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Yen Tu Complex (T)

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 06-Oct-24

On my flight from Rach Gia back to Ho Chi Minh City after Oc Eo sightseeing with ICOMOS experts, I found an interesting inflight magazine article about Yen Tu. After landing, I discussed with our accompanied local guide and immediately decided to extend my Vietnam trip to cover Yen Tu. Instead of flying back from Danang via Bangkok, my guide contacted her company to change the ticket to Hanoi and arranged a special program for me to explore Yen Tu. Since this was an impromptu trip, I rarely had information on this holy land of Truc Lam Vietnamese Zen Buddhism. At first, I requested to visit Vinh Nghiem pagoda on my way to Yen Tu, as Els did, but the tour company advised me to go to Con Son-Kiep Bac which I OK after reconfirmed that the name appeared in the description in UNESCO website.

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Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 18-Nov-24

From the vibrant city of Padang, it was a half day drive tour on one of the most dangerous roads in Indonesia to the town of Sawahlunto. Along the way, I saw old colonial cement plants, sampled many fusions of Indonesian and Dutch dishes in a local restaurant which is opened for almost a century, drank tea from a former Dutch tea plantation. Dutch industrial heritages on exploiting natural resources from Sumatra are everywhere. When I reached Sawahlunto, area of Ombilin Company Town to be precise, it was already dark, so I directly went to stay and sleep at the heritage Ombilin Hotel, the only hotel during colonial for government officers and important company guests.

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Epidaurus

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 19-Aug-24

Epidaurus is very famous, and I heard its name since I was a kid as almost every documentary about ancient Greek civilization had to mention its impressive amphitheater. For such well known site, I was not surprised to see hundreds of tourists when I arrived Epidaurus in one late summer day evening, it seemed to me that many came to visit in such time to avoid heatwave in the afternoon. Fortunately, that those were on their way back and when I secured my 12 EUR entrance ticket, the site was relatively peaceful.

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Oc Eo - Ba The (T)

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 15-Aug-24

Two years after pre-Angkorian and Dvaravati arts tour with ICOMOS international experts in Cambodia and Thailand, I had received an invitation to join the second episode of this academic gathering but this time focusing on pre-Angkorian and Cham arts in Vietnam which I immediately decided to participate even though I already visited most of the Champa Sites but visiting Oc Eo of Funan was really tempting. The group of scholars and enthusiasts firstly met at Saigon and visited Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History to study many statues of Funan and Champa. Most of the statues are Vishnu and Buddha, interesting but the quality of Funan art displaying in Phnom Penh National Museum I saw two years ago are much better

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The Site of Angkor Borei and Phnom Da (T)

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 14-Aug-24

The first part of my two weeks field trip in Cambodia and Thailand exploring pre-Angkorian and Dvaravati arts with ICOMOS international experts was focusing on Funan Culture, the first kingdom of Southeast Asia. We started our journey at Phnom Penh National Museum to admire beautiful and realistic Funan period Hindu god statues to understand how Southern Indian art and architecture existed in Mekong Delta area via ancient maritime trade route that connected India, Nicobar Island, Sumatra, Java with communities around Gulf of Thailand

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Name: Frederik Dawson
Country: Netherlands
Ranking: 66
Most Impressive: Rapa Nui, Yellowstone
Proposal: Royal palaces and temples in Bangkok / Engineering Feats of Niagara Falls / Panama Canal / Haussmann's Paris

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Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5

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Vatican City 4.5

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Venice and its Lagoon 4.5

Vienna 4.5

West Norwegian Fjords 4.5

Wulingyuan 4.5

Acropolis 4

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Archaeological Site of Delphi 4

Assisi 4

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Bali Subak system 4

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Brugge 4

Budapest 4

Canterbury 4

Carlsbad Caverns 4

Cesky Krumlov 4

Chaco Culture 4

Chan Chan 4

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Cordoba 4

Cuzco 4

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Dinosaur Provincial Park 4

Edinburgh 4

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Fortified City of Carcassonne 4

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Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4

