Vacation Expert 101

• As a courtesy to the world wide web visitors and fellow travellers I have decided to create a short course
  (Code named Vacation Expert 101 ) about traveling and tips for travellers
• This was intended to help anyone who does not use help of travel agent to figure out all needed information
• Course is divided into several sections and has a FUN quiz at the end(being built as of now)

Part I

• "Contact us" section will be moved from its place to the bottom of the front page
• "Guestbook" will be removed from its current place and be deleted as an obsolete feature
• All coments will be posted on the "Forum"
• New Main section replacing "Contact us" will be created ( no name yet )
• "Waterfalls of Ontario", "Quebec Watefalls" will be moved to a separate Section under "Waterfalls of the World"

Part II

• Huge GPS database of the world waterfalls is collected and is currently under development
• "Azerbaijan" section will be updated with special galleries for "Baku", "Gandja"
• "VisualGuideTo" will be providing more historical and geographical background information for the places visited or places of interest
• "Azerbaijan Nature" site might get updated

Part III

• "Coin & notes Database" software will be created
• "World Map locator" will be added

Jan

• Started to liaise with several portals related to travel and archaelogical reasearches
• Banner Exchange started
• "Sacred Rock of Natives of Peterborough" section created

Feb

• Added Cambodia,Laos,Namibia
• Added "Azerbaijan Gallery" (except Baku since it required its own design)
• Added "Canada Waterfalls"

Mar

• Added Holland, Belgium, Iran, Luxembourg
• Visited Halifax, Lunenburg, Peggy's Cove, Pirate Museum
• Added Nova Scotia Gallery

Apr

• Visited "Muskoka" area and added new nature galleries
• Added "Monuments of Nakhichevan", and "Caucasus" galleries
• Visited "Spirit Rock" and "The Corran" - galleries created

May

• Aruba, Cuba, Curacao galleries were added

Jun

• Andorra, Mexico were added
• Attempet to visit "Duncan Caves", gave up(temporarily) after 8+ km walk under the scorching sun

Jul

• "Grey Sauble" area gallery created under Canada
• High-end film scanner was aquired to digitize 20 years old slides
• This turned to be the biggest challenge

Aug

• Aug 02, 2008 Murad was born

Sep

• Visited and added to the web galleries for "Central America", "El Salvador", "Guatemala", "Honduras", "Panama" sections
• Added Buffalo, USA, Nigra Falls(USA and CANADA) - not live yet...coming soon
• Added new section to the site "Architechtural Wanders"

Oct

• New Section "Caves and Rock Formations" was added
• Serious hard disk crash happened - most of data were feared to be lost
• Unprecedented efforts were made to recover data. 99% recovered

Nov

• Added web gallery for: Mandir - Avedic temple, Canada
• Cathedral Town, Markham, Canada
• Casa Loma, Toronto, Canada
• Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, United Kingdom

Dec

• New section's first information block for "Shabran Medival Citadel of Azerbaijan, 5th Century" added with a web gallery and 2 language descriptions
• Website design revisited.New ideas pouring in.

Jan

• Jan 27, Ten (10) Azerbaijan's most beautiful waterfalls added
• Jan 23 Added Canyon Falls, Quebec, Canada
• Jan 07 Gathered 27 albums for Baku - adding description
• Jan 06 Askeran Fortress and Shusha added
• Jan 06 Naxichevan 8 albums added
• Jan 04 Added several new sections
• Jan 04 Added Galleries for forts of Curacao,Caves of Aruba, Angkor Wat(Cambodia)
• Jan 01 News Section is created
• Jan 01 Salisbury Cathedral is finally uploaded and linked to the "Unusual Stuff" - Architectural Wanders
• Jan 01 Baku album is created - waiting for upload

Feb

Feb 14 Added Devil's Punchbowl Falls (37m tallest in Hamilton) Added Juayua Waterfalls, EL Salvador

Mar

Mar 03 Added two falls: Borer's Falls and Smokey Hollow (Grande Falls) Mar 02 Murad is 7 months old

Apr

Apr 4 Returned from Mexico, just before the outbreak of the swine flu. Shukur Allaha!!! Thanks God!!! Apr 12 Created new gallery for Mexico 2009 Apr 20 Found out low resolution disk of several visited countries in Europe and started making galleries Apr 27 Realized that I have to create more than 100 albums...sigh.. let's do it Apr 28 Added Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Gibraltar, England, Scotland, Turkey galleries Apr 29 Added South Africa and Namibia galleries Started working on Singapore, Burma and Thailand

May

Azerbaijan attained 3rd place in EUROVISION Contest among 49 countries. Here are all 7best songs that were competing with us Removed "possible travel this year" Recovered and added 11 albums of Thailand 1993, Germany 1998 I have removed several countries from my travel Map list as i am unable to find the photos from my personal travel - HDD is still not recovered. But I hope I will addthem later on. Added famour religious "pir" - Mir Movsum Aga

