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

WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4918] | 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 >

A local's guide to Turkey: an interview with Turan Kirac

TURKEY | Fri, 24 Jun 2011 | By zoe_smith | Views [3588] | Video

What better way to get an inside view on Turkey, than to ask someone who makes a living guiding people through the country? Meet our BikeHike tour guide, Turan, a professional tour guide born and bred in the Aladaglar range of the Taurus Mountains.... Read more >

Tags: cappadocia, guide, istanbul, tour, travel writing, travel writing scholarship, trekking, turkey

Newcastle to Port Stephens

AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1657]

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 >

Santiago Sloths

CHILE | Sun, 13 Sep 2015 | By jorjejuanita | Views [1552]

Santiago Sloths The original plan in Chile was to head straight up the Andes and do a weeks skiing, However the associated costs and it being fully booked had conspired against us. We did manage to find a budget option but not until the ... Read more >

Jusco Dinner

JAPAN | Mon, 31 May 2010 | By abcarlson | Views [1498]

When you are busy mixing batters and juggling muffin pans and baking pans in and out of the oven to make 48 of these: (Yes, that is a Millennium Falcon in the back left, but more on that another time.) ...what better way to have a stress-free dinner ... Read more >

Ancient Salamis

CYPRUS | Thu, 12 Feb 2015 | By vagabondstoo | Views [1298]

FAMAGUSTA, OR MAGUSA, THOUGH IN THE NORTH, sits near the border. Too close, actually, as it turns out. All of the hotels listed on booking.com for Famagusta are actually on the Republic side of the Green Line, something the website failed ... Read more >

What a Character - My Five year old niece performs!

CANADA | Tue, 17 Apr 2007 | By miss_traveller | Views [1157] | Video

I took this video of my niece before I left for Korea. I totally miss both my little 5 year old niece, Emily, and my mother, who turned the big 60, yesterday! Here is a video of my niece who dressed up in my Halloween costume from last year that I bought ... Read more >

Tags: Laughter

19th October - Penang

THAILAND | Sat, 21 Oct 2006 | By katie_and_eoin | Views [1094] | Comments [1]

After roughing it in cheap hotels in the north of Thailand, we decided it wa time to live it up, blow the budget and stay somewhere flash in Ko Samui. Aoife had been honing her bargaining skills in the night bazaar in Chiang Mai and managed to ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Colorful life

PAKISTAN | Fri, 15 Oct 2010 | By asad_prince | Views [998]

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 >

Music

INDIA | Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Views [937]

Today is the opening day of the Kalyani Para music centre and the atmosphere around me is electric. Sweaty cameramen from Malayalam TV jostle for good vantage points while assembled villagers excitedly take their seats. Dedicated to the memory of ... Read more >

Busses, Bilbao, and a Bar

SPAIN | Mon, 2 Apr 2007 | By sarahjo | Views [870]

On Thursday, we had an orientation with all of our classes. We got all of our syllabi and talked about what to expect during the quarter. My two professors Ana and Nekane seem really nice and I think I’m going to like them a lot. Around 2:00pm ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

Washington DC & The National Gallery

USA | Fri, 21 Sep 2007 | By randywakefield | Views [835]

Easy driving down to w-dc. Our hotel was a little way out of town in Maryland, 9our 12th or 13th state or province) on a hill overlooking the Potomac River. We took a little drive downtown to check out the sights in the afternoon - easier said than ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

adios Buenos Aires!

ARGENTINA | Sun, 2 Aug 2009 | By daniryan | Views [822]

What an interesting place Buenos Aires is, not in an entirely positive way but not negative either. I´m not too sure whether my experience is due to me being on my own, and female, or whether I was focussed on getting to Cusco, or because the people ... Read more >

Raining at the Monastery

BULGARIA | Tue, 29 Sep 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [703]

Another cold, rainy day yesterday. The weather report indicated it was supposed to clear up, but that has not happened. The weather has just been miserable. I have come to the horrible conclusion that maybe my days of wearing shorts on this ... Read more >

Tags: monastery, rila, sofia

My Scholarship Entry: A 'Place' I Have Visited

PHILIPPINES | Thu, 4 Jul 2013 | By simplyserica | Views [647]

Some people say that finding that one true passion or the so-called "calling" takes years. In some cases, it can even take a lifetime. I've taken on different line of works in different industries - from writing for magazine publications ... Read more >

Tags: a place i have visited, bohol philippines, serica, simply serica, travel photography scholarship, world nomad

3rd Feb - Somaly Mam's book review

AUSTRALIA | Mon, 3 Feb 2014 | By kimkirsten | Views [609]

The Road of Lost Innocence : The True Story of a Cambodian Childhood Somaly Mam was abandoned as a baby and looked after by her grandmother until she disappeared. She was then taken into the care of a man she called 'grandfather', but ... Read more >

How Much is that Doggy in the Window?

CANADA | Sat, 20 Sep 2008 | By missv | Views [595] | Comments [2]

One of the first things you notice about Nelson House is the large number of dogs. In Toronto, most dogs are pets that are well taken care of by their owners, but in NH, most dogs are semi-wild; they don't have owners and must scavenge for food. ... Read more >

Danger of Death 1

AUSTRALIA | Tue, 15 Feb 2011 | By elsie_moon | Views [555]

Crimes committed against Youth Hosteling: 1 - movement of the toaster from it's sacred spot on the kitchen bench. Risks of dying on work placement - about 1,000,001 God sorry, I keep disappearing into the bush don't I? Very unreliable correspondent ... Read more >

Ready??GO!! San Francisco waiting....14th of June!!

UNITED KINGDOM | Thu, 13 Jun 2013 | By charline_thomasson | Views [494] | Comments [1]

I just wrote a whole story and I forgot to save it within 60 minutes! I will get use to writing the blog eventually!! Well it was kind of a therapeutic typing to explain how messed up my brain has been within the last 4-5 days before leaving everything ... Read more >

Celebrating SongKran in Thailand

THAILAND | Thu, 15 May 2014 | By christinedrage | Views [472]

Somehow, when this specific time of the year comes, the whole of Thailand transforms into a giant water fight between, kids, teens and grownups. No point in holding back your inner child when SongKran comes around! We all bought water guns, preparing ... Read more >

Tags: phuket, songkran, thailand, waterfight

7 days and counting.

UNITED KINGDOM | Sun, 17 Jul 2011 | By lillywanders | Views [470] | Comments [1]

I am leaving the UK in precisely 7 days. That's 168 hours or 10080 minutes. Now, as I will be sleeping for a good chunk of that time (56 hours or so) and at school for another substantial chunk, I decided this weekend was the weekend of Being Organised.... Read more >

Day 48 - Volcan San Pedro

GUATEMALA | Tue, 15 Jul 2014 | By kikkijayne | Views [461]

We were off at 5am to start the climb up Volcan San Pedro and were joined by a lovely young English couple - Ruth & Dustin. We walked up, and up, and up and eventually reached the summit at 3,020m with a birds eye view of Lake Antitlan & the ... Read more >

Day 3: Venice Biennale

ITALY | Tue, 10 Sep 2013 | By vangonza13 | Views [421]

So my bunk bed mateIs also a Vanessa. Had breakfast with her this morning. She quit her job to travel the world. Yeah, I thought I was nuts. I spent the majority of today at the Venice Biennale. All a bunch of modern art from artists all over the world.... Read more >

titanic

I am a journalist since 2006 i work in Tunisia, i have experience in newspapers, press agency and tv. i wait to win newfriendship and knowledge of new places and new life and new culture and society.

Tags: 2015 Film Scholarship to Colombia