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WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4914] | 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 >
AUSTRALIA | Fri, 23 Dec 2011 | By homeless_harry | Views [3045]
Outside my tent I could hear the waves breaking so softly they sounded more like paper plates dropping, than fine China. I could see the sun shining through the clouds frequently enough to convince me Lady Luck was having a sleep in. Fearing she'd wake ... Read more >
Tags: bicycling, friends, misadventure, on the road
BELIZE | Tue, 28 Dec 2010 | By ryanandjo | Views [2659]
We crossed into Belize and despite the landscape being exactly the same as northern Guatemala we could tell that we were in a different country, but we weren’t expecting to find England! When we tried to speak Spanish to the first few people that we ... Read more >
Tags: belize city, blue hole, caye caulker, diving, snorkelling
INDIA | Wed, 22 Oct 2008 | By lina_santiago | Views [2551] | Comments [1]
Acordamos tarde, mas prontas pra explorar Jaipur.
Jaipur, no estado do Rajastão, é conhecida como “pink city, ou a “cidade cor-de-rosa” porque, por ocasião de uma visita da realeza de Whales à Índia, o forte e o palácio da cidade foram pintados ... Read more >
Tags: jaipur india taxi
HONG KONG | Mon, 13 Feb 2012 | By macedonboy | Views [1925]
It's the start of week 2. The first item is a little excursion out to Lantau Island where there the Po Lin Buddist Monastery, the Big Buddha and the Po Lin Village.
Big Buddha
Lantau Island can be reached from Tung Chung MTR station, which ... Read more >
Tags: hong kong, lantau island
CHINA | Wed, 26 Jun 2013 | By nnninecountries | Views [1679] | Comments [1]
So as you may know, the GPA has now come to an end. After thousands of photos, five packages mailed home, hundreds of items left behind accidentally, many new friends and countless adventures, we made it home in two pieces!
Even though things have ... Read more >
Tags: border trouble, chinese food, family, friends
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1654]
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 >
INDIA | Tue, 5 Nov 2013 | By sayantanacharya | Views [1620] | Video
The video features indian form of wrestling, locally known as kushti. The video sneaks in a day of a kushti fighter, to celebrate the modest life at chinchechi talim against bustling life at Pune, India
Kushti is an old Indian form ... Read more >
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Mon, 5 Sep 2011 | By nncysf | Views [1387]
yesterday we drove out to the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo (aka Pushkin when it was no longer fashionable/p.c. to refer to the tsars) in many ways just as opulent/OTT as the Hermitage complex but with fewer well-known artworks - the Empress Elizabeth, ... Read more >
INDIA | Fri, 27 Jul 2012 | By bonnie | Views [1354]
As previously mentioned, this is a tale of a missing notebook and a dodgy Indian photo processing shop, from here on in memory has to take over. But where to begin in a world of small children, wound stitching, overwhelming hospitality, solar maintenance ... Read more >
Tags: death, india, khati, solar home lighting, uttarakhand
INDONESIA | Wed, 8 Sep 2010 | By julio_martinez | Views [1338] | Comments [5]
Today, it's been six months since I started this trip... and today, I'm back in Spain, back in Madrid... I'm coming for a friend's wedding, as planned.... but I'm also considering this trip over, finished... and this was not planned... I was supposed ... Read more >
INDONESIA | Tue, 21 Oct 2014 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [1228]
After a rigourous journey through the Indonesian heart, Bali comes as a welcome surprise. Coming from relatively unvisited parts of Indonesia, Bali comes as an unpleasent surprise. Coming from well-ordered countries such as NZ and the US, Bali comes ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Thu, 4 Aug 2011 | By braynroni | Views [1220]
We packed up in the morning again - in case of moving accomodation...then at reception they said not to bother and just to stay here for our last night :-) Score! On the bikes after a yummy breakfast this morning and off to An Bang Beach. We got ... Read more >
TURKEY | Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By nadiamar | Views [1211]
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
CHINA | Wed, 14 May 2014 | By korric | Views [908] | Comments [3]
Right before one of the afternoon training sessions, I saw Master Xu playing with a pair of sticks. Back home I am a fighter for a medieval recreation group called the Society for Creative Anachronism, in which I primarily fight with two swords. We don't ... Read more >
Tags: china, martial arts
INDIA | Tue, 17 Mar 2015 | By richardwatkins | Views [896]
North And South India Adventure Tour
This epic adventure across the length and breadth of India offers the fantastic opportunity to discover the country's many highlights and meet the friendly locals travel by bus, train and boat. roam ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Wed, 24 Nov 2010 | By anijensen | Views [881] | Comments [3]
These two days were very relaxing, starting with a drive from Te Anau north to the high plateua town of Wanaka, on the shore of Lake Wanaka. On the way, we stopped at Arrowtown, and saw the preserved remains of a 19th Century Chinese town occupied by ... Read more >
PHILIPPINES | Fri, 28 Oct 2016 | By manuel | Views [748]
Era el momento de ponerse el equipo de buceo, de sumergirse y explorar el profundo mundo submarino de Filipinas. Después de la primera inmersión para ver a los tiburones zorro y con la constatación de que mi oído respondí... Read more >
Tags: bohol, buceo, chocolate hills, dive, fiilipinas, submarinismo, tarsiers
MALAYSIA | Tue, 31 May 2011 | By tweber | Views [684]
First, I visited Langkawi, which is a large
island on the western side of Malaysia. It was the easiest location to cross
the border from where I was in Thailand.
It was a nice beach but did not have the aqua blue waters. I stayed here
for ... Read more >
CANADA | Wed, 3 Jul 2013 | By mattpaquette | Views [605]
The images depicted in this Journal indicate some of the many stories of life that define us as human beings.
Tags: arctic circle, greenland, jason edwards, opportunities, photography, scholarship, travel, travel photography scholarship
ITALY | Sun, 30 Sep 2012 | By cadillactramp13 | Views [545]
After 26 hours of exhausting travel, my feet finally touched the ground in Italy. I had no money, I do not speak the language, I do not have a phone, and my Internet wasn't working. To say I was shitting my pants is an understatement. A friend of a ... Read more >
THAILAND | Wed, 8 Jan 2014 | By oscarskarin | Views [523]
Åkte igår vid kl 21:00 thaillänskt tid och kom till Koh Phangan vid 10:30 tiden. Lite jobbigt att resa flera timmar men då är vi så pass smarta att vi gör alla förflyttningar nattetid. Visst en aning trö... Read more >
FRANCE | Fri, 6 Apr 2007 | By moley | Views [508]
Of skiing on sunday with the gang. Have been going with this lot for years, still not any good at skiing ...keep losing things ie ski's gloves and confidence! still I'm sure the training will have done me good, can now manage a bottle of wine and a few ... Read more >
Tags: Snow
TURKEY | Mon, 14 Sep 2015 | By colandscott | Views [346]
Wow, we have a new Prime Minister!
We docked in Istanbul around 8 this morning, with our tour to leave at 9. First stop was the Blue Mosque, blue because of the blue mosaic interior. It is closed on Mondays, but was opened especially for cruise ship ... Read more >
USA | Wed, 27 May 2015 | By yoshic | Views [275] | 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 >