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I love travelling to experience different cultures and new places. Apart from the well-known iconic places and landmarks, I love visiting UNESCO World Heritage Sites as the list also includes places that are quite off the beaten track or places I would have never visited or even read about.

My favourite WHS are a combination of cultural WHS and spectacular nature WHS. I'm not a fan of industrial WHS or modern architecture WHS but I'm always open to visit to learn something new. Since the last few years I try to cover as many top WHS as possible on the longer trips while I try to cover the remaining European WHS on shorter trips or as road trips.

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Mount Etna

Clyde Malta - 19-Mar-20

This is the first WHS I saw and visited outside of my home country and possibly the WHS I revisited the most. It is also the first one I had a souvenir from, and it introduced me to the world of geology.

My first primary school outing was a 3 hour flyover flight over Mt Etna. I still clearly remember the red molten magma spewing out of the snow capped volcano crater. It was a mindboggling experience as I wasn't expecting to see snow and lava at the same time. In my imagination they were two separate landscapes. Another image which I'm sure is still relevant is that of the many locals building their homes anew, literally on top of their previous houses engulfed by lava.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings

Clyde Malta - 19-Mar-20

I visited only one location of this WHS in October 2010. Even though I'm not a fan of modern architecture, I was positively impressed by some of the iconic buildings in New York City. It felt like being in a movie, as many of those buildings featured in many films I had seen.

I remember seeing the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for the first time after an enjoyable NBA match at Madison Square Garden and a stroll in Central Park. Its unique architecture and white colour make it stand out among the regular vertical high rise buildings, without being an eyesore or too much of a contrast, which I personally find is the main problem of most modern architecture (such as for example the other Guggenheim in Bilbao).

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Koloniën van Weldadigheid (agricultural pauper colonies) (T)

Clyde Malta - 18-Mar-20

In March 2020 I visited the Belgian locations of this transnational tentative WHS nominated by Belgium and the Netherlands. From a visual point of view, what I experienced was a similar landscape of Beemster or the Par Force hunting landscape with a hint of the Belgian béguinages. The central focus of this tentative nomination is not religious though, it's agriculture.

Around 1818-1825, when Belgium and the Netherlands formed the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, Johannes van den Bosch put forward the idea of fighting poverty with agriculture which gave way to the construction of 7 agricultural colonies

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Garajonay

Clyde Malta - 31-Jan-20

I visited this WHS in January 2020. La Gomera can be reached by inter-island flight or by a 50 minute ferry from the port of Los Cristianos in the south of Tenerife. I opted for the latter and headed with my rental car on board with the first ferry and came back with the last one (even though it was quite expensive for the short trip).

The Garajonay National Park, also a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, is situated in the central uplands of La Gomera and the abruptness of the island's relief makes for an immense variety of climates and landscapes

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Risco Caido

Clyde Malta - 28-Jan-20

I visited this WHS in January 2020. Even though there are direct flights to Gran Canaria, I wasn't eager to spend a week on this island (even before WHS inscription). Although it is quite a big island of the Canaries, I knew I'd find the smaller ones much more interesting and to my liking.

So I opted for a fully packed return ferry trip from Tenerife (departing from Santa Cruz de Tenerife NOT Los Cristianos). With careful planning beforehand (a big thank you to Solivagant as his review was by far the best information and travel advice online about the Risco Caido WHS), I managed to follow an almost perfect loop from Agaete, up along the GC-220 road till about Juncalillo, then towards Artenara and Tejeda along the GC-21 and GC-210, going inwards to the Roque Bentayga interpretation center and Cuevas del Rey, and then following the GC-150 back to the Juncalillo point after enjoying the Roque Nublo and Pico de las Nieves viewpoints

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Name: Clyde
Country: Malta
Most Impressive: Borobodur, Komodo NP, Skellig Michael, Angkor Wat, Pyramids of Giza, Taj Mahal, Petra, Great Wall, Rome, Chichen Itza, Tikal, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, Great Barrier Reef, Fraser Island, Tasmanian Wilderness, Galapagos, Machu Picchu
Proposal: Cappella degli Scrovegni, Drift Passes of Rangiroa

