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COLOMBIA | Tue, 8 Dec 2009 | By thefuegoproject | Views [7079] | Comments [8]
Cartagena to Medellin 710 km 19/11/09 to 29/11/09 (Total 18727km)
Bienvenidos a Sudamerica
After 18,017km on the north american continent and nearly a year and a half since riding out of Anchorage Alaska, we finally arrived ... Read more >
Tags: andes, columbia, cycling, fruit
WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4911] | 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 >
PERU | Sat, 24 Apr 2010 | By thefuegoproject | Views [4841]
26/3/10 to 22/4/10 726km Retracing our steps from Cajamarca back towards Los Baños del Inca for 5km we then took the 'Carretera longitudinal de la Sierra' towards Cajabamba and Huamachuco on our back route journey across the sierra ... Read more >
Tags: peru
ARGENTINA | Sat, 24 Feb 2007 | By lani | Views [3779] | Comments [3]
Tonight I went to the biggest football match around in Buenos Aires - the match between iconic Boca Juniors (Maradonna´s team) and neighbouring Independiente who have been in the headlines over here recently as their fans are so intense and violent that ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
NICARAGUA | Tue, 17 Jan 2012 | By nomads-news | Views [3694]
Christina Tunnah is the VP of partnerships for World Nomads America and recently returned from adventures on the road. Where did you go? I went to Nicaragua for 8 days. Since it was a relatively quick stint I focused on the souhwest slither of ... Read more >
Tags: nicaragua, see turtles, the footprints network
GERMANY | Fri, 24 Jul 2009 | By living_the_dream | Views [3530] | Comments [1]
In an entirely uncharacteristic move Danny woke up pretty early (10ish, virtually daybreak by student standards) and we prepared to go into Munich city centre. My encounters with public transport continued as we travelled from Danny's home in Neubiberg ... Read more >
Tags: bike, city, munich, shops, travel
ICELAND | Fri, 18 Apr 2014 | By kurenai | Views [3155]
Blue Lagoon is justly famous in Iceland. It is also probably the most touristy place you will visit on your journey. Not to say it is a bad thing but just be ready for waves of people coming in on large tour buses going either to or from the airport.... Read more >
Tags: blue lagoon, geothermal, hot springs, iceland, keflavik airport, reykjavik
JAPAN | Thu, 9 Oct 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [2467]
Four of us finished work and got into Fukuoka for the night. We did the usual walk around to see what there was to see, found a pub, another good restaurant, found another pub, and called it a night. Next day there were only two. The two Japanese guys ... Read more >
Tags: oktoberfest
CROATIA | Sat, 21 Jul 2012 | By jimboandjanet | Views [1705]
Sunday 3 rd
June 2012 – Monday 11 th June 2012
Plitvička Lakes, Croatia; Bled, Slovenia; Lake Como, Italy
Plitvička Lakes gained UNESCO World Heritage Site
listing in ’79. Gee they must have been handing these distinctions out ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1653]
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 >
PORTUGAL | Thu, 13 Jun 2013 | By vagabondstoo | Views [1646]
Miracles hardly happen any more. Two of the more recent ones, sightings of the Virgin, took place in Lourdes, France and here in Portugal at Fátima. More coincidence than miracle, we visited each exactly two years apart.
In 1858 ... Read more >
CHINA | Tue, 30 Sep 2008 | By abelaine | Views [1639] | Comments [1]
After taking a long nap we headed to the busy busy Tianmen sq as the Forbidden City (Palace) is nearby. There is ALOT more people in the city at the moment, it seemed the whole country travelled to Beijing to celebrate Independence Day. We could barely ... Read more >
Tags: forbidden city
ECUADOR | Wed, 19 Sep 2007 | By rayen | Views [1253]
Ich bin vom Berg zurück: Heute morgen war ich noch 5.897 m hoch oben auf dem Cotopaxi. Nach einer Woche Aklimatisierung zwischen 3.200 und 4.000m ging es Heute morgen um halb zwei nach einer kurzen und kalten Nacht vom Refugio in 4.800m Höhe 5 Stunden ... Read more >
TURKEY | Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By nadiamar | Views [1208]
The Backgammon (tavla) is the most popular table game in Turkey. There are special places usually attended only by men, where they play and chat accompanied by Turkish traditional tea for couple of hours. This picture was taken in a small village called ... Read more >
Tags: backgammon, eastern anatolia, tavla, travel photography scholarship 2012, turkey
PERU | Mon, 22 Oct 2007 | By jamesanddan | Views [932]
Our journey to Cusco was a little different than normal, in order to save some cash (to spend on a 1hr flight from Lima to Cusco, instead of another 18hr bus ride as we´re both sooooo over buses), we decided to sleep at Lima´s Jorge Chávez Airport, which ... Read more >
Tags: You HAVE to visit this place!
