BNT’s Best Of The Week 07/28/07

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World Nomads Documentary ScholarshipaIt’s time to wrap up the week now with our favourite links from around the web.

Ever wanted to be a video documentary filmmaker? World Nomads is offering a full scholarship to go on assignment in Africa with professional filmmaker Trent O’Donnell. Check out the full details here.

RoadJunky has whittled down their 2007 Gonzo Travel Writing Contest to the first short-list, featuring BNT contributor Greg Rodgers.

An internet classic, if you haven’t bookmarked Perpetual Travel’s Round the World Travel Guide, I highly suggest you have a read.

10 Travel Tips From a Seasoned Traveler offers some good advice for travelers of all types.

Lighter Footstep suggests ideas for How To Take A Green Vacation, focusing more on the types of trips, rather than specific details.

Rob Meyer sparks an interesting discussion about the ethics of the voluntourism industry, in part I and part II.

Enjoy the weekend! As for me, I’m off to Toronto for a few weeks.


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  • Reg Adkins replied on July 28, 2007

    Thanks for the positive on my post on travel tips. It actually got pretty ripped up by the commenters at Lifehack.org

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  • ianmack replied on July 29, 2007

    hi reg - thanks for stopping by. no worries on the ripping up over at lifehack. i think any blog with a massive audience has critical commenters ready to tear into anything a bit different.

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