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Angkor 5

Bagan 5

Borobudur 5

Bukhara 5

Florence 5

Galapagos Islands 5

Great Barrier Reef 5

Komodo National Park 5

Machu Picchu 5

Petra 5

Pyramids (Memphis) 5

Rome 5

Taj Mahal 5

Venice and its Lagoon 5

Ancient Kyoto 4.5

Ancient Thebes 4.5

Chichen-Itza 4.5

Great Wall 4.5

Itchan Kala 4.5

Pompei 4.5

Ravenna 4.5

Samarkand 4.5

Tasmanian Wilderness 4.5

Teide National Park 4.5

Tikal National Park 4.5

Acropolis 4

Ajanta Caves 4

Belem 4

Calakmul 4

Cordoba 4

Dubrovnik 4

Edinburgh 4

Ellora Caves 4

Fraser Island 4

Granada 4

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4

Hampi 4

Imperial Palace 4

Isole Eolie 4

Istanbul 4

Itsukushima Shrine 4

Kathmandu Valley 4

Kremlin and Red Square 4

Lagoons of New Caledonia 4

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 4

Medina of Fez 4

Medina of Marrakesh 4

Meteora 4

Nasca Lines 4

Nubian Monuments 4

Palenque 4

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4

Pico Island 4

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4

Prague 4

Route of Santiago de Compostela 4

Sagarmatha National Park 4

Sceilg Mhichíl 4

Siena 4

St. Petersburg 4

Sukhothai 4

Temple of Heaven 4

Uluru 4

Uxmal 4

Verona 4

Vienna 4

Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 4

Willandra Lakes 4

Aachen Cathedral 3.5

Agrigento 3.5

Arab-Norman Palermo 3.5

Assisi 3.5

Ayutthaya 3.5

Bali Subak system 3.5

Bryggen 3.5

Budapest 3.5

Burgos Cathedral 3.5

Caral-Supe 3.5

Cesky Krumlov 3.5

Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5

Chitwan National Park 3.5

Cracow 3.5

Cuzco 3.5

Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 3.5

Etruscan Necropolises 3.5

Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5

Giant's Causeway 3.5

Ha Long Bay 3.5

Haeinsa Temple 3.5

Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5

Humayun's Tomb 3.5

Hwaseong Fortress 3.5

Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5

Kotor 3.5

Loire Valley 3.5

Luang Prabang 3.5

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 3.5

Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5

Neolithic Orkney 3.5

Nikko 3.5

Old City of Jerusalem 3.5

Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5

Plitvice Lakes 3.5

Pont du Gard 3.5

Prambanan 3.5

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5

Quito 3.5

Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.5

Riga 3.5

Sanchi 3.5

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5

Sintra 3.5

Southern Öland 3.5

Statue of Liberty 3.5

Summer Palace 3.5

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 3.5

Sydney Opera House 3.5

The trulli of Alberobello 3.5

Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5

Ujung Kulon National Park 3.5

University of Coimbra 3.5

Vall de Boi 3.5

Valletta 3.5

Vatican City 3.5

Villa Romana del Casale 3.5

West Norwegian Fjords 3.5

Westminster 3.5

Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5

Al Ain 3

Altamira Cave 3

Amsterdam Canal Ring 3

Ancient Merv 3

Aquileia 3

Arequipa 3

Atapuerca 3

Avila 3

Bamberg 3

Bellinzone 3

Bordeaux 3

Brugge 3

Brú na Bóinne 3

Castel del Monte 3

Chaîne des Puys 3

Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3

Costiera Amalfitana 3

Curonian Spit 3

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3

Dolomites 3

Dorset and East Devon Coast 3

Epidaurus 3

Falun Great Copper Mountain 3

Grand Place, Brussels 3

Gwynedd Castles 3

Hahoe and Yangdong 3

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3

High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3

Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3

Himeji-jo 3

Historic Cairo 3

Jeju 3

Kinderdijk 3

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 3

Lake District 3

Laponian Area 3

Las Medulas 3

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3

Lumbini 3

Major Town Houses 3

Mantua and Sabbioneta 3

Mazagan 3

Medina of Essaouira 3

Megalithic Temples of Malta 3

Monastery of Batalha 3

Mostar 3

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3

Mycenae and Tiryns 3

Novgorod 3

Ohrid Region 3

Oporto 3

Plantin-Moretus Museum 3

Poblet Monastery 3

