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Sun, 11 May 2014 | By voyage_voyage | Photo Gallery
Unplanned trip to India
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Tags: goa, india
Sun, 11 May 2014 | By voyage_voyage | Views [266] | Scholarship Entry
6 a.m. Train Station in GOA, India. Somehow we got there in spite of all the heat and lack of tickets. Two days on a train. +35C at daytime in the car without glass in windows, +12C at nights with air conditioning. Delicious tomato soup with crackers ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Fri, 9 May 2014 | By izzyabraham | Views [617]
The remote Indian village stands exactly as it was a decade earlier. Raggedy weeds still cleave through the winding dirt roads. The ramshackle shops offer the same toys and sweets from a lifetime ago. It seems as if the same men are standing outside, ... Read more >
Tags: forest, home, india, kerala, nature, village, walk
Mon, 5 May 2014 | By akash94 | Views [404] | Scholarship Entry
It is Sunday morning and the roads leading to Chandni Chowk are deserted. We cross the chaotic merry-go-round of Connaught Place in a trice and head to old Delhi. Where are all the people? The buffaloes that amble through the roads listlessly? The children ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Sat, 3 May 2014 | By shreekinessoflife | Views [166] | Scholarship Entry
When we think of a hero, it is very uncommon to think of a woman in that role. We are made to think of her in a more classic mould of a home maker, a multi-tasker. In Calcutta, I am in search of the goddess who vanquished the demon king, whom none of ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Fri, 2 May 2014 | By jj_happyfish | Views [419]
I’m going to begin by saying that I’m regretting my decision not to bring my DSLR camera here in India. I came mainly for business so I brought along a lot of work stuff and it’s already an established fact that I’m lazy and I ... Read more >
Tags: biryani, chowmahalla, golconda, hyderabad, india, travel
Fri, 2 May 2014 | By musafirujan | Views [586] | Comments [8] | Scholarship Entry
It wasn't a sudden impulse at all. Everything was neatly unplanned. I have been conjuring this “unplan” for a whole semester. Only the few minor details were left out, one of them being the destination! All I knew was, I have to go somewhere, as far as ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Thu, 1 May 2014 | By jj_happyfish | Views [481] | Scholarship Entry
I took off my dusty, blue scarf, the only thing covering my head throughout the 18-kilometer drive on a national road whilst on a motorcycle with my new friend, Nachiket. The entire trip was spent with him unperturbedly telling me the non-necessity for ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Thu, 1 May 2014 | By away2travel | Views [952]
A white-bearded sweet old man with a genuine heart An elephant walking down a highway 19 people crammed into a single rickshaw An old man pushing his pedal bike uphill An entire family that thinks a white person is a zoo animal 4 religions living in ... Read more >
Tags: asia, backpacking, budget travel, culture, food, india, people, places, religion, travel
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 | By ryane-be-roamin | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 28 Apr 2014 | By ryane-be-roamin | Views [243] | Scholarship Entry
I’ll never forget the day that I learned to take time to smell the flowers, rather than only look at them.“Man is so anxious about the future that he doesn’t enjoy the present; the result being that he lives as if he is going to live forever, then dies ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 | By sophiew | Views [751]
'Come in', she said. Her hands were old and crinkled, the henna sunk deep into the cracks around her nails and the divets of her fingers. I sat down across the table from her and she took my hand in hers, all the while never meeting my eyes.
'What ... Read more >
Tags: culture, food, ganges, india, love, taj mahal, temples
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 | By bonnie | Views [979]
As mentioned in previous blog entries, the educational resource project for the region was multi-faceted with the organisational component of purchasing the goods proving time consuming. School goodies came from as far afield as Delhi (educational games/toys), ... Read more >
Tags: educational supply project, jatoli, kumaon himalaya, peak
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 | By sophiew | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 22 Apr 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [1765]
WE WERE HOODWINKED - OR MAYBE IT WAS HORSWOGGLED - by the guidebooks. Both Lonley Planet and Frommer raved about a houseboat tour of the Kerala Backwaters. LP went so far as to rate it the #2 top experience in India, ... Read more >
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