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WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4912] | 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 >
LAOS | Mon, 24 Dec 2007 | By justine | Views [4512] | Comments [1]
I celebrated my 33 rd birthday by riding an elephant. Her name is Meixi, and she’s 45 years old. She is “retired” from logging work and now just has to carry around tourists for a few hours a day, which is apparently much less taxing than logging ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, birthdays, celebrations, elephants, luang prabang
BRAZIL | Wed, 20 Aug 2008 | By bergdorf-brunette | Views [3852]
Da der 20. August in São Bernardo do Campo ein Feiertag ist und das Wetter perfekt mitspielte entfloh ich mit ein paar Kollegen dem SP- Smog und mit lauter Musik und noch lauterem falschen Gesag (I wanto to fly over the rainbow so high) cruisten wir ... Read more >
Tags: guarujá
COLOMBIA | Tue, 28 Aug 2012 | By kamzam | Views [3593]
After slightly painful (Colombian roads are proving to be a
bit challenging) overnight bus journey I arrived to Santa Marta. I was really
lucky to be staying with a family of a friend there and in truly Colombian
fashion they took care ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, ciudad perdida, losy city, on the road, parque tayrona, santa marta, trekking
BELIZE | Thu, 16 Feb 2012 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [2856]
As I'm in the car with Matt, Claire, and Maddi, I was thinking of going to Spanish Lookout to hopefully meet some Mennonites but I decided to go along with them west toward Guatemala. They were discussing visiting the Mayan ruin of Xunantunich (pronounced ... Read more >
Tags: maya, ruins
UGANDA | Sat, 11 Jul 2009 | By ivan_miral | Views [2709] | Comments [2]
during our time at volunteering engagements, ivan and i usually get a long weekend or two to travel to visit other parts of the countries we've been in. while at St. Paul's, we took two - one to whitewater raft, and the other to visit a national wildlife ... Read more >
CANADA | Thu, 28 Jun 2012 | By jamesshanks | Views [2159]
The past week has been an epic roller coaster full of ups, downs and upside-downs! A weekend of camp left us a bit tired. Nahhhh, still having fun! Campers have come and gone. Friday the 22nd - Sunday the 24th was new camper weekend where those ... Read more >
Tags: canoe, chilled out, friends, fun, lake, relaxing, shawnigan, summer camp
UNITED KINGDOM | Thu, 4 Sep 2014 | By dan_and_nate | Views [1502] | Video | Scholarship Entry
Hello World Nomads, Our film shares the story of us as two young travellers looking for a place to work out before embarking on a Eurotrip. We asked people where to go for an ass whooping and heard of a place in Brixton called Block Workout. After some ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Film Scholarship to Mexico
NEW ZEALAND | Fri, 23 Nov 2007 | By all_powered_up | Views [1355]
It's another long drive through amazing scenery, while listening to great music and partaking in our favourite past time of taking the p out of each other. Lake why have a banana (our only way of remembering it) or Lake W as I'll call it, is another ... Read more >
Tags: trekking
CHINA | Sun, 18 May 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [1182]
Straight after work on Saturday it was home, throw some clothes in the pack, then taxi to the train station. That's where you sit in the corner and get stared at, or mother's drag their kids over to practice both sentences they know in english. It doesn't ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Wed, 1 Apr 2009 | By obonini | Views [1162]
This morning I had no time to get breakfast. That was not good. At 7.30am we all checked out from the hostel in Mercury Bay and made our way along the long road to Rotorua. After about 2 and a half hours of trying to keep myself awake we arrived at ... Read more >
NEPAL | Tue, 26 May 2009 | By margitpirsch | Views [980]
4/21/09
Strong
beginning, beautiful weather, gentle climb – we only hiked for a few hours and
then stayed put for another day to acclimate. At the end we hiked back downhill
in the fog – really isn’t my thing! The lodge (a river resort!!!) ... Read more >
POLAND | Wed, 5 Aug 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [971]