SOUTH AFRICA | Sat, 3 Jul 2010 | By franzi_tina | Views [857] | Comments [2]
Am 22.6. flogen wir nach Johannesburg, um wie geplant
(totale Fehlplanung!!!) am 23.6. weiter nach Zanzibar zur entgueltigen Erholung
zu fliegen. Doch bereits in Namibia bemerkten wir unseren Planungsfehler:
ausgerechnet an unserem Abflugstag sollte ... Read more >
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Fri, 18 Dec 2009 | By christyindominicanrepublic | Views [845] | Comments [1]
Moved into my new house and it is a definite step up from my old neighborhood. For starters, I have water most of the time and so I don’t have to buy my water off the truck anymore. But, I still store water in about 4 different large tanks for when ... Read more >
USA | Mon, 25 Mar 2013 | By annanderson | Views [820]
The Big island, as we know it, is a little of everything we love...just in many different places. There is sun, clouds, rain, snow, cold, hot, farms, condos, swimming pools AND ocean all around! There are the best farmer's markets with awesome ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, big island, hawaii
LEBANON | Sat, 14 Feb 2015 | By vagabondstoo | Views [737]
THE IMMIGRATION OFFICER SEARCHED OUR PASSPORTS, page by page, for evidence of a visit to Israel which would deny us entry into Lebanon. No worries — they are in our expired passports. While there is tension between Muslims and Christians, ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Sat, 10 Dec 2016 | By bernardmarlenlilly | Views [595]
Laaaange hat es gedauert, aber wir haben mittlerweile einen fahrtüchtigen Campervan gefunden, der genügend Sitzplätze für alle 3 Familienmitglieder bietet. Es ist gar nicht so einfach einen geeigneten Van mit 3 Sitzplätzen ... Read more >
WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By thedavid | Views [579] | Scholarship Entry
There I was: An American in the coach-class, upper-deck nose of a 747 bound for Johannesburg from JFK in August 2001, ignoring the turbulence of recent headlines: “South Africa: The Per Capita Murder, Assault, Rape and Carjacking Capitol of the World”, ... Read more >
Tags: #2011writing, 9/11, overland safari, south africa, travel writing scholarship 2011
INDIA | Fri, 25 Dec 2015 | By davidford | Views [577] | Comments [1]
I am probably at my lowest ebb yet on this trip. Nothing terrible but I'm feeling a bit lost and lonely.
I could have titlled this blog Facing Mount Kanchenjunga but fear it lacks originality. Yesterday I took a taxi (300 rupees) to the top ... Read more >
Tags: gompas, loneliness, monasteries, mountains, panoramas
USA | Sun, 9 Sep 2018 | By vagabonds3 | Views [439]
THINGS WEREN’T GOING WELL IN FOR THE UNION IN 1861. After the defeat at Bull Run, Lincoln needed a victory. The United States needed a hero. Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant provided both with victories at Fort Henry ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 22 Dec 2013 | By bevandbruno | Views [411]
We departed Loxton at about 8am on Wednesday 18th December. The expected local maximum was 40C.
We headed for Bendigo and then on to our first 'freebie' in the Knowsley N/Park, arriving at about 5pm.
My body clock woke us at 5.30 the next morning ... Read more >
THAILAND | Sat, 15 Nov 2014 | By morganne | Views [335] | Comments [2]
Made it safe and sound to Bangkok after 22 hours of flying and a 5 hour layover in Tokyo! At the airport we ate real Japanes sushi and a million cups of green tea yumm!!