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Lima
Jay T USA - 28-Aug-19
Lima is a great city to explore -- I must state that up front -- but the central historic district which composes the World Heritage Site was not as impressive to me as other historic districts I have visited in Latin America, such as Mexico City or Quito. Walking through the district in October 2018, I made brief stops in Plaza San Martin, centered around a statue of its eponymous hero on horseback, and the Iglesia de La Merced, with its neat baroque facade, before making my way to the more charming Plaza Mayor
Read OnGwynedd Castles
Jay T USA - 14-Aug-19
It seems kind of strange that the first World Heritage Site in Wales should be a symbol of subjugation by the English, but that's what the Castles and Town Walls of King Edward I in Gwynedd, a former principality in northwest Wales, represent. I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to three of the four inscribed castles over two days in the spring of 2005, so I suppose I should thank the Welsh for their independent nature which led King Edward I to construct these fortresses. From my base in Betws-y-Coed, I first made my way to Conwy, where a 13th century castle sits above the wall-enclosed town. The views of the countryside and town from the walls were spectacular, and I enjoyed exploring the castle
Read OnDorset and East Devon Coast
Jay T USA - 07-Aug-19
I would love to say it was highbrow literature that made me excited to visit England's Dorset and East Devon Coast in May of 2018, but On Chesil Beach just wasn't that inspiring to me. Instead, it was the BBC's excellent television production of Broadchurch that brought me to West Bay, Dorset, next to the iconic cliffs of the Jurassic Coast which formed the backdrop for the murder mystery. After visiting the scene of the crime (as well as the fictional Wessex police department), I hiked up and down the beach admiring the towering sandstone bluff while listening to the waves crashing in, before ascending the hill and hiking east along the clifftops. It is easy to see why this has been labeled an "Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty" in the UK
Read OnBurgos Cathedral
Jay T USA - 31-Jul-19
Burgos Cathedral was probably my favorite of the many cathedrals I saw on my trip to Spain this past May. The bright vaulted openness of the interior, and the exquisite design of its aisles and chapels made for a memorable visit. I was glad I went on a quiet weekday afternoon, since there were few visitors to distract as I wandered around staring at walls and ceilings. The cathedral offers an audio tour, which I recommend, since it helps give context to the Gothic and Rennaissance influences in the cathedral's architecture, such as the beautiful Chapel del Constable and the Golden Staircase, which serves to connect the main floor of the cathedral to the elevated street behind the cathedral
Read OnAqueduct of Padre Tembleque
Jay T USA - 17-Jul-19
It's not that aqueducts aren't impressive, but I have much stronger memories of my conversation with my taxi driver on the way to and from the Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System in January 2017 than I have of the actual aqueduct itself. After my visit, I'm still not sure exactly what it adds to the list. The Romans were constructing aqueducts with skill across Europe (see Segovia) many centuries before the technique was brought to the Western Hemisphere; I'd be more impressed with recognizing indigenous water management techniques. What constitutes the importance of this aqueduct to UNESCO, though, is the use of adobe, an adaptation of local building techniques, which enabled the construction of the picturesque span over the valley near Tepeyahualco
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- Badlands National Park: A North American Prairie
Recently Visited WHS
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsIguacu 5Istanbul 5Petra 5Rome 5Uluru 5Acropolis 4.5Everglades 4.5Göreme NP 4.5Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5Lake Baikal 4.5Nikko 4.5Pompei 4.5Vatican City 4.5Versailles 4.5Wadi Rum 4.5Yellowstone 4.5Brugge 4Budapest 4Ephesus 4Florence 4Quito 4Québec 4Salzburg 4Siena 4Sintra 4Vienna 4Brú na Bóinne 3.5Ibiza 3.5Kew Gardens 3.5Las Medulas 3.5Olympia 3.5Speyer Cathedral 3.5Split 3.5Vicenza 3.5Al Ain 3Belem 3Naples 3Biblical Tells 2.5Blenheim Palace 2.5Cahokia Mounds 2.5Forth Bridge 2.5Kotor 2.5Lima 2.5Poverty Point 2.5Quseir Amra 2.5Rideau Canal 2.5Turaif Quarter 2.5Um er-Rasas 2.5Vizcaya Bridge 2.5Belfries 2Evora 2Reviewed WHS
- Lima
- Gwynedd Castles
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Burgos Cathedral
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Statue of Liberty
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Pompei
- Las Medulas
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Flemish Béguinages
- Camino Real
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Speyer Cathedral
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Lake Baikal
- Gros Morne National Park
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Brugge
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
- Thingvellir
- Huascaran National Park
- Poverty Point
- Pitons Management Area
- Mesa Verde
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Belfries
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- Split
- Quito
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Vicenza
- Skocjan Caves
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- La Fortaleza
- Grand Pré
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- Tombs of Buganda Kings
- San Antonio Missions
- Olympia
- Kotor
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Antigua Naval Dockyard
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Petra
- Kinderdijk
- Galapagos Islands
- Budapest
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Sangay National Park
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Great Barrier Reef
- Brú na Bóinne
- Westminster
- Sintra
- Palau de la Musica Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau
- Kew Gardens
- Göreme NP
- Blenheim Palace
- Wadi Rum
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
- Giant's Causeway
- Biblical Tells
- Vienna
- Schönbrunn
- Morne Trois Pitons
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Belem
- Versailles
- Siena
- Old Town Lunenburg
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Forth Bridge
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Venice and its Lagoon
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Nubian Monuments
