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WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4930] | 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 >
PERU | Thu, 20 Jun 2013 | By flyingpiglet | Views [2723]
Recently I made a three week trip to Peru with a group of nine people from Trade Aid , New Zealand’s biggest fair trade organisation. Most of us are volunteers in one of Trade Aid’s 29 shops, and are also involved in education in the community.... Read more >
Tags: cenfrocafe, coffee, fair trade, farmers, jaen, peru, piura, trade aid
NORWAY | Thu, 28 Aug 2008 | By romsterrom | Views [2594]
I
got up at the crack of dawn (ok – the vacation version) to catch
the 8:40 train to Voss where i would begin the much touristed “Norway
in a Nutshell” package trip. I wasn't thrilled at the prospect of
taking my “backpack”, ... Read more >
KYRGYZSTAN | Sat, 14 Mar 2015 | By vagabondstoo | Views [2338]
ONE THING YOU CAN SAY ABOUT OSH — IT ISN’T BISHKEK. It’s a dusty town on the border with Uzbekistan, ten hours by road or 45 air minutes and again we chose to fly. Once on the ground things began interestingly. Our ... Read more >
USA | Wed, 27 Apr 2011 | By elis82 | Views [2170] | Comments [4]
From Montreal, we had a 10 hour or so bus trip to Portland in Maine (not Oregon), via Boston. There is nothing quite like the Greyhound to see the difference between America and Canada. Canada obviously spends a lot of money on maintaining the standards ... Read more >
Tags: city, maine, new york, usa
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1663]
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 >
VIETNAM | Tue, 9 Dec 2008 | By cedric_c | Views [1574] | Comments [3]
Hello tout le monde ! Ca y'est! comme annoncé, me voilà maintenant au Vietnam à Ho Chi Minh ville (parfois aussi appelée Saigon) en compagnie de William. Apres deux petites heures de vols, qui sont passées comme de rien par rapport au vol Geneve -... Read more >
Tags: arrivée, ho chi minh, traffic, vietnam, william
NORWAY | Sun, 6 Apr 2008 | By allwelcome | Views [1496]
What a magical place! We were lucky enough to book a trip during the summer solstice and sat out on deck of our ferry, in the sun, at midnight. Hilarious. Of course, time does not indicate light hours in northern Norway. ... Read more >
Tags: boats, highlights, hiking
WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 | By jtsworldcolors | Views [1456] | Comments [1]
For my 4th travel.. I went to this asian country Malaysia It is a country with a combination of both worlds.. Modern and Asian. The country is a progressive one. The people embrace their religion and passions.. They are nature, music and technology ... Read more >
ISRAEL | Mon, 21 Jan 2008 | By sstolper | Views [1360] | Comments [2]
My last official day at the yeshiva came and went, without being convinced to stay indefinitely. It was a more or less typical day: 840am. breakfast of puffed rice cereal, with milk poured from a bag, and my classmates musing about the proper blessing ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
INDIA | Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By paulpiorun | Views [1359] | Video
So, after a taxi, 2 trains and a rickshaw we arrived back in Goa! This time we opted to visit Arambol (north Goa). Due to our tight itinery we knew we only had 2 nights here which was a shame as we really liked the place. We found some nice ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, great food, sunsets
GERMANY | Tue, 6 May 2014 | By mattso | Views [1291] | Comments [1]
We managed to survive the first afternoon in this city named after it's 4th century monks (München) but only just! I think the snow in Innsbruck was a few degrees warmer than here! But as any good tourist does on coming to a new place, they get ... Read more >
Tags: castles, sightseeing
ALBANIA | Thu, 24 Nov 2011 | By vagabonds | Views [1141]
It was a long, but not uncomfortable, 8-hour ride back to Tirana on Thanksgiving day, spent listening to podcasts and trying to ignore the two motion-sick women behind us. We were truly thankful when we reached Tirana. The guy who asked us "... Read more >
VIETNAM | Wed, 14 Dec 2011 | By dawnnbrian | Views [1062]
After the first few days at Harihar school we settled into a comfortable routine of arriving each day around 10am and working (or playing in Brian's case) with the children. Although they have very little (in some cases a family cannot even ... Read more >
LIBYA | Sat, 3 Jul 2010 | By huw-and-rose | Views [957]
...or so we hoped. After weeks of colour variations on a theme (sand-coloured, beige, light brown, dusky pink) and days of passing landscape that really didn't change much (sudden cries of "ooh look! there's another camel/burnt out car/animal corpse"... Read more >
SAMOA | Mon, 28 Nov 2016 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [873]
Only a little more than a week I have left in Samoa. For the past couple of days I’ve been staying with John, Lagi, and family. They have four children: George, Frank, Mona, and Fina. Lagi made her first carrot cake last night; excitedly enough, ... Read more >
PERU | Fri, 15 May 2009 | By kaplan | Views [824] | Comments [1]
El Museo del Juguete de Trujillo es un proyecto personal del artista plástico peruano y trujillano Gerardo Chávez, que ha recopilado durante décadas y por innumerables lugares, tanto de América latina como de Europa, una colección de juguetes muy destacable, ... Read more >
Tags: lugares
THAILAND | Fri, 27 Jun 2008 | By joey698 | Views [809]
August 27 Woke up early, and took the taxi to silom centre to catch another taxi to Pattaya. Was excited and the traffic as usual ws terrible. Almost feel like screaming at the drivers "where did you get your license from, no rules to follow.... Read more >
SWITZERLAND | Sun, 28 Jun 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [781]
GREECE | Fri, 5 Jul 2013 | By adora | Views [674]
Who said the best way to see Greece is in winter anyway ? there right. If getting up close to the locals and setting into there way of life doesn't excite you then take a walk with the many goats who run free on the Island of Symi. If you're a photographer ... Read more >
Tags: beach, rocks
NEW ZEALAND | Fri, 14 Mar 2008 | By rory2034 | Views [665] | Comments [1]
Met up with Bai and Ary again in Auckland. We went out for a couple of drinks and then to a Korean restaurant. I am now quite an expert with chopsticks. Caught the bus from Auckland to Hamilton. There were 2 German girls on the bus who had been to ... Read more >
USA | Fri, 2 Oct 2009 | By fieldnotes | Views [655]
We first visited Sanibel and Captiva Islands just after the spate of hurricanes in 2004, really bad timing on our part. It looked like a war zone; roofless houses, utility poles snapped in half and trees uprooted. The few people we saw walked around ... Read more >
ARGENTINA | Sat, 8 Nov 2008 | By doreen-b | Views [622] | Comments [2]
On Friday, my friend Diana and I were invited to visit an elementary school in Alta Gracia, a cute little town about 40 minutes outside of Cordoba. The principal of this school, Cecilia, was in Stillwater, Minnesota for 3 weeks on a fullbright scholarship ... Read more >
ITALY | Sat, 17 Oct 2009 | By jimandnicadventure | Views [577]
Wednesday
14 th October
Taormina
A
spectacular sunrise bade our farewell to the lovable island of Lipari
where we boarded the hydrofoil for the 1.5 hour boat ride to Messina.... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 8 Dec 2012 | By travelbug77 | Views [485]
Well 7 weeks in the UK has flown by and it’s time for me to begin the last leg of my journey and head to Africa where some much longed for sun will welcome me!
Despite the cold weather and trying to acclimatise to the lack of sun I ... Read more >