Adventure travelers get chance to win Australian roadtrip

WorldNomads.com has just opened its “Van-Tastic Adventure” in which travelers are given the chance to win a 6-week Australian roadtrip. Capturing their experiences documentary-style, the travelers are then eligible to win $10,000 cash and flights from Virgin Blue.

Beginning in August 2009 and continuing for 11 months, each “Van-Tastic Adventure” team will travel throughout the country for 6 weeks. The teams will be designated to a certain state or territory of Australia and will be supplied with driving routes and itineraries, access to YHA hostels, national parks and camping sites.

“We’ll fly a team, of up to 2 people to Australia, and give them the ‘Van-Tastic Van’ to drive across the country for 6 weeks,” said Amanda Byrne, WorldNomads.com Global Programs Manager. “They’ll share their adventure online, making videos, stories, and posting photos, and ultimately create a mini-video documentary of their trip.” says Amanda.

Geoff, the Van-Tastic Campervan

Travelers will be sporting around in a super-cool campervan, “Geoff,” while exploring the countryside.

Some specs:

• 1999 Toyota Hiace Hi-Top Camperva
• One heck of funkadelic paint-job
• Digitally equipped with a laptop computer, a digital video camera and wireless broadband
• Fully equipped with camping gear and sleeping bags

Sharing Outback discoveries

Each time will be given 2 weeks after their adventure to develop a 3-5 minute documentary highlighting their trip, which will then be shared online and voted on via the WorldNomads.com travel community.  The most popular documentary will win $AUD10,000 cash, and 2 Virgin Blue domestic flights, each to the value of $A500.

“With the help of Australia’s state tourism organizations and backpacking industry, we’ve put together an impressive line up of activities for each team to experience, from surfing on the coast to exploring the outback,” said Byrne. “The teams will choose where they go and share their adventures on the road, with 2 videos, 2 blog entries, and 10 photos posted online each week.”

Those interested should visit http://vantastic.worldnomads.com and upoload a 2 minute or less video of themselves showing off their genuine lust for adventure and filmmaking skills.

Applications close July 5th, 2009 for the first leg of the journey which starts in August in Cairns and ends in Brisbane in September.