{"id":8215,"date":"2018-09-05T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=8215"},"modified":"2018-09-21T09:21:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:21:40","slug":"photo-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/photo-contest-winners","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2018 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\u2019s 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 5,000 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

World\u2019s best teacher<\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Taylor T., Italy, France & Spain<\/a><\/strong>
\n“Best teacher ever!”
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The American Experience<\/span>|\u00a0Joseph P., Grand Canyon, Bryce & Zion National Parks<\/a><\/strong>
\n“Feeling great BEFORE the climb up and out.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Moment When<\/span>|\u00a0Omar V., Costa Rica<\/a><\/strong>
\n“Is that a monkey, a toucan, a sloth, or all of the above?”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cultural Connections<\/span>| Burke and Jonathan H., Make a Difference: Ecuador<\/a><\/strong>
\n“Shearing a llama.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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and our grand prize winner…
\nA Sense of Adventure<\/span>| Safia H. and Miriam A., Switzerland, Bavaria & Austria<\/a><\/strong>
\n“On Top of the World.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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The annual photo contest is something that Exploricans look forward to every year. As avid travelers, we love seeing other people\u2019s 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 5,000 entries! As you can imagine, it was Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8215","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\/8215","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=8215"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8283,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions\/8283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}