Greetings travelers!

Welcome to the 27th 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 Travel Blog 44: Exploring The Historic Gem of Middle East, Nizwa Fort, Oman

We join @explorernations who takes us to Oman, where we explore the culture and history of this beautiful country in the Middle East.

#2 Writing, but not writing about Petra, Jordan 還未寫的約旦佩特拉

Next @livinguktaiwan takes us to the lost city of Petra. Engraved in the the slope of Jabal Al-Madbah, this historical city is truly a one of a kind place, and definitely deserves to be on your travel bucket list!

#3 Turi Beach Resort - A place to remember

Finally we join @rayshiuimages who treats us by taking us to a beach resort located in Batam, Indonesia. He shares his experiences and reviews the Turi Beach Resort where he stayed in. Just reading the post and seeing how it looks makes me want to teleport there. The place is a heaven on earth!

Honorable mentions

The fairy tale world or the Everland amusement park
Travel break in Samarkand, Uzbekistan / Reisepause in Samarkand, Usbekistan
#123 A Russian Folk Song Covered by Us + My Trans-Siberian Journey
Kapampangan Cuisine in Tacloban City

Entry counter

Last week	This week	Total
40	35	1303

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

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