Travels
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Travelling is the art of turning the threesome of problems, hardships and trouble into a comedy. |
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2016 And Going: The Endeavor
I do not care much about “travelling” anymore. My wanderings were for me to realize how the world is partitioned off to political parcels,
how we are not born as a human being but as a “citizen”, how we belong to governments and therefore subject to their whims and dictates.
Anybody who does not question borders, should not call herself/himself a traveller. |
Defining people by the imaginary line they're born in, defining their radius of movement again by that imaginary line is nothing but madness. |
Once I've been to every country in the world, I'll be burning all my passports. |
Been to 152 countries, with 43 more to go.
Timeline
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The number in parenthesis below shows the number of country visited after starting the mission to every country in the world. Places which are not numbered are either not countries or are countries that have been visited before.
January 2020
Mali - Bamako and Djenné (#43) December 2019 Mogadishu (#41) and Djibouti (#42) December 2018- January 2019 The Ultimate Expedition to Antarctica, Falklands & South Georgia Argentina- Buenos Aires, Ushuaia Falklands/Malvinas- New Island, West Point Island, Saunders Island, Carcass Island, Stanley South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands- King Haakon Bay, Cape Rosa (Peggotty Bluff), Salisbury Plain (Prince Olav Harbor), Stromness-Fortuna Bay (Shackleton Hike), Grytviken, Gold Harbor, Drygalski Fjord, Antarctic Peninsula- Elephant Island (Point Wild), Paulet Island, Livingstone Island (Hannah Point), Deception Island (Whaler's Bay) Orne Harbor, Danco Island, Paradise Bay, Neumayer Channel, Goudier Island (Port Lockroy), Lemaire Channel 2018 January-February: Cameroon (#34) - Gabon (#35) - Republic of Congo or Congo-Brazzaville (#36) - DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo or Congo-Kinshasa (#37) - Angola (#38) September: Madagascar (#39) November: Algeria (#40) 2017 March : Andorra (#13) April : Montenegro (#14) - Lichtenstein (#15) May : Lebanon (#16) - Saudi Arabia (#17) June: Cyprus (#18) - Kazakhstan (#19) - Kyrgyzstan (#20) - Qatar (#21) - Kuwait (#22) - Azerbaijan (#23) - Iraq (#24) August: Mozambique (#25) - Swaziland (#26) - Lesotho (#27) - Namibia (#28) - Botswana (#29) October: Eritrea (#30) November: Burkina Faso (#31) - Ivory Coast (#32) December: Denied boarding for Djibouti, Seychelles (#33) November 2016- January 2017
The Amazon and the Caribbean in 4 steps Step #1 - Charlotte Amalie (St Thomas), US Virgin Islands - Charlestown, St. Kitts & Nevis (#3) - Castries, St. Lucia (#4) - Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (#5) - Bridgetown, Barbados (#6) - Devil's Island, French Guiana- Macapa, Brazil - Santarem, Brazil - Boca da Valeria, Brazil - Manaus, Brazil - Parintins, Brazil - Alter Do Chao, Brazil - Scarborough, Trinidad And Tobago - Kingstown, St. Vincent & The Grenadines (#7) - St. George's, Grenada (#8) - Willemstad (Curacao) and Oranjestad (Aruba), Netherlands Antilles Step #2 Ocho Rios, Jamaica (#9)- Georgetown (Grand Cayman), Cayman Islands Step #3 Tortola, British Virgin Islands – Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis- Roseau, Dominica (#10) - St. John's, Antigua&Barbuda (#11) -Philipsburg (St. Marteen), Netherlands Antilles Step #4 Labadee, Haiti (#12) - Falmouth, Jamaica * * * 2016 Romania (#1) and DPRK (#2) |
My Travels-At-A-Glance
The Endeavor |
Around-The-World-Tours
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Other Travels
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Around-The-World in 99 Days
September 5th - December 12th, 2015
Around the World in 99 days with my family
A journey of hope to introduce our four year-old daughter to the beauty of this world.
May she see the day when fear will not be the ruler of men's hearts anymore.
