Greetings travelers!

Welcome to the 26th 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 @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 Travelling with Stabilo #25: Waiotapu Geothermal Wonderland (Part 1) 经纬游踪 #25: 怀奥塔普地热奇景 (上)

We join @stabilowl in a place that truly looks out of this world. It is an active geothermal area at the southern end of the Okataina Volcanic Centre. Located in Rotorua, a town in the centre of the North Island, this place is famous for it's geothermal activities, and I can see why. Really interesting read by @stabilowl and the pictures are stunning. Definitely check it out!

#2 Rainbow Village 色彩繽紛的彩虹眷村

Next @livinguktaiwan takes us to the most colorful place I've ever seen. Accordingly it's called the Rainbow Viggale. Located in the Nantun District, Taichung, Taiwant this vibrant masterpiece was created by former soldier, Huang Yung-Fu in 1924. What a sight to behold!

#3 Memories of Morocco | Essaouira (Part 1)

Finally we join @travelling-two who remember their trip to Morocco in 2016. Being a city with a very interesting culture and cousine, Morocco surely deserves a place on the travel bucket list!

Honorable mentions

Haw Par Villa, Hell themed park - mypictureday submission
Guatemala Part 5: Defeating the Vulcan Acatenango - The 7 hrs hike to the camp (Photos + Videos)
Take a walk in Tokyo
Stranded in No Man’s Land on the Pamirs

Entry counter

Last week	This week	Total
45	40	1268

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

As of today, up until the point where STEEM is really expensive and we don't earn that much of it any more I'll hand out SBI shares as rewards. 1 share = 1 STEEM so if the price doesn't go up too fast I'll be able to keep up for at least a couple of weeks. But if the prices go too high I'll just reduce the rewards a bit or go back to the SBD rewards.

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.

Winners will receive

1st - 4 SBI shares
2nd - 3 SBI shares
3rd - 2 SBI shares
4 Honorable mentions - 1 SBI share each

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

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