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Eastern Arc Mountains Forests of Tanzania (T)
Geert Luiken Netherlands - 07-Mar-23
If there is one site that should be designated as a World Heritage Site as soon as possible, it is this one. During my visit to Udzungwa Mountains National Park, I was greatly impressed by the natural beauty of the area. I stayed at the Hondo Hondo camp and went on a 4-hour trek to the Sanje Waterfall, which is a very popular tourist attraction. The exceptional value of the site lies in the many species that are unique to this area, including two endemic birds (the Udzungwa Forest Partridge and the Rufous-winged Sunbird) and two species of monkeys (the recently discovered Sanje Crested Mangabey and the Udzungwa Red Colobus).
Read OnKondoa
Geert Luiken Netherlands - 28-Feb-23
The Kondoa rock art site has been thoroughly reviewed already. Two things I would like to add. Firstly I found the entrance price quite steep. We were coming with our driver from Dodoma and not only had to pay for our own entrance fee, but seperatly for the car, our driver and the guide, which totalled 93.000 TSH ( around 40€). A second, more interesting point is that the Rock paintings have only suffered from wheather related causes, mainly rain seeping through the rocks, but not from human causes. The reason for this is that even nowadays, thousands of years after they were made, they still play a role in religious practices. Just below the B1 site there is a rock with a hole underneath, were according to the locals a deity lives
Read OnRuins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara
Geert Luiken Netherlands - 22-Feb-23
Recently I visited both Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara. As the former is already covered in many reviews I will focus om the later. Through Elisabeth, the owner of the highly recommended Kimbilio lodge in Kilwa Masoko we got into contact with Osman, a very enthousiastic and knowledgable guide. The boat trip from Kilwa Masoko to Songo Mnara takes about 1,5 hour. You arrive at a rather primitive settlement of local fishermen and after passing through some mangrove forest on foot you reach the ruïnes of the former palace dating from 11 th century. Big baobab trees have partly taken over the buildings, but there is still quite a lot to see. The site was very quiet, our group of 3 had the place to ourselves, as was also the case when we visited Kilwa Kisiwani the next day
Read OnCentral Suriname Nature Reserve
Geert Luiken Netherlands - 04-Nov-15
Although I am a long time member of worldheritagesite.org, till now I never wrote a review, mainly because most sites are already excellently covered by others. But to my surprise nobody wrote about the Central Suriname Nature reserve. To my surprise, because although the site isn't reached easily, still a lot of people seem to make it there.
By far the easiest way to visit is on an organised tour from the capital Paramaribo. First you go by minibus to the Kwinti village of Witagron. The bauxite road is not too bad and it takes about 4 hours to get there. From Witagron you continue by boat
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Recently Visited WHS
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsIstanbul 5Dolomites 4.5Laponian Area 4.5Ephesus 4Vienna 4Twyfelfontein 3.5Tsodilo 3Genoa 2.5Qhapaq Ñan 2.5Lake Baikal 0.5Visited TWHS
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Alanya (T)
- Ancient Buddhist Site of Sarnath (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Corcovado National Park and Isla del Cano Biological Reserve (T)
- Dahab (T)
- Dali Chanshan Mountain and Erhai Lake Scenic Spot (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Dong Villages (T)
- Eastern Arc Mountains Forests of Tanzania (T)
- Ein Karem, a village and its cultural landscape (T)
- Eise Eisinga Planetarium (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Etosha Pan (T)
- Great Desert Landscapes (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Hoge Kempen Rural - Industrial Transition Landscape (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
- Le plateau des Hautes-Fagnes (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- National Park (Taman Negara) of Peninsular Malaysia (T)
- Newibah castle (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Okavango Delta (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Ras Mohammed (T)
- Ring of cenotes of Chicxulub Crater, Yucatan (T)
- Route of Magellan (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- Seruwila to Sri Pada (Sacred Foot Print Shrine), Ancient pilgrim route along the Mahaweli river in Sri Lanka (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (Belgium) (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- The Central Axis of Beijing (including Beihai) (T)
- The Lijiang River Scenic Zone at Guilin (T)
- Tobago Main Ridge Forest Reserve (T)
- Troodos, Mt.Olympus (T)
