Greetings travelers!

Welcome to the 37th 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 #31: A Day at Lake Macquarie 经纬游踪 #31: 渡假胜地麦考瑞湖

@stabilowl takes us to the most popular holiday destination for Sydneysiders, Lake Macquarie. Even though it's called a lake, it is actually a saltwater lagoon. One of the best thing you could do at lake is of course water sports. With the over 180 square km of water coverage, Lake Macquarie is a popular place for kayaking, sailing and fishing. During the day, visitors are free to drop by to any of the wineries to have a taste of their wine. After sunset, the view at the lake is equally breathtaking, you just need to look up.

#2 The Coastal Hike from Loutro to Hora Sfakion

Next, we join @for91days who take us on their coastal hike from Loutro to Chora Sfakio. There are only two ways to access Loutro: either by boat or by foot. And they decided to go by foot. A brilliant coastal path of about two hours connects Loutro. back to Chora Sfakion. They had incredible views over the sparkling blue water of the Libyan Sea, and walked past rocky bays. Another sight they encountered on the path back to Chora Sfakion was the Sweet Water Beach. A gorgeous, extensive patch of sand trapped between the towering rock wall and the water. They also made sure to take some amazing pictures and a drone shot.

#3 Mezhvodnoe - resort in the far corner of the Crimea

Lastly, @stranniksenya shows us the village Mezhvodnoe in the North-Western part of Crimea. This is a small well-kept village, a restored corner of Crimea where not every tourist stepped foot on. There are a few shops, a pharmacy, a post office and an ATM. In the summer, there is a market and attractions for children. Another local attraction is the salt lakes Dzharylgach and Yarylgach with therapeutic mud. Access to the mud is free and completely unorganized.

Honorable mentions

Trip to HOLY LAND
YOLO #005: Negros Occidental • Philippines
Urbex: Exploring Taiwan's UFO Village - Part 3
The Eiger and Slide Scanning

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.