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MEXICO | Fri, 20 Aug 2010 | By responsible-travel | Views [5331] | Comments [3]
By JoAnna Haugen. The plan was this: We were going to spend the day visiting the rural
villages located on the outskirts of Huatulco, Mexico, where we would
learn about the local weaving craft, watch women make local fare, and
tour medicinal ... Read more >
FIJI | Tue, 28 Oct 2008 | By george | Views [5149] | Comments [3]
I hadn't planned to go to Fiji after Australia, but when Mum and Dad decided to go there with my sister Julia and family for a holiday, a 'free' week in the sun sounded like a great idea. I got there a week before them, and was quite pleased ... Read more >
Tags: cruise, fiji, new zealand, yasawas
WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4920] | Comments [4]
Anna Zhu, winner of our Photography Scholarship is getting ready for Antarctica. She has received her Antarctica weather gear from Columbia which she had fun trying on in Sydney's mini heat wave. She has also chosen some new equipment from ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Thu, 28 Mar 2013 | By away2travel | Views [2997] | Comments [1] | Video
By Tarynne
NOTE: For the sake of protecting peoples’ jobs and avoiding lawsuits, the name of our tour company, guides and the people in on this have been changed. If you are the Tanzanian government here to ... Read more >
Tags: altitude sickness, hiking, kili, moshi, mt kilimanjaro, tanzania
IRELAND | Fri, 18 Jul 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [2563]
THE SCENERY OF COUNTY KERRY TENDS TO OVERWHELM the senses; after all, there just aren't enough ways to say “cute.” The rhododendron blossoms of June have fallen petal by petal only to be replaced by hydrangeas in every hue; Kerry must ... Read more >
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Fri, 14 Mar 2014 | By spiceparable | Views [2175]
Perhaps the best cooking lesson during hotel school, Raja Anna the kitchen assistant, his passion for food and cooking techniques re instilled the love of cooking in me. He is a man of few words, his movements during cooking were calculated, ... Read more >
Tags: chettinad, culinary, culture, india, spice, tamil nadu, tradition, travel
POLAND | Tue, 9 Oct 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1686]
Travel book author Rick Steves admonishes, "If you don't like something you probably don't know enough about it." Take amber, for example. We have seen amber for sale in every Baltic town we visited. We're not much for jewelry so pretty ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1658]
After two days sitting comfortably in Newcastle the weather was looking a lot better. I made a decision to give up rough weather unless i get caught out there unexpectedly. with my new philosophy on cruising being that i dont have plans, i dont ... Read more >
SOUTH KOREA | Thu, 9 Mar 2006 | By realeyes | Views [1657]
It's hard to believe I've been here for two months already. With the exception of the first half of February, when I was struck with a brutal bout of the flu, I've been so busy- either working at the school or having a good time in Korea. I've managed ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
BRAZIL | Tue, 10 Apr 2007 | By lani | Views [1622] | Comments [1]
I have to say that the biggest challenge for me whilst travelling South America has not been my lack of language skills, has not been my dislike of some of the food choices and has not been my lack of knowledge of how to ride on public transport. It ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 14 Dec 2011 | By homeless_harry | Views [1539]
I am pretty sure I was woken at 1:45am
by the sound of rain hitting my roof; hard. Hence, $38 had not
transformed my tent into the Millennium Falcon. I had to rise early
for once to get the first ferry across to Yamba, ... Read more >
Tags: cycling, friends, on the road, people, weather
JAPAN | Wed, 21 Jul 2010 | By abcarlson | Views [1312]
Our bus arrived at Fuji-san at 5 o'clock in the morning. We piled off the bus, stowed our additional gear in lockers, bought our ultra-cool walking sticks and started our climb. Here's a view from the parking lot. The sunrise was gorgeous, ... Read more >
KENYA | Tue, 16 Dec 2014 | By rubyanntravel | Views [1269]
I see widows working vigorously to provide food to their offspring who, without a father are subjected to poverty. I hear the cries of children who are malnourished and parentless since the death of their mother and the fleet of their father to a new ... Read more >
