Especially ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By camillamarsh | Views [246] | Scholarship Entry
It started with an ice block, deathly cold it had crushed my wind pipe. Recollection now jolts my memory to high speed turbulence. Touching my throat I recall cool anticipation of the unknown world mapped in lights below to guide us down. Hands stilled ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By djoshuajennings | Views [243] | Scholarship Entry
Over the Golden Temple’s dancing reflection on Amrit Sarovar, the sacred pool, and beyond the bathing Sikhs and their orange turbans, was an enormous sign that read “Free Kitchen”. I had heard of this. It was a Langar, a community dining hall found in ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By howellsey | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry
“Tea, tea......”, the little girl appeared from nowhere as I slithered down the scree slope from the main path that led down from the High Place of Sacrifice She grabbed at my hand and pointed towards a cleft in the red, crumbling rock, “Tea, tea”, she ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By colterfree | Views [354] | Scholarship Entry
Riding passenger on a scooter through the streets of Ho Chi Minh City is daunting. Possibly it’s the buzz I’m still holding onto from the inexpensive beers at lunch or the constant clipping of my knees on other scooters as we weave through traffic at ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By deepblueruin | Views [575] | Scholarship Entry
We were seated in long rows in the temple's hall, facing one another in polite silence. Bright green banana leaves were placed in front of us – beautifully austere place settings for the wedding meal. As I watched a couple of pigeons trying to find conjugal ... Read more >
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