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“Alea iacta est”, or “the votes haven been cast”: According to the community at Blogger’s Choice Awards these are the 5 best Travel Blogs:
1) 464 Votes: Hostel Buenos Aires.

Hostel Buenos Aires Blog Spot
It’s not only a Blog about a Hostel in Buenos Aires, but a Travel portal to the city as well.
2) 390 Votes: Everything [...]

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Travel Blog author Darren Cronian has won the Travolution Award for best consumer travel blog with his Blog Travel Rants.
He was chosen from the following shortlist:

Travel Rants (Darren Cronian)
TravelMail Blog (various authors)
Viator Blog (various authors)
Select World Travel (Lee Harrison)

I believe winning from these great blogs will add extra to this award for Darren.
The Laudatio says:
“Darren [...]

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SA Blog Awards 2008

The Nominees for the Best South African blogs Featuring Travel Related Content:

mothercityliving.co.za
Jazz Kusche
southafricablog.co.za
capetowndailyphoto.com
africansurfer.com
Rob House
blog.travelstart.co.za
Kingsley Holgate
Alison Westwood
Tony Park

Source: Eish
Update April 16, 2008: and the winner is capetowndailyphoto.com. Congratulations!

Sphere: Related Content

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The 2007 Travvies
Last year, more precisely on January 30, 2007, Upgrade Travel Better announced the 2007 Travvies, a first and very good initiative, awards for travel Blogs because:
Other blog “award shows” exist out there, such as the Webbies or the Weblog Awards, but despite there being thousands of travel blogs, the travel category [...]

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Is it because the Guardian or Sean Dodson didn´t think about launching a Best Travel Blog Award themselves? Their reasoning is even wrong, because at least one of the winners of the Travvies is a Dutchman´s Blog (Exposed Planet) and not a US based Blog. Anyway, they had to publish their own Guardian Alternative Travvies [...]

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Today the Winners of The 2007 Travvies were published:

A grand total of 2306 votes were cast. In some categories, the competition was truly fierce, with the winner separated from the runner-up by single digits.
The winners:

Best Photography on a Travel Blog: Exposed Planet.
Based in the Netherlands, Harry Kikstra, a self-described “climber / expedition leader / [...]

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Upgrade: Travel Better is a blog that mainly describes techniques about how to get a better flying deal by obtaining an upgrade.
On February 2 the author had launched in 2007 Travvies: Best Travel Blog Awards the nomination for the best travel blogs awards in several categories.
Under the nominees were several blogs you will find in [...]

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