- Via Appia 'Regina Viarum' (T)
- Welwitschia Plains (T)
Reviewed TWHS
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Amritsar
- Atacama Desert
- Cape York and the islands of the Torres Strait
- Death Valley National Park
- Dzongs of Bhutan
- Ephesus
- Forests of Southern New Caledonia
- Kangchendzonga National Park
- Lake Titicaca
- Marine Reserves of Sinai
- Minoan palaces of Crete
- Mt Kailash
- Okavango Delta
- Rainforests of Polynesia
- The Grand Canal
- The Sublime Karsts of Papua New Guinea
- Torres del Paine National Park
- Towers of Silence
- Varanasi
- Vatnajökull National Park
Top 200 WHS
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Djenné
- Timbuktu
- Viñales Valley
- Laponian Area
- Acropolis
- Agrigento
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Ephesus
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Pompei
- Baalbek
- Amphitheater of El Jem
- Trier
- Syracuse
- Historic Cairo
- Damascus
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Tunis
- Samarkand
- Kathmandu Valley
- Hué
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Potala Palace
- Borobudur
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Taj Mahal
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Göreme NP
- Bethlehem
- Vatican City
- Saint Catherine Area
- Chartres Cathedral
- Sydney Opera House
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Great Zimbabwe Ruins
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
- Macao
- Old Havana
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Kew Gardens
- Hortobágy
- Wadi Rum
- Namib Sand Sea
- Lorentz National Park
- Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
- Darien National Park
- Sangay National Park
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Ancient Thebes
- Grand Canyon
- Uluru
- Nahanni National Park
- Van Nellefabriek
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Nara
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
- Komodo National Park
- Aldabra Atoll
- Virunga National Park
- Galapagos Islands
- Yellowstone
- Ngorongoro
- Serengeti
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Okapi Wildlife Reserve
- Manovo-Gounda St. Floris
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana
- Selous Game Reserve
- Kaziranga National Park
- Dja Faunal Reserve
- Wrangel Island
- Keoladeo National Park
- Wood Buffalo National Park
- Chitwan National Park
- Garamba National Park
- Cape Floral Region
- Kinabalu Park
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Redwood
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Rio Abiseo National Park
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Ujung Kulon National Park
- Kahuzi-Biega National Park
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Central Suriname Nature Reserve
- Atlantic Forest South-East
- Sinharaja Forest
- Virgin Komi Forests
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Mount Wuyi
- Manu National Park
- Yosemite National Park
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Los Glaciares
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- East Rennell
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Minaret of Jam
- Gunung Mulu
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Tsingy de Bemaraha
- Purnululu National Park
- Lena Pillars
- Mammoth Cave
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Gulf of California
- Great Barrier Reef
- Ningaloo Coast
- Lagoons of New Caledonia
- Peninsula Valdes
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Socotra Archipelago
- Tubbataha Reefs
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
- Siena
- Granada
- Dubrovnik
- Kraków
- Vienna
- Budapest
- Tallinn
- Seville
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Genbaku Dome
- Statue of Liberty
- Crac des Chevaliers
- Great Wall
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Machu Picchu
- Meteora
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Putorana Plateau
- Great Himalayan National Park
- Wulingyuan
- Simien National Park
- Rwenzori Mountains
- Persepolis
- Petra
- Nemrut Dag
- Palmyra
- Rapa Nui
- Versailles
- Schönbrunn
- Summer Palace
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Carthage
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Florence
- St. Petersburg
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Vilnius
- Mesa Verde
- Tikal National Park
- Chichen-Itza
- Stonehenge
- Nasca Lines
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex
- Pantanal
- Victoria Falls
- Lake Baikal
- Okavango Delta
- The Sundarbans
- Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
- Lake Malawi
- Everglades
- Altamira Cave
- Vézère Valley
- Angkor
- Moenjodaro
- Ayutthaya
- The Four Lifts
- Rhaetian Railway
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Edinburgh
- Naples
- Salzburg
- Split
- Cordoba
- Brasilia
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Giant's Causeway
- Pitons of Reunion
- Mount Etna