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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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Bursa and Cumalikizik

Clyde Malta - 04-Dec-21

I visited this WHS in Spring 2021. I'm glad I had done some research where to safely park my rental car upon arrival as Bursa is a very busy city all year round. The Yesil Katli indoor parking was not only safe but extremely close to the Green Tomb so I was more than happy to park there.

All of Bursa's components (except Cumalikizik and maybe those in Cekirge) are best explored on foot. Although Bursa is a very busy urban city, even during a pandemic, there are whole pedestrian areas which felt like a modern Fez or Meknes bazaar area. Most of Bursa's highlights were free of charge when I visited. I started with the great Yesil Cami and Kulliye (social and religious complex) also known as the Green Mosque and Tomb (a tall turquoise structure with more turquoise and green tiling inside) built in 1421 for Sultan Mehmet I. Almost every location has a UNESCO marker next to it and there even is a whole "square" dedicated to Bursa's inscription on the WH list (Ian's photo)

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Troy

Clyde Malta - 04-Dec-21

I visited this WHS in Spring 2021. The vast majority of this site are ruins and foundations of old buildings. There are no "iconic" buildings here, in fact the only "iconic" aspect of the site is the modern Trojan Horse just after the entrance which seems like a playground for children and adults alike (the one used for the film starring Brad Pitt is along the Canakkale waterfront). That said, the highlight of this site are its superimposed strata marked as Troy I-IX.

Why does Troy have so many superimposed strata? The settlement mound of Hisarlik comes into being through a combination of circumstances

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Pergamon

Clyde Malta - 03-Dec-21

I visited this WHS in Spring 2021 focusing first on the many lacklustre tumuli and the Kybele Sanctuary in the 8 locations close to Bergama town, Islamsaray and Kapikaya leaving the multi-layered (Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantium and Ottoman periods) city last.

Before driving up the steep road all the way up to the Acropolis, the Asklepeion and Red Hall (you can also take the cable car up if you don't want to drive to the top), I took in the interesting Red Hall/Temple of the Egyption Gods. When I visited, there were no apparent restrictions due to the COVID pandemic so I gladly visited these sites too before heading uphill to the Acropolis. There are old rusty brown metal UNESCO signs at most locations and the usual Turkish UNESCO WHS sign next to the Acropolis entrance.

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Ephesus

Clyde Malta - 29-Nov-21

I visited this WHS in Spring 2021. The main location is definitely the Ancient Site of Ephesus, but there are three other locations which make up this WHS which can be considered as minor site by comparison.

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Aphrodisias

Clyde Malta - 23-Nov-21

I visited this WHS in Spring 2021 as an early day trip from Pamukkale. Unlike some other WHS and tWHS with a few or no intact remains, Aphrodisias has many monumental remains that are more or less intact and in very good condition. Even the huge amount of statues in the museum are in very good condition when compared to those in other museums which usually are missing some of their body parts.

Aphrodisias is quite a large WHS and even if you opt for a quick visit you'll surely need a couple of hours to cover the main sites and the excellent museum well. Ever since the tetrapylon of Palmyra was destroyed, I set my eyes on visiting the tetrapylon of Aphrodisias. The best time for photograpy is in the early morning when the sunlight shines on the intricate details of the remaining decoration of the tetrapylon. The monumental gateway built around 200 AD stands at the end of an ancient road that leads from the main north-south street of the town into a large forecourt in front of the Sanctuary or Temple of Aphrodite. The character of the temple building was altered when it became a Christian basilica. This temple was a focal point of the town

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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, Nemrut Dagi, Goreme NP
Proposal: 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

Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 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

Göreme NP 4

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4

Hampi 4

Hattusha 4

Hierapolis-Pamukkale 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

Nemrut Dag 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

Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens 3.5

Ephesus 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

Land of Frankincense 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

Seville 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

Aflaj irrigation system 3

Altamira Cave 3

Amsterdam Canal Ring 3

Ancient Merv 3

Ani 3

Aphrodisias 3

Aquileia 3

Arequipa 3

Atapuerca 3

Avila 3

Bamberg 3

Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3

Bellinzone 3

Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Bialowieza Forest 3

Bordeaux 3

Brugge 3

Brú na Bóinne 3

Bursa and Cumalikizik 3

Castel del Monte 3

Chaîne des Puys 3

Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3

Cordouan Lighthouse 3

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3

Costiera Amalfitana 3

Curonian Spit 3

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3

Divrigi 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 Guadalupe 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

Warsaw 3

Wet Tropics of Queensland 3

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3

Yuso and Suso Monasteries 3

Agra Fort 2.5

Al Ain 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

Arslantepe Mound 2.5

Asturian Monuments 2.5

Auschwitz Birkenau 2.5

Avignon 2.5

Baekje Historic Areas 2.5

Bahla Fort 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

Donana National Park 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

Getbol, Korean Tidal Flat 2.5

Gondwana Rainforests 2.5

Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.5

Greater Blue Mountains 2.5

Grimeton Radio Station 2.5

Guimarães 2.5

Gyeongju 2.5

Göbekli Tepe 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

Krzemionki prehistoric striped flint mining region 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

Mafra Palace, Convent and Royal Hunting Park 2.5

Mahabodhi Temple Complex 2.5

Malbork Castle 2.5

Matera 2.5

Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 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

Pergamon 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

Safranbolu 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 Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.5

The Porticoes of Bologna 2.5

The Prosecco Hills 2.5

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5

Trogir 2.5

Troy 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

Xanthos-Letoon 2.5

Zamosc 2.5

Çatalhöyük 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

Bom Jesus do Monte 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

Colonies of Benevolence 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

Hedeby and Danevirke 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

Qalhat 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

Schokland 2

Semmering Railway 2

ShUM Sites 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

Torun 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

Dutch Water Defence Lines 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

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 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

Danube Limes 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

Nice 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

Tugendhat Villa 1

Van Nellefabriek 1

Battir 0.5

Ivrea 0.5

Par force hunting landscape 0.5

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque

Camino Real

Caves of Yagul and Mitla

Central University City Campus of the UNAM

Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda

Guanajuato

Gulf of California

Hospicio Cabañas

Lower German Limes

Luis Barragán House and Studio

Mexico City and Xochimilco

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve

Morelia

Oaxaca and Monte Alban

Popocatepetl monasteries

Puebla

Querétaro

San Miguel de Allende

Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley

Teotihuacan

Tequila

Tlacotalpan

Xochicalco

Zacatecas

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Neuschwanstein Castle
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Pharaonic Temples of Kom Ombo and Edfu
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Sumbrungu Painted Houses
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