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5 Things You Must Do in NYC

USA | Mon, 5 Sep 2011 | By nodnsmile | Views [9500] | Comments [3]

I wasn’t unfamiliar with New York City before I moved here nearly 10 years ago. My family and I visited about once a year throughout my childhood, but I don’t think I ever really understood the hype. I thought NYC had some cool attractions, lots ... Read more >

Tags: #blogyourbackyard, nyc, photos, resources, world nomads

The Nutcracker at the Opera House

USA | Wed, 27 Dec 2006 | By emilymason | Views [6475]

Every December the Boston Ballet puts on a lovely production of The Nutcracker at the Opera House. The Boston Ballet is one of the top ballet companies in the world, which is evident through the dancers' confident, graceful movements. The unwavering ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

Fast Five Profile: Planeterra

WORLDWIDE | Tue, 29 Jun 2010 | By responsible-travel | Views [5122] | Comments [1]

In the WorldNomads.com Responsible Travel blog, we've gone out to some of the biggest and smallest names in the Travel Industry to get a snapshot of who's who and find out what they're actively doing in voluntourism, green travel and socially responsible ... Read more >

2009 Travel Photography Scholarship: Anna Zhu Preparing for the Trip of a Lifetime.

WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4898] | 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 >

So Long, And Thanks for all the Fish!

JAPAN | Mon, 7 Mar 2011 | By abcarlson | Views [2645]

We've had a lovely 2+ years on WorldNomads.  It's been a time of getting married in Jamaica, moving to a foreign country, exploring Japanese culture, cuisine, and customs; as well as lots of traveling around Okinawa, mainland Japan, Sapporo, and Italy.... Read more >

The Underground Guide to International Volunteering: interview with author, Kirsty Henderson

WORLDWIDE | Fri, 9 Apr 2010 | By responsible-travel | Views [2393]

A great new guide to international volunteering came out, from the founder of Travoholic.com so we decided to sit down (virtually) with the author Kirsty and ask her a few questions about voluntourism. It is constantly being touted as a trend in ... Read more >

Copenhagen

DENMARK | Thu, 6 Sep 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [2105]

The Little Mermaid is a Copenhagen icon and we succumbed to her charms, along with scores of other tourists.  But there is much more to see in Copenhagen and we wearied both mind and body for two days, taking in as much as possible; the Rosenburg Castle ... Read more >

Dawn to Dusk on the Mediterranean

TURKEY | Mon, 20 Jun 2011 | By zoe_smith | Views [1808]

After spending the previous evening with Jodi enjoying a delicious dinner of fresh fish and shrimp at the highly recommended Bahce Balik restaurant and downing possibly a little too much wine, we were keen to keep the morning laid-back. Wisely opting ... Read more >

Tags: beaches, istanbul, kalkan, mediterranean, sea, travel writing, travel writing scholarship, turkey

My Scholarship Entry - Biawak Island, Indonesia

INDONESIA | Sat, 12 Jan 2013 | By rukmansadikin | Views [1448]

My name is Rukman Sadikin, a 27-year-old man who loves exploring the world because of my curiosity to see the beauty of the world. I was actually a shy and coward man, maybe not in the classification to be an adventurer nor to be the real man. But I'm ... Read more >

Tags: #wnphoto, middle east, oman, peregrine adventures, photography, tourism oman, travel photography scholarships 2012

BK's School & hygiene education....

INDIA | Wed, 28 May 2008 | By bonnie | Views [1444]

BK's Community School or the 'Library' as it is locally called has nearly 70 students from Class 1 to Class 5 enrolled in 2008. Resources including coloured pencils, paint, crayons, glue, coloured paper, games etc have provided a stimulating classroom ... Read more >

Whitewater Grand prix - Pucon Chile

AUSTRALIA | Tue, 18 Dec 2012 | By goboatingaus | Views [1212]

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Prague

CZECH REPUBLIC | Thu, 8 May 2014 | By mattso | Views [1181]

It's always a bit hit-and-miss trying to synchronise with the weather and our sojourn in Prague broke even.  The train from Munich rolled it's way steadily through the farmland of southeast Germany and the forested woodlands of western Czech Republic, ... Read more >

Tags: sightseeing

Bunyonyi and Queen Elisabeth Safari

UGANDA | Wed, 27 Feb 2013 | By smhnash | Views [1129]

Hi Everyone,   We are just back from our weeks holiday and had a great time. As you could probably tell from our last blog we were a little in need of a break and the week off came just in time. Work had been a bit frustrating in the previous ... Read more >

The journey begins...

