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CHINA | Tue, 12 Feb 2013 | By scholarships | Views [244489] | Comments [128] | Video
Applications are now closed - best of luck to everyone that applied!
Keen to turn your passion for writing into a profession?
This year we want to send you to Beijing, China!
Crisscrossed by freeways, spiked with ... Read more >
ICELAND | Wed, 16 May 2012 | By connectlocally | Views [7759]
Lamb, a popular meat option in Iceland As someone who transforms from Jekyll to Hyde when temperatures drop below 70 degrees Fahrenheit, I generally go running for the hills at the first sign of cold. So it was an uncharacteristic and unlikely ... Read more >
Tags: connect local, food, iceland
INDONESIA | Tue, 1 Nov 2011 | By connectlocally | Views [6442]
It’s 9 o’clock on a cold Sunday morning. The
roads are not as crowded as if it was a working day, a perfect time for a
special breakfast.
Two men are busy in a stall, on a corner of a
grocery store parking lot. One is continuously digging ... Read more >
Tags: bangung, food, indonesia, java travel, surabi
NETHERLANDS | Wed, 21 Jan 2009 | By whereiskai | Views [3786] | Comments [5]
Wo bin ich zuhause? Und wo meine Seele? Wo ist Liebe? Und wo nicht? Wenn der Wind meine Wange streichelt Wo bin ich dann? Wir leben, wie wir leben. Doch die Lieder laengst vergangner Zeiten die hallen wider, sanft und warm in der Liebe, die ... Read more >
Tags: nature, philosophy, poetry, sky
SINGAPORE | Mon, 25 Jun 2012 | By hanna | Views [2241]
I met Nisha on my last night in Singapore. She
is 7 years old and her father tells me her favourite thing to do is talk. I
realised this when I sat down and she asked me if I would like to borrow her umbrella,
where I was from and what I would like ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1661]
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 >
MEXICO | Fri, 12 Feb 2010 | By nickandlaina | Views [1605] | Comments [5]
"Hey, whats up dude!?" was how an enthusiastic Arturo greeted me this afternoon after I had been helping clean the kitchen at Casa Hogar. "¿¡Que onda wey!?" was my equally enthusiatic response, which has about the same meaning ... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Sun, 2 Jul 2006 | By willlou | Views [1473]
After two and a half months of high mountains and bright cold weather, we have spent the last two weeks in the steamy green jungle and flatlands of Northern Bolivia. From La Paz we took a minibus down the Death Road, descending 3500m from the Andes ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
INDONESIA | Fri, 18 May 2012 | By macedonboy | Views [1376]
I'm done with Borobudur and get the driver to take me to backpacker haven of Jalan Sosrowijayan, close to Yogjakarta Train Station. It doesn't take long to find a hostel and not much longer for a tout at the hostel spotting fresh meat. He talks to ... Read more >
Tags: buddhist, hindu, indonesia, prambanan, scams, temples, unesco, yogjakarta
CHINA | Sat, 8 Aug 2009 | By muoy | Views [1373] | Comments [3]
Well, I was a lazy bum today and slept in till around 9am...so we didn't make it to Mutianyu Great Wall. Cory ended up having to work in the morning as well, so it worked out that I didn't get up early. By the time we met up, it was lunch time and ... Read more >
CHINA | Wed, 14 May 2014 | By korric | Views [919] | 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
SAMOA | Mon, 28 Nov 2016 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [872]
Only a little more than a week I have left in Samoa. For the past couple of days I’ve been staying with John, Lagi, and family. They have four children: George, Frank, Mona, and Fina. Lagi made her first carrot cake last night; excitedly enough, ... Read more >
USA | Tue, 25 Oct 2011 | By annanderson | Views [820] | Video
No matter where you go in the world, dogs are fun to watch!
WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By centuryfox20 | Views [650] | Scholarship Entry
The midnight air is clean with a vague scent of
concessions and camels as I unload from the microbus with the other travelers. I find
myself in a horseshoe shaped, miniature ‘sûq’ filled with vendors selling
everything from soda to prayer flags. I ... Read more >
Tags: #2011writing, travel writing scholarship 2011
BOLIVIA | Wed, 12 Feb 2014 | By lucasamorelli | Views [649]
Nunca gostei de planejar e nesta viagem não foi diferente. Uma semana antes de sair de férias, mudei meu destino e fui para Bolívia . Não fiz a mínima questão de ficar pesquisando hoté... Read more >
Tags: américa do sul, desert, deserto, mochilão, salar, south america, travel, trip, viagem, yunni
INDIA | Fri, 25 Dec 2015 | By davidford | Views [589] | 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
GERMANY | Tue, 28 Oct 2008 | By the-white-rabbit | Views [578] | Comments [2]
Gestern war nun der letzte Tag im Regenwald. Wir fahren nun gen Sueden und das Gebiet um Paluma ist der suedlichste Regenwald Australiens. Die letzte Nacht verbrachten wir im Nationalpark am Paradise Hole, wo man wunderbar baden kann. Der Name macht dem ... Read more >
INDIA | Fri, 5 Jul 2013 | By hegemon | Views [578]
Greetings!!
I am Shilpa and I hail from the beautiful southern Indian state of Tamilnadu. I was brought up and educated in the city of Chennai (formerly known as Madras). I am 25 yrs old and an engineering graduate, currently working as a content ... Read more >
Tags: fruits, greenland scholarship, india, travel photography scholarship 2013, worldnomads
UNITED KINGDOM | Fri, 21 Nov 2014 | By lokodizsolt | Views [536]
Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on a wing, onwards the sailors cry ...so I made a dramatic entrance onto the Isle of Skye through Kyle of Lochalsh. A while back, in a Youtube video I have seen Ray Mears, my favorite outdoorsman visit Loch Coruisk. He ... Read more >
Tags: on the road
PALAU | Mon, 13 Apr 2015 | By lesleyvick | Views [481]
Imagine 4 tiny coral islands in the Pacific Ocean - that is Kayangel. Unique in Pala, Kayangel and the 3 tiny islands that make up this chain are low lying coral atolls. That means they are vulnerable to high tides, storms and typhoons. ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Fri, 11 Apr 2014 | By nncysf | Views [449]
we should have perhaps gone to the Majorelle Gardens and/or had a horse carriage ride at sunset - but i for one had NO sleep (probably still obsessing about lost luggage) and wound up going downstairs to the courtyard in the middle of the night and trying ... Read more >
ITALY | Fri, 18 Sep 2015 | By colandscott | Views [388]
We went up on deck at 11am this morning. The Maitre d and our waiter had highly recommended watching our approach into Venice on the starboard side. The cruise director rated it in the 3 best ports in the world, along with New York and Sydney. ... Read more >
COLOMBIA | Sun, 11 Dec 2011 | By max23 | Views [342]
There's a Mark Twain quote that I like to think of whenever I'm in a
situation in which a decision will drastically change the course of my life.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things you didn't ... Read more >
USA | Mon, 23 Feb 2015 | By smithtravel | Views [308] | Comments [1]
On Sunday, we flew cross country to be met, and given room and board at Mindy and Bill's. Beautiful house in Happauge. Met their main co-resident, Thor. He liked us, but definitely NOT the wheelchair. A very loving pup. ... Read more >
WORLDWIDE | Mon, 15 Oct 2012 | By mywork | Views [209] | Video | Scholarship Entry
I always try to take the best of each thing when I am shooting, something different and unusual that accelerates my heart. I like to capture the truth of each expression. This video is a perfect combination of my two great passions traveling and filming ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Film Scholarship 2012