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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By sam0ny | Views [372] | Scholarship Entry
Beijing is a wild city with glittering, new structures stacked up against thousands of years of historic landmarks. All spectacular and deserve your attention, if you're able to escape the Chinese tourists taking photos of you. Summer of 2010, I embarked ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By 2itchyfeet | Views [283] | Scholarship Entry
One thing that never fails to impress or inspire me are the random acts of kindness I seem to encounter whilst travelling to new places. Whether that’s the passer by who stops to offer advice on my inability to read a map properly, or a lady that stops ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By gusrick | Views [255] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
I am on a bench and the woman in front of me is pacing happily. With each step, she smacks herself with both hands. She is repetitive and rhythmic, following a single rotation – hips, hips, thighs, elbows, shoulders, head - REPETE. Once her path reaches ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By guilinisbeautiful | Views [177] | Scholarship Entry
Guilin, a city most known for its karst peaks, is located in the North East region of the Guangxi Province in the South Central region of China. The journey to Chuan Shan Park began with a twenty minute bus ride. The bus ride was smooth and quiet, not ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By amyv | Views [195] | Scholarship Entry
There are journeys that resemble dreams. Some places feel so surreal that you only fully realise you have been there after you have left. Beijing was one of those places and I could barely imagine it as the plane was taking me further East one summer.... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By puritto | Views [193] | Scholarship Entry
On a cold Sunday afternoon in Hangzhou,I heard the the swelling, poignant notes of the Chinese violin echoing across a park near the West Lake. It was one of the classics that every player knows. The men on the bench scarcely had an audience; they seemed ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By travelingginger | Views [131] | Scholarship Entry
The logic behind travel logistics more often than not lies in efficiency. The goal is to arrive to experience. The key is to not overlook the inefficiency. Muslim Street, famed for having the best street food in the world, was on the other side of a ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By endlesswanderlust | Views [172] | Scholarship Entry
When I thought about it, I felt like a genius. Taking a night train to go from Nanjing to Beijing? It sounded perfect. Only pros, I could have: slept during the journey, spent way less money than buying a fast train ticket (which only takes six hours ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By guestwho | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry
One summer I went to Shanghai, where the distinction between modernisation (in the form of the skyscraper forest) and tradition (bamboo scaffolding omnipresent elsewhere) is stark. Wandering around the Dongtai Lu antiques market, I was roused from my ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By tamarah | Views [230] | Scholarship Entry
Once I breathed in the sweet, woody aroma, I knew I had arrived. The vendors lined the streets with smiles on their faces and stalls packed full of incense together with an array of bronze statues and other Tibetan paraphernalia. I rounded the corner ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By carly_mills | Views [147] | Scholarship Entry
‘LADY!!! LADY!! I FINE YOU MAC JACOB!!’ The tiny Chinese lady’s shrill voice echoed down the corridors lined with shoe shops, tailors, and electrical goods. ‘Oh no…’ Keen to avoid harassment, my partner and I wound our way through the maze of shops and ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By livehappy | Views [169] | Scholarship Entry
This story is about baths in Urumqi, the city in the north of China. Being our good and friendly neighbor China with its fantastic history has always excited my imagination. I started researches of this country from a commercial city, the nearest to my ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By benshaw | Views [127] | Scholarship Entry
Wake up. Fully clothed. Soaking wet. Being snap-frozen by air conditioner. Bunk shudders and sways. A train? Okay, a train. Think. Running, heavy pack chafing. Rain. A taxi driver laughing at my futile race to the station (don't need to speak Cantonese ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By travel_beyond_words | Views [161] | Scholarship Entry
I was enchanted upon reaching the innermost Jiuzhaigou Valley. Crisscrossed trees slept in this pellucid lake for thousands of years without decay, allowing lichens on the trunks to send their viridity through the placid surface to embrace the invisible ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By harbinians | Views [200] | Scholarship Entry
After unsuccessfully spending a summer looking for a job in London, I received an offer from a Chinese university to teach English in Harbin. I didn´t hesitate, I passed the selection and accepted the challenge, even though I didn´t know anything about ... Read more >
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