Destination: Worldwide
There are [3208] stories and [13034] photos from Worldwide
Most Recent | Most Viewed | Most Commented | Most Interesting | Random
Latest stories from Worldwide
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By jorge_g | Views [157] | Scholarship Entry
I have never been an social traveler. I know is a pleasant experience to meet the local people, but for me the usual idea is to enjoy the place rather than their habitants. On the other hand, I enjoy a lot eating; and more than eating, i enjoy the experience ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By tidar | Views [162] | Scholarship Entry
I'd walked this path, in inner-city suburbia Bangkok, more times than I can recall. It was my favourite path to walk when I visit my grandparents - my final destination guaranteed a smorgasbord of mouth-watering food. I take a left past the motorcycle-... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By mooshoomiagi | Views [223] | Scholarship Entry
In Beirut at the height of its unyielding summer, the heat and humidity
had spent me. Australian-born, it was my first visit to my mother's birth country and I had come mostly to please her. She had always
beseeched me to go, raving about how ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By carla_b | Views [143] | Scholarship Entry
We come back after a long day and there she is, in the very spot where we left her. Venus is crouched over a bowl on the dusty floor and her hands are still meticulously preparing the last touches for the meal. Her cooking assistants, two young girls ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By josephle | Views [149] | Scholarship Entry
Juan was my taxi driver from the Venezuelan border to
the Cúcuta airport . Our
total time spent together was about 20 minutes.
But in that time he would remind me again of the spirit behind one of my
favorite quotes from Nehru, “We live in ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By virtualoctopus | Views [296] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
On July 4th, 2011 the Earth reaches her yearly aphelion. From 94,509,459 miles away, the Sun (having no other choice) continues to shine on nothing new. As if seeking to parody the celestial event, America celebrates her birthday by projecting ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By hyerimpoppo | Views [198] | Scholarship Entry
I've never traveled to anywhere before. But then I have to continue my school in Surabaya, East Java which forces me to live alone in this big city. I am not that afraid, living alone in such a big city like this. Conversely, I take advantages of it ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By kikay | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry
Jay and I watched the intricately woven dreamcatchers hanging above our canopy bed as we lay talking about our dreams. He just proposed and invited me to join him on a trip to the Island of Camiguin on the southern part of the Philippines. He was a ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By wonderlust23432 | Views [181] | Scholarship Entry
In February 2011 I embarked on an unforgettable journey through North America. We then visited the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida. This was an experience of its own. From Butterbeer to pumpkin juice and other not-suitable-for-muggles ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By jamol | Views [146] | Scholarship Entry
My name is Jamol, I am from Tajikistan. I never was travelled outside of my country. During Soviet times, travel at that time, especially outside of the Soviet Union was also far from the norm, I was always drawn to the idea, waiting for the opportunity.... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By medha315 | Views [146] | Scholarship Entry
Monstrous clouds rained down with untamed fury,as thunder roared in the blackness of the night.I was in Sohra,a village in Meghalaya,India,one of the wettest place in the world.It is a land where elephants and tigers wander freely,where dense green forests ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By edsonlg | Views [1109] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
I see him ascending the Williamsburg Bridge, which hands off Brooklyn to Manhattan, on the long, arduous up-ramp. His shoulders arched in a shoddy jacket as he labors over a shopping cart that swells with black garbage bags arguing for space. Their ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By graceemily27 | Views [390] | Scholarship Entry
Unfortunately, I have never had the chance to find spiritual awakening in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand or been blessed by a Sadhu in Varanasi. I have never smelt the sickly smell of rotting flesh from a Durian or eaten fried spider on a stick. I ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By mdd | Views [376] | Scholarship Entry
Sitting around a Japanese dinning table, either in a traditional hotel, either in a modern restaurant, in an izakaya pub or, if you’re lucky enough, at a local’s home, or simply enjoying a bento lunch box at the close JR train station, you’ll have the ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2012
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By benteitelbaum | Views [147] | Scholarship Entry
Tucked behind Tel Aviv’s throbbing Carmel Market lies a neighborhood that seems to float in the haze between history and myth, the Old World and the New. Dusty ramshackle tenements squeeze next to bright blue buildings with ornately gilded doors. Languid ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2012
More stories from Worldwide
< Previous 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 Next >