Grand Canal 4

Grand Place, Brussels 4

Great Wall 4

Gwynedd Castles 4

Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4

Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4

Historic Cairo 4

Hué 4

Itchan Kala 4

Itsukushima Shrine 4

Kinabalu Park 4

Koh Ker 4

Lake District 4

Longmen Grottoes 4

Lyon 4

Major Town Houses 4

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4

Mexico City and Xochimilco 4

Mont-Saint-Michel 4

Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4

Old Town of Lijiang 4

Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4

Ping Yao 4

Plain of Jars 4

Polonnaruva 4

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4

Qhapaq Ñan 4

Québec 4

Rietveld Schröderhuis 4

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4

Sambor Prei Kuk 4

Santa Maria delle Grazie 4

Schönbrunn 4

Segovia 4

Seville 4

Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 4

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 4

Sigiriya 4

Skocjan Caves 4

South China Karst 4

Summer Palace 4

Taj Mahal 4

Taos Pueblo 4

Temple of Heaven 4

Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 4

Toledo 4

Tugendhat Villa 4

Ujung Kulon National Park 4

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4

Versailles 4

Vézère Valley 4

Westminster 4

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4

Aachen Cathedral 3.5

Agra Fort 3.5

Albi 3.5

Alto Douro 3.5

Anuradhapura 3.5

Aquileia 3.5

Arequipa 3.5

Avignon 3.5

Avila 3.5

Bahla Fort 3.5

Bamberg 3.5

Belem 3.5

Bellinzone 3.5

Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.5

Blenheim Palace 3.5

Bom Jesus do Monte 3.5

Bordeaux 3.5

Bourges Cathedral 3.5

Causses and Cévennes 3.5

Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5

China Danxia 3.5

Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5

City of Luxembourg 3.5

Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5

Corfu 3.5

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3.5

Dong Phayayen 3.5

Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5

Everglades 3.5

Fontainebleau 3.5

Fujisan 3.5

Genbaku Dome 3.5

Genoa 3.5

Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5

Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5

Himeji-jo 3.5

Hoi An 3.5

Humayun's Tomb 3.5

Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5

Kew Gardens 3.5

Kii Mountain Range 3.5

Kinderdijk 3.5

Luther Memorials 3.5

Lübeck 3.5

Mammoth Cave 3.5

Manu National Park 3.5

Medici Villas and Gardens 3.5

Monastery of Batalha 3.5

Mount Wutai 3.5

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5

My Son 3.5

Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5

Mystras 3.5

Nancy 3.5

Nikko 3.5

Olympia 3.5

Olympic National Park 3.5

Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto 3.5

Oporto 3.5

Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5

Phong Nha - Ke Bang 3.5

Pienza 3.5

Potsdam 3.5

Preah Vihear Temple 3.5

Puebla 3.5

Quito 3.5

Regensburg 3.5

Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5

Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 3.5

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5

Salamanca 3.5

Salzburg 3.5

San Gimignano 3.5

Santiago de Compostela 3.5

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5

Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.5

Sintra 3.5

Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 3.5

Statue of Liberty 3.5

Stonehenge 3.5

Strasbourg 3.5

Sydney Opera House 3.5

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.5

Tongariro National Park 3.5

Trang An 3.5

Trier 3.5

Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5

Tropical Rainforest Sumatra 3.5

Tubbataha Reefs 3.5

Urnes Stave Church 3.5

Valletta 3.5

Valparaiso 3.5

Van Nellefabriek 3.5

Verona 3.5

Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5

Villa d'Este 3.5

Visby 3.5

Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5

Wartburg Castle 3.5

Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 3.5

West Lake 3.5

Western Ghats 3.5

Western Tien-Shan 3.5

Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.5

Yakushima 3.5

Yogyakarta 3.5

Yungang Grottoes 3.5

Abbey of St Gall 3

Amami-Oshima Island 3

Amiens Cathedral 3

Antequera Dolmens Site 3

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3

Ban Chiang 3

Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3

Beijing Central Axis 3

Belfries 3

Bryggen 3

Burgundy 3

Camino Real 3

Central Highlands 3

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3

Champagne 3

Chartres Cathedral 3

City of Bath 3

Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3

Cold winter deserts of Turan 3

Cuenca 3

Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3

Darien National Park 3

Dorset and East Devon Coast 3

Drottningholm 3

Eisinga Planetarium 3

El Escurial 3

Elephanta Caves 3

Epidaurus 3

Etruscan Necropolises 3

Fagus Factory 3

Ferrara 3

Flemish Béguinages 3

Forth Bridge 3

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3

Gaya Tumuli 3

Guanacaste 3

Gyeongju 3

Haeinsa Temple 3

Hahoe and Yangdong 3

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3

Hawaii Volcanoes 3

Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3

Horyu-ji Area 3

Huascaran National Park 3

Hwaseong Fortress 3

Imperial Tombs 3

Independence Hall 3

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3

Jantar Mantar 3

Jeju 3

Joya de Ceren 3

Kaeng Krachan Forest 3

Kaiping Diaolou 3

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3

León Cathedral 3

Lima 3

Litomysl Castle 3

Luang Prabang 3

Macao 3

Maritime Greenwich 3

