Win a Trip to Curacao—and a Chance at an Island-Wide $500,000 Treasure Hunt
Kenepa Grandi Beach, one of Curacao's literal (and perhaps figurative) treasures (Nathan Borchelt)
In these all-too-real times of economic distress, it’s refreshing when we see a tourism organization introduce a bit of fantasy. Curacao—a small gem of a Caribbean island in the Dutch Antilles, just miles north of South America—launched the Curacao Treasure Hunt contest on March 16, where participants can enter for a chance to win one of 70 free trips to the island, awarded daily through May 23. Sign up, answer a trivia question correctly, and your entry that day is secure. You can try every day, as many times as you want. Win one of those trips, and you could also become one of ten lucky participants in an island-wide treasure hunt this August, with a grand prize of half a million dollars (now that’s what we call “economic stimulus”).
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January 08, 2009
D.C. for Free: 57 Activities in the U.S. Capital That Won't Cost You a Penny
View of Washington Monument from the Jefferson Memorial (Adam Jones/Photodisc/Getty)
If the November 2008 election and its after-party was anything to go by, the January 20 inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama is going to be one massive people's party. So, to get in the spirit, we present our list of the top free-for-the-people activities and excursions in the Washington, D.C. area. Visit Away.com's Washington, D.C. guide for more travel-planning information (including top hotels and attractions), plus websites for the places listed below for more specific details and directions. And if you have other tips on places to freeload in D.C., leave your ideas in the comments section below.
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December 16, 2008
"Share Your Adventure" Contest: And the Winners Are...
No doubt, you lot are an adventure-loving crew! Over 120 entries came in for our recent "Share Your Adventure" contest, with globe-trotting tales that featured everything from Moab singletrack to Costa Rican surf to a very close encounter with a scorpion on some unnamed tropical isle.
Thank you, everyone, for taking the time to enter. After much deliberation amongst the editors here (and some winnowing down of entries that, although interesting and well-written, went over our limit of 100 words per entry), we have selected the below five entries as the finalists in our "Share Your Adventure" contest. The winners will each receive a copy Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic Ocean from National Geographic Books, plus they'll be contributing a longer post about their adventures to this blog in the week of January 19-23, 2009. (We had originally planned for a week in December, but we decided that the later January date will give everyone time to get through the festive season!)
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November 10, 2008
Write For Us!: Share Your Adventure Contest and Book Giveaway
For one week in December, Away.com will be turning over the keys to this blog to five adventure-loving readers. Tell us in the comments section, in 100 words or less, about an adventurous travel experience you've had (or an extraordinary destination that you've discovered). The world's your oyster, though bear in mind that the operative word here is "adventure."
We'll select the five best entries and ask each winner to write an expanded post for this blog, to be published next month. Need more incentive to enter? We will also send our five intrepid bloggers a copy of Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic Ocean: A Guide to 50 Extraordinary Adventures for the Seasoned Traveler, the latest world-roving adventure tome from National Geographic Books (check out an exclusive photo preview on Away.com here). What are you waiting for? Start telling your story now!
Entries must be submitted no later than Friday, December 5, 2008. Please be sure to include your email contact details as part of the Typekey submission profile required for submitting your entry in the comments section (this will not be displayed alongside comment, but will allow us to contact winning finalists accordingly). Click here to download the official contest rules.
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