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Viking Age Ring Fortresses

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 10-Nov-23

I visited two of five inscribed Viking Ring Fortresses, the unknown Borgring and the famous Trelleborg on my short trip to Denmark. On the way from Copenhagen to Stevn Klint, just outside the city of Koge, I made a brief stop to see Borgring which was just next to the highway exit. After parked my car on the empty carpark, I found out that I was the only soul, no staff, no entry restriction, so I just entered to see something equally empty! Borgring was like a big playground for kids with big circle ring sandbox. There was nothing to see, no hill, no turf, only some metal or wooden frames and columns doting the whole place. My thought at that moment was “Is this a joke?” before walked back to my car.

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Ruins of León Viejo

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 20-Oct-23

I had a full day tour from Managua to visit two Nicaraguan World Heritage Sites, the two Leon. After breakfast, a driver picked me up from the hotel to Leon Viejo with a brief stop to see the mighty volcano of Momotombo. The ruins were in the small village that my guide from Leon whom I met at the junction before the village entrance said, “a perfect place to admire Nicaraguan way of life”. He took me to see the small museum which I learnt that Leon Viejo is actually built by native Americans before the arrival of Spanish and after befriended with and enslaved the locals, the newcomer built the western styled town and lived together with natives, so Leon Viejo was quite very unique in the history of colonial city foundation.

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Rideau Canal

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 19-Oct-23

My original plan on Rideau Canal was just to see its famous locks at Ottawa’s city center but turned out I saw many parts of the canal from Ottawa to Kingston unexpectedly. The famous and iconic Ottawa’s part of the canal was just hard to miss, while I did not find anything interesting with those multi-locks and a bit quite surprised that the size of the canal was smaller than I imagined, the location and the view of Canadian Parliament with this World Heritage Site was just superb. After great time in Ottawa, my friend and I planned to depart the city to Toronto in the morning but with certain reason, we ultimately left Ottawa on the late lunch time and decided that we had to find some place to stay instead of Toronto, and Kingston was my friend’s choice.

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León Cathedral

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 19-Oct-23

I had a full day tour from Managua to visit two Nicaraguan World Heritage Sites, the two Leon. After ending the morning tour in Leon Viejo at 10 AM, my guide’s original plan was local market then having lunch before the cathedral visit, but he got a warning phone call from his company that, the cathedral will be closed for the whole afternoon for certain ceremony, so he hurriedly took me to see cathedral at 11 AM before noon. The first thing we had to do was to secure the entrance ticket. The ticket booth was in the small hard to find entrance at the back of the cathedral opposite the local market, that in my opinion who on earth is going to notice this place! Then my guide rushed me to another entrance at bell tower and took me to see the famous roof.

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Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 19-Oct-23

Back in 2018 because of the unbelievable expressway exit payment booth problem, I missed opportunity to visit Nonsan Seowon, five years later I returned to South Korea and I intent to fulfill my previous trip by visiting two listed Seowons, Oksan Seowon and Dodong Seowon during my 4th visit to Gyeongju. After breakfast I drove my rental car to Oksan Seowon, it was an enjoyable drive and I reached Oksan without problem. From empty carpark I passed the complex of traditional house and at the end of the walkway I found a complex of shrine-liked buildings and beautiful small river gorge with cascading waterfall, the whole area was perfect for hiking

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Name: Frederik Dawson
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Proposal: Royal temples in Bangkok, Thailand

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Angkor 5

Gunung Mulu 5

Pyramids (Memphis) 5

Rapa Nui 5

Te Wahipounamu 5

Teotihuacan 5

Yellowstone 5

Ajanta Caves 4.5

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5

Ancient Kyoto 4.5

Borobudur 4.5

Bukhara 4.5

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.5

Chichen-Itza 4.5

Classical Gardens of Suzhou 4.5

Dolomites 4.5

Ellora Caves 4.5

Florence 4.5

Glacier parks 4.5

Granada 4.5

Grand Canyon 4.5

Imperial Palace 4.5

Kremlin and Red Square 4.5

Loire Valley 4.5

Machu Picchu 4.5

Mesa Verde 4.5

Nasca Lines 4.5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5

Prague 4.5

Prambanan 4.5

Ravenna 4.5

Redwood 4.5

Rock Islands 4.5

Rome 4.5

Samarkand 4.5

Siena 4.5

St. Petersburg 4.5

Sukhothai 4.5

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.5

Uxmal 4.5

Vatican City 4.5

Vatnajökull National Park 4.5

Venice and its Lagoon 4.5

Vienna 4.5

Wulingyuan 4.5

Ancient Nara 4

Assisi 4

Ayutthaya 4

Bali Subak system 4

Bauhaus Sites 4

Brugge 4

Budapest 4

Canterbury 4

Carlsbad Caverns 4

Cesky Krumlov 4

Chaco Culture 4

Chan Chan 4

Churches of Peace 4

Cordoba 4

Cuzco 4

Dinosaur Provincial Park 4

Edinburgh 4

Fatehpur Sikri 4

Fortified City of Carcassonne 4

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4

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

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

Blenheim Palace 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

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

Nancy 3.5

Nikko 3.5

Olympic National Park 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

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

Tubbataha Reefs 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

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

Belfries 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

Cold winter deserts of Turan 3

Cuenca 3

Darien National Park 3

Dorset and East Devon Coast 3

Drottningholm 3

El Escurial 3

Elephanta Caves 3

Etruscan Necropolises 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

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

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 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

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

Qutb Minar 3

Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3

Reims 3

Roskilde Cathedral 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble 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

Christiansfeld 2

Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 2

Danube Limes 2

Derwent Valley Mills 2

Dilmun Burial Mounds 2

Dutch Water Defence Lines 2

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2

Getbol, Korean Tidal Flat 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

Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun 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

Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 1.5

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5

Royal Exhibition Building 1.5

Schokland 1

Acropolis

Alto Douro

Archaeological Site of Delphi

Bom Jesus do Monte

Coa Valley and Siega Verde

Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios

Epidaurus

Evora

Mafra

Mycenae and Tiryns

Mystras

Olympia

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae

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