(1888PressRelease)
October 29, 2009 - Sydney, Australia, October 26, 2009 – WorldNomads.com today announced that two American girls from Florida have won the Tasmania leg of the WorldNomads.com Van-Tastic Adventure. This is the first time in the history of the competition that a team of Americans have won the Australian contest.
Dara Simkin and Catherine Fleming, friends from Florida, will be hitting the road for the Van-Tastic Adventures road trip through Tasmania starting on December 19. They’ll take the baton from Tim Akroyd and will drive the Van-Tastic van on a six-week adventure around Tasmania that will end in Melbourne on January 30. Theirs will be the fourth of seven legs of the Adventure, which started in Queensland and will see seven teams of travelers drive Geoff, the van, more than 10,000 miles through every state and territory of Australia.
The girls won their free, six-week adventure on the basis of their YouTube application video. They’ll fly to Melbourne to pick up Geoff and then it’s their task to showcase Tasmania through their blogs and videos, which will be posted on the Van-Tastic
Adventures website.
Tourism Tasmania, Van-Tastic and the Tasmanian tourism industry have teamed up to provide Dara and Catherine with a host of adventures to report on during their trip. Although it’s Australia’s smallest state, the girls will have their hands full covering kayaking on the gorgeous Freycinet Peninsula; mountain-biking Mt Wellington; exploring some of the famous walking trails, such as Cradle Mountain, and a dozen other adventures, including coming face-to-face with a Tasmanian Devil! They’ll be in Hobart in time for the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race – one of the world’s great ocean races – and the Hobart Summer Festival.
Applications are still open for the Van-Tastic Adventure, a competition designed for enthusiastic and adventurous travelers who are willing to tackle – and capture on video - one leg of an Australia-wide road trip. Three legs are still on offer, where teams of one or two travelers can win a trip to Australia and spend six weeks driving across the country, capturing their adventure on video and in blogs, with a chance to win $10,000 cash and flights from Virgin Blue. Applications for the Van-Tastic South Australia leg close on November 29.
To apply for the remaining legs, and to see how the first teams fared on their trip of a lifetime, visit: http://vantastic.worldnomads.com/index.php/media/
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Contact:
Alexia Nestora
WorldNomads.com
Sydney, Australia
303-898-3376
alexia ( @ ) lassocommunications dot com
http://www.worldnomads.com
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