Greetings travelers!

Welcome to the 30th 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.

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For those who still don't know about SteemitWorldMap

It's a fun tool made by Hive account@blueorgy and Hive account@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 Snowboarding at Mt Hutt New Zealand

Hive account@vcclothing takes us to Mt Hutt where he got to see snow for the first time in his life. He went on to learn snowboarding which was a real adventure. Snowboarding during the day and indulging in food and alcohol during the night, he and his girlfriend had an amazing time.

#2 Unique Boat Procession: Romería del Cristo de la Salud en El Palmar

Next, we join Hive account@for91days who takes us to Albufera Natural Park in Spain where he witnessedthe Romería del Cristo, a religious festival that celebrates the pilgrimage of Cristo de la Salud (Christ of Health). The procession begins in front of a church, and proceeds on the lake. Accompanied by music, Christ's statue is placed into a boat and taken out onto the lake, followed by other boats packed with villagers from neighbouring villages.

#3 Frozen To DEATH - My trip to a Japanese Onsen

Finally, Hive account@haydae shares a story of the time they almost froze to death on their way to visit a hot spring in Japan. Surviving -20°C without any serious frostbite is quite an accomplishment in my book. Hats off for Hive account@haydae!

Honorable mentions

A fan shaped train depot 扇形火車站
Marc Chagall and exhibition of his paintings in Seoul
Fresh Paint 🎨 👩🏼‍🎨
首爾遊記(2)/Seoul Travels(2)/서울 여행 이야기(2) ulog#017

Entry counter

Last week	This week	Total
35	32	1400

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 Hive account@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 Hive account@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

As always, best of luck to everyone, see you in a week when the contest ends, winners are announced and the new contest begins.