Kickstart 2009 with a trip from GeckoGo & Intrepid Travel!

GeckoGo and Intrepid Travel have teamed up to bring you our very first blogger contest. Get a chance to win a $900 USD travel voucher redeemable towards a trip of your choice with Intrepid Travel – the leader in small group travel in over 93 countries around the world. Just what does $900 get you with Intrepid? How about a 6 day trip in Rio, Brazil, a 10 day trip to Borneo or a 9 day trip through Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand?

Win a voucher that gets you a trip to any of these places...or more!

To sweeten the deal, we’re making it cool for your readers too. Your readers also get a chance to win a $900 USD travel voucher towards their dream trip. How’s that for a way to kickstart 2009?

So how do you win?

The deadline for entries is March 1st, 2009 and the winner will be determined by random draw and announced on the GeckoGo Blog on Monday, March 9th. Chances of winning depend on the total number of entries received.

So what do I have to do?

• Get 10 entries for blogging about this contest
  Within your post, link to GeckoGo (http://www.geckogo.com/blogger) and to Intrepid Travel (http://www.intrepidtravel.com). You can describe the contest any way you like. Just write your contest post and then email us a link to your post at: contest@geckogo.com
• Get 3 entries for adding a widget or a badge
  Add a widget or badge to show off your travels!
• Get 1 entry for every reader who joins GeckoGo from your blog.
  Have your readers sign up for GeckoGo using the http://www.geckogo.com/blogger-signup/ link and receive an entry for each signup.
• To receive entries from your readers, your readers need to comment to your post with their GeckoGo profile URL. We'll go and tally up all the readers and add them to your total contest entry count.
• Bonus prize: We'll have a special prize for the blogger with the most sign-up referrals!
  Get a $100 USD Amazon gift certificate for having the most signup referrals to GeckoGo.

For your readers…a chance to win a $900 voucher too!

• Get 2 entries for joining GeckoGo
  Have your reader sign up for a GeckoGo account at http://www.geckogo.com/blogger-signup
• Get 1 entry for making a blog post comment
  Your reader receives an extra entry when they comment on your post with their GeckoGo profile URL.
• Get 1 entry for signing up for Intrepid Express, Intrepid Travel’s award-winning newsletter

The reader prize is drawn from a separate pool of entries than the blogger prize.

About Intrepid Travel

For travellers with a yearning to get off the beaten track, Intrepid Travel opens up a whole new world. Intrepid travellers explore some of the world's most amazing places and discover real people, real cultures and have incredible real life experiences along the way. With over 80,000 travellers each year, Intrepid Travel is one of the world`s leading small group adventure tour operators.

About GeckoGo

GeckoGo is the independent traveler's go-to site. Travelers can show where they've been, get their travelcred score and see how they compare with other travelers around the world. Along the way, get local travel recommendations, get travel questions answered, share travel tips and reviews, plus source ideas for the next big trip. Planning and idea generating tools like the activity heatmap highlight which countries to further investigate. Launched in October 2008, GeckoGo is already the leader in unique travel reviews, featuring over 100,000 unique travel tips and reviews spanning 242 countries and territories worldwide.