Carlo Sarion Profile
I have always loved traveling--exploring what's out there and meeting people of other cultures. As a young kid I would spend my afternoon peering into my atlas, wondering when I could start traveling on my own. This only materialized in 2012 though, several years after I started working. But that was also the time that I have started noticing and learning about UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and since then, I never looked back and made visiting UNESCO WHS a part of my travel philosophy/goals.
More than traveling, I love geography, cartography, photography and diving. I am excited to come across this website and meet other UNESCO WHS enthusiast who would share their thoughts and updates about the things we like the most.
You may contact me at lcsarion@gmail.com
Recent Reviews Carlo Sarion
Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
Carlo Sarion Philippines - 10-Jul-19
The previous reviews have already covered the sites I have visited, so I am not going to repeat what was already mentioned. But I'd like to share my recent visit of the Glover House and Office and the Kosuge Slip Dock, to kind of "update" the previous reviews of this site.
Date of Visit:
July 2019
Experience:
On a sunny Monday morning my friend and I decided to do a day-trip to Nagasaki from Fukuoka, aiming to just visit the Glover House and the area around the Peace Park. We sort of started the day out late, leaving Hakata Bus Station at 8am and arriving in Nagasaki around 2.5 hours after.
Read OnYagul and Mitla
Carlo Sarion Philippines - 04-May-19
Have you ever had that feeling when you didn't expect much from a "minor" site but for some reason, your experience visiting it was fun and satisfying? I would count visiting Zona Arqueologica de Yagul--which is part of the core zone of this WHS--as such.
Date of Visit: April 2019
Description:
As indicated in its Executive Summary, the site contains pre-historic caves and rock shelters and a couple of pre-Hispanic archeological complexes, one of which is the archeological site of Yagul, commonly associated with the Zapotec civilization
Read OnAqueduct of Padre Tembleque
Carlo Sarion Philippines - 01-May-19
It's a little bit odd that my first ever review on this website is on Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System--a site that was not even in my original itinerary. With a little bit of encouragement from this community (thank you guys!), I decided to visit the site as part of a day trip from Mexico City.
Date of Visit:
April 2019
Description:
As indicated in the UNESCO website, this site encompasses a water catchment area, springs, canals, distribution tanks, reservoirs and the [...]
Read OnProfile Data
- Name
- Carlo Sarion
- Country
- Philippines
- Most Impressive
- There are several from those I've visited, but the most impressive would be the Namib Sand Sea, Cappadocia, Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, Ancient Thebes and the Pyramids of Giza
- Proposal
- Our government must nominate the following sites for inscription soon and at all cost: Mayon Volcano National Park, Paleolithic Archeological Sites in Cagayan Valley, Chocolate Hills Natural Monument and Kabayan Mummy Caves
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 16.10.19
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Bagan 5Ephesus 5Istanbul 5Historic Cairo 4.5St. Petersburg 4.5Fujisan 4Vigan 4Anuradhapura 3.5Borobudur 3.5Kathmandu Valley 3.5Ping Yao 3.5Prambanan 3.5Rabat 3.5Sigiriya 3.5Yazd 3.5Bolgar 3Kandy 3Nikko 3Puebla 3Red Fort 3Vat Phou 3Ayutthaya 2.5Camino Real 2.5Golestan Palace 2.5Grand Canal 2.5Hué 2.5Imperial Tombs 2.5Kazan Kremlin 2.5Kinabalu Park 2.5Medina of Fez 2.5Meknes 2.5Pasargadae 2.5Summer Palace 2.5Sviyazhsk 2.5Temple of Heaven 2.5Macao 1Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Archaeological site of Laodikeia (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Chocolate Hills Natural Monument (T)
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Desert National Park (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area (T)
- Etosha Pan (T)
- Hikone-Jo (castle) (T)
- Historical City Centre of Yogyakarta (T)
- Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (T)
- Inle Lake (T)
- Jame' (Congregational) Mosque of Esfahan (T)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Mt. Pulag National Park (T)
- Nasqsh-e Rostam and Naqsh-e Rajab (T)
- Persepolis and other relevant buildings (T)
- Shwedagon Pagoda on Singuttara Hill (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- The Central Axis of Beijing (including Beihai) (T)
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea (T)
Reviewed TWHS