Tags: action, activism, change, education, enoughisenough, femenism, kenya, poverty, volunteering
UNITED KINGDOM | Wed, 27 May 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [842]
When I was on the 3 day tour in the Scottish Highlands, a guy on the tour told me to go to Bath-so that is what I did. I checked out of my hotel in Salisbury, and went to Bath, a town an hours train ride from Salisbury. First of all, Salisbury ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Sat, 11 Oct 2008 | By glimmerwing | Views [782]
well we awoke early to meet our easy riders. they were picking us up at 8 o clock. thats when papa hanh intoduced us to chan and bon. chan was to be my driver and aoife got bon. it all started off well. pointing stuff out and stopping for us to take ... Read more >
Tags: easy rider, sore butts
VIETNAM | Mon, 11 Aug 2008 | By laina333 | Views [684]
I wanted to add one last post to my "Southeast Asia" journal. Many more adventures were had from the time of my last post in Nha Trang, Vietnam and my return home but my days seemed to be on warp speed with no chance to write. Busing through ... Read more >
USA | Sat, 13 Jun 2009 | By rich | Views [680]
It's Saturday, it’s raining and we have a few tasks to get through today. We have a pancake breakfast and then go in search of the neighborhood where I spent the first 5 years of my life. After a few wrong turns we finally come across my childhood home ... Read more >
SOUTH AFRICA | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By katja | Views [674]
My eyes are closed, heavy; weighed down by the sun pressing down and leaking in. It embraces me as I lie on the beach, perfectly happy. It was a long drive here to George, over the mountains from my own dry little town, but it was undoubtedly worth ... Read more >
Tags: beach, sand, sunlight
UNITED KINGDOM | Tue, 5 Jun 2007 | By edd_powell | Views [647]
Previously on A&A (said in J-Bauer voice) Ed has survived his birthday karaoke, leaving do and ran the gauntlet that is the Almoundsbury Interchange on bank holiday weekend and survived. beep-beep-beep-beep-beep (beeps with massive intense reverb) ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
CANADA | Fri, 13 Apr 2007 | By benkeats | Views [540]
My days in Whistler are coming to an end, my girl (T-Bird) and I leave the wonderland of Whistler in three days time. The Telus Ski/Snowboarding Festival has just landed in town...we will check out the action and music in our last days here. Then it ... Read more >
Tags: Snow
WORLDWIDE | Sat, 13 Oct 2012 | By hfi | Views [478] | Video | Scholarship Entry
Despite being the largest city of Pakistan, Karachi doesn’t have many outlets for adventure. It was recently, while discussing this issue with a friend that I got to know about the “Crocodiles of Manghopir”. *Adrenaline kicks in!* I decided to take a ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Film Scholarship 2012
SPAIN | Mon, 2 Apr 2018 | By shaz | Views [451]
How do I get to all the Canary islands in the cheapest and most comfortable way possible in one week? A cheapy cruise I found on an American website. For $550 I got an ocean view cabin with all meals and drinks included and transport to all the islands ... Read more >
FRANCE | Sat, 11 Dec 1999 | By kellywouter | Views [444]
Onze eerste vakantie samen was naar Parijs. Henk had vliegtickets voor ons geregeld, zodat we lekker relaxed naar Parijs konden reizen. Voor Kelly was het haar eerste vlucht en wat voor één! Vlak voor de landing mocht ze een kijkje komen nemen in de ... Read more >
Tags: arc de triomphe, champs-élysées, cockpit, eiffeltoren, montmartre, parijs, pigalle, sacre coeur
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 10 Feb 2013 | By magdalena | Views [423]
Our time in Innamincka drew to a close about a month after we arrived there. We felt that was enough time for us to make some decent money and to get a move on for the rest of our Australian adventure. In addition, we were not getting along well with ... Read more >
Tags: burke and wills trail
UNITED KINGDOM | Fri, 21 Nov 2014 | By lokodizsolt | Views [384]
Looking through the windows puts a smile on my face. In one room a man is ironing his shirts, in another a cat is stretching on the top of the dressing table, and in yet another a woman wearing black stockings is practicing tango. As if I would’... Read more >