This year, the Travel Writers trip is to the beautiful and mountainous locale of Sikkim from October 19 to 22nd. For last year’s trip, the jury selected the writers from a pool of popular travel writers and bloggers. This year we are also opening it up to anyone with a flair for writing or photography!
What do you need to do?
- The contest is called “My Trip of a Lifetime”, and invites contestants to submit their best travel experience, an experience of a lifetime.
What are the Prizes?
- The authors of the best 2 entries will be selected by the jury to be a part of an all expenses paid trip to Sikkim! The group will be hosted at the Club Mahindra “Royal Demazong” resort in Gangtok, Sikkim over a period of 3 days. The itinerary includes sightseeing in Sikkim, outdoor activities and camping.
- Runners-up entries will win travel goodies that includes a travel bag, books and other merchandise!
- All the short listed entries, including the winning entries will be featured in Clay!
How to enter the “My Trip of a Lifetime” contest?
- Send in your article/post to clay@clubmahindra.com, and also attach a few photos of the trip.
- Once your entry is short listed, we will post it to Clay. Ask your friends to Tweet or share it on Facebook. The ones will a good number of mentions on social media stand a good chance of winning.
Where will the results be announced?
- The results and updates of the contest will be updated on Clay, the Jiyo Life page on Facebook (facebook.com/jiyolife) and Twitter (Twitter.com/Jiyolife, Twitter.com/Clubmahindra)
Who are the members of the Jury?
- Arun Nair: Editor of Clay, writer and blogger (indianeye.org)
- Lakshmi Sharath: Travel writer, columnist and maintains the award winning travel blog (backpakker.blogspot.com)
- Arun Bhat: Photographer, maintains the popular travel blog paintedstork.com
Rules of the contest:
- The content can either be new or from an existing blog post that has been authored by the contestant.
- The contestant holds the right to the content. Plagiarism will result in disqualification.
- The contestant has to be a resident of India, over 18 years old.
- Last date for content submission is 7th October 2010.
Terms and Conditions:
1. Club Mahindra will only bear the following expenses of the winning contestant during the trip: Accommodation at the Club Mahindra resort in Sikkim (on a Twin-sharing basis with another member of the group. The Women in the group will be paired together) , Travel, Food at the Club Mahindra resort (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner – as a buffet) and Local Sightseeing (Arranged for the group).
2. The trip is for the winning contestant only.
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