**Hello fellow Steemians!**

It is my great pleasure to announce the winner of **7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - North American Friday**. I would like to say huge thank you to all the participants for their great entries. The number of entries yesterday was very good with many high-quality images so it was extremely hard to decide on the winning one. I encourage you to check the entries as they really were all stunning.

You can see all entries and participants in this post: [7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - North American Friday week #72 - the absolute winner takes 200 SBD!](https://steemit.com/travel/@czechglobalhosts/7-world-s-continents-photo-challenge-north-american-friday-week-72-the-absolute-winner-takes-200-sbd)

Please give a huge shout out to the best ten competitors for taking part in the challenge and sharing their photos and experience with all of us here on Steemit:

@liltammy @phortun @roadtrips @nenio @silvergingerman @alexcote @ladybug146 @life-junky @karma-panorama




It would be great if you can visit their blogs and appreciate their awesome photography skills with some upvotes. 

However, the winner is only one and that is for me picture posted by @roadtrips with the following entry:

**Visiting the Grand Canyon without meeting other people? Yes. that is possible! The north rim of the canyon isn't easy to access but the view at the Toroweap Overlook is totally worth the effort to go there.**

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[//]:# (!steemitworldmap 36.112833 lat -113.997271 long Grand Canyon d3scr)

What a great contribution from @roadtrips to the photo challenge! I have visited @roadtrips blog and upvoted his post called [China #12: Xi‘an – The ancient captial of China - EN/GER](https://steemit.com/travelfeed/@roadtrips/china-12-xi-an-the-ancient-captial-of-china-en-ger). @roadtrips amazing entry from Arizona is qualifying for the weekly challenge where it will be competing against the previous and upcoming winners of the week:

[7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - Asian Sunday week #72 - winner announcement!](https://steemit.com/travel/@czechglobalhosts/7-world-s-continents-photo-challenge-asian-sunday-week-72-winner-announcement)

@worldcapture Asian Sunday entry:

**Hongkong 2015. Today I share with you a picture which I took a few years ago on my travel in Hongkong. Still to this day I haven't seen anything similar to this concrete jungle. It's crazy how many buildings growing out of the ground in this narrow area.**

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[7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - Australian Monday week #72 - winner announcement!](https://steemit.com/travel/@czechglobalhosts/7-world-s-continents-photo-challenge-australian-monday-week-72)

@benfenson Australian Monday entry:

**This was sunrise here on the South Coast of NSW yesterday morning. The location is Crookhaven head and is great for fishing and has some amazing surf breaks nearby.**

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[7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge – Tuesday of Antarctica and World´s Oceans week #72 – winner announcement!](https://steemit.com/travel/@czechglobalhosts/7-world-s-continents-photo-challenge-tuesday-of-antarctica-and-world-s-oceans-week-72-winner-announcement)

@nenio Tuesday of Antarctica and World´s Oceans entry:

**This photo was taken during the sunset at the northern Chilean city of Antofagasta. Which is one of the main port of the copper exports of the country. You can see how the ships wait their turn to enter in the port. The sunsets at this city usually are nice.**

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[7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - African Wednesday week #72 - winner announcement!](https://steemit.com/travel/@czechglobalhosts/7-world-s-continents-photo-challenge-african-wednesday-week-72-winner-announcement)

@vcclothing African Wednesday entry:

**The sun rise at the Okavango delta in Botswana was just amazing it was like the sky was on fire. We spent the night in a bush camp and this was an amazing sight to wake up too.**

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[7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - European Thursday week #72 - winner announcement!](https://steemit.com/travel/@czechglobalhosts/7-world-s-continents-photo-challenge-european-thursday-week-72-winner-announcement)

@itchyfeetdonica European Thursday entry:

**Today I'm sharing a world of snow and mountains. This is at the ski resort Ischgl, in Austrian Alps. Except for skiing, there are hiking possibilities, mountain bike trails and adventure park water playground. The town is also known for its lively après-ski scene. Trails in the surrounding mountains lead to breathtaking Alpine lakes.**

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The winner of the weekly challenge will be selected by you based on the dollar value of this post and then entered to a monthly and possibly yearly challenge on the way to win the price of 200 SBD in total. You can give @roadtrips your support by upvoting this winner announcement post.

My next challenge is coming shortly: **South American Saturday**. Get your pictures ready! :)

For more information about the 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge  and conditions see my original post: [200 SBD 7 World's Continents Photo Challenge - 2018 guidelines – 25/10 update](https://steemit.com/travel/@czechglobalhosts/200-sbd-7-world-s-continents-photo-challenge-2018-guidelines-25-10-update).


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