Travel Digest #2709

Introduction

Hello everyone! This is @ybanezkim26 and I'll present today's edition of Travel Digest. In our featured posts, we have a castle in Havana, Cuba, the city of Madrid, Spain, and a national park in Colline Nyarugina, Rwanda. Enjoy and keep on pinning your travel posts to the map!

All featured posts are visible on the Editors Choice Map and upvoted by @worldmappin, our curation trail, and potentially @blocktrades. For more travel digests check out #traveldigest.

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Our winners today

🥇 Castle of the Three Kings of the Morro in Havana by @mdrguez

The growing importance of the port of Havana for the New World made it a target for corsairs, pirates, and enemy fleets. For this reason, the government, by order of King Philip II, ordered the construction of a fortress to safeguard its waters. Work began in 1589 and stretched on until 1640. Directed by the Italian engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli, it was carried out using the most advanced concepts of the time. Unfortunately, Antonelli died before the construction was completed.

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🥈 Madrid, España by @jesuslnrs

A big hug to everyone at Worldmappin! I wish you all a great start to the weekend... Today I want to share a little about my trip to Madrid, the city I explored the most when visiting Spain, and which at the same time was like seeing without touching, since it was the most crucial days of Holy Week and everything was closed, and at the same time all my walks were generally at night... These images from Holy Thursday are from the city center.

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🥉 Trekking with Gorillas in Rwanda's Virunga Mountains National Park by @dtam

We traveled to the small, landlocked country of Rwanda for one main reason, to go deep into the Virunga Mountains and trek to the mountain gorillas. This is the same place, and the same gorilla families that Dian Fossey brought to the attention of the world with her field work and book, "Gorillas in the Mist." Now, it was our time to enter the misty mountains of Rwanda, and have that same shared experience, or becoming part of the gorilla family for a short time.

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Honorable Mentions

• Port, Havana, Cuba by @jordy0827
• Zoo, Surabaya, Indonesia by @macchiata
• Street, Cumana, Venezuela by @omarcitorojas
• Basilica, Buenos Aires, Argentina by @cristiancaicedo
• Children's Palace, Jakarta, Indonesia by @viviehardika
• Floating Market, Damnoen Saduak, Ratchaburi, Thailand by @gretelarmfeg
• Rock Formations, Tabogon, Cebu, Philippines by @iamlovelykate
• Beach, Olango Island, Cebu, Philippines by @michelleeeeys

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