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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By tree | Views [136] | Scholarship Entry
For the Maasai, cattle are everything: food, material, culture, ritual. Cattle are life. "I hope your cattle are well", they say in greeting. More than any other Kenyan people, the pastoralist Maasai are a cattle-herders par excellence. Cattle provide ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By azilyazilya | Views [216] | Scholarship Entry
Mother told me,by meeting people in places,I’ll learn many things by them.She said it then,to persuate me,to move to a small town in northern side of Aceh,Indonesia,this place is called Lhoksukon.Lhoksukon has been entrusted to be the capital of North ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By mau | Views [386] | Scholarship Entry
Orphanage Revolution Some time ago, in the birthplace of Lord Buddha, the white man arrived. It began with the hippie movement, when artists came to get inspired; it continued with the quest to conquer the roof of the world; it evolved to a stop in ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By intrepidgirl | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
“Please! Luke! Turn around!” I've hit the wall. I'm broken. I don't want to walk anymore. My brother and I are walking 325km through Thailand in memory of WWII prisoners of war who built the Thai-Burma railway. Today Luke is about one kilometre ahead ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By mldonahue | Views [186] | Scholarship Entry
We barrel down the road, leaving Manos’ farm, hidden in Bozika’s mountains in the Peloponnese. The farm is a microcosm of Bozika, small and eclectic. Amid the olive trees we water and the tomatoes we coat with volcanic dust for pest control, there are ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By swwest | Views [125] | Scholarship Entry
We were traveling along a back road off the Pacific Highway looking for somewhere to camp. After three straight days driving our spirits were scraping the asphalt. The night before had been spent shivering on a gravelly embankment with wet tents and no ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By walkabout | Views [372] | Scholarship Entry
I am told not to smell it before I eat it, but that's just not possible. Even in a sushi restaurant with dead fish sliding by on conveyor belts it is by far the most pungent scent. I thought that the restaurant had health code issues. The sickly sweet ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By travelblog | Views [216] | Scholarship Entry
Living with same routines and cultures everyday can make someone think that 'the' world is small and moving only around him. But as a matter of fact, it is only 'his' world which is so. For me and most people who live in a city, 'our' world is getting ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By jmillerjtm | Views [352] | Scholarship Entry
The muscles in my neck were starting to boil on a slow simmer as I craned my head upwards and around. Dashes of neon blue, smoky red and, ironically enough, halo-gold danced in speckles on my body and backpack. I almost felt intoxicated, like I was ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By ontheroad | Views [501] | Scholarship Entry
I arrive in the village of Preixan, a small hilltop village 10k outside the city Carcassonne, France, on exceptionally hot day. Priexan was once a busy wine producing cirulcade village established over 1,000 years ago. I’ll be spending the next ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By non-sense-blog | Views [254] | Scholarship Entry
I am sitting in a dark hut full of smoke on a bed made of stone and sheep’s skin. We dropped into Afghan shepherds’ settlement, high in the Pamir mountains on the very end of the Wakhan Corridor - a remote corner of Afghanistan. The only meal we are served ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By godang | Views [774] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
The first thought of this theme is that we are describing a world through others eyes. However, the phrase has other meanings such as the study of the others perception , see a thing from different angles , or learn from others' experiences ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By travelling_is_life | Views [238] | Scholarship Entry
Nowadays it’s very hard to surprise a tourist. How can you make your journey unforgettable? During my studying in the Academy for Tourism I’ve been very interested in gastronomic tourism, because each country has its own traditional dishes. Now I’m ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By donjardon | Views [319] | Scholarship Entry
"Ramallah Cafe" It's hard to see the world as a nice place when you live in a military occupied territory, but the feeling of togetherness is the only thing left on a extreme reality. This is the Palestinian spirit: hope for a better future, you only ... Read more >
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By roadsandtales | Views [242] | Scholarship Entry
8 Hours to Live a Dream I have only one day to spend at Casablanca As the taxi driver drops me in front of Hassan II Mosque I immediately feel the salt scent from the Atlantic, and late-November’s breeze gives wings to my hair. As if the sight of the ... Read more >
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