Play Agent-UK for your chance to win a trip to London and live like Bond, James Bond.  2 Backpackers has partnered with Visit Britain to bring you this awesome travel giveaway.

Accept Your Mission and a Chance to WIN:

• An Aston Martin for the weekend
• Two BA flights to london
• A set of Gobe Trotter luggage
• Three nights at a luxury London hotel
• Tickets to experience the top London attractions

Start gaming now!

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We are partnering with iExplore to offer you a chance to win a grand prize trip for two to Morocco!  iExplore is an expert in the world of adventure & experiential travel.  So why do they need you?

iExplore is on the hunt for your best hidden travel gems.

Remember those unique, off the beaten path places you visited that very few know about?  Now is your chance to share that knowledge and win some prizes at the same time.

iExplore $8K Travel Giveaway

Starting June 06, 2011 iExplore will be accepting submissions for World’s Best Travel Secrets contest. Visitors can read amazing entries from around the globe and submit their vote for favorite travel tip. You may vote for one entry per day throughout the duration of the contest. On Aug 12, 2011, the 10 entries with the highest vote total will be selected as finalists. One entry per week will also be selected by one of the contest judges to receive a $100 Adventure Center travel voucher. The 10 weekly winners will also move into the finals for a total of 20 finalists.

The Grand Prize will win a once in a lifetime adventure for two to Morocco. Runner-ups and judge favorites will receive travel vouchers and adventure products courtesy of iExplore and their sponsors.

• Round Trip Airfare to Morocco
• 6 Nights Accommodation
• Most meals, activities and transportation included

Entry Requirements

Submit your hidden travel gem description (up to 1,000 words) and a single image that best represents the travel secret. There is no limit on the number of entries per person, but only one entry per person will be selected as one of the twenty (20) finalists. Enter now! Read more about the contest and get tips here.

Disclaimer

The Contest is open only to individuals who have reached the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry and who do NOT reside in Arizona, Cuba, Iran, New Jersey, North Korea, Puerto Rico, the Province of Quebec, Sudan, Syria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela or Vermont. Employees of Sponsor or TUI Travel PLC, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and their immediate family members (spouse, domestic partner, parent, child, sibling and their respective spouses and domestic partners, regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such employees, whether or not related are not eligible to enter this Contest. CONTEST IS VOID IN ARIZONA, CUBA, IRAN, NEW JERSEY, NORTH KOREA, PUERTO RICO, THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, SUDAN, SYRIA, VERMONT, ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, CHILE, CHINA, COLUMBIA, COSTA RICA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, FRANCE, IRELAND, ITALY, JAPAN, MEXICO, PANAMA, PARAGUAY, URAGUAY, VENEZUELA AND WHERE PROHIBITED. Furthermore, individuals from countries where laws prohibit such individuals from entering this Contest cannot participate. Read more rules and regulations.

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64 Entries from 2 Backpackers

Of the 64 travel postcard entries, we picked one to win the Sony® Reader Pocket Edition™ and a $25 gift certificate to the Reader Store.

Carole’s Postcard from Tad Lo, Laos

Greetings from the tiny village of Tadlo I am here with my college roommate circa 1965.. visiting the waterfalls. We finally fulfilled our promise to one another… Her husband is bathing in the river, like in the old days in Tennessee. He has company, three elephants bathing with their keepers. And guess what I just happen to be reading on my Sony reader? Water for Elephants. Wish you were here.

Her postcard ranked 111 at the close of the big $10K giveaway.

Thanks to everyone for participating and we hope to bring you more excellent travel giveaways in the future!

The Ideal Travel Companion Features:

• 5″ touch screen
• Carry up to 1,200 books at a time
• Thin, light, highly portable design
• Two full weeks of reading on a single charge
• Built-in dictionaries and translators

The Reader Pocket Edition is the lightest and thinnest eReader out there making it the ideal travel companion. And with over 2 million books available at the Reader Store, you can easily take along all the books you want.

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Entry Phase is Over

The entry phase of the $10,000 Dream Vacation contest has ended, and the contest voting period has now begun and will continue through April 26, 2011.  It’s time to start reading these dream postcards from around the world!

Vote Now For Final Winner!

Visit http://readergetawaygiveaway.com/, where you are able to view all of the entries and vote through April 26, 2011. You may vote for your favorite entries one time per entry per day over the course of the voting period.

If you missed out on our initial announcement about our partnering with Sony for this fabulous travel giveaway, please visit the link below for background information.

Sony $10K Dream Vacation Travel Giveaway

Read the creative dream vacation postcards and help choose a winner today!

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Only 1 Week Left!

A reminder to our followers that you have one week left to enter the Sony Reader $10K Dream Vacation Travel Giveaway.

If you missed out on our initial announcement about our partnering with Sony for this fabulous travel giveaway, please visit the link below.

Enter to Win Today!

Don’t miss out on one of our best travel giveaways of the year. We would love for the winner to be 2 Backpackers follower!

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What do travelers love to do while traveling on planes and buses or lying on a beach? Read books! Well, we can help you enter a contest to not only win a Sony® Reader™, but to possibly win a $10,000 dream vacation!

