Frédéric M Profile
Biologist, entomologist, outdoor enthusiast, scuba-diver, birder and traveler from Québec interested in discovering the world and its wonders! I did my first oversea backpacking trip in 2018 following my master and I don't want to stop any time soon. I am mostly interested in ecology, national parks and thus natural WHS, but being a WHS hunter opens my mind to architecture, history of art, urban planning, industrial heritage and the epic history of the World!
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As-Salt
Frédéric M Canada - 23-May-25
I visited As-Salt in February 2025 from Amman. By asking some very helpful men, I managed to find the very cheap minibus to As-Salt from the North bus terminal in Amman. The minibus dropped me off directly at the entrance to the city. For the return journey, the logistics were just as simple, but it's worth noting that the minibuses leave from down the hill, after the flea market.
I began my stroll through the city on Prince Hasan Bin Talal Street, where you'll find a few rather pretty buildings (the Mismar House at number 21, but see also the one at number 37 with its twisted columns). I then moved on to the city's most impressive mansion, the Abu Jaber Museum (on the left in the photo, with its reddish roof). Here you'll find a tourist information center and some rather uninteresting exhibits. The maps described by previous reviewers were only available in Arabic when I visited. I then climbed up to the Haj Hamdi Mosque Alanis to enjoy the plunging views over the city (photo). The amazement was not there, however. As-Salt isn't particularly pretty, with its faded buildings and exposed electric wires
Read OnUmm Al-Jimāl
Frédéric M Canada - 20-May-25
I visited Umm Al-Jimāl during my trip to Jordan and Egypt in the winter of 2025. Since I decided not to rent a car in Jordan, I had to find an alternative solution to reach the sites on the outskirts of Amman. So I hired a driver from the Black Iris Hotel in Madaba. Recommended by Lonely Planet, it was the place where I got the best price, and I can confirm that the service was excellent. We therefore left Madaba early and my driver took me to Qasr Kharana, Qusayr 'Amra, Azraq Wetland Reserve, Qasr al-Azraq, and Umm Al-Jimāl, before finally dropping me off in Amman.
Read OnAbu Mena
Frédéric M Canada - 18-May-25
During my trip to Egypt in February and March 2025, I spent three nights at the Zad El Mosafer guesthouse in Tunis in the Fayoum and Lake Qarun region. I used Tunis as a base to visit Wadi Al-Hitan, Gebel Qatrani, and Soknopaiou Nesos. I organized all these activities through my guesthouse. What's more, they also arranged transport to Alexandria, with stops at the monasteries of Saint Pishoy and Saint Macarius the Great and Abu Mena.
After the previous day's disappointing excursion to Gebel Qatrani, during which the driver and guide refused to take me to the points of interest I had requested to visit, I left Tunis for Alexandria with a driver. For this excursion, I had requested stops at the four monasteries of Wadi Natrum and at Abu Mena
Read OnGebel Qatrani Area, Lake Qaroun (T)
Frédéric M Canada - 18-May-25
During my trip to Egypt in February and March 2025, I spent three nights at the Zad El Mosafer guesthouse in Tunis in the Fayoum and Lake Qarun region. I used Tunis as a base to visit Wadi Al-Hitan, Gebel Qatrani, and Soknopaiou Nesos. I organized all these activities through my guesthouse. What's more, they also arranged transport to Alexandria, with stops at the monasteries of Saint Pishoy and Saint Macarius the Great and Abu Mena.
On my second day in this region, the excursion organized via my guesthouse took us to the north shore of the lake
Read OnEl Fayoum (T)
Frédéric M Canada - 18-May-25
During my trip to Egypt in February and March 2025, I spent three nights at the Zad El Mosafer guesthouse in Tunis in the Fayoum and Lake Qarun region. I used Tunis as a base to visit Wadi Al-Hitan, Gebel Qatrani, and Soknopaiou Nesos. I organized all these activities through my guesthouse. What's more, they also arranged transport to Alexandria, with stops at the monasteries of Saint Pishoy and Saint Macarius the Great and Abu Mena.
