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Recommended by Lonely Planet, World Nomads travel insurance is available to people from over 150 countries and is designed for adventurous travellers with cover for overseas medical, evacuation, baggage and activities such as skiing and snowboarding.


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Share your free travel journal together with maps, unlimited photo's & video's and stay in touch while you travel.

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Travel Scholarships

Travel Photography Scholarship 2008

Go on assignment with a On-assignment National Geographic Photographer. Applications close June 30th 2008.

Travel Writing Scholarship 2008

Go on assignment to Kosgoda, Sri Lanka and unearth your own travel story!. Applications close May 25th 2008.

2007 winners Travel Photography | Travel Documentary | Travel Podcast

Great walk to Beijing

World Nomads & Bupa doing the "Great walk to Beijing" for cancer charity.

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Win a trip to South America!

Adventures: China

Fashionistas

By avant-garde_chauvintist | Sunday, 23 March 2008

Yangtze river cruise

By sarahandphil | Monday, 17 March 2008

Getting lucky in the Longsheng Rice Terraces

By nomadnorrie | Monday, 17 March 2008

China Update, Part 1: Toilet Adventures

By pjscheck | Friday, 14 March 2008

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Malaysian language guide

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Mandarin iPod language guide


Yunnan into Tibet

This enticing 1000km+ overland adventure takes you from southwest China into Tibet through some of China's most visually spectacular scenery and concludes in Lhasa.


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In 2007 you raised over $162,000 from more than 60,000 individual donations and funded community projects in 18 countries including:

  • Provided 300 sight-saving surgeries
  • Built one primary school, repaired another & trained over 200 teachers
  • Gave a whole village solar-lighting
  • Installed water & sanitation in 3 schools and 2 villages
  • Provided medicine to 3 communities and 4 orphanages
  • Helped 40 vulnerable kids get through school

Thank you to everyone who made this possible.

  Learn the Lingo on your iPod - Join the locals and have fun with our series of free language guides that contain around 30 basic phrases that you can download onto your iPod.