Destination: India

Tip: Always say thank-you.

Sun, 24 May 2015 | By mattthanks | Views [205] | Scholarship Entry

“See you by the ghat!” she had said. 1. Clarify meeting points. In the moonlight, my finger traced the 'S' on the map I'd torn out. Page 440: Varanasi. Dozens of grey dots looked up at me, each marking separate ghats, the numerous steps that decorate ... Read more >

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Jhilmil Gufa

Sun, 24 May 2015 | By xavi | Views [1784] | Scholarship Entry

It's my fifth week in India. Having traveled through ten cities already, I feel I'm getting the hang of things. It's been a journey like no other I had never taken, my comfort zone safely locked away in my apartment back in Serbia. Now - a backpack ... Read more >

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Mysore Zoo

Sun, 24 May 2015 | By shahebaz | Views [164] | Scholarship Entry

Have you heard of child adoption? Obviously, yes! Have you heard of animal adoption? Again, yes. Have you ever heard of animal adoption while the animal would be in the zoo? Yeah, that’s interesting! Mysore Zoo is a 157-acre zoo located near the palace ... Read more >

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trip2Pondicherry

Sat, 23 May 2015 | By travelmate_dmc | Views [128]

Hi friends! This is about the trip to Pondicherry we had. Me and some of my friends happened to visit Pondicherry during last weekend, was planned with a local tour operator who suggested us to go for park and lake tour, where we visited Ousteri a lake ... Read more >

Space for Nurturing Creativity in Uttarakhand

Sat, 23 May 2015 | By dilipmerala | Views [565] | Scholarship Entry

I was an aspiring actor lying on a couch watching the news from a comfortable flat in the suburbs of Mumbai. All news channels were going on and on about floods in the Indian state of Uttarakhand causing thousands of casualties and loss of property. This ... Read more >

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Mysuru Watering Hole

Sat, 23 May 2015 | By carlsbad_sven | Views [695] | Scholarship Entry

Chamundi temple stands atop a mountain in the city of Mysuru India. It is a vortex, drawing offering laden pilgrims up a thousand stairs to pay respects to the Hindu gods that reside there. About three quarters of the way up, my guides and I stopped at ... Read more >

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Bangalore to Goa

Sat, 23 May 2015 | By passenger391 | Views [130] | Scholarship Entry

It's not like i haven't traveled before, or to places like beaches or hills station. But this is the story about experiencing sunrise at approx 1500 mtrs above sea level and sunset floating in an ocean, immense peace in the morning and party hard feels ... Read more >

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The Temple town of Haridwar, Uttar Pradesh

Fri, 22 May 2015 | By wanderful | Views [107] | Scholarship Entry

I was in Haridwar, where sin and ash were drained in the brown flood of the Ganga. I stood in a market of myth, where shops faced other shops. A slim street made of big broken stones ran between them, drain water seeped through the cracks, which mucky-... Read more >

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Hampi

Fri, 22 May 2015 | By julieswanderings | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry

From Bangalore, Hampi is not complicated to get to. The overnight train leaves around 10pm and arrives the next day at 8am (Hampi doesn’t have a train station, so you’ll have to stop in Hospet). From Hospet, Hampi is about twenty minutes on a rickshaw.... Read more >

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Before Sunset

Fri, 22 May 2015 | By ashutosh | Views [246] | Scholarship Entry

It all started three days prior to the events that had occurred, In pursuit of advanced learning, my education had taken me to the city of Ahmedabad for a three day conference to study grassroot level innovations from around the country at the IIM, the ... Read more >

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Hampi : A Historical Treasure

Fri, 22 May 2015 | By parulbehl | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry

How would you feel when surreal & mysterious ruins cradled in a rustic landscape, whisper the fables of grandeur and glory in your ears ? This is precisely how Hampi intoxicates you with its charm & magnificence. A small village nestled amidst giant boulders ... Read more >

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The serenity of creative destruction

Fri, 22 May 2015 | By kumawat_akhilesh | Views [127] | Scholarship Entry

Supposed to be another expedition in the wilderness and beaches, my journey in Andaman and Nicobar islands turned out to be much more. History, architecture, museums of Port Blair followed by the arguably best beaches of Asia at Havelock islands were ... Read more >

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Photos: WorldNomads Travel Writing Scholarship 2015: Dustin Kerschtien

Fri, 22 May 2015 | By dustinkersch | Photo Gallery

Tags: hiking, himachal, himachal pradesh, himalaya, india, malana, people, photography, places, travel

Here I come

Thu, 21 May 2015 | By silpa-phoenix86 | Views [147] | Scholarship Entry

Couple of years back, I went road trip to two places in my home town, Kerala, India. The places were Munnar and Alleppy.. Such breath takingly beautiful places. In the same state, but the two places were entirely different. Both places plausible. If ... Read more >

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Chitrakoot

Thu, 21 May 2015 | By kiwi | Views [356] | Scholarship Entry

Go backpacking, as somehow spontaneous and unplanned trips turn out to be better than planned ones! That’s how we headed for Chitrakoot, a small mythological place in the heart of India, located on the border of two states in India, Madhya Pradesh and ... Read more >

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