World Nomads journals & writers

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

WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4916] | 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 >

The Big Durian

INDONESIA | Tue, 14 Oct 2014 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [2409]

As I stepped off the bus with my heavy bags, the searing heat and humidity bit hard! I had no clue where I was and I thought I was reasonably close to Amiel's flat but it turned out I was way off, and I was out of rupiah until I could get to an ATM. ... Read more >

Whales, boobies, and sea turtles (oh my!)...

ECUADOR | Tue, 20 Sep 2011 | By colleen_finn | Views [2104]

After enjoying a week playing on the beach and in the surf, we opted to spend our last day on Ecuador's coast in Puerto Lopez, a sleepy fishing town about two hours south of Manta. It wasn't really the town we were interested in, but a trip to Isla ... Read more >

Tags: adventures, sightseeing

Las Geel

SOMALIA | Mon, 11 Mar 2013 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [1992]

As I hitchhiked from Berbera I was picked up quickly and asked to be dropped off in Dhubato so I could go to Las Geel. It was still early, and even though it was 6 km down a dirt road I felt confident I could walk there. The only problem was that I had ... Read more >

Belgrade

SERBIA | Mon, 7 Nov 2011 | By vagabonds | Views [1991]

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 >

Newcastle to Port Stephens

AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1656]

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 >

Indigenous Australian Art

AUSTRALIA | Thu, 30 Oct 2014 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [1518]

When referring to the natives I prefer the term "Indigenous" with a capital "I." It simply sounds so much better. As I stated, this is an entry about Indigenous art and my love for it.  Art has never been my forte but I sure have a deep appreciation ... Read more >

BK's School & hygiene education....

INDIA | Wed, 28 May 2008 | By bonnie | Views [1478]

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 >

Day 90: Theft on Monkey Beach!

THAILAND | Sun, 3 Feb 2008 | By markr_mcmahon | Views [1455]

Sunday 3rd February Sangita and Tania put forward the idea of doing more kayaking and it sounded like a fine plan to me, the perfect way to get away from the crowds for a few hours. Ko Phi Phi is basically two islands connected by a major ... Read more >

Tags: Beaches & sunshine

Glædelig Jul fra Danmark!

DENMARK | Sat, 22 Dec 2007 | By arollingstone | Views [1409] | Comments [1]

It's starting to feel like the holidays. Although festive lights have been up on the streets of Aalborg for a few weeks already, I guess I haven't really taken the time to enjoy them. I went shopping with one of my flatmates last night and I truly realized ... Read more >

Tags: Friends

Beached & Braided

TANZANIA | Fri, 6 Jul 2007 | By hnmenk | Views [1303] | Comments [1]

So we're back in Stonetown for another day in a half or so before heading back on the overnight ferry to Dar Es Salam.  We spent the better part of three days in Jambiani which is on the east coast of Zanzibar.  Its a sleepy little beach town with a ... Read more >

Tags: Beaches & sunshine

Yet another memorial to madness

JAPAN | Sun, 21 Sep 2008 | By bundynbeaches | Views [1218] | Comments [4]

Hiroshima is well known as the city where the first Atomic bomb was dropped but it isn't until you visit the site and see some of the preserved ruins that you can get a real feel for what these people went through. Listening to the Last Post ... Read more >

Tags: a bomb, memorial, war

Day 117: Born to be mild!

LAOS | Sat, 1 Mar 2008 | By markr_mcmahon | Views [1067]

Saturday 1st March Kara had suggested a few days earlier the idea of renting some motorbikes and taking a trip up to the town of Muang Sing, 60km north of Luang Nam Tha. It sounded like a good idea to me as I had been keen to visit this part of ... Read more >

Tags: adventures

Songpan - A bad Trip on an Otherwise Good Journey

CHINA | Thu, 27 Mar 2014 | By moresbbb | Views [984]

Behind the glass window in the ticket hall of the bus station at the northern end of Songpan in the Aba prefecture of Sichuan, a middle age woman methodically typed information into her computer, printed and stapled together a two-part ticket and exchanged ... Read more >