- Independence Hall
- Florence
- Ayutthaya
- Vatican City
- Salzburg
- Novodevichy Convent
- Iguazu National Park
- Evora
- Ancient Thebes
- Um er-Rasas
- Rome
- New Lanark
- Iguacu
- Everglades
- Australian Convict Sites
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Nikko
- Istanbul
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Uluru
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Naples
- Ibiza
- Edinburgh
- Al Ain
- Turaif Quarter
- Rideau Canal
- Ephesus
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Historic Cairo
- Acropolis
- Tower of London
- Quseir Amra
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Yosemite National Park
- Tongariro National Park
- Québec
- Monticello
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Defence Line of Amsterdam
Visited TWHS
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Arbel (arbel, nebe shueb, horns of hittim) (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Bet She'an (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Buenos Aires – La Plata: Two capitals of the Culture of Modernity, Eclecticism and Immigration (T)
- Caesarea (T)
- California Current Conservation Complex (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
- Dahshour archaeological area (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Early Medieval Monastic Sites (T)
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Flow Country (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Germany) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (UK) (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Mount Vernon (T)
- Napier Art Deco historic precinct (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- Route of Magellan. First around the World (T)
- Salt Mines of Maras (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- Seoul City Wall (T)
- ShUM cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (T)
- Site of the Retiro and the Prado in Madrid (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (Belgium) (T)
- Slate Industry of North Wales (T)
- Soufriere-Scott’s Head Marine Reserve (T)
- St. George Fortified System (T)
- St. George Historic District (T)
- The Burren (T)
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles (T)
- The Historic City of Dublin (T)
- The Ribeira Sacra, Lugo and Orense (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Thomas Jefferson Buildings (T)
- Triple-arch Gate at Dan & Sources of the Jordan (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Waitangi Treaty Grounds historic precinct (T)
Reviewed TWHS
Top 200 WHS
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Koutammakou
- Timbuktu
- Alto Douro
- Olympia
- Acropolis
- Ephesus
- Pompei
- Baalbek
- Leptis Magna
- Syracuse
- Aleppo
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Fez
- Samarkand
- Hué
- Potala Palace
- Borobudur
- Bamiyan Valley
- Taj Mahal
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Aachen Cathedral
- Lalibela
- Meteora
- Vatican City
- Saint Catherine Area
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Qadisha Valley
- Chartres Cathedral
- Luther Memorials
- Abbey of St Gall
- Westminster
- Sydney Opera House
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kinderdijk
- Cliff of Bandiagara
- Great Zimbabwe Ruins
- Meroe
- Ouro Preto
- Québec
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
- Santo Domingo
- Old Havana
- Coffee Cultural Landscape
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Tequila
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Loire Valley
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Rio de Janeiro
- Grand Pré
- Air and Téneré
- El Pinacate
- Wadi Rum
- Namib Sand Sea
- Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Nubian Monuments
- Göreme NP
- Grand Canyon
- Uluru
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Ancient Kyoto
- Gyeongju
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
- Virunga National Park
- Galapagos Islands
- Banc d'Arguin
- Ngorongoro
- Serengeti
- Keoladeo National Park
- Cape Floral Region
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana
- Dja Faunal Reserve
- Glacier parks
- Yosemite National Park
- Los Glaciares
- Laponian Area
- Gros Morne National Park
- Chola Temples
- Fujisan
- Sub-Antarctic Islands
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
- South China Karst
- Gunung Mulu
- Ha Long Bay
- Skocjan Caves
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Cuzco
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Gulf of California
- Te Wahipounamu
- Great Barrier Reef
- Socotra Archipelago
- Brazilian Atlantic Islands
- Maritime Greenwich
- Valparaiso
- Granada
- Cracow
- Brugge
- Seville
- Strasbourg
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Genbaku Dome
- Statue of Liberty
- Bikini Atoll
- Independence Hall
- Gwynedd Castles
- Himeji-jo
- Great Wall
- Masada
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast
- Red Fort
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Potosi
- Guanajuato
- Sewell Mining Town
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Western Ghats
- Huascaran National Park
- Samarra
- Persepolis
- Petra
- Al Ain
- Rapa Nui
- Imperial Palace
- Versailles
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Wartburg Castle
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Potsdam
- Site of Carthage
- Tyre
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Florence
- St. Petersburg
- Dubrovnik
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Budapest
- Vienna
- Valletta
- SGang Gwaay
- Mesa Verde
- Machu Picchu
- Chan Chan
- Teotihuacan
- Tikal National Park
- Chichen-Itza
- Cahokia Mounds
- Stonehenge
- Nasca Lines
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Kenya Lake System
- Pantanal
- Victoria Falls
- Lake Baikal
- Okavango Delta
- Iguazu National Park
- Plitvice Lakes
- Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
- Everglades
- Angkor
- Ayutthaya
- Silk Roads
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Island of Gorée
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Istanbul
- Rome
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Damascus
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Prague
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- Edinburgh
- Salzburg
- Old City of Acre
- Walled City of Baku
- Cordoba
- Shibam
- Brasilia
- Thingvellir
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Isole Eolie
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Yellowstone
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Giant's Causeway
- Tongariro National Park
- Pitons Management Area