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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 >
CAMBODIA | Sun, 11 Mar 2007 | By hutch07 | Views [2554] | Comments [3]
Greetings from Cambodia all you good, good people. This place rocks like a big rocky rock, rocking up at a rock concert whilst eating a stick of rock. It has surprised us and charmed us in equal measure, and it's a place we'd love to return to as there ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
SERBIA | Mon, 7 Nov 2011 | By vagabonds | Views [1987]
Connie already had a plan for our first day in Belgrade, the capitol of the former Republic of Yugoslavia, but she kept it a secret. After we checked into an overpriced hostel less than a block from the Moskova Hotel, a really overpriced one, she ... Read more >
FRANCE | Mon, 11 Oct 2010 | By romina | Views [1569]
We again headed southwest and took the train to Bordeaux (one of the world’s best wine regions). The city itself was unimpressive, a Paris wannabe but lacking the maintenance and care. It was a pity, the architecture of the buildings were actually lovely ... Read more >
JAPAN | Wed, 17 Sep 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [1348]
I didn't know what to expect here in Japan. But I didn't really think the streets would be so clean, the cars so small and people constantly folding in half. These guys are constantly bowing in greeting, farewell or just for the hell of it. Everyone ... Read more >
Tags: culture, language, people, work
NEW ZEALAND | Thu, 6 Jun 2013 | By butterfly-freed | Views [1191]
All ferry crossings the following day were cancelled! Again I was lucky although it was far from a smooth trip. Arriving in Wellington in the dark, I find that navigation here is no easy task. I know that the hostel is about 20 minutes away and that ... Read more >
Tags: backpacking, car hire, desert highway, glow worms, makopa falls, mt egmont, new zealand, paihia, ponsonby backpackers
INDIA | Mon, 1 Jul 2013 | By blesstravo | Views [1101]
Ghaziabad – city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
It has a history, which I explored, for the 1 st time, in 23years of my life -
Ghaziabad was founded in 1740 by Ghazi-ud-din, who called it Ghaziuddinnagar, after the opening of the ... Read more >
Tags: crime, difficulties, garbage, life, molestation, poor, roads, slum, unawareness, vehicles
CHINA | Tue, 8 Nov 2011 | By leanneensly | Views [1096]
I have just been travelling with two lovely Dutch girls –
Judith and Marjolein (I had to call her May) they were great fun to be around
and not just for their keen sense of humour but also it was a chance to observe
how two gorgeous 20 something girls ... Read more >
JAPAN | Sun, 19 Oct 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [971]
THE RICE WAS ALREADY HARVESTED AND STORED, possibly expedited by the typhoon threat, and stubbly fields were all that remained. The trees are showing the faintest hint of autumn, pastels of pink, ocher and saffron. Goldenrod and the flowers ... Read more >
ITALY | Sat, 31 Dec 2011 | By vagabonds | Views [912]
It's a state of mind, a living museum where it seems possible that Michelangelo or Leonardo might just walk across the piazza. Florence hasn't changed much in the last 500 years. It hasn't been bombed or pillaged, destroyed by fire or been the victim ... Read more >
GERMANY | Wed, 1 Jan 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [845]
Martin Luther hardly started out to be a religious leader. He was on his way to becoming a lawyer. But when fearing for his life in a storm in 1505 he called upon St. Anne a la Burt Reynolds in The End. “If you save me I will ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Fri, 29 Jan 2010 | By linzbroscott | Views [839] | Comments [1]
The island of Zanzibar has been without power since the middle of December. A power line installed below the Indian Ocean’s turquoise waters in the late sixties by the Swedish(?) was said provide electricity to the island for up about 25 years. ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wed, 27 May 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [833]
