Travel Photo Report

Year 2012 was very successful in terms of traveling and full of thrilling impressions and amazing discoveries. In 2012 I started my long term trip and spent exactly half of the year (July-December) traveling full time. First part of the year I was working hard but luckily my work included traveling. So all in all I managed to see a lot of new places, re-visit my favorite ones and discover new favorites-to-be.

My traveling highlights of year 2012:

1.  Skiing in Hochzillertal, Austrian Alps

2. Visiting Baku, Azerbaijan during Novruz celerbation

3. Visiting amazingly gorgeous Samarkand in Uzbekistan for the 2nd time

4. Exploring Bucovina and incredible painted monasteries, Romania

5. Visiting Haarlem and Amsterdam

6. Showing Kiev to Mara and visiting Pirogovo open air museum in Ukraine

7. Spending several days in the pearl of a city – Odessa, Ukraine

8. Staying with our friend Emre in gorgeous Istanbul

9. Discovering Amasra, one of the most beautiful places on the Black Sea coast of Turkey

10. Stumbling upon splendid Sanliurfa / Urfa, Turkey

11. Savouring Cappadcohia

12. Enjoying chilly and foggy Ayder, Turkey

13. Hiking Svaneti, Georgia

14. Staying in a desert city of Yazd, Iran

15. Realizing the dream of visiting Shiraz and Persepolis, Iran

16. Taking it easy in Bangkok

17. Visiting Myanmar / Burma

18. Exploring the Northern Thailand and enjoying Chiang Mai

The places mentioned are the best moments of my travels and almost all of them are on my re-visit list.

What were the best travel moments in 2012 for you? What pearls have you discovered last year? Please share with me.

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