13 March 2015 1 Min Read

March's top 10 travel photos snapped by Sunday Times readers

in Lifestyle / photography-competition by Sunday Times Travel Weekly

A novice monk glides down a pagoda corridor in Nyaung U in central Myanmar.

Winner: Sunday Times Travel Photograph of the Month – March 2015.

The view across the bay from a beach adjoining the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Runner-up: Sunday Times Travel Photographer of the Year Month - March 2015.

- A woman in Hoi An, Vietnam.

- Horses graze in the Van Reenen family graveyard in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park in the foothills of the Maluti, north-eastern Free State, South Africa.

- A Saturday morning outing on a farm road between Deneysville and Heilbron, Free State, South Africa.

- Young fishermen scrape away at the barnacles and old paint on the hull of their fishing boat in Alibag, India.

- A restaurant in India.

- On the border of Majete Wildlife Reserve, Chikwawa, Malawi.

- A party of school teachers is taken into dense swampland and jungle to visit a rural village school in Lagos province, Nigeria.

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Here are the winning shots and other top contenders from the March entries in the Sunday Times Travel Photographer of the Year Competition.

Are you a globetrotter with a penchant for photography? Enter the Sunday Times Travel Photographer of the Year Competition and you could win your share of R290 000 in prizes, courtesy of Sunday Times Travel Weekly and Canon South Africa.

How this competition works

• Whether you’re a professional or amateur photographer, you’ll have the opportunity to enter up to 10 of your travel photographs every month up until November 27 2015. We’re looking for knock-out travel photos that capture the essence of any destination on earth.

• Each month a winning photograph will be selected from the entries received. The photographer who snapped it will be named the Sunday Times Travel Photographer of the Month and receive a R5 000 cash prize, courtesy of Sunday Times Travel Weekly. Congratulations to March's Photographer of the Month, Ryno Sauerman of Mossel Bay.

• Each of the 10 monthly winners will also be in the running to be named the Sunday Times Travel Photographer of the Year and win one of three grand prizes comprising top camera gear and photo printers from Canon worth a total of R240 000!

• The overall winner, first and second runners-up will be selected by an expert judging panel and announced in December 2015. (Read the full terms and conditions.)

Visit Sunday Times Travel Weekly's Facebook page to see more of this months entries.