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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



2006

Preliminary work done:

  • "Coins & Stamps & Banknotes Gallery of Azerbaijan Republic" created
  • "Nature of Azerbaijan" (really rudimentary and therefore not yet fully functional)
  • More than 6000 high resolution fotographs of Azerbaijan Republic collected
  • More than 38000 high resolution photographs of places visited world wide are divided into separate sections
  • All photos are ready for deployment
  • 101 country visited (actually by 2008)

2007

Came up with an idea for VisualGuideTo.com
  • Moved "Azerbaijan coin/banknotes/stamp gallery" from previous host to the new one
  • Digitized "Gobustan" information and made it available for general public
  • Visited Peterborough and established necessary contacts for future historical/archaeological relations
  • Massive historico-archealogical research on its way to conclusion

2008

Jan

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

Feb

Additions
  • 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

No Additions

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

2009

Jan

Additions
  • 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

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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

 

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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

Nov

Dec

  • Basically month of December was devoted to my basement renovation and planning for the next year trips
  • Several Canadian, as well as international destinations are being researched.
  • Added "9 Gumbez Cemetery" (off Shemaxi, Azerbaijan) album
  • Added huge 5 albums (more than 500+ fotos from my own private archive) about capital of Azerbaijan, Baku divided into several years : 1996, 1998, 2001, 2005, 2006
  • Happy Eidl Fitr, Ramadan, Merry Christmas, Hannuka, New Year and Wagadabugu to all of you.

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