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Growing up in The Netherlands, my first visit abroad was a daytrip to Belgium with my family when I was eight years old. Throughout the years I travelled further away and longer in duration, mostly in Europe and Asia. My most memorable journey so far is an around-the-world trip lasting fourteen weeks, visiting countries on five continents.
For me, the highlights of travel are hiking through a stunning landscape (or driving), being amazed by a city's architecture and traffic, watching the world pass by from behind a window on a long train journey, and getting lost in the past while visiting the remains of an ancient world.
So far I have never travelled with a focus on WHS. But some are very hard to miss, so my first count of WHS in June 2022 showed 118 visited sites. My short term WHS-goal is to visit all sites in the Benelux countries. Until now I have seen 13 out of the 28 sites.
Update August 2023: Benelux completed! This year I visited the (15) WHS in the Benelux that I had not been to before. My highlights were:
- a very pleasant walk around the former island of Schokland on the first sunny spring day of the year;
- a visit to the Van Nelle building and drinks afterwards with my friend in Rotterdam;
- walking along the riverside from Charleroi to suburb Marchienne for a view of the city's industrial past and not so glorious industrial present (the day after visiting the Bois du Cazier coal mine and the Art Deco belfry);
- driving around La Louvière, in search of the four lifts. The first one suddenly rose before me from the farmland; lifts 2 and 3 were less easy to find which led to a hilarious drive along small village roads;
- the Plantin-Moretus museum in Antwerp. And, since I parked my car on the left bank, I walked to the centre through the historic St. Anna tunnel underneath the Schelde. That was a great walk. It was early in the morning and the tunnel was almost deserted, which gave me a surreal experiece (and nice photos).
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- Name
- Ingrid
- Country
- The Netherlands
- Most Impressive
- Pyramids (Memphis), Abu Simbel, Plain of Jars, Great wall of China, Norwegian Fjords
- Proposal
- Delta works (Deltawerken), Transsiberian railway, Architectural works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 02.04.24
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Visited WHS
Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Casablanca, Ville du XXème siécle, carrefour d'influences (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Flinders Ranges (T)
- Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (former S-21)/ Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (former Execution Site of S-21) (T)
- Fortress of Spinalonga (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Green Belt (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Iconic Riverfront of the Historic City of Varanasi (T)
- Inle Lake (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (T)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece (T)
- Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Maasai Mara Game Reserve (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Møns Klint (T)
- Napier Art Deco historic precinct (T)
- National Park (Taman Negara) of Peninsular Malaysia (T)
- National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in Portugal (T)
- San Pedro de Atacama (T)
- Sites of Globalization (T)
- Southwest Coast (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- The African Great Rift Valley - The Maasai Mara (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
- The Bodrum Castle (T)
- The Central Axis of Beijing (including Beihai) (T)
- The Great Rift Valley - The Kenya Lakes System (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- The Lofoten islands (T)
- The Television Tower Stuttgart. Archetype and symbol of modern mass communication (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Wooden Monasteries of Konbaung Period : Ohn Don, Sala, Pakhangyi, Pakhannge, Legaing, Sagu, Shwe-Kyaung (Mandalay) (T)
Reviewed TWHS