Provins 3

Rabat 3

Reims 3

Rock Carvings in Tanum 3

Saint Catherine Area 3

San Marino and Mount Titano 3

Santa Maria de Guadelupe 3

Santa Maria delle Grazie 3

Santiago de Compostela 3

Saryarka 3

Segovia 3

Selimiye Mosque 3

Split 3

Stonehenge 3

Strasbourg 3

Tallinn 3

Telc 3

Toledo 3

Tower of Hercules 3

Trier 3

Tropical Rainforest Sumatra 3

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3

Vallée de Mai 3

Versailles 3

Visby 3

Volubilis 3

Vézère Valley 3

Wachau Cultural Landscape 3

Wadi Rum 3

Wet Tropics of Queensland 3

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3

Yuso and Suso Monasteries 3

Agra Fort 2.5

Albi 2.5

Alcala de Henares 2.5

Alto Douro 2.5

Amiens Cathedral 2.5

Angra do Heroismo 2.5

Antequera Dolmens Site 2.5

Archaeological Site of Delphi 2.5

Asturian Monuments 2.5

Auschwitz Birkenau 2.5

Avignon 2.5

Baekje Historic Areas 2.5

Belfries 2.5

Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.5

Bethlehem 2.5

Bourges Cathedral 2.5

Canterbury 2.5

Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5

Champagne 2.5

Chartres Cathedral 2.5

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.5

Churches of Peace 2.5

City of Bath 2.5

City of Luxembourg 2.5

Cologne Cathedral 2.5

Convent of Christ in Tomar 2.5

Drottningholm 2.5

Durmitor National Park 2.5

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2.5

Ferrara 2.5

Flemish Béguinages 2.5

Forth Bridge 2.5

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 2.5

Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.5

Fujisan 2.5

Gammelstad 2.5

Garajonay 2.5

Gondwana Rainforests 2.5

Greater Blue Mountains 2.5

Grimeton Radio Station 2.5

Guimarães 2.5

Gyeongju 2.5

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.5

Ironbridge Gorge 2.5

Jantar Mantar 2.5

Jelling 2.5

Jodrell Bank Observatory 2.5

Jongmyo Shrine 2.5

Keoladeo National Park 2.5

Khajuraho Group of Monuments 2.5

Kladruby nad Labem 2.5

Kronborg Castle 2.5

Kunya-Urgench 2.5

Kutna Hora 2.5

La Lonja de la Seda 2.5

Laurisilva of Madeira 2.5

Litomysl Castle 2.5

Longobards in Italy 2.5

Luther Memorials 2.5

Lyon 2.5

Lübeck 2.5

Macao 2.5

Mahabodhi Temple Complex 2.5

Matera 2.5

Maulbronn Monastery 2.5

Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5

Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 2.5

Medina of Tétouan 2.5

Meknes 2.5

Mystras 2.5

Mérida 2.5

Naples 2.5

Old City of Berne 2.5

Olympia 2.5

Orange 2.5

Palmeral of Elche 2.5

Panamá 2.5

Paphos 2.5

Pattadakal 2.5

Pienza 2.5

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 2.5

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.5

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5

Potsdam 2.5

Primeval Beech Forests 2.5

Qhapaq Ñan 2.5

Qutb Minar 2.5

Red Fort 2.5

Reichenau 2.5

Risco Caido 2.5

Rock Art of Alta 2.5

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2.5

Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka 2.5

Roman Walls of Lugo 2.5

Roskilde Cathedral 2.5

Royal Exhibition Building 2.5

Royal Palace at Caserta 2.5

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 2.5

Salamanca 2.5

San Gimignano 2.5

Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 2.5

Schönbrunn 2.5

Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 2.5

Sian Ka'an 2.5

Silk Roads 2.5

Singapore Botanic Gardens 2.5

Skocjan Caves 2.5

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 2.5

Syracuse 2.5

Tarraco 2.5

The Prosecco Hills 2.5

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5

Trogir 2.5

Urbino 2.5

Val d'Orcia 2.5

Val di Noto 2.5

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5

Vilnius 2.5

Wadden Sea 2.5

Wartburg Castle 2.5

Western Tien-Shan 2.5

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 2.5

Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 2.5

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2

Abbey of St Gall 2

Ancient Nara 2

Arles 2

Australian Convict Sites 2

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 2

Bardejov Town 2

Bauhaus Sites 2

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 2

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2

Blenheim Palace 2

Burgundy 2

