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WORLDWIDE | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 | By scholarships | Views [4909] | 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 >
EL SALVADOR | Sun, 19 Jul 2009 | By mazystar | Views [3395] | Comments [2]
Yesterday we got a taxi one hour west to Costa del Sol. We had heard that it was really beautiful and very cheap - it wasn't really either of these things. As soon as we got there we realised that the beach was blocked by hotels or big houses built right ... Read more >
NICARAGUA | Wed, 14 May 2014 | By sneaver | Views [2340]
A quick 20 minute ride north from Granada and nestled in a volcanic crater, one will find Laguna de Apoyo. There is a very chill vibe around the lake which is shared by its breezily pleasant weather and because the waters here are the cleanest of Nicaragua’... Read more >
WORLDWIDE | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 | By duende | Views [2264] | Comments [1]
When I hit the road for Brazil to unearth the various musical styles of this music-rich land I was already acquainted with a few musical styles such as Samba, Bossa Nova, Lambada, Capoeira and Xote. However, I knew the music of Brazil is as diverse and ... Read more >
Tags: brazilian music, forró, gonzaga
MOROCCO | Thu, 13 Apr 2006 | By chloe | Views [2052]
John bought the 3 mini easter eggs, we still don't know where or who he got them from....to add to the excitement we hid them in plant pots like the easter bunny.....but, 3 mini eggs between 6 doesn't go far!!
Tags: Friends
JORDAN | Sat, 14 Jan 2017 | By krodin | Views [1870]
Moses, Monuments and Mosaics – A Journey Through Jordan
The Queen Alia International Airport lies about 30km south of Amman. I picked up the rental car, which was conveniently located inside the terminal and headed south to Madaba, ... Read more >
Tags: archeological site, city visit, museums
CANADA | Wed, 29 Jun 2011 | By michelefacciotto | Views [1820]
Saturday 25 June 2011, begin the 2nd part of my adventure. I have dinner with Soo, a kind and nice girl from Toronto I met on Couchsurfing. At 22:00 I leave with the train, destination Vancouver. The train is pretty comfortable, I have two seat for ... Read more >
INDIA | Thu, 13 Jan 2011 | By pauluiza | Views [1691]
Tamil Nadu –
Madurai / Tiruchchirappalli (Trichy) – The “word” without end
We arrive in
Madurai in the evening and, after our ruthless rickshaw driver, Babu, knocks
down a couple of people along the way, we find a decent room with a bad
bathroom.... Read more >
BOLIVIA | Mon, 27 Feb 2012 | By doodledawn | Views [1632]
After
catching the train from Oruro to Uyuni, I arrived with my new friends Bethune
and Hannah and we looked for a hostel.
Bethune had caught the nasty flu that was going around and was not
terribly coherent. I found us a place to
sleep near ... Read more >
Tags: bad roads, bolivia, la paz, la torre, salar de uyuni, tour, tupiza, uyuni
THAILAND | Thu, 22 Jan 2009 | By annanderson | Views [1124] | Comments [1]
1/22/09 - Thailand’s ‘visa-run’ requirement (pictures to the right – “Visa-run”) Thursday, Chuck & I became two of probably thousands of people each year, who are required to make a tourist ‘visa-run’ since we wanted to continue staying in Thailand ... Read more >
NORFOLK ISLAND | Fri, 4 Sep 2015 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [1122]
Three times on Norfolk and three radio interviews. Not bad, eh? Like always I was up early. You can't spend only a week somewhere and sleep in until noon. A cuppa is always good with toast and avocado. After three days of gorgeous weather, it would turn ... Read more >
Tags: interviews, islands
VIETNAM | Wed, 14 Dec 2011 | By dawnnbrian | Views [1049]
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 >
PERU | Wed, 7 May 2014 | By uyenangel | Views [991]
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The image of a man who is dimly shining shoes for customers in the booth is a popular image on the extremely crowded streets in Lima, Peru. The customers will always wear a nice suit and silently ... Read more >
Tags: booth, lifestyle, lima, peru, polish, shoe, travel, trip, worldtravel, worldtrip
TANZANIA | Mon, 22 Sep 2014 | By clare-tamea | Views [963]
