Greetings travelers!
Welcome to the 17th week of the #swmchallenge where we travel around the globe and try to bring up to light the most unique and special places or events worth visiting or putting on the travel bucket list. Each week here is filled with posts full of captivating scenery, stunning images and great stories. Basically, great travel blogs worth checking out. So If you like to travel (digitally or in real life) #swmchallenge is the place to go.
For those who still don't know about SteemitWorldMap
It's a fun tool made by @blueorgy and @martibis that allows you to pin your posts to a specific location or browse the world map where ideally every place on the map is a Steemit post. #swmchallenge is my attempt to make it more popular and build a community around it.
Travel blogs of the week
#1 Let's travel together #61 - The Stan Valley (Valea lui Stan)
I haven't read a post this exciting for a while now. It's an adrenaline rush infused walkthrough The Stan Valley aka The Blood Valey, located in Romania, it's an 4.5h long circuit that connects Transfagarasn, Stan Valley, CΔlugΔriΘa Glade and Vidraru Dam. Hopefully without spoiling anything, I'll just mention that during the trip there were some lives in danger, switch from spring to winter in a couple of minutes and a bear sight. @gabrielatravels, thanks for this travel delight. Can't wait to see where you take us next time!
#2 Neo-Gothic Church Las Lajas Sanctuary
Read more then.@nameless-berk takes us to the southwest Colombia state of NariΓ±o and shows us a magnificent neo-ghotic style basilica church featuring breathtaking architecture, a religious myth of why it came to existence and a mysterious image of the Virgin Mary that nobody knows the autor of. Intrigued?
#3 Valley Of Fire
@rosy440 shows us the Valley of Fire State Park, a National Natural Landmark in Nevada. The state park got its name from red sandstone formations, which formed from shifting sand dunes 150 million years ago that often appear to be on fire when reflecting the sun's rays.
Honorable mentions
Entry counter
| Last week | This week | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 55 | 80 | 809 |
HOW TO ENTER
Make a post about a place you visited and share it with the SteemitWorldMap
Check last week's winners to see what kind of quality I'm hoping you can achieve
Tag your post accordingly and add at least 200 words of description
See how to add posts to the map here HOW TO add a post to the world map guide
Use the #swmchallenge tag
RULES
Original and quality content only (plagiarism will be punished)
Only use high quality images
Unlimited amount of entries
Only quality posts will be taken in consideration and all attempts to miss-use #swmchallenge tag will be punished
REWARDS
1st - 4 SBD
2nd - 3 SBD
3rd - 2 SBD
Honorable mentions - 1 SBD
HELP THE CONTEST GROW BY
- Participating
- Resteeming this post for increased visibility and more people joining
- Donating to increase the reward pool
- Inviting your friends and fellow steemians to join the contest and share their travel posts in the map
Thanks for the feature, man! I'm kinda surprised how my latest post underperforms, I guess the title sucks, that's why. But you still noticed it, which warms my heart, hah
It's always dissapointing to see that happen but as you know it's not odd to see that here as most are circle jirking their way to raping the reward pool.
True, alas.
It's always an honor to take part in this contest and you've just made my day! :)Thank you for featuring my post @runicar! :D
Np, great work and a really extensive review. Loved every bit of your post.
Thank you so so much for the honorable mention and congratulations to everyone who got mentioned as well!!!
Thanks a lot for the mention! Great selection as always :)
Thank you soooooo much @runicar! π€π€
hehe, np :)
Would be nice to see how they build that church xD
Nice contest and nice unique places, looking forward to next one, keep up the good job!
Yeah, that would be very interesting.
You always have great posts with interesting content or great photos and you ar always on the hot list with your post. Great job , you have great ideas a lot of friends and many followers.
I see great photos there. More power to this challenge!
Tremendious pictures whith exclusive information
Nice posts and lovely photos :) Keep it up Guys !
Good contest.......
Great contest .
Great contest
And I love the pictures
Beautiful surrounding
Valley Of Fire aew awsome................
Amazing and beautiful places.......