Greetings travelers!

Welcome to the 15th 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 putting on the bucket list. Each week is filled with entries full of captivating scenary, stunning images and great stories, basically travel blogs worth checking out. So If you like to travel #swmchallenge is the place to go.

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I'm sad to announce

That the downtrends and decrease in the price difference SBD had over Steem caused a big increase in prices for delegating SP that I just can't keep up with it. It's so expensive that I can't afford it any more so I decided to stop leasing until times get better or I manage to find a better offer than what blocktrades currently offers. Meaning that my upvotes are going to be worth much less than before and it would take a lot of voting power to upvote all of your entries.

To compensate

From now on there will always be four honorable mentions rewarded with 1 SBD and the winners reward is increased by 1 SBD for each place bringing the total weekly prize pool to 13 SBD.

For those who still don't know about SteemitWorldMap

It is 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 is to make it more popular and build a community around it.

Most interesting places we visited this week are:

#1 The perfect picture of an architectural masterpiece!

@ivansnz takes us on a very immersive and interesting walk-through the most popular city in Australia, Sydney. His blog features not only proffesional images but two, exceptional, greatly edited videos that really caught my attention. @ivansnz why don't you post them on dtube also? I think that you would get appreciated much more there than you do on youtube

#2 Samar: 6 amazing places to discover

@julietravel takes us on a journey through 5 special locations on a truly beautiful island of Samar in the Philippines so board the plane and visit:

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• Marabut Rock Formations
• Sohoton National Park
• a beach on Divinubo Island
• Torpedo Boat
• Samar cave systems

#3 The World's Oldest Shopping Mall And The Bull's Genitals: A Center Of Attraction

@joyrobinson shows us a glimpse of Italy's oldest working shopping mall made between 1865 and 1877. The grandios four-story building is filled with exceptional crafstmanship and high end luxury stores. The mall is locally known as ‘il salotto buono’, or "the fine living room" of Milan and has a really strange tradition bound to it that involves standing and spinning bulls balls three times to avoid bad luck . Want to know more? I was very curious and I can tell you that the story behind it is interesting to say the least. Read more, it's worth it!

Honorable mentions

The oldest Bazaar in the world or where you can buy everything for gold
Forest of Legends [My Travel Blog]
Haydarpasa (Istanbul) - the way by sea to Odessa.
The Double Cone Towers And the Palácio Nacional de Sintra

Entry counter

Last week	This week	Total
35	45	674

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
• Resteeming this post for increased visibility and more people joining
• Donating to increase the reward pool
• 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 again next sunday when the winners are announced and a new challenge begins.