Jun

Added 1000 Islands photogallery and was surprised to see a waterfall there Added Bracebridge Falls and the city Added Muskoka High Falls and 2 jungle falls Updated Murad's gallery with his first haircut :) Visited and added to the gallery Balls Falls (Upper/Lower) and Beamer's Falls Added SPECTACULAR Albion Falls, Sherman Falls and Darney Cascade Added recovered recently photos from the Flowerpot Island, Tobermory (2002)

Jul

Just returned from a trip to Tobermory and the Manitoulin Island - largest freshwater island in the world. New Galleries added: Little Current - Swing Bridge, Bridal Veil Falls, Weaver Creek Falls, Lake Manitou - largest lake located on any island in the world, Flower Gallery, Tobermory and Owen Sound Scenery, Singing Sands and Rattle snake. Added Cyprus Lake Album, including Grotto, Overhanging Point, Natural Bridge and Indian Cove. Added Discovery Harbour - Midland, St.Marie among the Hurons Settlement (really nice), St.Marie Shrine - church inthe architecture area (magnificent photos). Added Malaysian Galleries of 1991-1996 (Kek Lok Si Temple, Batu Caves, Burmese Temple, Waterfall Batu Ferringi, Malaysian Postcards), Singapore 1991 Added Azerbaijan Waterfalls Gallery (23 falls) Added Azerbaijan Architecture Gallery Part I (6 galleries)

Aug

Muradik is 1 years old ! Vacation Expert 101 has been dramatically updated. You can now receive a Certificate of Completion Brand NEW VIDEO Gallery section of a site was created NEW separate section dedicated to Republic of Azerbaijan on-site including: GPS database of ALL arhitectural, cultural, natural sites Complete VISA requirements Flora, Fauna, Dances, Literature, Cousine, Music and Karabakh Conflikt Added De Cew Falls (4 different) Added 4 Buffalo, NY galleries including Niagara Falls(USA), Lewistone, Fort Niagara and the City Centre. Added Garachai River Falls and Mountain tops in the Azerbaijan Waterfalls section Useful Maps Section is being added Visited Felker Falls, Cliffview Falls (dried out) and Chedoke Falls (Upper and Lower)(galleries added) including a new flash gallery Massive update: Laza Mountain Range, Canyon, Twin Falls, Seven Falls and Others, Gyzyl Gaya Rocks, Viljash Chai River Canyon and Waterfalls

Sep

Visited the "Reptilia Zoo" and added a amazing flash gallery Cannings Falls (Upper and Lower) - these falls are located 78 km from Toronto and are soo wild that there is no trail, no park, just wilderness, simply unbelievable. Scotts Falls (Upper and Lower) - nowhere on the Internet you can find these glorious shots and videos Bala Falls (North and South) - how to destroy the nature to build a hydroplant Big Chute - Canada dried out entire waterfall to build water doc. White's Falls - another fall partially cemented by the government I will later re-arrange photogallery for Canada to keep there only non-waterfall related pictures and more the rest to the waterfalls section. I have also visited Jaspen Park - two photos only one and two, but look at the park! Amirjan Mosque (1910) Gallery added

Oct

• Nothing special this month - Swine flue etc.etc.
• Cathedral-town new photos - Slovenian Cathedral

Nov

• Revisited Webster's Falls (Spencer's Gorge) some dramatic pictures added to the gallery.

Jan

Winter, no sun...just playing around the website design.

Feb

• Basement renovation on the way...

Mar

• Nothing special. Dealing with harsh canadian winter

Apr

• Great News, VisualGuideTo is back on travelling track. Just returned form the Dominican Republic, Samana.
• Added: 4Waterfalls (including el Limon), Los Haities National Park (including 3 caves), Cayo Levantado Island,
  Beach grotto and cave, Samana(Santa Barbara de Samana) Bridges. (1000 photos and 54 videos)
• Check "Photo Gallery", "Waterfalls", "Caves & Rocks" and "Video" sections of the website for information
• Also added entire package content from Grand Bahia Principe Cayo Coa under "Maps" section of the domincan republic.

May

• Nothing special happened in May , but some photos may come

Jun

• Homecoming - visited Azerbaijan Republic..stay tuned for 45 new photo albums

Jul

• Bruce Peninsular once again, but this time amazing photo session of the Cyprus Lake, The Grotto, Devil's Monument, Graig's Caves and several other sites in the area.

Aug

• Murad is now 2 years old
• Great News!!! DeCew Falls videos and photos were finally recovered from the "dead" disk. You may follow the link from the Video Gallery page for Canada here.
• Coming soon - Niagara falls(Canada), Bridal Falls(USA) and Maid of the Mist

Sep

• Massive information received about thousands of world waterfalls now here documented.
  

Oct

• Collected and documented 11.000 waterfalls and 2.000 caves
  

Nov

• Created Waterfalls of the World Facebook group. Link will be announced in December.