Archive for March, 2013

Grand Prize Silver Winner: Barren in the Andes

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

by Laura Resau Breathless, I hurry along narrow trails between Quichua family farms, past barking dogs, squawking chickens, curly-tailed piglets.  My destination is a shaman who lives in this village on the outskirts of Otavalo, Ecuador.  I’m going partly for book research, but mostly as a last-ditch hope he can heal me.  Back in Colorado, […]

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Seventh Annual Solas Awards Winners Announced

Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

Check out the Awards page on BestTravelWriting.com for all of the results of the Seventh Annual Solas Awards.

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Grand Prize Gold Winner: Into the Hills

Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

by Matthew Crompton “The ball that we hurled into infinite space, doesn’t it fill our hand differently with its return: heavier by the weight of where it has been?” —Rilke [1] Calcutta The impression of Calcutta, arriving on a sweltering afternoon in early summer, is not of an ancient city existing, like Benares, outside of […]

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