This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Susan Fox from America. Thanks for your entry Susan! In a country where 100km is a good day’s travel on the earth roads that serve most of Mongolia, we had just learned from locals at Baruunbayan-Ulaan, a soum center where we … Continued
Click here to READ the entire recent Newsletter: We Said: Hello from Nepal Hello from the UNESCO World Heritage site of Boudhanath, outside Kathmandu (photo above.) The dome of the stupa is 120 feet in diameter, and 43 meter in height. (why the brochure uses both feet and meters is almost as confusing as Nepal’s … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Gloria Snyder from the USA. Thanks for your entry Gloria! From underwater, the distant breaking of quiet waves on the beach sound like sand moving, rhythmically, from one end of an hourglass to the other. On the thin beach between the … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Danielle Kitchel from the USA. Thanks for your entry Danielle! Rain. The air was filled with a light mist that didn’t precisely fall but seemed to drift aimlessly under a pearly gray sky. Everything else under that arching dome was shaded … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by David Temianka from the USA. Thanks for your entry David! As the jet engines roared 30,000 feet above the small island nation of New Zealand, my heart throbbed with anticipation and excitement. I was traveling with my father and his orchestra, … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Corey Cart from the USA. Thanks for your entry Corey! Flash floods saturated nearby fields as my plane slammed onto the runway. Disappointment flooded my mind. Maybe my friends knew something I didn’t? You see, my friends’ faces lit up … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Rona Amichai from The United States. Thanks for your entry Rona! Seventy steps. Up, up, up, into the Italian rock, Eighty six years on seventy steps, slowly, one at a time. Fifty four and sixty two years to share the load, while … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Sarah Humphreys from England. Thanks for your entry Sarah! On first arriving in Florence, over twenty years ago, I was immediately struck by a sign outside the microscopic airport that had been translated into English as “The delays of today are … Continued
WATCH: Streets around Sule Pagoda, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) After a quick walk around the market, we went to the central Sule Pagoda. It is a gigantic golden dome at the center of central Yangon. We walked over the bridge to cross the street and paid a donation for visiting the temple, which turned out only … Continued
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Gina Sloman from America. Thanks for your entry Gina! When the sun sets in Granada, Spain, the day has just begun. Nestled between the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the sandy beaches of southern Spain, Granada is nothing short of a storybook. … Continued