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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By lisamorrison | Views [988] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Clamping my lips together, I squint into the swirling russet dust. Rivulets of sweat run down my face and back. My palms grip the handlebars tightly, as my wrists and elbows are constantly jarred by jagged chunks of gravel that form this rough track. ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By yoursvicariously | Views [1128] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
‘Hiss’ as one leg is placed over the boat and gently onto the mat surface. ‘Groan’ as I transfer my weight onto my right foot while swinging the other leg around. I attempt to stand up but find myself swaying a little. I could be on a trampoline except ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By putnica | Views [762] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
City of Flowers, City of Death Every great city of the world has been fought over but in Belgrade the evidence of conflict is ubiquitous. It seems to be manifested in her terrain, course and hilly and in her buildings ranging from the occasional small ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By scottcharlesford | Views [725] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Some big adventures grow from little errors. Ours was paying up front. We’d haggled hard and fast – we had a bus to catch that afternoon. Two little ladies snaffled our yuan and led us to the boat. They waved from the rocky shore; our skipper revved ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By sands | Views [1037] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
Ruins of a Spanish Enchantment By Sandie-Leigh Edwards Take a step back a hundred years and imagine you’re a young Spanish immigrant cutting sugar cane in the tropical rainforests of North Queensland. It’s hot and humid but when you come across acres ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By centuryfox20 | Views [524] | Scholarship Entry
The midnight air is clean with a vague scent of
concessions and camels as I unload from the microbus with the other travelers. I find
myself in a horseshoe shaped, miniature ‘sûq’ filled with vendors selling
everything from soda to prayer flags. I ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By stephaniesstory | Views [739] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Suddenly, tangerine flames engulf a metal demon. The charring creature juxtaposes a series of heavenly balls of blue fire that lick at the night sky. My mask and black veil frame the fiery spectacle of serpents, dragons, marionettes, and knights. ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By fearlesspilgrim | Views [202] | Scholarship Entry
Saving Crabs from Drowning My feet fall softly on yielding sand as I breathe in salt and fresh leaves. All around me are hundreds of dwarf mangroves with roots falling midway from their trunks to the white sand like dark fountains. And, as with the ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By naturewarrior | Views [474] | Scholarship Entry
Precious Adventure in the Black Wilderness We ascend up the mountainside of Palala to find the grassy plain of untamed plantations that grow excessively. Wild grasses that have grown past my waist are rich gold-colored, while the bushes also show the ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By laguna_loire | Views [340] | Scholarship Entry
I went on a journey to a totally different culture armed with nothing but a guidebook and a thirst of adventure to Egypt for a month in 2010. And fell in love with one particular place, Dahab – located southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula. In a bid ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By shukes88 | Views [321] | Scholarship Entry
'Journey in an Unknown Culture' Forget Plato. Forget Nietzsche. Forget that idealistic dreadlocked hippy that tried to give you pamphlets made from organic vegetable ink and recycled toilet paper. Everything you need to know about emotion and philosophy ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By janeecekeller | Views [368] | Scholarship Entry
First impressions After five movies, half a novel and 23hrs I stepped out of the plane. The humidity smelt of aviation fuel, and burnt rubber and sweat. At 10pm there were dozens uniformed men milling around on the tarmac, one chatting on his mobile ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By kennethyu | Views [1037] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
I‘m the next virgin sacrifice. I stand face-to-face with a gargantuan 6-foot disembodied Gargoyle’s face; the idol’s head a raging, all-consuming, red-hot furnace. His merciless hollowed-out eyes of fire glare back at his latest meal. And I ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By carrington | Views [208] | Scholarship Entry
Travel tests you. It tests your endurance, your patience, your tolerance and sometimes you’re faced with a test of your bravery. When faced with the opportunity to climb an active Volcano you either do it, or you decide to never again speak to those travellers ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By l_clark | Views [349] | Scholarship Entry
Sharp minarets pierced the pregnant sky, where clouds hung low and gray. I breathed in, and the air was metallic. Any moment, it would rain. Realizing I had no coat or umbrella to protect my brand new camera, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque would not only ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By stephengodwin | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
We crouch through the entrance of the shoulder high yak herder's shelter and scuffle across the earthen floor. Rays of sunlight leak through the walls made of large stones stacked atop each other with wet clay between them all the way to the ceiling ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By egyptianized | Views [508] | Scholarship Entry
As an inhabitant of El-Menoufeia which is the home city for the Ex-President Mubarak, we weren't involved in politics at all; most of the public sectors & governmental managers belonged to it which created the gap between the city and both the other ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By nihan | Views [175] | Scholarship Entry
I took the famous “Route 40” in a spring day in 2009, a day when in the north hemisphere leaves were falling. I arrived to Salta to Northwest of Argentina, and tasted the famous Empanadas in a little family restaurant, under the sun where nobody was in ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By adventurepath | Views [293] | Scholarship Entry
"A star told me", words still legible on my worn t-shirt. Isla de la Pascua(Easter Island) is where this souvenir exchanged hands. Memories from that adventure do still shine brilliantly. One outstanding yet simple day. I woke up at dawn at my pristine ... Read more >
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WORLDWIDE | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By usama | Views [565] | Scholarship Entry
The Vegas of Worship
Getting through customs takes me three hours. The
Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has combed through
my backpack to make sure I am not carrying anything that could jeopardize the
nation's ... Read more >
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