2012 – My Year In Pictures!

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A flashback gallery with one random image from the archives for each month of the past year. Just to set things straight, we only visited Japan, Laos and Cambodia in 2012. The rest are stories from our travels over the past few years.

January – The sacred guide of the celestial barge, Giza
February – Han Yangling Museum, Xian
March – Friends, Nubian village, Aswan
May – The blue shutters of Provence
April – Floating over Fairy Chimneys in Cappadocia
July – Seeking the Dhamma in Dazu
September – Solitary, cloister of St Trophime, Arles
June – Celebrating the wonder that is Iguassu
August – The Barrio of Kitsch, La Boca, Buenos Aires
November – Jinriksha, Kyoto, Japan
October – The shrine of the Mevlana, Konya (Guest post for Spiritual World Traveler)
December – A gentle initiation to Laos

I look forward to the pleasure of your company on another year of travel stories from across the world.

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Madhu is an Interior designer turned travel blogger on a long sabbatical to explore the world. When not crafting stories on The Urge To Wander, she's probably Tweeting @theurgetowander or sharing special moments on instagram.com/theurgetowander

57 thoughts on “2012 – My Year In Pictures!”

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  11. There’s always delight every time I visit your blog, Madhu. Always delight, and that delight comes from the purity of your soul. 🙂

    Happy New Year to you, may you start 2013 with joy and happiness. 🙂

    Subhan Zein

  12. Exotic pictures spanning across the globe. I would love to add a quote by Saint Augustine ~ “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page”.

    Cheers to you Madhu for another eventful and picturesque New Year.

  13. A lovely set of travel photographs, Madhu. It must have been difficult selecting your favorites!

  17. amazing and wonderful collection madhu, i will certainly be joining you for travel again this year, wishing you a very happy and healthy 2013, christine xx

  18. Beautiful!!!!! You had a busy year!!!! Hope you will enjoy this one as much…And I will follow with pleasure your adventures!

  20. You had quite the whirlwind year there with lots of travel. 🙂
    Glad to reconnect with you this year and many thanks for the blog support.
    •.★♥★Happy New Year to You & Yours!★♥★.•
    Eliz

  21. I wasn’t going to do this, but I saw a couple of good selections elsewhere (before I saw yours I mean) so I did it in the end. I didn’t pick any ‘special’ photos – just dipped randomly into photo files each month, so some had been published before and others hadn’t. It was fun to do.

    I like the cloister one in your selection. It oozes peace and tranquility – and timelessness.

  22. What a year of blogging Madhu! I’ve enjoyed reading your stories andd seeing the photos from all corners of the globe – it’s certainly a big inspiration to save and travel more! Love the storytelling too, especially all the historical tidbits. 😀 Happy New Year Madhu, and may you have many more adventures in the coming months!

  23. This is a wonderful collection. I have really enjoyed visiting your blog in 2012 and look forward to more wonderful photography in 2013. Blessings to you.

  26. A wonderful review of an amazing year, Madhu. It’s always a treat. I look forward to another year of great adventures–so glad you let us tag along with you! Happy New Year!

  27. What a glorious year it was … is there a chance for this one to be even better? My favourites are La Boca y Iguaco 🙂 It felt good to see this retrospective again…. Have a super year Madhu!

  28. Hi,
    What a fantastic collection of photo, and great memories also, I will be looking forward to reading more in this brand New Year. 🙂

    1. Yes Gilly, from a post of the same name about the 5000 year old Solar barge in the museum in Giza.

  31. Fab. post review for the year of 2012! I recall many of great stories you have shared. Thank you, Madhu!

  32. Wonderful and rich choice of photos – my favorites is the mural, little boy and 2 girls.
    I want to ask you how you manage to arrange your photos like that – I would like to do mine year too, but not until March.

  34. This has to be the most amazing gallery of photos I have seen. Thanks Madhu for allowing me to be an armchair traveler with you this past year. 🙂

  39. Great photos, great year of travels. Thanks for taking us to so many places.

    BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!

  40. Wow, Madhu! You have traveled from one end of the earth to the other in the past year. Amazing pictures. And I’m sure many happy memories. 🙂

    1. Oh no no Cathy! These are from my posts from the past year, that cover travel from years past 🙂 Have amended my post to dispel confusion.

      1. Oh! It always seems to me that you are traveling every minute of every day!! 🙂 I keep thinking, that lucky Madhu!! Anyway, I’m glad to share in your travels whenever you took them!! 🙂

    1. Thank you. I didn’t visit all these places in the past year! This is a review of my posts from 2012 🙂

    1. Thank you and to you too Jodi….good luck with the ’round the world’ trip planning 🙂

    1. Don’t be 🙂 Only Japan and Laos (also Cambodia, but haven’t posted about it yet) are from this year. The rest are stories from past travels.

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