Work with us

Quaint Planet is currently looking for a partner or for a few travel-loving guest writers to work with us. Due to the circumstances, the bloody pandemic and other elements of life I’ve been confronted with lately, I’m currently unable to create enough of the new content so I’m looking for someone who could help me with running this site or at least to cover some Latin American destinations.

What’s in it then?

Fancy becoming part of the team?

In case you didn’t want to start from the scratch, there is a possibility of you becoming an important part of this arguably established site.

Of course, you could be based anywhere, as long as your values that are ethically aligned with those of Quaint Planet. But if you are a traveller – this should be easy – pretty much – all that you have not to be a racist or any other form of a bigot.

Fancy of having a go at travel writting?

In case you just wanted to contribute with one or two travel pieces – perhaps I should begin with a disclaimer: Please do not expect some great gig that will allow you to travel the World. As much as I would love to be able to work with such funds, in reality, we’re currently talking about a humble fee of €50-100 per informative and engaging article, if we agreed on the subject as well as the terms and conditions beforehand.

I am looking to expand the list of the Latin American locations covered on this site. Whether it’s a proper complete “guide” form or only offering any additional useful tips about the destinations already covered on Quaint Planet. In particular, I’m talking about accommodation tips, interesting cafés and restaurants, places of interest, various curiosities and so on.

Destinations to cover

• Patagonia: Huemul Circuit; Pucon; El Bolsón; Puerto Madryn; Bahia Bustamante, Glacier Exploradores, Laguna San Rafael, Pumalín Park, Futaleufú, Coyhaique, Villa Cerro Castillo, Caleta Tortel, Villa O’Higgins
• Argentina: Córdoba; Mendoza; Parque Nacional Sierra de las Quijadas, San Luis Province; Iberá Wetlands, Corrientes Province; Ojos de Mar, Tolar Grande, Salta Region
• Chile: Valdivia; Lake District; Easter Island; Andes; La Serena; Antofagasta region; Isla Navarino; El Chaltén – Villa O’Higgins walk
• Uruguay: Colonia del Sacramento; Piriápolis and Punta del Este; Laguna Garzon; La Paloma and Sierras de Rocha; Chamangá; Carmelo; Fray Bentos; Salto; Artigas; Tacuarembó
• Bolivia: Potos; Oruro; Cochabamba; Tunari National Park; Torotoro National Park; Rurrenbaque and Madidi National Park; Cordillera Real; Tarija; Tupiza; Santa Cruz de la Sierra; Samaipata
• Peru: Arequipa; Sacred Valley; Rainbow Mountain trek; Puente Q’eswachaka; Inca Trail, Salkantay Trek, Colca Canyon; Puerto Maldonado and the Amazon; Ica and the Sand Dunes at Huacachina; Islas Ballestas; Cordillera Blanca
• Ecuador: Cuenca, Cotopaxi and Cajas National Parks; Baños; Tena; Nariz del Diablo
• Colombia: Pacific coast locations; Cali; Popayán; Hidden City; Tayrona Park, San Gil, Barichara and more

What’s the format

The format we’re talking about is an informative and engaging article that describes the following:

Opening ¶ – Facts: territory, geography, population, etc – History (if applicable) – Legend (if applicable) – Vibes – Things to do (incl treks, options, infrastructure, prices, google maps links) – Go out and events (incl possible cool cafes&restaurants) – Safety – Get around (incl. where to get tickets and how much) – How to get there – When to visit – Practical notes: customs, particular things for the area, etc –  Stay (incl hoods, if applicable) – Sort of conclusion – How long to stay – Useful and interesting links – Bullet point summary (if necessary) – Other popular destinations nearby

Traveller’s Guide series

I would be happy to find enthusiastic writers/travellers, who would be willing to help me to finish the Traveller’s Guide series, for some Latin American countries. The template, which should be modelled could be observed in the already published Guides of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay, Bolivia or Colombia. Due to the extendet volume of work, those pieces would, of course, go over the €70 limit.

While I’ve been trying to prepare guides to other countries I’ve visited, I’d be thrilled to get help with the guides for countries about which I can’t say that I’ve visited properly to be able to write about them from the traveller’s perspective. We’re talking about the following countries: Brazil; Paraguay; Surinam; Panama; Costa Rica; Honduras; Belize; French Guiana; Guyana and possibly also Venezuela.

Ethical standards and values

Quaint Planet’s principles are easy fot travellers, as I’ve mentioned above: it’s truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness and public accountability. QP furthermore stands for transparency and providing verified information. And of course, any prejudice, slur or any form of hate and intolerance has no place on this site for obvious reasons.

Except for the listings-style articles AKA “Most popular places to visit”, where it is unavoidable, Quaint Planet doesn’t write about places that weren’t visited by at least one of the authors.

Quaint Planet’s goal

The goal is to provide full-on information without any pop-ups and some undesirable marketing tools/tricks or guidebook sales. The idea is that the reader should be no further than one click away from all the information he or she needs about the desired location.

That said, some friendly, fair and transparent monetisation of this site isn’t entirelly out the questiom, if it wasn’t from the negative predatory draw. The goal is simple – creating a valuable and reliable content as well as by uploading links to other people’s content of similar nature, while being able to deliver a decent wage for the content providers in return for their hard work.

PM me, if you have travelled to these places and if you were interested in possible cooperation, ideally with some links to some samples of your previous work, please 😉 It could be fun 😉

Please, contact us only if you are genuinely interested in this particular proposal and travel writing or other engaging forms of providing travel-related information.

Looking forward to hearing from you 🙂