It’s a cloudy evening here in London. I’ve arrived to the capital of England ready to embark on quite an extraordinary journey. It’s not just any other press trip: With five other travel bloggers from around Asia and Australia, I’ll be taking on a four-day challenge in Wales.
The Great Welsh Showdown is organized by Visit Britain with the aim of reaching out to the social media travel community while showcasing the various types of activities available in Wales.
Over the course of the competition, we will take part in five challenges conducted in various corners of Wales, and end off each day with a blog or video entry. Come tomorrow, 1 September, our wits, strength and blog-writing prowess will be put to the test. To win the competition, we will have to garner the support of their readers by obtaining the most number of comments and videos views for the various tasks. So I’ll seriously need your help to beat the rest and win the Great Welsh Showdown!
Fellow travel bloggers hail from six countries around Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea and Singapore (that’s me). We’ll be getting down and dirty, dabbling in some interesting activities in Wales. Watch out for my daily updates – meanwhile, here’s a sneak peek of what we’ll be up to over the next four days.
Wyt ti’n siarad Cymraeg? (Do you speak Welsh?)
The competition kicks off in Cardiff, capital of Wales, where we’ll be attending a half-day Welsh lesson. Using our new-found knowledge of the language, we’ll be blogging about our findings, while including five words in Welsh. The blogger who receives the most number of comments from readers who comment with at least two Welsh words, will win the challenge! Hey, I’m a language freak, so I’m sure I’ll be picking up Welsh pretty fast, but I’ll be depending on you to help me beat the rest.
Wilderness Survival
The second task takes place in the coastal city of Swansea, where we’ll be learning the ways of surviving in the wilderness. We will be attending bushcraft lessons before splitting into two groups to compete against each other in survival activities, such as lighting a bonfire or setting up a shelter. After a day in the jungle, we will return to civilisation and provide survival tips on our blogs. I love getting down to basics but I’m sure not an expert in survival techniques.
Dryad Bushcraft Wales is one of the UK’s leading Bushcraft and Survival schools, and one of very few full time specialist providers of high quality practical instruction.
A Giant Leap of Faith
This is the challenge I’m most looking forward to! Moving on westward to Pembrokeshire, we will don wetsuits and scale the cliffs of the Welsh coastal line in this coasteering challenge. Coasteering is a unique adventure sport where you experience the exhilaration of sea level traversing, rock climbing, cliff jumping and swimming into sea caves. Preseli Venture can offer a range of coasteering experiences, from a half day session on our adventures days, through to a dedicated Wicked Liquid coasteering weekend.
Our bravery will be put to the test (yikes!) as we jump off the cliffs into the raging waters, all this while being videoed. The videos will be posted online and the blogger who receives the most video views will emerge as the winner of this task – so be sure to catch me in action!
The Wooly Encounter
Sheep, ubiquitous in Wales, will be the central focus of the fourth challenge. We will have their hands on making Sheep Poo Paper – like its name suggest, paper, made out of sheep excrement – at the Creative Paper Wales paper mill at the Snowdonia National Park regions. Even the name of the region sounds exotic, not to mention making paper out of sheep poo. We will complete the woolly experience by learning the ways of a farmer in gathering sheep at a farm. It all sounds like lots of fun, as long as I don’t have to be collecting sheep’s poo.
A Film of Triumph
The final challenge will require us to create a one-minute video of ourselves in Wales using the Flip MinoHD sponsored by Cisco. The video will consist of our daily challenges and I’ll be sure to sneak in some behind-the-scene moments, so stay glued for the final product right here on WildJunket.
The Prize
The overall winner will take home a grand prize of a pair of return tickets to their preferred destination to anywhere in the United Kingdom. Readers, however, will not be forgotten for their support rendered. One commenter, selected from all the commenters of the winning video of the last challenge, will stand a chance to win a Flip MinoHD video camera!
Stay tuned to my updates over the next few days and leave some comments to help me win the challenge!
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Nellie, me parece fascinante el reto en el que te has metido, te seguiré, me parece interesante el lenguaje celta. Un beso
Muy bien. Eres la mejor. Adelante