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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By allyscale | Views [1599] | Scholarship Entry
I’ve landed bottom up in a grass ditch at the front of a Colombian Army base in Leticia. This wasn’t how I’d imagined my first scooter riding experience would be. The scene I’d set in my mind looked more like this: a backdrop of palm trees whizzing ... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By kato-big-foot | Views [212] | Scholarship Entry
Two middle-aged Colombian women had somewhat reluctantly come to my rescue and were swiping at me with their rolled up newspaper. We were on a residential street in a trendy Medellin suburb and they had responded to my desperate calls of “Ayudame, ayudame ... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By deparcheporelmundo | Views [266] | Scholarship Entry
Subí hasta la altura del ojo y observé al fondo: un paisaje gris de hendiduras rocosas cuya superficie arenosa se antojaba resbaladiza y áspera. Bajé del ojo salvaguardado por una sombrilla y anotando unas ideas para esta crónica. Después de un tiempo ... Read more >
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Mon, 12 May 2014 | By samota | Views [474] | Scholarship Entry
It was summer in Colombia and there were no plans for holidays. So, I talk to my friend Viviana about ideas. She came out with going to the top, yes, very top, of a mountain... I freaked out. I am a kind of person who likes relax activities such us walking, ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By darydi | Views [290] | Scholarship Entry
And I have not stopped dancing since I met you . First there was CAVU on Wednesday 22 January. So it was, you arrived on foot with a white umbrella, also I comes walking without an umbrella . The night assured be more cooled. I asked the guards, how ... Read more >
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Thu, 8 May 2014 | By joytrip | Views [212] | Scholarship Entry
I grew up near Cartagena and Santa Marta which are well-known places for their unbelievable seas, colonial architecture and delightful Caribbean cuisine and since I use to have family living over there I went every other vacation. It wasn’t until my ... Read more >
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Thu, 8 May 2014 | By traveltales | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry
Anxiously terrified and dreaming of disastrously adventuresome times, I stepped into my confines for the next eleven hours. We’ll call it “a boat”. A boat that belongs in a lakeside shed with a small family of five tending to its needs of summer time ... Read more >
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Tue, 6 May 2014 | By hugomateus | Views [310] | Scholarship Entry
Cuando tomé mi tiquete de avión en el aeropuerto El Dorado en Bogotá con rumbo a Nueva York, estaba lleno de muchas emociones y expectativas, cómo iba hacer para conocer Manhattan sin perderme, ya que volaba solo, el viaje era por esa ruta y la capital ... Read more >
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Sun, 4 May 2014 | By clare-tamea | Views [549]
This place IS the lush green Colombia that we see in the films. Miles away from anywhere, we spent 6 hours on a bus to one town, having been delayed at three blockades by farmers' protests, then another 2 hours crammed in a jeep made for 10 ... Read more >
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Sat, 3 May 2014 | By medellin | Views [147] | Scholarship Entry
Beautiful colorful houses with blue windows, red walls and green doors. Wonderful scenery that takes your breath away being on the top of a mountain at one moment and at the bottom of a valley the next. Warm & friendly people everywhere. I'll never forget ... Read more >
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Thu, 1 May 2014 | By clare-tamea | Views [457]
Colombia is lush and green, isn't it? Not in the Tatacoa Desert, trapped between two mountain ranges that shield it from rain. Instead of banana and palm trees - cactus plants. Instead of steep green mountains -red and grey carved sand sculptures. Instead ... Read more >
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 | By juakogaviria | Views [220] | Scholarship Entry
Everybody wants to go to Brazil. It's fine and understandable because of Football World Cup will be play there. But, for me, a colombian guy, it would be better to know the one of my heroes land in 2014. Yeah! I'm talking about Johan Cruyff, that amazing ... Read more >
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Wed, 30 Apr 2014 | By josephweir | Views [238] | Scholarship Entry
As I sit down on the rock I notice something that astonishes me. Something is moving; it is a sparrow hopping around in my peripheral vision. I turn to him and he hops a bit closer, looking at me, curious. I return the gaze. I am fascinated by him. Silently, ... Read more >
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Wed, 30 Apr 2014 | By clare-tamea | Views [372]
Zipaquira is a lovely town with an old colonial plaza and an absolutely massive salt mine honeycombed under the hill. Part of the mine has been carved into an underground salt cathedral, one of only three in the world, and voted by Colombians as the ... Read more >
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Tue, 29 Apr 2014 | By clare-tamea | Views [492]
Bogota (our introduction to Colombia) is a city of contrasts:-
Concrete urban jungle vs cobbled old streets and quaint painted houses; "You want crack mister?" vs astounding churches; Scruffy graffiti scrawls vs amazing street art; Lots ... Read more >
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