Caceres 2

Campeche 2

Caves and Ice Age Art 2

Chief Roi Mata's Domain 2

Churches and Convents of Goa 2

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2

Classical Weimar 2

Coa Valley and Siega Verde 2

Cuenca 2

Derwent Valley Mills 2

Durham Castle and Cathedral 2

El Escurial 2

Elephanta Caves 2

Elvas 2

Engelsberg Ironworks 2

Evora 2

Fagus Factory 2

Fatehpur Sikri 2

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2

Fontainebleau 2

Fortifications of Vauban 2

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2

Genbaku Dome 2

Genoa 2

Gorham's Cave Complex 2

Heritage of Mercury 2

Holy Trinity Column 2

Horyu-ji Area 2

Imperial Tombs 2

Independence Hall 2

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2

Karlskrona 2

Kernavë 2

Lima 2

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2

Margravial Opera House 2

Messel Pit 2

Modena 2

Monastery of Alcobaça 2

Mount Etna 2

Muskauer Park 2

Namhansanseong 2

Nancy 2

Naumburg Cathedral 2

Nisa 2

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2

Novodevichy Convent 2

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2

Pyu Ancient Cities 2

Quedlinburg 2

Rammelsberg and Goslar 2

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2

Rhaetian Railway 2

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2

Royal Joseon Tombs 2

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2

Saint-Emilion 2

Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in Braga 2

Schokland 2

Semmering Railway 2

Shakhrisyabz 2

Skogskyrkogarden 2

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2

Speyer Cathedral 2

Stevns Klint 2

Stralsund and Wismar 2

Su Nuraxi di Barumini 2

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 2

Thang Long 2

The Four Lifts 2

Tower of London 2

Trebic 2

Um er-Rasas 2

Venetian Works of Defence 2

Vicenza 2

Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai 2

Vizcaya Bridge 2

Vézelay 2

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2

Würzburg Residence 2

Zollverein 2

Úbeda and Baeza 2

Aranjuez 1.5

Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 1.5

Birka and Hovgarden 1.5

Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 1.5

Causses and Cévennes 1.5

Choirokoitia 1.5

Christiansfeld 1.5

Corvey 1.5

Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 1.5

Defence Line of Amsterdam 1.5

Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 1.5

Kew Gardens 1.5

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 1.5

Maritime Greenwich 1.5

Medina Azahara 1.5

Monte San Giorgio 1.5

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1.5

New Lanark 1.5

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 1.5

Quseir Amra 1.5

Regensburg 1.5

Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1.5

Salzburg 1.5

San Cristobal de La Laguna 1.5

Stari Grad Plain 1.5

Studley Royal Park 1.5

Villa d'Este 1.5

Völklingen Ironworks 1.5

Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5

Beemster Polder 1

Canal du Midi 1

Centennial Hall 1

Crespi d'Adda 1

Graz 1

Holasovice 1

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1

Le Havre 1

Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 1

Mining Sites of Wallonia 1

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1

Saltaire 1

Sangiran Early Man Site 1

Stoclet House 1

Struve Geodetic Arc 1

Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver Mine 1

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1

Tugendhat Villa 1

Van Nellefabriek 1

Battir 0.5

Ivrea 0.5

Liverpool 0.5

Par force hunting landscape 0.5

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Top 50 Missing Sites

Amritsar
Bagan
City of Herat
Dilwara Temples at Mt Abu
Drift Passes of Rangiroa, French Polynesia
Dzongs of Bhutan
Mecca, Kaaba
Mount Rushmore
Naica Cave: Cave of the Crystals
Neuschwanstein Castle
Panama Canal
Pharaonic Temples of Kom Ombo and Edfu
Scrovegni's Chapel
Shwedagon Pagoda
Sumbrungu Painted Houses
The Sacred Complex of Babylon
Torres del Paine National Park
Ur
Varanasi
Wooden Monasteries of Konbaung Period: Ohn Don, Sala, Pakhangyi, Pakhannge, Legaing, Sagu, Shwe Kyau

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