{"id":7005,"date":"2017-08-31T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2017-09-01T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:39:29","slug":"announcing-2017-photo-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/announcing-2017-photo-contest-winners","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2017 Photo Contest winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The annual photo contest is something that Exploricans look forward to every year. As avid travelers, we love seeing other people’s travel photos for inspiration, and we especially love seeing the travel photos of people who we helped to get there.<\/p>\n

This year, we received more than 2,700 entries! As you can imagine, it was an extremely difficult task choosing the winners out of thousands of wonderful photos. With the help of our staff, these are the winning shots:<\/p>\n

Best photo of student(s) participating in an itinerary activity<\/strong> |\u00a0Maggie C., ‘The best way to travel!’, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, & Sharjah<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Best photo of student(s) interacting with locals<\/strong> | Michele H., ‘The heart of Costa Rica belongs to children!’, Costa Rican Highlights<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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Best use of Explorica gear |\u00a0<\/strong>Hannah S., ‘Admiring the beautiful fountain in the Versailles garden in Paris, France.’, London, Paris & Berlin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Best North American photo |\u00a0<\/strong>Chelah\u00a0M., ‘Alaskan glacier cruise’, Alaska<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Best photo of student(s) interacting with tour director or group leader |\u00a0<\/strong>Colin P., ‘Being educated on the shrimp the flamingoes eat by our tour guide on the Flamingo Tours in Celestun, Yucatan, Mexico’, The Yucat\u00e1n & Mayan Riviera<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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A big congratulations to all of our winners, and thank you to everyone who submitted their photos!<\/p>\n

Keep an eye out on our Facebook page to see some more of our favorites from the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The annual photo contest is something that Exploricans look forward to every year. As avid travelers, we love seeing other people’s travel photos for inspiration, and we especially love seeing the travel photos of people who we helped to get there. This year, we received more than 2,700 entries! As you can imagine, it was Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explorica-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7023,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions\/7023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}