Greetings travelers!
My apologies for the delay of this weeks stream peeps. I was unable to do anything Steem wise for the past couple of days ever since the DLive fiasco. Negatives aside, I'm feeling much better now and ready to continue my Steem journey. Once again, my sincere apologies for the delay.
Welcome to the 33rd 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 your 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 Foggy Rio de Janeiro 大霧的巴西里約熱內盧
@livinguktaiwan is back again with another bomb travel story. This one is from a few years back and is taking us to Rio de Janeiro. She strolled along the Copacabana beach and then took a cable car up to Sugarloaf mountain where the fog almost made her invisible. Dissapointed by the fog, she went to see the famous Christ the Redeemer which was even more foggy. She ended her short trip with a visit to Maracana stadium and Rio de Janeriro chatedral.
#2 Bogotá's Gold Museum
Next, we join @smeralda as she takes us to Colombia's capital, Bogotá and its emblematic gold museum. She and her husband took a 2 hours long tour where they walked through each of the exhibition halls and read the information related to gold and its relationship with Colombian culture. The museum is loaded with mysticism and associated with the shamans and there are a lot of elements combined including; mining, metallurgy, prehispanic culture and customs full of symbolism.
#3 Exploring Old Town San Diego
Finally, @dfinney shows us Old Town San Diego, which is a neighborhood, historic site, museum and a shopping district. It also marks the location of the first Spanish settlement in California. When walking through old town there are hundreds of opportunities to shop for Mexican Folk Art. There's pottery, clothing, jewelry, textiles and decorated Day of the Dead style skulls. Throughout the year, the Old Town San Diego hosts entertainers and festivals. Most days mariachi musicians entertain visitors along with folklorico dancers.
Honorable mentions
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HOW TO ENTER
Make a post about a place you visited and share it with the SteemitWorldMap
Use the #swmchallenge tag
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
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 SBI shares
2nd - 3 SBI shares
3rd - 2 SBI shares
4 Honorable mentions - 1 SBI share each
What are SBI shares?
Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered through providing regular upvotes to member content.
Instead of giving you a one time payment of x SBD, from now on I want to reward you with daily votes from @steembasicincome that last FOREVER!
The more shares you collect from winning contests or by sponsoring someone else, the higher the upvotes you will get, daily, FOREVER.
Enrollment process is done manually so you might not see the wallet message from @steembasicincome straight away, but it will come in a day or two.
For more information about the project read the FAQ
You can find other contests that hand out SBI shares as rewards here.
HELP THE CONTEST GROW BY
- Participating
- Donating to increase the reward pool
- Resteeming this post for increased visibility and more people joining
- Inviting your friends and fellow steemians to join the contest and share their travel posts in the map
It would not be hard to make trending ignore paid votes, but some people could still abuse the system. I just want to see what the community actually likes. Reputation should not go up from paid votes either as you can just buy it now.
Did you mean to post this elsewhere. I can't figure out how this makes sense here lol but I completely agree with you.
Thank you @runicar!!!
Glad to hear that you are feeling better now, its the end of one era and a new one after HF20 later on. Let's embrace ourselves and Steem on!!!!
Thanks @runicar I'm excited! How well you have done the winners' publications summaries!
Thank you for mentioning my short story in this post! :)
Oh, I can't wait to get our stuff out there. Scott and I love the map and enjoy putting things up on it.
Ren.