Tags: china, langmosi, sichuan, songpan, tibetan autonomous region

July 10 - 12 - through heat and wind in eastern South Dakota

USA | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 | By johnkeith | Views [830] | Comments [1]

July 10 – A long, hot 84 miles from Pierre to Chamberlain, SD.   The first half was nice – comfortable, nice views of the Missouri, but then we turned south into a stiff, 20 mph headwind.   Add to this temperatures rising to 97 F and some steep ... Read more >

On the farm

GERMANY | Sat, 29 Nov 2008 | By the-white-rabbit | Views [815] | Comments [1]

Seit ein paar Tagen haben wir es uns auf der Farm von Matts Familie (den wir auf einem campground in Swan Valley getroffen haben) gemuetlich gemacht.  Es ist herrlich hier. Die Gegend ist kummelich, Alex und Joseph sind uns total ans Herz gewachsen ... Read more >

Beni-imo & the Aquarium

JAPAN | Sat, 2 Jan 2010 | By abcarlson | Views [771]

New Year's Eve we went up north to the Beni-imo store and then to the Aquarium.   They have finally finished the renovations to the Dolphin Lagoon, so we were able to watch the dolphin show there and the big dolphin show in the Okichan Theater.  We've ... Read more >

Vipassana Meditation Course

INDIA | Sun, 24 Mar 2013 | By magdalena | Views [761]

Learning in Vipassana   It's been a long 10 days of amazing torture. The best thing I have ever done for myself. It changed the way I view the world and myself. It made me happier and more balanced in my thoughts and actions. The benefits ... Read more >

Tags: be happy

Free Stuff: The British Museum and British Library

UNITED KINGDOM | Tue, 13 May 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [717]

THE BRITISH MUSEUM HAS ONE OF THE FINEST collections in the world, between six and eight million artifacts courtesy of the Empire’s rapacious explorers and collectors of the 19 th Century.  We returned today In search of the remaining 35 ... Read more >

Calangate.

INDIA | Mon, 25 Aug 2008 | By simon_hennig | Views [608]

19/082008 - 25/08/2008 Calangate and the North. It was my first night out of the dodgy joint in Colva, and feeling comfortable in my backstreet lodge, i pulled out my laptop to do a bit of writing. I was pretty happy with the little baby since the ... Read more >

INDIA- children of Varanasi

ROMANIA | Sun, 8 Aug 2010 | By alina_pro | Views [481]

Set on the Ganges, Varanasi is one of India’s most appreciated holly places and the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. The main activity in Varanasi is commerce. Anybody can sell anything to any one, the town is a gigantic market. Attracting ... Read more >

Saturday

GERMANY | Sun, 13 Jan 2013 | By hayleyrochelle | Views [415]

Today I caught the tram for 30 minutes to get to the City Hall because you can go inside and look out over Hannover, so I got there and realised my camera was dead.... so I caught the tram back. Charged my camera for 30 min then went back, went inside ... Read more >

Europa moon

ITALY | Sat, 29 Jun 2013 | By simonecametti | Views [389]

I am an artist who lives and works in Rome. I studied photography in high school, and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts. I'm not a professional photographer, but at the same time I am passionate about travel, esperiense of life, to know and experience ... Read more >

Tags: audio recordings, ice, lake

Queenstown day 3: Rain in the rainforest

NEW ZEALAND | Wed, 28 Nov 2012 | By bob-claire | Views [330]

Up early and out the door door for a two hour ride to Lake Manapouri to begin the bus/boat/bus/boat trip to Doubtful Sound, a rainforest at a similar latitude to northern Maine.  through mostly spitting rain, we saw penguins, shags, gulls and a ... Read more >

Day 38: Tenderloin

USA | Thu, 15 Jan 2015 | By excellentadventure | Views [209]

Arrived by MegaBus to San Fran at 6:50am...eyes wide open? Dropped bags, Philz coffee and yum yum bagel! Then headed to the pier for GG bridge Glimpse...but fog is common, so will try again. Mike googled Tenderloin district (our hood for the week) and ... Read more >