All our contestants did a really good job and it has been extremely difficult to choose a winner. The 5 finalists were chosen from the highest rated (votes from our readers) stories, from these 5 finalists our jury handpicked a winner.

Our jury had a great time reading the contributed stories and chose the winner by comparing the originality, the pictures and the overall quality of the stories.

The winner is: EVAN HADFIELD, from Canada.

Who is Evan?
“I run a non-profit travel service for teaching people how to live a little more freely, and generally move about every six months. I currently live in Germany, but I’ve spent my life across almost every continent and as many countries as I could get my hands on. I hope you like my stories” 

-From his profile here at MyBestJourneys.com

Evan won with this story:
Guanzhou Reflections

He also posted other great stories:
Zhou Zuang, a World away
The man in the wettest spot on earth
Courage to lend

Thank you to all who contributed in our contest! 

We are here today to hand out a prize to the winner of our contest, but first we want to shed light on yesterdays happenings in Norway. We are devastated by the tragedy that occurred. These are difficult times for all of us and many are still in shock.

We have decided that we will still – although a little delayed – continue as planned with our scheduled awarding. Our thoughts and condolences goes to families, friends and everyone who need it.

In the midst of difficulties it is important to look forward.

Stay put and we will announce our winner

We have found the 5 authors to compete for the winning prize in our contest. It’s been a lot of fun for us but it’s not over yet since we still have to choose who will win! It will be done during the next days.

We are very impressed with the quality of the contributions and we really believe that everyone deserves to win, but we still have to pick one and it will be a challenge to find the best.

These are the authors that are in the finale:

Evan Hadfield (http://www.mybestjourneys.com/users/evan-hadfield)
Monika Maśnik (http://www.mybestjourneys.com/users/monika-masnik)
Stein Nicolaysen (http://www.mybestjourneys.com/users/stein-nicolaysen)
Gabrielle Yetter (http://www.mybestjourneys.com/users/gabrielle-yetter)
Mari Halvorsen (http://www.mybestjourneys.com/users/mari-halvorsen)

Good luck everyone! On Saturday we will choose which one to earn our 10 000 NOK! (approx. 1300 euro or 1800 USD)

This week the Student Paper for the college in Hønefoss published this article on their website klick here to read ..