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INDONESIA | Sat, 30 Sep 2006 | By language-guides | Views [93465] | Comments [8]
Have you ever been stuck in a country wanting to be polite, but not even knowing the word for 'please'? Or been frustrated when you couldn't ask for the most basic directions to where you're going?
The WorldNomads.com Indonesian ... Read more >
WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4870] | 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 >
GREECE | Wed, 23 Jan 2008 | By jreuter | Views [2339] | Comments [1]
After a sleepless flight, followed by an hour long passport check, I finally met up with my cousin Andy. The weather was lovely, and for the most part, we found the Athens Backpackers Hostel with no trouble. It's easy to get lost in Athens though. If ... Read more >
Tags: culture
CHINA | Sun, 5 Oct 2008 | By mazystar | Views [1991] | Comments [5]
The standard mattress here in China is hard as a rock. It seems the one in my little apartment is no exception. That's just the way Chinese people like to sleep. In the summer a lot of them will just sleep on straw mats on the floor. So I guess I should ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Fri, 12 Nov 2010 | By philsylvester | Views [1202]
Let us rejoice!*
When the English sent 11 ships loaded with
handkerchief and bread thieves to Australia in 1788, they thought they were
handing out harsh punishment to a bunch of ne’er-do-wells.
While the overlords in foggy London were
wringing ... Read more >
Tags: australia, australia day, festivals, sydney
SPAIN | Fri, 28 Aug 2015 | By guion09 | Views [1112] | Video | Scholarship Entry
Soy un productor de cine con bastante experiencia en varias películas. Tengo un documental entre manos que creo que podría enriquecer con esta propuesta.
Tags: 2015 Film Scholarship to Colombia
NEW ZEALAND | Tue, 31 Mar 2009 | By obonini | Views [997] | Comments [1]
I dragged myself out of bed in time for the early morning Kiwi Experience bus. After everyone was on, and we had picked up a few more passengers from another stop, we headed up to Mt. Eden, which I had already been to the first day that I arrived in ... Read more >
CANADA | Fri, 5 Oct 2007 | By gemma | Views [994]
My day started out looking pretty gloomy. I decided to head to the Hockey Hall of Fame once I got into town in the hope that the clouds which were completely obscuring the CN Tower may have lifted by the time I had been round the museum. I learnt a ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
SPAIN | Fri, 25 Jan 2008 | By applecrazy | Views [943] | Comments [2]
Well one interesting thing is that I´m now a university student again. I just signed up at the University of Zaragoza to take a month long class that studies the scripts of some classic movies. I think they are all from the same writer, but I ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
LEBANON | Sun, 22 Feb 2015 | By vagabondstoo | Views [924]
THE GREEKS CALLED IT HELIOPOLIS, THE CITY OF THE SUN. Julius Caesar expanded the name to Julia Augusta Felix Heliopolis in honor of his daughter. By any name, the World Heritage Site at Baalbek is reason enough to visit Lebanon. And ... Read more >
THAILAND | Thu, 6 Nov 2014 | By dinagosse | Views [896]
We have finished our third day of class at the Sunshine Massage School in Chiang Mai. There are sixteen of us in the class, and we represent nine countries: USA, France, Germany, UK, Costa Rica, Switzerland, Argentina, Spain, and Holland. The classes ... Read more >
Tags: khom loy, loy krathong, thai massage
CHINA | Wed, 14 May 2014 | By korric | Views [854] | 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
BRAZIL | Sun, 17 Feb 2013 | By vagabondstoo | Views [823]
The church carillon awakened us seconds before the alarm buzzed. We needed an early start to get to Amazon Antonio's lodge, 200 km from Manaus on the Urubu River.
It took us seven hours and three planes through two time zones to travel from ... Read more >
CAYMAN ISLANDS | Tue, 15 Feb 2011 | By melissa_wynn | Views [819] | Comments [3]
Hey guys, so as of today I have been living in Grand Cayman for a month exactly… Nope ok that was weird, I just remembered I arrived on the 24th so that’s a lie… I have only been here 3 weeks, and it feels like I have been here for ages!! Anyway, the ... Read more >
SAMOA | Mon, 28 Nov 2016 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [802]
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 >
EGYPT | Tue, 22 Jun 2010 | By drmitch | Views [733]
After breakfast on the train we arrived in Aswan
and headed to the Nile Hotel, which as the name suggested, looked out over the Nile. We stopped for a quick meeting in the restaurant,
where a massive group of tourists all sporting matching ... Read more >
Tags: elephantine island, nilometers, nubian home
BOLIVIA | Sat, 12 May 2007 | By marioarana | Views [694]
the countdown has begun for me to leave bolivia...one more month and i will be in guate... three more and i will be in cairo... i can't believe it !!! it seems like yesterday i was at a kjarkas (local folk band) concert having ron abuelo during my first ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
AUSTRALIA | Fri, 7 Nov 2014 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [655]
Australia, I love you! Though I must say you haven't been particularly kind to me these past couple of weeks. Interviewed by the police at the airport, a broken camera, and a terrible case of heat rash have been my brutal introductions back into the ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Mon, 8 Jul 2013 | By chicagoguy | Views [642] | Comments [4] | Video
Fishing village outside of Hoi An, Vietnam : Today was my “artistic” day. I got up at 4:20am (“My God, what was I thinking?”) to get some sunrise shots at a local fishing village outside of Hoi An. We took the ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Thu, 18 Jun 2009 | By pilgrim192 | Views [625]
I think Europe is very romantic. I liked visiting Germany two years ago, but I felt lonely a lot because it's just so romantic. In my opinion, the best was to experience Europe is with a love. Well, La Cumbrecita is a very European town. It ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 | By bergdorf-brunette | Views [612]
"Why do all good things come to an end...?" - hab ich mir immer und immer wieder gedacht. Ich hätte alles erwartet von Brasilen (vom ausgeraubt werden bis zum Nieren verlieren) aber nicht dass ich dieses Land und vor allem die Leute so lieben ... Read more >
CAMBODIA | Mon, 20 Jul 2009 | By hopperq | Views [565]
After our Tour de Angkor we spent 2 nights in Phnom Penh. Overall, it was a depressing experience. We visited the Genocide Museum, or Killing fields, which is the site of many mass graves from the Khmer Rouge regime. From there, we went straight to ... Read more >
USA | Tue, 20 Nov 2012 | By usadiary | Views [530]
This morning, one of Ben's dreams came true when he got to pick up and cruise around America in a new Mustang Convertable.
We caught a taxi to Avis at the airport where the car was pre booked, and at 10 oclock on the dot we were in our red Mustang.... Read more >
JAPAN | Wed, 29 Jan 2014 | By kpow | Views [497]
I'll make the JR Pass the first story, even though I've told most of you about it by now. I still haven't posted many pictures or really given details so here they are! Well, basic ones anyway, there are too many places to give you a full account of ... Read more >
Tags: japan, railpass
TAIWAN | Fri, 11 Oct 2019 | By graynomadsusa | Views [484]
I WISH I COULD SAY THAT YUAN FANG Homestay was a marvelous place and the highlight of our stay in Taiwan, that it gave us true insight into life in Taiwan. The truth is that even if we could have found it on our own, there were no signs in English ... Read more >