Greetings travelers!

Welcome to the 31st 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 Bannalp - An Insider's Tip Near Lucerne + Alphorn

@for91days takes us on a adventure to the Bannalp lake above Engelberg valley. The peaceful, calm looking lake, lies 1600 meteres above sea level and the view after the exiting car cable ride is idyllic. In the addition to a beautiful landscape and breathtaking view, they were also blessed with a small private concert by a Swiss guy playing the alpine horn. It sounds and looks as a real Swiss paradise.

#2 Travelling with Stabilo #28: Te Puia Maori Cultural Centre 经纬游踪 #28: Te Puia 毛里文化中心

Next, we join @stabilowl who takes us to Rotoura in New Zeland and introduces us to Maori culture of a small village Te Puia. During the day, he explores around the village with a tour guide who spent his whole life there. He vistits Pohutu geyser, a boiling mud pool and a Kiwi house where he got to see the very endangered Kiwi bird. In the evening he was served with some traditional food and witnessed a Maori Culture show.

#3 Zlatibor / Golden Pine Mountain - The empire of pastures and pines!

Finally, @ladysnowhite treats us with her own piece of paradise at the Serbian mountain, Zlatibor. She takes a cable car to the top of Zlatibor, Tornik. There is a playground, an adventures park, a restaurant, a cafe, a bobsleigh on the railways and all of that is very nicely integrated into the natural environment as she says. For lunch time, she heads to Kraljeve vode(Royal waters) 9km from Tornik, where she hilled with some cows who are credited for deliscious Zlatibor dairy products.

Honorable mentions

The Joseon Dynasty, the last in the history of Korea
Mystic Seaport Museum
Traveling alone and traveling with companion - alone in Pakistan vs with friends in Nepal
Art, Travel and Culture. Guadalajara: Cifuentes and the Route of the Saviors

Entry counter

Last week	This week	Total
32	38	1438

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.