World Heritage Site newsletter #10

 

March 2006

 

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Those reviews keep coming in! Over 75% of all WHS now have been reviewed by oe or more visitors to this website, a great score. But don’t stop sending in your comments, 100% is the ultimate goal. This edition of the newsletter updates you on a number of new site reviews, rumours about new WHS being added in 2006 or 2007 and celebrates the 200th visited site by me..

 

Recommended sites

 

A report about the Struve Geodetic Arc (finally) was written by Sazanami from Japan, who wasn’t put off by a closed building after having travelled so far: ‘… the workers to restore the architecture allowed me to see inside and climb the ladder up to the top…’.

Similar difficulties are explained by Ian Cade when trying to ‘tick off’ the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France: ‘When i was younger i saw Mont St Michel but didn't really visit it. I attempted to rectify this in 2004 but frustratingly I was not able to make the short journey down from Cherbourg to see the site properly’. Will he make it in 2006?

 

David Berlanda has added a large number of reviews of WHS in the Czech Republic ad Italy. One of these is / are the Rock Drawings in Valcamonica: ‘This site is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen because of the beauty and the antiquity of the drawings. It’s absolutely worth to be visited (it’s quite hard to get to the valley and you must walk a lot in woods for visit many drawings) because it is the most important complex of rock art in the world and justifies the inscription.

Looking for more remarkable visits:

Collectively, the visitors of the World Heritage website now have written 1632 reviews on 629 different sites. That’s over 75% of the total. Although the project of covering all WHS is going very well, I can still use more reviews. What to think of fascinating destinations like Robben Island in South Africa, the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan or the Tomb of Askia in Mali? I’m sure some of you have been there. Add a report of your trip to the website!

 

 

About WHS

 

There are already many rumours about which sites will make it to the List this year. From previous years I know that these news items aren’t too reliable, but they are interesting enough to check out anyway.

·          Yin Ruins (China)

·          Komarom Fortresses (Hungary, Slovakia)

·          Red Fort, Delhi (India 2007)

·          Majuli Island (India 2006)

·          Achaemenid waterfalls (Iran)

·          Bistoon (Iran)

·          Darwin's Home (UK 2007)

·          Blackpool (UK > 2007)

·          Chiang Saen (Thailand)

·          Iwami Ginzan (Japan 2007)

 

New visited sites

 

My personal WHS quest now has resulted in visited WHS number 200! Another milestone, reached after two short trips inside Europe.

Numbers 198 and 199 were collected in Central Germany. Goslar is a fine base, for visitig the Mines of Rammelsberg and the Historic Town of Goslar. There are many mines on the List, the one in Rammelsberg has a number of interesting underground tours to keep you amused. Goslar itself is a pretty place that probably will see lots of tourists in summer, but has a lot of charm in winter too.

 

New Lanark (Scotland) was number 200. This WHS is an industrial heritage site an hour south from Glasgow. ‘This site's greatest asset is its really lovely setting, near the river that supplied the necessary power for making the mills work’

 

 

Next destinations will be Sicily in April, Greenland in July and Colorado/New Mexico/Arizona in September.

 

 

 

That’s it for this edition, Els
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