Hello and happy new year #pifc supporters! How have you been? I suppose you have been doing great! Whoah, I missed joining this contest for months since end of October, I guess. Well, I have my reasons but what matters now is I am able to get back. It is start of the year so I hope that is a good come-back sign. I hope to be back in the next few days for my rounds on the entries with higher upvote to boost these well deserving Steemians.
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Okay, so let's go straight to the nominees. It is new year and I have been thinking of where-to wandering. That was when I came across the posts of Ivan and Marcel. I came to know both of these gentlemen through the #travel tag. All photos here are from the original posts of the featured authors.
@kissiwarrior (35)
My first featured author is Ivan. He is in Ethiopia and seems to be traveling around fairly regularly based on his other posts. Though, he seem to have not posted in a while since his profile says he joined in June 2018. He only has the default SP delegation so he may not have enough RC to reply to comments. Still, his post is certainly worth something and not $0.00 as it is now, at the time of this writing.
His latest post about traveling around rural villages caught my attention with the thumbnail photo at first then this statement as I read along.
Unlike many, they didn’t seem to have a toxic sense of pride and expressed how they wished Ethiopia could be like an America, a country of different groups of people who could live as one.
While many people and even through media would talk about "good things in America", I hope people will also come to appreciate what they have and make the most of it. Some of you may find it off but while we wish for something better, we need to admit what is practical. Anyway, please go visit the post and have your say on the post itelf before I get dramatic here. 😊
@marcelgoo (53)
My second featured author is Marcel who is mostly in Thailand but I thought he is from Germany. He is a travel blogger and refers to himself as a digital nomad. Why, I see more and more nomads on Steemit!
On his post about his travel in Myanmar, Marcel shared photos of the stunning town of Bago which is full of temples with matching tuk tuk and guess what? A python! Oh wait, what's a tuk tuk? It is a tricyle which I was told is also the same name of such vehicle in Thailand.
That tuk tuk is a little high-tech though as compared to those that I have seen in Vietnam. This one is much bigger than a regular tricycle and almost a small version of our jeepney in the Philippines.
The post has many photos of temples and Buddha status then suddenly comes Lahpet Thoke. What is it? Go find it out for yourself. 😊 Overall, I think Bago town is indeed worth a visit!
That's about it for the featured posts. It is time to thank in advance the judges and sponsors.
Judges: @lynncoyle1, @viking-ventures, @tryskele, @headchange
Sponsors: @thehoneys, @bengy, @andrewharland, @el-nailul, @stever82,
@thedarkhorse, @josephsavage