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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 >
SERBIA | Mon, 7 Nov 2011 | By vagabonds | Views [1978]
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 >
LAOS | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 | By sarahandphil | Views [1940] | Comments [5]
Hi everyone, We finally arrived in Luang Prabang in Laos on Thursday last week after our two-day slow boat trip down the Mekong river. It was a really atmospheric journey meandering our way down from northern Thailand through the misty ... Read more >
Tags: on the road
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 3 Jan 2010 | By vantastic_tas | Views [1766] | Comments [1]
Boxing Day meant everything was up and running again in Hobart and it was time for Dara and I to start our adventure activities. We began by exploring the mountain that overlooks Hobart on the Mt. Wellington Descent. The bike tour started at the ... Read more >
Tags: australia, biking, bushwalking, hang gliding, itinerary, mountain biking, road trip, tasmania, van-tastic adventures, vantastic
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1650]
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 >
COLOMBIA | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 | By bigfish | Views [1547]
No they are NOT two superheroes and YOU know EXACTLY what I'm talking about. I saw this cautionary banner as I was passing the fruit and veg market in El Centro today and I thought I would share it with you. For those of you whose eyes are not as good ... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
JAPAN | Wed, 24 Feb 2010 | By amy_palfreyman | Views [1513]
Following my snowy stay in Togakushi, I took an early
morning bus an hour back down the mountain to the city of Nagano, host of the
1998 Winter Olympic games and home to the gorgeous Zenko-ji – a 1,300 year old
Buddhist temple said to hold the ... Read more >
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
AUSTRALIA | Mon, 4 May 2015 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [1079]
I've been in Victoria for nearly seven months and I've done hardly anything other than busking and geocaching. In fact, I haven't even left the Melbourne area since I arrived here in late November! Today I would go out and explore. Whilst I was contemplating ... Read more >
FRANCE | Tue, 15 Aug 2017 | By kimswim | Views [951]
Off we went to a town, Port Barques" we've never been to. In a brochure, it said it was having a two day Festival and we like festivals!
Do you know the term "one horse town"? Well, this place is a "two donkey town"! The "festival' ... Read more >
MALAWI | Mon, 19 Aug 2013 | By vagabondstoo | Views [945]
We had a nice birding walk with Hassan around the lake. He’s a nice guy who speaks good English and he knows his birds. We walked trails and sneaked through the bush but only one of the dozens of species we saw was new to us. ... Read more >
PAKISTAN | Fri, 15 Oct 2010 | By asad_prince | Views [941]
My life is so colorful I like to meet with that people who belong from different countries, languages and cultures. I try to catch my these moments in my camera. I attach my some pictures which present some general story of my life. Mostly pictures i ... Read more >
GERMANY | Wed, 25 Dec 2013 | By vagabondstoo | Views [918]
The scent of votive candles and incense perfumed the air as the organ pumped out something by Bach. The Christmas Evensong service had begun. Even if you aren't Catholic . . . even if you don't understand German . . . even if you don't speak ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Fri, 14 Jan 2011 | By drmitch | Views [852]
A three day weekend is too good an opportunity to pass up on some exploring, and so I decided to make the most of my time off and had back to Wales to see more of the country.
I booked 2 nights in a lovely little B&B near the town of Cowbridge, ... Read more >
Tags: caerphilly, castles, cowbridge, major llantwit, roman ruins, wales, waterfalls
COSTA RICA | Sun, 2 Jun 2013 | By kendal00 | Views [790] | Comments [2]
Saturday morning started early as I walked down to the bus stop from the farm at 5am as the sun was coming up. Donald had said the bus would arrive at 5:30 but I should be down at the corner at 5:15. I got the the corner and waited. I ... Read more >
Tags: costa rica, kda
UNITED KINGDOM | Thu, 15 Oct 2015 | By stephenhvlogtv | Views [776]
So day 2 of the trip started of
A little bit fuzzy as we sat up in the hotel bar
Till very late drinking the bar mans special cocktails which were very strong
We were leaving New York today and heading to the airport ... Read more >
Tags: blog, road trip, shvtvinusa, usa, vlog, youtube
LAOS | Sun, 24 Jul 2011 | By braynroni | Views [674]
Xam Neua...what can we say... It was a lovely town, not much happening on a Sunday though. This was fine as Bray was feeling rather rubbish. Roni ventured out to find drugs for Bray, breakfast and fruit. Brought these things home to the invalid ... Read more >
USA | Sat, 1 Sep 2007 | By michelle_grigg | Views [647]
Hi all, I have now officially finished my first week of school here at San Jose State. First impressions? Actually that’s a hard one, the campus is pretty huge I read somewhere that there is something like 29,000 students here. That number doesn’t ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
INDIA | Sun, 7 Feb 2016 | By davidford | Views [570]
I was sitting in my room earlier today and reflecting on the last few days. The word 'rattled' came to my mind. Rattled as in fazed but also literally, as if something in my chest has been shaken loose and is bouncing around within the confines of my ... Read more >
Tags: beggars, enlightenment, peace, temples
USA | Mon, 8 Jun 2009 | By kortenai | Views [423] | Comments [2]
We made it to Newark with hours and hours to spare this morning after getting Colby and Candice onto their flight back to Georgia.. We had a lovely breakfast at Ruby's Diner in the terminal where I proceded to put sugar on my homefries thinking it was ... Read more >
WORLDWIDE | Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ontheroadagain | Views [357] | Scholarship Entry
After my friends and I consume enough lunch to feed a small herd of elephants, we decide that we have mustered enough energy to head to Atashgah, the Zoroastrian fire temple outside Isfahan’s city centre. Following a synchronised display of our finely ... Read more >
Tags: iran, isfahan, travel writing scholarship 2012
USA | Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By coati2012 | Views [352]
USA | Wed, 11 Feb 2015 | By excellentadventure | Views [337]
Very touristy of us today, we hit Lincoln Memorial, White House, Washington Needle and Pentagon. Took advantage of the bike share thing, seeing as though it was $7 for the day in half hour blocks. We crossed over into Virginia in Pentagon city with the ... Read more >
INDIA | Fri, 5 Jul 2013 | By sendafaali | Views [218]
NORWAY | Tue, 2 Jul 2013 | By sabinapensek | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Hi, my name is Sabina and I live in Slovenia. I work as a freelancer food stylist on commercials, but ever since I got my first camera as a teenager, photography became my hobby, my passion. A viewfinder has a very appropriate name - finding a view. To ...
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