USA | Thu, 20 Jan 2011 | By libana | Views [1070]

Hello and welcome to our travel journal! We're Libana , the global music ensemble. We've been traveling and performing together for more than thirty years, and are very excited to set out for India next month! Travel along with us!

Tags: libana, women of the world

Two Rainy Days in Martinborough

NEW ZEALAND | Thu, 6 Oct 2011 | By deepsouthrugby | Views [957]

Martinborough is a little Kiwi town   an hour east of Wellington over a winding mountain road surrounded by vineyards,   olive groves, sheep pastures, and a wild Pacific coastline. The town was laid out by an Irish settler named Martin in the 1800’s ... Read more >

Vong Fong Swan Song

JAPAN | Mon, 13 Oct 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [867]

JAPAN IS A MAGNET FOR NATURAL DISASTERS.  Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and typhoons — Japan has them all.  So when we learned that “Super-typhoon” Vong Fong, the second such storm in two weeks, was headed our way, we ... Read more >

Off the Beaten Path

CHINA | Thu, 28 Jun 2007 | By aemaus | Views [735]

Today was Thursday and Day 4 in China ~The Update I have been waking up between 5 and 6 AM everyday. I thought the first few days, I wasn't going to have any Jet Leg but I have since been proven wrong. Pretty positive I haven't been ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

1. Getting there

USA | Sat, 2 Jan 2010 | By kath_atkins | Views [677] | Comments [2]

V Australia rocks! Great looking, clean plane, really nice cabin crew, good food. Walking through first class to get to my seat was torture. It looked great, heaps of room, and there was stand up bar. Kyle Sandilands was talking on his phone in first ... Read more >

Medellin....

COLOMBIA | Fri, 16 Mar 2012 | By jenc_13 | Views [671]

After a few teething problems with my flights in South America so far, you can imagine my surprise when I found myself not only making my connection in Bogota when en route from Quito to Medellin, but actually being EARLY. (I also have to add one ... Read more >

Volunteering Completed

CAMBODIA | Sun, 17 Nov 2013 | By rtumicki | Views [601] | Comments [1]

Friday was my last day at Kep Gardens with the students and it was a bittersweet day.  For the last week my friend Karen and I did art lessons with the students and we all had a great time.  Considering these students do not have art at school, ... Read more >

Into Tanzania

TANZANIA | Fri, 8 Apr 2011 | By jimboandjanet | Views [547]

2 nd – 4 th April 2011 …into Tanzania… The border was a furious swarm of men all looking for opportunity to help smooth our way through the endless paperwork involved in getting our bodies and our cars out of Zambia ... Read more >

Finally Wednesday is over!

USA | Thu, 7 Mar 2013 | By sharonleigh | Views [437]

After so many hours of Wednesday I was happy to arrive in anchorage at about 1am on Thursday morning. I fell on to the bed face first and slept right through until lunch time.... Had to yell at housekeeping to go away twice.... I forgot to put up the ... Read more >

Tags: anchorage

Planes, pains and automobiles.

INDIA | Thu, 30 Jul 2015 | By pjyogi | Views [400]

With some excitement, but mostly trepidation, I departed San Francisco on Friday afternoon and arrived at Isha Yoga Center in Tamil Nadu, India, around 36 hours later.  And it felt that long.  I really neither knew nor cared what day or time ... Read more >

Alleppey

INDIA | Tue, 12 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [345]

Alleppey is definitely different from the places we have been so far. It cleaner, friendlier, and calmer. It is hot & humid (feels much hotter than Tamil Nadu). However, the people are much easier to get along with and are more genuine from my experiences.... Read more >

84. have a day of baking

UNITED KINGDOM | Mon, 16 May 2011 | By lauren-farr | Views [291]

and bake we did, in the dodgy dirty kitchen in walkabout leeds staff accommodation. it was actually pretty clean though, when we started :) michelle made a delicious banana cake and cheese cakes and i made hedgehog slice and cupcakes. yum yum yum. pity ... Read more >

 

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