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WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4913] | 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 >
MONGOLIA | Thu, 27 Sep 2007 | By adde | Views [4697] | Comments [1]
2007.09.23 - 2007.09.27 Under tågresan genom Sibirien var himlen täkt av stora dystra moln.
Så fort vi kom in i Mongoliet skingrades molnen och när jag i Ulan
Bator hoppade av tåget tillsammans med Erik och Ida-Maria var himlen
klarblå. Vår danske ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
ICELAND | Tue, 25 Mar 2014 | By kurenai | Views [3008]
Dyrhólaey (aka black sands beach) is a remote beach near Vik, on the very bottom of Iceland about where east meets west; halfway between Reykjavik and Vatnajoekull National Park. It is quite picturesque and full of what, at first glance, seems ... Read more >
Tags: beach, black sands, dyrhólaey, iceland, on the road, vik
INDIA | Fri, 4 Jan 2008 | By markr_mcmahon | Views [2347]
Friday 4th January The day started off early, as Anja and
I got up to watch the sunrise over the edge of the park where we were
staying. There was the usual heavy mist rolling over the grasslands
and the forest, but little sign of any ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
ECUADOR | Wed, 21 Mar 2007 | By lani | Views [2006] | Comments [1]
For some reason I needed to make my last day in Ecuador memorable, so I decided to spend the day as far up a mountain as possible. I had been staring at a massive cable car that spanned a neraby mountain for a week so I took the cable car up to the ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
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 >
INDONESIA | Tue, 13 Sep 2011 | By ansku | Views [1417]
My friends had booked a diving trip for this morning so I was offered the opportunity to join them on the boat for some snorkeling. So I woke up early once again to rent a snorkeling gear and head to the sea. The snorkeling gear rent for a day was ... Read more >
Tags: snorkeling
JORDAN | Sun, 20 May 2007 | By largeone | Views [1319]
One. Unless the spare is flat and another tyre needs to be transported from camp. The Beduin pride themselves on living in the desert without food and water. In fact there is a proud tradition of the Beduin brothers outlasting one another for days ... Read more >
Tags: adventures
ECUADOR | Sat, 15 Jun 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [1184]
.....how I wonder what you are all about
up above the mountains so high
like a rainforest in the sky......
Shortly after we left Cuenca we approached a pass of 3400m. I felt the lack of oxygen ache in my leg muscles, my brain ... Read more >
USA | Mon, 30 Apr 2012 | By dianaandmalcolm | Views [1141]
A full day driving on the
Interstate 10, the straightest road in the universe through all of Los Angeles
and into the dessert and to Palm Springs although we are sure someone will tell
us differently.
Great hotel, dreadful
food;... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Tue, 20 Jan 2009 | By amil_patel | Views [1136]
I`ve just completed a hike to the top of Volcan Tajamulco which is the highest point in Central America at 4222m. I`d been talking about doing the hike with two of my Cuates, Mario and Marvin, for over a month. The basic idea had been to do the trek ... Read more >
Tags: trekking
sunrise
AUSTRALIA | Tue, 1 May 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1127]
Travel may be good for the spirit but it is hard on the sole. Our all-purpose footwear was past its "use by" date and didn't smell too good either. Connie's were so worn that I joked I could see her socks through the soles of her boots.... Read more >
JAPAN | Sat, 11 Jul 2009 | By abcarlson | Views [1101] | Comments [2]
Okay, we've posted about the very, very large bats on Base and the very large bugs on our screen. Are you starting to see a pattern? I thought I was too until our walk to see the sunset this evening. On our way, we found...well, we think it was a ... Read more >
THAILAND | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By katl | Views [999] | Comments [11]
Die Reise nach Bangkok, war eine emotionale Achterbahn, gezeichnet von einigen Ups and Downs... Meine Top5 Ups: Die beinah menschenleere Wartehalle in Berlin waehrend der 4stuendigen Wartezeit zum eigenen Wohnzimmer machen und die Zeit vollkommen ... Read more >
Tags: bangkok
NEW ZEALAND | Fri, 30 Oct 2009 | By reidy | Views [921] | Comments [4]
We made it! We took a 1 1/2 hr taxi ride, then a night train ride to Aguas Calliente in preparation for the big event. Babadaba. Usually you get accustomed to smells and tend not to notice them after a while, but we stayed in a hostel that smelt ... Read more >
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
USA | Mon, 4 Jun 2012 | By dianaandmalcolm | Views [822]
We were collected at
Denver Airport at 4 pm by good friends George and Phyllis and driven for 5
hours through the lovely countryside to their log cabin high above the Conejos
Canyon in Colorado. We arrived at the
bottom of a hill in ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Sun, 5 Apr 2015 | By cubannomad | Views [773]
I was trying to find the right words to explain Lent and Holy Week in Antigua and my high school friend, Maria Cristina, gave me the words "visible faith" in a comment on Facebook. (Maria Cristina used to help me with my homework 45 years ago and I can ... Read more >
IRELAND | Mon, 15 Mar 2010 | By fascinatingsleep | Views [732]
So I posted two stories since my last post, but I deleted them because I felt I wasn't in the right mindset to express my true self and feelings. I was going through a little culture shock. Missing my family, hating my new place because I missed my ... Read more >
INDIA | Mon, 6 Oct 2008 | By bixente | Views [551] | Comments [4]
Nous sommes enfin en Inde - leger choc culturel en arrivant a Delhi!Pays chaotique, destabilisant mais tellement vivant et prenant. Premiere nuit passe dans le quartier du grand bazar qui nous a mis tout de suite dans le bain! Vaches, rickshaws, ... Read more >
PERU | Thu, 7 May 2009 | By kaplan | Views [544]
Este título capicúa (palabra tomada del catalán, por cierto) me viene que ni pintado para describir esta ciudad, una colmena de ocho millones y medio de habitantes (7.600.000 más el millón de la provincia constitucional de Callao). Y es que la vida aqui ... Read more >
Tags: ciudades
USA | Tue, 14 Apr 2015 | By lhartjen | Views [532]
Los Angeles is a city of broken charm. Like a pair of Angels wings wrapped in crushed velvet this wood promises a touch of stardom at every turn for tourists like me seeking a brush with fame only to be turned away by the finality of each ubiquitous ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Sun, 18 Nov 2012 | By bob-claire | Views [485] | Comments [2]
Wellington, the bottom of the North Island. Hard to believe we had only one more day on the North Island. Seems like a huge city to me, but not surprising after all the small communities we had spent so much time in. Wellington is tall ... Read more >
ECUADOR | Tue, 7 Jan 2014 | By ashleytg | Views [411]
Today was all about health because we were able to visit a hospital! The hospital was located in Baños, and it was a level one hospital meaning they do not have the capability to do major surgeries. For example, they cannot do a caesarean section ... 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