Maulbronn Monastery 3

Megalithic Temples of Malta 3

Melaka and George Town 3

Mount Etna 3

Naumburg Cathedral 3

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3

Niah Caves 3

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3

Novgorod 3

Novodevichy Convent 3

Old City of Berne 3

Old Town of Galle 3

Orange 3

Pannonhalma 3

Paphos 3

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3

Pearling 3

Phu Phrabat 3

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3

Pimachiowin Aki 3

Plantin-Moretus Museum 3

Pont du Gard 3

Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 3

Qal'at al-Bahrain 3

Quedlinburg 3

Qutb Minar 3

Rammelsberg and Goslar 3

Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3

Reims 3

Roskilde Cathedral 3

Røros 3

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3

Saint-Emilion 3

Sangay National Park 3

Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3

Semmering Railway 3

Shiretoko 3

Si Thep 3

Sian Ka'an 3

Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 3

Singapore Botanic Gardens 3

Sinharaja Forest 3

Southern Öland 3

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3

Speyer Cathedral 3

Stralsund and Wismar 3

Studley Royal Park 3

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3

Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 3

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3

Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 3

University of Coimbra 3

Urbino 3

Val d'Orcia 3

Venetian Works of Defence 3

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3

Vézelay 3

Wadden Sea 3

Willemstad 3

Würzburg Residence 3

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.5

Aflaj irrigation system 2.5

Aranjuez 2.5

Baekje Historic Areas 2.5

Baroque Churches 2.5

Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5

Butrint 2.5

Cahokia Mounds 2.5

Campeche 2.5

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5

Centennial Hall 2.5

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5

Choirokoitia 2.5

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.5

Classical Weimar 2.5

Cologne Cathedral 2.5

Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5

Evaporitic Karst and Caves 2.5

Evora 2.5

Falun Great Copper Mountain 2.5

Fortifications of Vauban 2.5

Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5

Graz 2.5

Guimarães 2.5

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 2.5

Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 2.5

Hiraizumi 2.5

Ivrea 2.5

Jongmyo Shrine 2.5

Kandy 2.5

Keoladeo National Park 2.5

Kladruby nad Labem 2.5

Kronborg Castle 2.5

Kutna Hora 2.5

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.5

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5

Longobards in Italy 2.5

Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5

Mafra 2.5

Monastery of Alcobaça 2.5

Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 2.5

Namhansanseong 2.5

Panamá 2.5

Papahanaumokuakea 2.5

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5

Portobelo-San Lorenzo 2.5

Primeval Beech Forests 2.5

Provins 2.5

Red Fort 2.5

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5

Rjukan / Notodden 2.5

Royal Joseon Tombs 2.5

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5

Ruins of León Viejo 2.5

San Antonio Missions 2.5

San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5

Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5

Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 2.5

Shakhrisyabz 2.5

Skogskyrkogarden 2.5

Stone Spheres of the Diquís 2.5

Surtsey 2.5

Telc 2.5

Thang Long 2.5

The Four Lifts 2.5

Thingvellir 2.5

Tomioka Silk Mill 2.5

Tower of London 2.5

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5

Vat Phou 2.5

Via Appia 2.5

Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 2.5

Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.5

Völklingen Ironworks 2.5

Yaroslavl 2.5

Zollverein 2.5

Alcala de Henares 2

Australian Convict Sites 2

Beemster Polder 2

Benedictine Convent of St. John 2

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2

Birka and Hovgarden 2

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2

Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 2

Canal du Midi 2

Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 2

Corvey 2

Danube Limes 2

Derwent Valley Mills 2

Dilmun Burial Mounds 2

Dutch Water Defence Lines 2

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2

Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 2

Hedeby and Danevirke 2

Heritage of Mercury 2

Holasovice 2

Holy Trinity Column 2

Ironbridge Gorge 2

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 2

Jelling 2

Karlskrona 2

Lenggong Valley 2

Lower German Limes 2

Mining Sites of Wallonia 2

Modena 2

Monte San Giorgio 2

Moravian Church Settlements 2

Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2

New Lanark 2

Okinoshima Island 2

Par force hunting landscape 2

Poverty Point 2

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2

Reichenau 2

Rhaetian Railway 2

Rideau Canal 2

Saltaire 2

ShUM Sites 2

Shirakami-Sanchi 2

Stevns Klint 2

The Prosecco Hills 2

Trebic 2

Tusi Sites 2

Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2

Colonies of Benevolence 1.5

Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 1.5

Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.5

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5

Royal Exhibition Building 1.5

Schokland 1

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Oc Eo - Ba The (T)

The Site of Angkor Borei and Phnom Da (T)

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