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Old 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.
Read OnRideau Canal
J_neveryes Canada - 13-May-25
I have a soft spot for this Canadian World Heritage Site as I lived in Kingston - the end (or start) of the Rideau Canal - for four years during my university days.
Kingston is an attractive city, in my opinion, with a good collection of 19th century limestone buildings. A particularly interesting building is the Neoclassical Kingston Penitentiary, which housed some of the most infamous criminals from 1835 to 2013. The “Kingston Pen” is now a museum with guided tours.
Cueva de las Manos
J_neveryes Canada - 20-Mar-25
My review will cover how we visited Cueva de las Manos from the south and also provide an update on the ticket price situation. We visited the prehistoric site in March 2025.
El Chalten to Gobernador Gregores: Light rain causes detour
Our visit to southern Patagonia started in El Calafate, where we rented a compact car (automatic drive) for five days at the cost of 416,688 Argentinian pesos, which was $549.86 Canadian (or approximately $383 USD). We decided to rent a car because bus tickets around Patagonia were very expensive. For example, a return bus ticket between El Calafate and the town of (not the glacier) Perito Moreno would have cost as much as a whopping $728 Canadian (or approximately $508 USD) for the two of us.
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Petra 5Rome 5Split 5Arequipa 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 4Cesky 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 3.5Belem 3Kuldiga 3Mostar 3Sucre 3Tiwanaku 3Boyana Church 2.5Hiraizumi 2.5Lima 2.5Rabat 2.5Grand Canal 1.5Grand Pré 1.5Danube Limes 0.5Reviewed WHS
- 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)
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun (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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