Wednesday, 10 March 2010

About goWander.com

It's a place to share your travel experiences, photos and videos, make recommendations, meet travel companions, and get answers to all your travel queries. It's your site – and with our unique points system, the more you give, the more you get.

On goWander.com you can:

Create your own travel CV
Tell us about your favourite places, form your own profile and create your own personalised travel map.

Share your travel experiences, photos and videos

Whether it's a quick note on a great little hotel or a trip diary from a round-the-world odyssey, goWander.com is the ideal place to share your travels with friends and other travellers. Plus you can post photos and videos to really bring your trips to life.

Join the debate in our forum

Where are the best baguettes in Luang Praban g? Can anyone recommend a tour guide in Timbuktu? How tough is Kilimanjaro really? In the Grapevine forum, you can put your queries to the real experts – other travellers who've been there.

Points mean prizes!

Every time you contribute to goWander.com, you earn points called 'footsteps'. The footsteps points system is designed to reward people who contribute regularly to goWander.com. The points are awarded as follows:

  • - If your video is chosen as video of the week - 10 footsteps
  • - If you post a travel experience - 8 footsteps
  • - If you receive a comment on either an experience, video or photo you have posted - 3 footsteps
  • - If you post a video - 3 footsteps
  • - If you post a photo - 2 footsteps
  • - If you start a discussion on our Grapevine forum - 1 footstep
  • - If you post a comment - 1 footstep
  • - If you respond to a discussion - 1 footstep

Plus, if your experiences, photos and videos are rated highly, you'll earn even more footsteps:

  • ***** rating = 3 footsteps
  • **** rating = 2 footsteps
  • *** rating = 1 footstep

goWander.com is brought to you by the team behind the award-winning Wanderlust travel magazine. Founded 14 years ago, Wanderlust has grown from a bedroom business to gain an audience of over 100,000 readers and subscribers in 112 countries. To find out more about the beginnings of Wanderlust, click here.

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