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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By joann | Views [155] | Scholarship Entry
Judging by the looks on the faces of the getting-drunker-by-the-minute men sitting around the table in the smoke-filled restaurant, they had never seen foreign women in this establishment, perhaps in the town itself. But there we were, 3 foreign women, ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By allilevine | Views [180] | Scholarship Entry
Walking to Moon Hill isn’t smart or easy, but it is a fantastical journey I’ll never forget. Moon Hill is about 8 kilometers (5 miles) south of Yangshuo, China. Its main attraction is a moon-shaped hole near the top. All of the scenery around Yangshuo ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By morganm | Views [156] | Scholarship Entry
The section of the Great Wall known as Badaling curls around the edge of Beijing like a tea cup, holding in all the hustle, bustle, and madness of the city. To stand at its top is to watch the sloping hillside roll slowly into the basin of the sprawl-... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By runaway | Views [250] | Scholarship Entry
Young? Newly graduated? On a sabbatical? We’re all travelling the world to find answers. Leaving our comfort zone to understand what we deeply want In this context, I decided to do something special, travelling overland by hitchhiking from Japan to my ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By unreelingtheworld | Views [151] | Scholarship Entry
For some strange reason, when we are on holidays abroad we tend to do stupid things as if the rules of common sense do not work out of our country. Experiences like this should have changed my perception of danger, thought I'm still the same unaware traveler.... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By seeker | Views [274] | Scholarship Entry
China, with its overcrowded cities, has lots to offer. Now, I come from Romania, a former communist country, but Shanghai doesn’t fell like a communist city at all. Of course everything is mainly grey and you see the army guys in clubs, on the streets, ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By vandenbosschelisa | Views [403] | Scholarship Entry
Chionophobia. The fear of snow. As I take my first step on the Badaling part of the Great Wall, the blistering cold hits me. I adjust my scarf, tighten my jacket, and take another step. Slipping back to where I started, my hands desperately reach for ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By caterinahrysomallis | Views [231] | Scholarship Entry
Sweat decants from my body and evaporates in seconds. It seems the Chinese sun in spring wasn’t so gentle. Trailing through Southwest China’s Tiger Leaping Gorge has long bridged the extremes of impeccable beauty and formidable risk, 3700 metres deep ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By jenderzai | Views [163] | Scholarship Entry
It was 10:30p.m. on a hot, humid night at Pingyao railway station. As the train trundled in, the whistles sounded, signalling the start of the frantic scramble. I looked at my ticket, then the oncoming carriage: the numbers didn't match. Panic-stricken, ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By db_defenestrate | Views [201] | Scholarship Entry
A week in China is insufficient. We knew this, but it was what we had time for, and funds for, and we had a friend of a friend with a couch and a floor. We let my boyfriend's best friend plan the trip for all three of us - my participation in the mapping ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By anyahomer | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry
Arriving in the tourism hub of Longji I felt disheartened by the buzz of English- I had come to China to experience a different culture and had so far been disappointed by the amount of western influences. I was therefore excited when the guide from the ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By bigfernowski | Views [220] | Scholarship Entry
It all started with each of us finding a packaged condom neatly laid on our pillows. The four guys who would be sharing a room that night at the Baoguo monastery (the largest on Emei Shan, the sacred mountain in the Chinese province of Sichuan) looked ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By darjarkel | Views [747] | Scholarship Entry
George Bernard Shaw's time in Stalinist Russia is well known - the great writer was famously taken in by Uncle Joe's charm and staunchly defended him in the Western press. But I was surprised when a friendly local in Shanghai told me that Shaw had been ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By jodylundriganbwg | Views [270] | Scholarship Entry
Before I even bought my plane ticket to the Red Dragon, I began planning my journey to the Great Wall of China. As I searched through the countless tour operators and researched public transit routes, I was turned off by the warnings about the throngs ... Read more >
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Sun, 24 May 2015 | By joellaj | Views [240] | Scholarship Entry
As the Tibetan mastiffs growled their terrifying growl, I clung to my horse. My fingers wound deep into her mane as our hearts pounded together. I closed my eyes fearing the dogs, trained to attack, would leap on us. My horse stood tall and brave, my ... Read more >
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