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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By reneevt | Views [125] | Scholarship Entry
She smiled as she watched us trying to copy her technique. “Like this”, she patiently showed us again. It was a warm evening and the aroma of the salty sea air was infused with coconut as we learned how to peel and grate the tropical delight. Outside ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By northstar | Views [118] | Scholarship Entry
I have a fascination with camels – not as innuendos on cigarette cartons nor as ugly, spitting beasts, but as graceful, long-lashed creatures of the desert. When I heard about the camel market north of Cairo, the trek into non-tourist territory was inevitable.... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By chewy23 | Views [97] | Scholarship Entry
“Please, sir, give me one Rand. I am very hungry”. I turned around and found a small boy next to me with his soiled hands cupped and held up to his chin. This was South Africa, and it was not an unusual sight. His clothes were torn and tattered and his ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By chip | Views [452] | Scholarship Entry
I stare hopelessly at the huge chunk of white maize flour on my plate. Nsima, as it is called, is something half way between a tasteless cake and a tasteless porridge that turns into cement once inside your stomach. Azibo is sitting between me and his ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By zuraida27 | Views [128] | 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 [284] | 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 [197] | 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 charlottesimon | Views [128] | Scholarship Entry
Dakar Airport. Chaos slaps me in the face. I see people everywhere looking for their things, walking in no direction and speaking out loud. And I think: where do all these people come from? Bright colours and animal prints on their clothes, lots of hats ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By livefree | Views [150] | Scholarship Entry
The small window, set high up on the stone wall, allowed a beam of early morning light to shine down upon Mata's salt and pepper head. She flitted like a hummingbird around a collection of enormous steaming pots. Using a stepladder, she tasted this and ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By stephaniesstory | Views [302] | Scholarship Entry
“Ça va?” Hassim asked and pulled the 1975 Mercedes-Benz off the dusty road. A single Berber tent of burnt sienna wool was the only dwelling we had seen for hours. We were somewhere near Merzouga, the sky an ash blue and everything else -the tent, the ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By abbyaway | Views [177] | Scholarship Entry
Evening, and the city stirs from its afternoon slumber. Chairs and chess sets are moved into place, dogs trot out of cool hibernation, and I’m hungry. The woman presiding over my hired room wrote an address on a scrap of paper, rubbed her belly, pointed ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By hbuck1 | Views [220] | Scholarship Entry
After several days in clean, modernised Jerusalem, crossing the border into the West Bank felt less like a 25 minute bus journey and more like I had been hurled face-first into the desert dust before I’d even lost sight of the Dome of the Rock. Bethlehem:... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By zafarmohsin | Views [290] | Scholarship Entry
This was March-April 2009 when I visited lovely Morocco. Since then much time has though elapsed, yet the memory is still fresh and enticing. I can still relive and cherish those lovely days, especially the one when I was at the emblematical, vast square ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By huxley | Views [125] | Scholarship Entry
Someone could say that travelling to a neighbouring country is no big deal, but believe me it can be. To make matters worse, it is a country where my grandparents are from,the country where they have lived for the first eighteen years of their lives before ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By wanderlusts_and_vagabonds | Views [98] | Scholarship Entry
There are many ways to combat the affliction known as Delhi Belly.The easiest way to handle it is to pack enough Imodiums and Pro Biotics to OD on and carry a roll of 2 Ply in your backpack. The thing that nobody tells you about it is that it's perfectly ... Read more >
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