The Sony® Reader™ $10K Getaway Giveaway

Imagine winning $10,000 to spend on a dream vacation, a Reader Pocket Edition™ for you and one for a friend, plus a $100 Reader™ Store Gift Card so you can stock up on the latest bestsellers. 2 Backpackers is partnering with Sony to give you that chance as our plan to provide you with incredible travel giveaways continues.

• $10,000 dream vacation
• 2 Sony® Reader Pocket Editions™
• $100 Reader™ Store Gift Card

Exclusive to a 2backpackers.com, one lucky entrant will also win a Sony Reader Pocket Edition and $25 gift card to the Reader Store. So, enter today!

Entry Requirements

Imagine you’re on your dream vacation and you’re writing us a postcard from that special destination. In your postcard, tell us where you are and what you brought along with you to read. Then have some fun telling me what you’re up to on vacation. Remember, be creative!

• Entry period: April 5 – April 19, 2011

Winner Selection

Visitors to www.readergetawaygiveaway.com will be allowed to vote for their favorite entries one time per entry per day over the course of the voting period which ends April 26, 2011.

• Voting period: April 20 – April 26, 2011

The person who submitted the postcard that receives the most public votes on www.readergetawaygiveaway.com at the end of the contest will be rewarded with the grand prize: $10,000 travel stipend, 2 Reader ™ Pocket Editions and $100 in Reader ™ Store gift cards.

Disclaimer

No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S. & D.C., 18 & older. Begins 3:00:01 a.m. ET on 4/5/11 & ends 3:00:01 p.m. ET on 4/19/11. For official rules, visit www.readergetawaygiveaway.com. Sony® Reader ™ $10K Getaway Giveaway is sponsored by Sony Electronics Inc.

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The San Antonio River Walk

After a week of tweets and hype surrounding the San Antonio, Texas trip giveaway, we are excited to announce a winner!

Kristin of @k_rads gets to experience San Antonio on behalf of 2 Backpackers!

Kristin will enjoy visiting San Antonio in celebration of the 175th anniversary of The Battle of The Alamo. Get an sneak peak of of her trip at San Antonio in Pictures.

This was an extremely exciting opportunity for followers of 2Backpackers.com and we look forward to more Travel Giveaways in the future!

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The San Antonio River Walk

A BIG giveaway by 2Backpackers.com! Aracely and I recently visited San Antonio in celebration of the 175th anniversary of The Alamo. Our first visit of the city was a whirlwind tour of the hottest things San Antonio has to offer. You can experience some of what we saw in our San Antonio in Pictures article. Now, one of our fans will be able to do the same… for free!

This travel giveaway has ended.  Thank you for participating.

Join San Antonio in Honoring the 175th Anniversary of The Alamo Battle

Travel Giveaway

The prize includes (ARV: $1,800):

• $500 Visa Gift Card for use towards airfare
• HOTEL VOUCHER for 2 nights at The Emily Morgan Hotel
• DINNER for 2 at the La Gloria Ice House and Liberty Bar
• ACTIVITY VOUCHER for use at the Blue Star Bike Shop – 6 hour bike rental
• ACTIVITY VOUCHER cooking class for 2 at the Culinary Institute of America

• FREE PASSES to SeaWorld, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, Witte Museum, Buckhorn Museum, Alamo Audio Tour, Alamo at the IMAX, City Sightseeing bus*All vouchers will expire by the end of the year at the earliest

Entry Requirements

For a chance to enter and win, please complete the following requirements. You receive only one entry, so please don’t tweet more than once a day.

1. Follow @2Backpackers on Twitter
2. Simply Tweet
   • “Enter to win a trip to San Antonio Texas #VisitSA. Just follow @2Backpackers and retweet. Details http://su.pr/28R8rj #Alamo175″
   • or Click to tweet

Optional Entries

The following are extra entries that are completely optional and will earn you one extra entry for each completed item.

• Leave a comment on San Antonio in Pictures describing your favorite photo, but be sure to include #VisitSA in your comment to receive credit.
• Subscribe to my RSS feed (either by RSS Reader or Email).  Leave a comment below telling me you did.
• If you have a blog, write about any article you enjoyed on 2 Backpackers, or write about a place you hope to visit, and link back to one of our articles on 2backpackers.com.  Leave a comment below telling me you did so and show me the link where I can find it.

Thanks to the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau for sponsoring this giveaway.

Remember to find 2 Backpackers on Facebook. or subscribe to us via Email or RSS Reader

Terms and Conditions

Winners will be selected randomly through http://random.org using the Random Sequence Generator. No purchase necessary to enter or win. Open to U.S. residents only. Giveaway ends at midnight ET Friday, March 25, 2011. All vouchers will expire by the end of the year 2011, at the earliest.

Duplicate comments and Anonymous comments will be discarded. You must include your email with your comment in order for us to be able to contact you.  Please make sure that the email address in your comment form is valid (email addresses are never public). Winners must claim their prize within three business days after the date of notification of such prize. A Sweepstakes winner’s failure to respond to the prize notification within the specified three business days will be considered such Sweepstakes winner’s forfeiture of the prize and an alternate winner may be selected from the pool of eligible entries. If an entrant is found to be ineligible, an alternate winner may also be selected from the pool of eligible entries. We will disqualify any entries that we believe are generated by scripts and other automated technology.

The Alamo at Night

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