On my second day in this region, the excursion organized via my guesthouse took us to the north shore of the lake
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- As-Salt
- Umm Al-Jimāl
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Wadi Rum
- Um er-Rasas
- Quseir Amra
- Petra
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Wadi Al-Hitan
- Saint Catherine Area
- Abu Mena
- Historic Cairo
- Nubian Monuments
- Ancient Thebes
- Pyramids (Memphis)
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Rating StatsFlorence 5Iguacu 5Istanbul 5Palenque 5Petra 5Pompei 5Rome 5Budapest 4Calakmul 4Copán 4Cuzco 4Ephesus 4Kraków 4Oporto 4Puebla 4Québec 4Ravenna 4Riga 4Siena 4Sintra 4Uxmal 4Verona 4Wadi Rum 4Belem 3Campeche 3Chavin 3Evora 3Ferrara 3Kuldiga 3Lima 3Mafra 3Morelia 3Mostar 3Naples 3Panamá 3Quirigua 3Quito 3Split 3Tallinn 3Abu Mena 2Pienza 2Tequila 2Troy 2As-Salt 1Trogir 1Reviewed WHS
- As-Salt
- Umm Al-Jimāl
- Abu Mena
- Wadi Al-Hitan
- Paraty and Ilha Grande
- Lenggong Valley
- Niah Caves
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex
- Cueva de las Manos
- Yogyakarta
- Tak'alik Ab'aj
- ESMA Site Museum
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
- Kinabalu Park
- Bali Subak system
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya
- Ujung Kulon National Park
- Church of Atlántida
- Fray Bentos
- Quebrada de Humahuaca
- Los Alerces National Park
- Quirigua
- Copán
- Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
- Caral-Supe
- Villa d'Este
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Nasca Lines
- Galapagos Islands
- Guanajuato
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Puebla
- Troy
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Rideau Canal
- Hospicio Cabañas
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
- Xochicalco
- Chan Chan
- Huascaran National Park
- Grand Pré
- Chavin
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Querétaro
- San Miguel de Allende
- Morelia
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla
- Tikal National Park
- Ephesus
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Tequila
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley
Visited TWHS
- Abydos, city of pilgrimage of the Pharaohs (T)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library (T)
- Amazonia Theaters (T)
- Anavilhanas Ecological Station (T)
- Ancient City of Kaunos (T)
- Aqaba Marine Reserve (T)
- Archaeological Site and Historic Centre of Panamá City (T)
- Architecture Moderne du XX siècle de la Ville de Montevideo (T)
- Azraq (T)
- Baltic Klint (T)
- Bird Migration Routes (T)
- Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Çanakkale (Dardanelles) and Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Battles Zones in the First World War (T)
- Canal del Dique - Dike Canal (T)
- Castle of San Felipe de Lara (T)
- Catholic Doctrine Temples (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Chachapoyas sites of the Utcubamba Valley (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Church of Santa Prisca and its Surroundings (T)
- City of Tigre and its rowing clubs (T)
- Civil Rights Movement Sites (T)
- Classical Karst (in Slovene language: Klasicni kras) (T)
- Dahab (T)
- Dahshour archaeological area (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento, Rio de Janeiro (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- El Fayoum (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
- Fuzina Hills in Bohinj (T)
- Gebel Qatrani Area, Lake Qaroun Nature Reserve (T)
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Historic Center of the City of Trujillo (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo (T)
- Kebun Raya Bogor (T)
- Kekova (T)
- Kornati and Telašćica (T)
- La Rambla (promenade maritime) de la Cité de Montevideo (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- Los Petenes-Ría Celestún (T)
- Nasca Aqueducts (T)
- National Theater of Guatemala (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Oasis of Fayoum, hydraulic remains and ancient cultural landscapes (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation: health, science and culture in Manguinhos (T)
- Palais de la Culture, ancien siège du Ministere de l'Education et de la Santé, Rio de Janeiro (T)
- Peruvian Central Railway (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Protected area of Lake Atitlán: multiple use (T)
- Puente de Occidente (Western Bridge) (T)
- Quartier de Peñarol: la Vieille Ville historique et le paysage industriel ferroviaire (T)
- Raoudha nilometre in Cairo (T)
- Region Lacan-Tún - Usumacinta (T)
- Route of the Franciscan Evangelisation (T)
- Route of the Peace and National Identity (T)
- Route of the to Dominique Evangelisation (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Seaflower Marine Protected Area (T)
- Sistema Ferrocarril Pte. Carlos Antonio Lopez (T)
- South of Ricaurte Province (T)
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III (T)
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli (T)
- The architectural legacy of Rogelio Salmona: an ethical, political, social and poetic manifesto (T)
- The Coastal Lomas System of Peru (T)
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá (Ruta Colonial Transístmica de Panamá) (T)
- The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio (T)
- The Historic Centre of Cajamarca (T)
- The Marble Basin of Carrara (T)
- The Mayan-Olmecan Encounter (T)
- The monasteries of the Arab Desert and Wadi Natrun (T)
- The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
- The Padang Civic Ensemble (T)
- Town of Chichicastenango (T)
- Transatlantic Cable Ensemble (C) (T)
- University City of Bogotá (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- Villas of the Papal Nobility (T)
- Wineries and Vineyards for traditional Pisco Production (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Gebel Qatrani Area, Lake Qaroun (T)
- El Fayoum (T)
- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (T)
- Seaflower Marine Protected Area (T)
- Los Petenes-Ría Celestún (T)
- Castle of San Felipe de Lara (T)
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli (T)
- Region Lacan-Tún - Usumacinta (T)
- Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo (T)
- The Coastal Lomas System of Peru (T)
- Wineries and Vineyards for traditional Pisco Production (T)
- Kornati National Park and Telašćica Nature Park (T)