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WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4897] | 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 | Thu, 5 May 2011 | By gem_sky | Views [3044]
Overlooking Kampot and the Tek Chhouu districts is the Elephant mountain range and Bokor national park. An ever changing spectrum of violet skies and veils of pink mist covering the details of the imposing mountain, with only the peak still in view ... Read more >
IRELAND | Mon, 5 Jul 2010 | By lauren_watson | Views [2554] | Comments [3]
So it is definitely time for a new post on my blog....now that I am on the road and all. The question is, what to write about? I have seen so many things and met so many people in just four days. I cannot even imagine how much I am going to experience ... Read more >
Tags: dublin, dun laoghaire, independent travel, ireland
ECUADOR | Fri, 27 Feb 2009 | By ivan_miral | Views [2459] | Comments [1]
“Ivan! Their shower is hot! Like really hot!” We're at a hotel in Quito, Ecuador. Miral has finished up in the baño compartido (bathroom shared with the rest of the guests on that floor) and is delivering very exciting news. I'd experienced a lot of ... Read more >
AUSTRIA | Sun, 25 Nov 2007 | By sophieollie | Views [2345]
Vienna, Austria. Last week we left Chania, feeling sad about leaving our home for the month. We arrived at the ferry port to go to Athens at 9pm and had to wait till 10.30 for the ferry to arrive. Unfortunately, the wind began to pick up and by 10.30 ... Read more >
Tags: Snow
THAILAND | Wed, 1 Apr 2009 | By ryanandjo | Views [2111] | Comments [1]
We decided to attempt our second night journey on the trip, heading to Bangkok from Ko Tao via a 2 hour boat ride and an 11 hour bus trip. When we got off the boat in Chumporn there was a table where you checked in for the bus, so as I was waiting ... Read more >
Tags: ayuthaya, bangkok, death railway, hellfire pass, kanchanaburi, lopburi, monkeys
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1648]
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 >
CAMBODIA | Sun, 9 Mar 2014 | By kpow | Views [1543]
Sihanoukville was my next stop, on the South-Western coast. The idea was just to spend maybe a day on the beach and a day diving. A week later, somehow I was still there-and this is a very common story. Already some people I‘d met had made me vow ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, partying, suntanning
GREECE | Wed, 21 Sep 2011 | By vagabonds | Views [1516]
There is a lot to see in the Peloponnese and the town of Corinth, or Korinthos, makes a good base. Ancient Corinth
is just a short ride away, but surprisingly, it is Roman, not Greek. The Romans destroyed it in 146 BC and
Julius Caesar rebuilt ... Read more >
NEPAL | Fri, 8 Feb 2008 | By josdent | Views [1485] | Comments [3]
The flight from Singapore to Kathmandu was pretty uneventful for the most part. I was given a sheaf of forms to fill in which kept me quiet for a while anyway. They actually make the immigration process sound rather scary. The back of the Arrival Card ... Read more >
Tags: airports
INDIA | Wed, 22 Feb 2012 | By macedonboy | Views [1101]
I had decided to use Agra as a stopping off point for trips into Gwalior and Madhya Pradesh further to the south. I managed to get a early morning train with complimentary breakfast. Here's the breakfast, I've no idea what it was other than the fact ... Read more >
Tags: food, fort, gwalior, india
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 | By bert166 | Views [1084]
Sydney to Taree. Taree…hmmm…never heard of, you might say. Damn
right!! Me neither. But from the beginning:
I was supposed to pick up my new home for the next 21 days at 12pm in Williams St / Woolloomooloo …in
fact I was sitting ... Read more >
Tags: ambassador van, on the road
UKRAINE | Thu, 29 Oct 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [1030]
A while ago on my journey, on a trip from Kotor, Montenegro to Tirana, Albania, I met two ladies from Utah who we're on vacation. They we're on the same shuttle bus from the hostel that I and a few others we're on between the two cities. They weren't ... Read more >
USA | Thu, 1 May 2008 | By ugandaretrospective | Views [965]
When does a trip actually begin? When you board the plane? When you purchase your tickets? Or when you first start dreaming of the destination? I couldn’t have known it at the time but this trip began more than 35 years ago. I had returned ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Tue, 26 May 2015 | By tony_mattravers | Views [956]
I have been away for two weeks, which you may or may not know. I took this time to experiment for my Kilimanjaro challenge, making sure I still had my weekly LinkedIn long post published, Facebook page published and World Nomads blog listed.
Most ... Read more >
Tags: challenge, charity, frustration, fundraising, hard work, hiking, killimanjaro, mid life crise, panic, summit
HUNGARY | Sun, 21 Jun 2009 | By ang_and_abe | Views [928]
We all managed to arrive within
half an hour of each other on Thursday night, coming from all different parts
of nearby Europe – Abe & I from Croatia, Georgia from Vienna and Ash &
Nick from Berlin… the miracles of the European railway! ... Read more >
KENYA | Thu, 13 Jan 2011 | By tweber | Views [846]
I arrived safely in Nairobi
last Sunday; and the next three days I went on an amazing safari. The first day
we drove about seven hours to get to the Masai Mara Reserve. We settled into
camp; which were tents you could stand in with real beds.... Read more >
INDIA | Wed, 19 Nov 2008 | By pshah13 | Views [841] | Comments [1]
After the fun and festivities of Monica and David's wedding at Pataudi Palace we headed back to Delhi for (more shopping) and sightseeing. I now have appx 25kg of stuff to courier back !!! Sightseeing included a visit to Q'ba - a lovely bar where ... Read more >
Tags: dehli, indira gandhi
UNITED KINGDOM | Mon, 25 May 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [761]
I spent a quick night in London in a hotel. As you probably know by now, if I am staying at a Marriott, Hilton, etc, it is by accident. I can't afford those places so mine are much more economincal. (plus the UK is expensive period). And after ... Read more >
CHINA | Fri, 25 Jan 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [705]
No seriously. Confucius? Anyone? He was pretty bad ass. I mean, we've all heard of him. We all know he was pretty cool. But I don't really think many people look past that. But he was amazing! I vistied the Confucius Temple in Beijing recently.... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
NAMIBIA | Thu, 3 Jun 2004 | By johnandconnie | Views [667]
We slept late today after our long day yesterday and explored the western most part of Etosha open to the public. At the Oliphants waterhole we watched a lone male elephant approach for a drink. Soon he was joined by another young male and shortly ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Sun, 28 Feb 2010 | By shanewl | Views [652]
Where to begin? The last 24 hours (well 36 or thereabouts)
have been up and down and all around. I’m starting to think if the rest of the
trip is going to be anything like this I will run out of time to record
everything.
First of all I arrived ... Read more >
FRANCE | Mon, 10 Dec 2007 | By anabobana | Views [484]
sorry didn't write yest ... had a long day n was exhausted ... so this bloggggggggg will be about the whole weekend :) didn't have a freeeeee weekend grrr but instead had classes all weekend! (this didn't turn out as horrible as i thought) ... we went ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
UNITED KINGDOM | Mon, 6 Sep 2010 | By cmccasker | Views [426]
Traveling into the country from London is such a simple and ideal way to spend the day. One Monday when the skies were gray but the heat still lingering i caught a train into Cambridge, an hour's north of London. As the train made its way up towards ... Read more >
USA | Wed, 27 May 2015 | By yoshic | Views [253] | Comments [2]
Turns out hitchhiking in Colombia is really easy - just stand on the side of a lonely stretch of highway and wave frantically at passing trucks. The third one stopped, after as many minutes. Nice.
So at this point you are probably wondering why I ... Read more >