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
Dong Phayayen
Carlo Sarion Philippines - 11-Jan-20
I noticed that very few of the UNESCO WHS I have visited are natural. Hence, when I was planning my trip to Thailand almost 2 years ago, I made it a priority to visit Khao Yai National Park, the most accessible among the five protected areas that compose the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex. Almost all of the other reviewers have visited Khao Yai in one way or another—as a day trip from Bangkok or staying in Pak Chong—so I am just going to add my review to share my experience taking a tour of the forest from Pak Chong.
Read OnMeidan Emam, Esfahan
Carlo Sarion Philippines - 10-Jan-20
I thought of reviewing an Iranian UNESCO World Heritage Site in light of Trump’s recent threat to the country’s cultural sites. Sheer insanity I thought, but thankfully, Pentagon just completely ignored him as blasting cultural heritage sites constitutes a war crime.
Date of Visit: December 2016
Description:
The first site inscribed for Iran, Meidan Emam (also called Naqsh-e Jahan Square) is one of the world’s largest public urban squares in the world, and indeed a tourism icon
Read OnTehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley
Carlo Sarion Philippines - 08-Jan-20
Frederic M has done what I believe is the best way to really appreciate the OUV of this site--taking a multi-day tour. This was what I hoped of doing when I visited Mexico, but unfortunately, I did not have enough time and resources and I was traveling with my friend who was not too inclined to do such tours.
Date of Visit: April 2019
Description:
The nomination file indicates that the Tehucan-Cuicatlan Valley is an “arid or semi-arid zone with the richest biodiversity in all of North America
Read OnSites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
Carlo Sarion Philippines - 10-Jul-19
The previous reviews have already covered the sites that I have visited, so I am not going to repeat what was already mentioned. But I'd like to add to the reviews by sharing how my day went by visiting the Glover House and Kosuge Slip Dock.
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 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 28.02.20
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Bagan 5Ephesus 5Istanbul 5Great Wall 4.5Gunung Mulu 4.5Historic Cairo 4.5St. Petersburg 4.5Fujisan 4Vigan 4Anuradhapura 3.5Hoi An 3.5Ping Yao 3.5Prambanan 3.5Rabat 3.5Sigiriya 3.5Trang An 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 2.5Meknes 2.5My Son 2.5Pasargadae 2.5Silk Roads 2.5Summer Palace 2.5Sviyazhsk 2.5Temple of Heaven 2.5Thang Long 1.5Macao 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)
- The Historical City of Maybod (T)
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea (T)
Reviewed TWHS