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Quseir Amra
J_neveryes Canada - 25-May-25
As there are already a number of excellent reviews of Quseir Amra, I will focus more on my day trip itinerary to Zarqa Governorate and the eastern portion of Amman Governorate. After all, there is very little practical sense to visiting Quseir Amra only. I visited Jordan in March 2024, and I travelled to the Desert Castles and Azraq Wetland Reserve using a rental car. I will describe my day trip in the order of my travel.
Qasr Kharana (or Qasr Al-Kharanah or Qasr Al-Harrana)
The drive to Qasr Kharana is simple. You just get on the paved Highway 40 until you see Qasr Kharana. It is nearly impossible to get lost once you are on Highway 40, and the Qasr is as nearly impossible to miss
Read OnRock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
J_neveryes Canada - 24-May-25
"I liked it better before I saw the cave churches in Cappadocia," I said to my friend, who didn't really ask for my opinion of the Churches of Ivanovo.
Not the most nuanced assessment, I know, but it does reflect the fact that while the church (singular) is interesting, but it can compare less favourably to other old religious sites that are carved into cliffs/mountains/remote areas. To give an illustration, I initially gave Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo a rating of 3.5 stars. After visiting the churches in Cappadocia, however, I revised the rating to 3 stars, even though I know that the ratings do not have to be in relation to other sites.
Read OnOld Town Lunenburg
J_neveryes Canada - 18-May-25
I have visited this charming east coast Canadian town twice, i.e., in 2006 and in 2021. Although the town is compact, I stayed overnight on both trips to enjoy it at a more leisurely pace and to also use the town as a base to explore the picturesque the South Shore of Nova Scotia.
Lunenburg is touristy, but it still maintains an aura of authenticity and continues to capture Nova Scotian's famous down-to-earth personality. The existence of a non-tourism industry, such as the High Liner Foods plant, is helpful in this regard.
Read OnPeninsula Valdes
J_neveryes Canada - 16-May-25
Penguins are cute.
That's an indisputable, undeniable, and universal fact.
They are so adorable that the eleventh selection criteria for whether a site should be included in the World Heritage List should be, "Are penguins there?"
I travelled to Peninsula Valdes in early March 2025 and explored it for one day with a rental car. Although Peninsula Valdes is in Patagonia, its landscape is not the one that most people picture of Patagonia. There are no majestic mountains peaks, raging rivers, or striking valleys here. But you don't come to Peninsula Valdes for the scenery. You come here for the animals, especially the penguins, whales, elephant seals, and sea lions.
Read OnPrimeval Beech Forests
J_neveryes Canada - 14-May-25
This review is of Bulgaria's Dzhendema Reserve, which I hiked through without initially realizing that I would be in an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
My actual hiking goal was Bulgaria's tallest waterfall, Raysko Praskalo, which is located in Central Balkan National Park. Approximately 1.5 hours after starting the hike, I encountered a sign informing that I was entering an UNESCO World Heritage Site, which puzzled me as I had no idea that I was even in the vicinity of one. The mountain forest provided a very pleasant hike, but I would not have known about is specialness but for the sign. I believed that I hiked for about an hour in the forest before another sign informed me that I was exiting the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Rating StatsAngkor 5Petra 5Rome 5Split 5Arequipa 4.5Brugge 4.5City of Bath 4.5Cuzco 4.5Great Wall 4.5Istanbul 4.5Masada 4.5Prague 4.5Vienna 4.5Cordoba 4Ephesus 4Evora 4Florence 4Granada 4Iguacu 4Seville 4Tallinn 4Toledo 4Vilnius 4Wadi Rum 4Belem 3.5Cesky Krumlov 3.5Dubrovnik 3.5El Escurial 3.5Gyeongju 3.5Humayun's Tomb 3.5Jantar Mantar 3.5Jeju 3.5Kutna Hora 3.5Old City of Acre 3.5Potosi 3.5Quito 3.5Québec 3.5Red Fort 3.5Riga 3.5Salzburg 3.5Schönbrunn 3.5Sintra 3.5Stonehenge 3.5Thingvellir 3.5Trier 3.5Vatican City 3.5Via Appia 3.5Volubilis 3.5Warsaw 3.5Wartburg Castle 3.5Wulingyuan 3.5Belfries 3Kuldiga 3Mostar 3Sucre 3Tiwanaku 3Boyana Church 2.5Hiraizumi 2.5Lima 2.5Rabat 2.5Grand Canal 1.5Grand Pré 1.5Danube Limes 0.5Reviewed WHS
- Quseir Amra
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
- Old Town Lunenburg
- Peninsula Valdes
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Rideau Canal
- Cueva de las Manos
- Xanthos-Letoon
- Petra
- Glacier parks
- Old Town of Lijiang
- Grand Pré
- Pirin National Park
- Tiwanaku
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Gros Morne National Park
- Potosi
- Sucre
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
- Coffee Cultural Landscape
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan
- Wulingyuan
- Hiraizumi
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
- Kuldiga
- Wood Buffalo National Park
- Nahanni National Park
- Memorial Sites of Genocide
- Tr’ondëk-Klondike
- Churches of Chiloé
Visited TWHS
- Archaeological site of Laodikeia (T)
- Azraq (T)
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
- Casablanca, Ville du XXème siécle, carrefour d'influences (T)
- Central Balkan National Park (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Dana Biosphere Reserve (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Gadara (Modern Um Qeis or Qays) (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Kuressaare Fortress (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- Shaubak Castle (Montreal) (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Bachkovo Monastery (T)
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles (T)
- The Lijiang River Scenic Zone at Guilin (T)
- The Roussensky Lom National Park (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Workers’ Assembly Halls (Argentina) (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
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