When I was on the 3 day tour in the Scottish Highlands, a guy on the tour told me to go to Bath-so that is what I did. I checked out of my hotel in Salisbury, and went to Bath, a town an hours train ride from Salisbury. First of all, Salisbury ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Mon, 11 May 2009 | By dkky | Views [805]
Mazda ou Comment acheter sa 1 ère voiture au petit bonheur la chance ! Je me suis résolut à acheter un véhicule parce qu’ici bas si t’as pas de voiture eh bien t’es mort. Garry , notre employeur passe devant un loueur dans la ... Read more >
INDONESIA | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By thetravelicious | Views [774]
If people ask me what is the right sentence to describe Purwokerto, I would shout clearly that it is the most charismatic city ever. Several people may say it is just a city, underdeveloped and nothing special, but readers, you should believe me it is ... Read more >
Tags: joved, purwokerto, unsoed
PERU | Fri, 16 May 2008 | By luchinko | Views [753]
It was awesome! Got to Ica around 7am this morning, slept so nicely on the bus, my cama seat was soooooo comfortable. We drank a carton of sangria and got silly watching She's the Man on the bus TV. Our destination in Ica was Huacachina, this resort ... Read more >
ITALY | Mon, 23 Apr 2007 | By shanamave | Views [736]
Flying Into Venice
The flight was HELL... once again a trip over The Big Pond with a plane seat
that won’t recline!! Not to mention the flight was delayed by like 8 hours so I
was flying in the middle of the night and found it almost impossible ... Read more >
Tags: Airports
ARGENTINA | Fri, 30 Jan 2009 | By rich | Views [709]
On the outskirts of the city lies the barrio of La Boca. The busiest street is called Caminita and this is where you can find all the multicolored properties for which the area is famous. We learn that the paint used for these houses is leftover from ... Read more >
EGYPT | Sat, 11 Dec 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [662]
THIS SECTION OF THE SAHARA is called the Great Sand Sea. It is so imposing that Camyses, a Persian king of the 6th century BCE, had his army allegedly wiped out by a sandstorm on their march to Siwah. Undeterred, our driver Sarraj zipped our 4X4 around ... Read more >
COLOMBIA | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 | By shaz | Views [646]
Only an idiot travels to South America for 1 week and I am that idiot. Such a long way to go and such an expensive flight…did I get to see the best of Colombia? I think so.
I didn’t get as much time to sight see around Bogota as I arrived ... Read more >
WORLDWIDE | Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By wayfairer | Views [629] | Scholarship Entry
Unes, where's this from? I ask holding up a pastry dusted with sugar and cinnamon. Unes sits back, mint tea poised, his slender fingers cradling the glass. The Moriscos, in Fez they're famous for this. But first bstilla come from Al-Andalusia.... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
CHINA | Sat, 2 Oct 2010 | By hanadignan | Views [526]
I’ll begin with our bus ride to
LiJiang, a very well known touristy spot in Yunnan province. The laneways can
barely fit cars, so during the day in the old town its foot traffic only. The
cobbles are uneven and small rivers flow down some streets, ... Read more >
SPAIN | Thu, 27 Jun 2013 | By skipper1949 | Views [422]
day 14 is completed as we walked about 12 miles from Arzua to Rua a fairly easy trek. A nice lunch along the way and reached here about 4 pm this afternoon. We are in a quaint little stone hotel in a small but comfortable room. Only about 11 miles ... Read more >
USA | Tue, 10 Feb 2015 | By excellentadventure | Views [387]
Chatted with Dean and Sam this morning, then off to day 2 of Smithsonian exploring. Checked out American History (Dorothy's ruby slippers!) and Air and Space. Mike walked on the moon and I became the next US president. And Important people like us get ... Read more >
USA | Wed, 2 Sep 2015 | By mrose11 | Views [325] | Video | Scholarship Entry
Nature has always been my greatest source of inspiration. This inspiration has led me to the pristine wonders of varied countries. At age 17, I sailed throughout the Caribbean, earing my PADI certification and coral reef conservation credit. It was ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Film Scholarship to Colombia