At the moment we are in Tanzania on an expedition with Raleigh International. Before we started here, we went on a superb safari to the National Parks of the Serengeti and Ngonrongoro Crater. We went with Duma Safaris, making up a group of six, which ... Read more >
Tags: safari, serengeti
PERU | Sun, 30 Dec 2007 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [884]
I can't believe I've been to four continents and I'm only 23. Three more to go! I've also now been to 10 countries! As I was flying into Lima earlier it looked like a dusty city filled with unfinished buildings, or a sort of "mausoleum of modernity"... Read more >
Tags: catacombs, cities
UNITED KINGDOM | Wed, 27 May 2015 | By davidpearlman | Views [831]
When I was on the 3 day tour in the Scottish Highlands, a guy on the tour told me to go to Bath-so that is what I did. I checked out of my hotel in Salisbury, and went to Bath, a town an hours train ride from Salisbury. First of all, Salisbury ... Read more >
INDIA | Sat, 13 Apr 2013 | By paulpiorun | Views [732]
Our first stop on our long journey south was Cochi, on arrival we took the ferry across to stay at Fort Cochin. After about 20 hours travelling we arrived at Dream Home Inn as recommended by Nicola and Helen, we got a very spacious room for 500 ... Read more >
Tags: backwaters, beaches, great food, hot!
MEXICO | Sun, 16 Mar 2008 | By van_neste | Views [551]
It's a trip and a half. Last minute deal, planning from the seat of our pants and off we go to the Mayan Riviera. We certainly wish family and friends were able to participate... but alas it was not to be. We fly off this evening at 10:45pm from Calgary ... Read more >
GERMANY | Fri, 1 May 2015 | By gnome-san | Views [543]
Well, we survived Witch's Night with no outside furniture removed, and May Day dawned with another morning of drippy rain. After nearly 3 months of perfectly pleasant touring weather from Seattle to Germany and only using umbrellas for three brief periods, ... Read more >
Tags: forest, may pole
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 7 Aug 2008 | By laurentravels08 | Views [537]
The Sunshine Coast is beautiful, under-populated, and warm! It's the middle of winter here but I spent the day in my swimmers at the Mooloolaba Beach. It does get pretty chilly at night, but the days are absolutely gorgeous. The trees and other vegetation ... Read more >
WORLDWIDE | Wed, 22 Aug 2012 | By moloco | Views [476] | Video | Scholarship Entry
- I love Latin America! This was my first trip to Colombia and I brought my brand-new 3D camera. I just wanted to make a fun video capturing my impressions of the country. I hope you enjoy it! -To get into a school for media I shot a short film. And ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Film Scholarship 2012
MOROCCO | Wed, 9 Apr 2014 | By nncysf | Views [415]
we had a pretty good flight on Turkish Airlines from Istanbul to Casablanca, although as is apparently TK's habit, they changed aircraft on us and instead of a nice spacious business class seat we got the more constrained seat, where really the only ... Read more >
INDIA | Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By travelertyler | Views [411] | Scholarship Entry
Today, all of India is celebrating the Hindu festival Holi by attacking each other with colored powders. Nothing is sacred. Not even the cows. I’m in Udaipur, at my buddy Nirmal’s house with his family and friends, woman traveler Sen, and a cluster ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
NEW ZEALAND | Thu, 20 Aug 2015 | By lilen | Views [288] | Video | Scholarship Entry
If there are two things I love, it's travel and creating video content. I strive to do both whenever I can - in my professional and social life - and want to inject this newly found passion into my career journey. As an Argentinian, I long to learn more ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Film Scholarship to Colombia
INDIA | Fri, 14 Aug 2015 | By shutterchicken | Views [260] | Video | Scholarship Entry
I'm a filmmaker, writer and photographer based in New Delhi, India. For as long as I can remember, I've loved a story well told, be it my grandmother's fables or those Grimm Brothers fairytales I read when I was a kid. It wasn't long before I realised, ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Film Scholarship to Colombia