Busy day yesterday. First I went downstairs to the reception at the hostel to see if the guy working there can call the police lost and found to tell them about my cellphone. (As supposedly they can only talk to someone in the Polish language).... Read more >
Tags: auschwitz, poland
SWEDEN | Sat, 15 Aug 2009 | By milko_rosie | Views [815] | Comments [1]
August 9 th Day 30 of our trip. After making use of our internet at the campground, including updating our maps for our GPS so we now have maps to Eastern Europe as well, we got on the road to cross the Oresund bridge from Zealand (Denmark) to Malmo, ... Read more >
PERU | Mon, 1 Jul 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [810]
Crossing into Peru
The river Rio Macará separates Ecuador and Peru where we were switching countries. Before we crossed the bridge we needed our passports to be stamped out. Of course we had a visa (we learned from Mexico not to mess up anymore) ... Read more >
CHINA | Tue, 3 Jul 2007 | By aemaus | Views [769]
Into the working world….. Day 8 + 9 7/2/07 So I know if has been awhile since I have written but the past few days have been extremely crazy. Sunday evening ended with a great barbeque. Basically ... Read more >
Tags: Work
LAOS | Sat, 28 Jul 2007 | By kjones | Views [678]
i have just returned from a day of riding around laos on a motorbike. this country is absolutley amazing and i'm in love with it already. cant reccomend it highly enough, but i'll get back to that later. I met a couple of cool people from england ... Read more >
THAILAND | Mon, 18 Sep 2017 | By jasonmarshall22 | Views [530]
Today we arrived in Bangkok. Our flight arrived at around 7:30am so we were very happy when the hotel let us check in at 9am as we were able to catch up on some of the sleep we missed whilst on the plane.
After our morning nap we went ... Read more >
PHILIPPINES | Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By fbillano | Views [512] | Scholarship Entry
I arrive in Siena for the first time, at the wrong time. It's October and the Palio horse races are over. Gone are the Renaissance contrade costumes, the earthen racetrack and cheering crowds the travel brochures promised. Instead, the bowl-like ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
UNITED KINGDOM | Wed, 16 Jan 2008 | By addictedtoadventure | Views [512]
Hey all, Had a fantastic day recently when I went up the nearest mountian to me (right behind the hotel actually) called Ben Venue. Woke up unsure about what the weather was going to do and saw nothing but thick fog out the window but was so keen to ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
CHINA | Wed, 6 Jul 2011 | By ollo | Views [487]
Man erwarte hier nicht von mir, dass ich Spass oder gar
Spott mit meinem Gastland treibe und mich über Chinesen lustig mache; das
gehört sich nicht. Was aber den umgekehrten Fall betrifft, also da habe ich so
meine Vermutungen. Die stützen ... Read more >
GERMANY | Tue, 26 May 2015 | By nazarshowing | Views [455]
This trip took place some years ago, when I came to Germany to visit my friend. We came to many places that time, including Berlin, Erfurt and some other cities and towns in the East of Germany. I must say that every journey of mine has a single trip, ... Read more >
Tags: castles, europe, we are lost
PALAU | Wed, 29 Oct 2014 | By lesleyvick | Views [286]
No we haven't moved to Washington - believe it or not this is still Palau. It's called the Capitol building and it stands majestically on a hill about 45 minutes from Koror where most of the government and businesses are.
The idea was to build ... Read more >
USA | Wed, 27 May 2015 | By yoshic | Views [270] | Comments [2]
Turns out hitchhiking in Colombia is really easy - just stand on the side of a lonely stretch of highway and wave frantically at passing trucks. The third one stopped, after as many minutes. Nice.
So at this point you are probably wondering why I ... Read more >
USA | Wed, 27 May 2015 | By yoshic | Views [250] | Comments [1]
Whilst driving at home we get to see signs cautioning us about pedestrians, illegal immigrants and deer. Colombia steps it up with the following exotica:
1. Armadillos
2. Aardvarks
3. Monkeys
4. Snakes
5. Wolves
6. Jaguars ... Read more >