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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By tamara | Views [204] | Scholarship Entry
We are inland somewhere unknown to me in Northern Brazil. It is late and while lying on my mat I try to avoid any contact with the floor that burns oil. My dreams smell like gas and the sea salt that I bring with me on my dress. I open my eyes directly ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By rotamondo | Views [161] | Scholarship Entry
I had just quitted my job. Swinging between relief and despair, I took an invitation for dinner from an old good friend. A glass (or six) of wine and good company would fit perfectly into my new no-perspective reality. The usual crowd in my friend’s place ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By thehumanelement | Views [1356] | Scholarship Entry
Thick grey clouds rolled in overhead and raindrops became more plentiful as we trudged up a gravel path toward the edge of the jungle, the mountain’s green yawn at the base awaiting our entry. Dense entanglements of vines and bundled branches offered ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By hastaelfin | Views [199] | Scholarship Entry
“How did we end up there?” we were left pondering after a spontaneous night in Brazil. We were three young girls in South America and while at the triple frontier we wanted to add another stamp to our growing collection. It seemed only natural to nip ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By milawilltravel | Views [150] | Scholarship Entry
Exploring the unknown has always been in my DNA. To be exact, my wish to travel was born on the 10th of February, 1989, in a Brazilian hospital. I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth, I haven’t won the lottery and don’t make rivers of money working.... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By dimka | Views [180] | Scholarship Entry
A reggaeton bomba just detonated and set the favela ablaze! Driven by a wall of speakers throbbing my insides, the music is accompanied by hollers, hops and gun shots, yet it somehow feels like the safest place in Brazil. “Tic”, the resident graffiti ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By lapadventure | Views [299]
It's getting dark in Rio de Janeiro and I am at Lapa. It's friday so I am heading to my former hostel ,back where I used to be a guest and most important, where I still have fellow travellers friends, most of them working.
I am walking from”... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By hannahonthemap | Photo Gallery
Pictures from my past adventures
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By debas | Views [342] | Scholarship Entry
I am really embarrassed to confess that until then I had never taken a ride with a stranger. It was winter of 2008 and I had already found out Berlin was my favorite city in the world. A week before my departure I discovered The Cure would be playing ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By manon_b | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry
... I asked what I was eating! I even did not heard the answer of that charming young man with his warm moka skin and almond green eyes. I didn't stop repeating that what I was eating was heavenly, divine!… How did that situation became to me?… Me, Manon, ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By eleanorrose | Views [258] | Scholarship Entry
Feeling the incredibly soft sand between my toes, the hot sun browning my skin, I feel a sense of peace washing over me. The shouts of laughter seem distant; they come from someone else’s world, separate to mine. Sitting here, it is as though I could ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By nunatak | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry
I escape in the wintertime to search the summer.. i want to live another life....i escape from the cliches of money-work-taxes... my spirit and my senses want it. How did i end up here? Heart of Brasil, National Park ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By worldnomadsscholarship | Views [321] | Scholarship Entry
I wake up disorientated to the incessant beating of drums. It’s barely daylight. I look out the hostel window. “Where is it coming from?” I ask. “It’s the drumming school practicing for the festival”. Like the sirens in London or prayers in Fez, the Afro-... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By wiolastarczewska | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry
„Housekeeping!”, nah, let’s keep it down, ahem, “Housekeeping…?”. Don’t forget to knock on the door least twice, you don’t want to see any guests stark naked. So: knock at least twice and barge in. Clean fast. Work hard. Scandinavian countries are famous ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By sayyestonewadventures | Views [266] | Scholarship Entry
Just before dawn, I woke up. Like the way you're woken up by the smell of bacon being cooked in the kitchen. But for me on this morning, it was the faintest tinge of red appearing on the horizon that made me stir. I slinked out of bed and tip-toed up ... Read more >
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