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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
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
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
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
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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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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)
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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:
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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
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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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