Greetings travelers!

Welcome to the 23rd 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 One Day in Datong Old City Part 1

We join Hive account@rayshiuimages on two part tour of Datong, the 2nd largest city of the Shanxi province in China. Full of ancient architecture and historical landmarks, this city is truly a sight to behold. If you are a fan of traditional Chinese architecture but can fly only on the web, be sure to check Hive account@rayshiuimages post on Datong, and don't miss out on the part 2.

#2 Cyprus: historical Paphos

Hive account@stranniksenya opens up a time portal and takes us to the 3rd c. BC where we take a walk through Paphos, an ancient Greek and Roman City in the southwest of Cyprus. Home of countless, well preserved mosaics, villas and ancient remains, this place definitely deserves to be on the bucket list of any serious traveler.

#3 Sohoton National Park: Nature's marvel

Hive account@julietravel takes us on a tour through Sohoton National Park in Philippines which is a true gem as she describes it. After digitally exploring the greenery, stunning landscapes and caves of Shoton her post really made me quit everything and finally pursue my dream to travel the world. Then I realized I got no job to quit or money to spend.... And no, cashing out my steem is out of question, that's my retirement fund, so I'll need another way to fund my dreams. Hmmmm... Untill I find it I'll just fly around the SteemitWorldMap.

Honorable mentions

5 things you need to know before going to Uluru
Green Paradise of River Grza [My Travel Blog]
Guatemala Part 3 - The beautiful lake Atitlán and surroundings
The Tallest Building In Latin America!

Entry counter

Last week	This week	Total
56	42	1135

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 SBD
2nd - 3 SBD
3rd - 2 SBD
Honorable mentions - 1 SBD

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.