Around the World in 99 days with my family
A journey of hope to introduce our four year-old daughter to the beauty of this world.
May she see the day when fear will not be the ruler of men's hearts anymore.
June 2015- I met my Italian husband on my second round-the-world tour in 2008, we now have a three and a half year-old daughter. She has gone up to 452 meters in the tallest building of the world Burj Khalifa at 829.8 meters and gone down to -30 meters on a submarine in Mauritius before age two. I was thinking of doing the Trans-Siberian this year. Eh, having crossed one third of the world, you don't come back the same way. I realized that it is going to be seven years since my last round the world, that my sabbatical year has arrived, so I said “Let's continue since we started.” December 2015- And off we set on a round the world tour as a family this time. Naturally, it was a more easy-going and comfortable trip due to my daughter, a planned and comparably short one due to my husband's job and not having much time. I wanted my daughter to have travelled around the world before the age of four. And she did. I don't know if I should be jealous! |
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Itinerary
Europe-Asia: From Rome to Moscow by plane, then Trans-Siberian train to Russia, Mongolia, China. Then South Korea and Taiwan by plane. Then off to L.A. North America and the South Pacific: "Tales of the South Pacific" cruise with Holland America's Amsterdam San Diego, Hilo (Hawaii), Lahaina (Hawaii), Kauai (Hawaii), Honolulu (Hawaii), Kailua Kona (Hawaii), Fanning Island (Kiribati), Pago Pago (American Samoa), Apia (American Samoa), Suva (Fiji), Dravuni Island (Fiji), Nuku Alofa (Tonga), Vava’u (Tonga), Alofi (Niue), Rarotonga (Cook Islands), Bora Bora (French Polynesia), Raiatea (French Polynesia), Papeete (French Polynesia), Moorea (French Polynesia), Avatoru (French Polynesia), Taiohae (French Polynesia), San Diego. (The Equator and the International Date Line was crossed several times during this trip.) Panama Canal, Central and South America: Then again by cruise, Panama Canal Crossing: San Diego, Cabo San Lucas (Mexico), Puerto Vallarta (Mexico), Puerto Quetzal (Guatemala), Puntarenas (Costa Rica), Panama, Colon (Panama), Cartagena (Colombia), Fort Lauderdale. To finish with, a short trip of the Bahamas: Miami, Grand Bahama Island (Bahamas), Nassau (Bahamas), and Great Stirrup Cay (Bahamas), Miami. Back to Rome by plane through London. |
2010-2014
Ghana, India, Nepal, Alaska, Monaco, Mauritius, UAE,
Shetland Islands, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Ireland
Shetland Islands, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Ireland
August 2008-August 2009
Around the World by Sea (Eastward)
Around the World by Sea (Eastward)
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Itinerary
Catamaran: East Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean From Turkey to Egypt, Yemen, Indian Ocean - Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Macau, China Cargo ship: Pacific Ocean USA, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,Panama border, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico Cruise Ship: Atlantic Ocean Morocco, Spain Ferry: West Mediterranean Sea and Tyrrenian Sea Italy, San Marino Sloop, ferry and Gulet: Ionian Sea, Corinthus Channel, Aegean Sea Greece and back to Turkey Story of the trip in the news @ Hurriyet Daily News |
2003-2008
Switzerland, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia,
Federation of Malaysia, Kingdom of Bahrain, Oman Sultanate
July 2001-September 2002
Around the World by Land (Westward)
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Itinerary
Africa: South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Sudan, Egypt, Jordan, Syria- Turkey Europe: Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, England South America: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, Chili, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Fiji and Japan |
Some pieces written during the trip @ junglerunner under the name Gülin Aköz
First Travels (1993-2000)
Egypt, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Hong-Kong, Italy (+Sicily), Tunisia, South Africa,
USA, Canada, Malta, Cuba, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic,
Austria, Spain, China, Greece, Morocco, Cyprus (Northern)
Egypt, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Hong-Kong, Italy (+Sicily), Tunisia, South Africa,
USA, Canada, Malta, Cuba, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic,
Austria, Spain, China, Greece, Morocco, Cyprus (Northern)
