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Putorana Plateau
Martina Ruckova Slovakia - 17-Aug-21

Two unvisited WHSs in Russia remained for us: Wrangel Island and Putorana Plateau. The former is still off as far as what we're willing to spend, the latter was doable, though also not cheap, but a plan in our pipeline for a very long time. And since this year is supposed to be our final in Russia and given the extremely short window of when it is actually possible to visit as the season lasts about ten weeks of fleeting mild temperatures in summer, we started planning early.
And by we, I mean Ivan, who had a look around all Russian travel agencies and all of their tours. Putorana has started to become very popular amongst tourists and the demand surpasses offer, which doesn't make it the cheapest tour option out there, but on the other hand, you have several options: a boat tour from Svetlogorsk (so you can avoid having to get a permission from FSB to enter Norilsk), or a trip to any of the tour bases on the Lake Lama (transfer via hovercraft from Norilsk). Most of the commercial tours take place inside the buffer zone and you will most probably fly over the actual core zone area if you take the helicopter ride. We did and managed to do so
Read OnTestament of Kenozero Lake (T)
Martina Ruckova Slovakia - 20-Jul-21

Kenozero National Park was the second tentative site we visited on our weekend stint via night train (for logistic details, have a look at my Lake Onega Petroglyphs review). As an alternative, one can travel to Nyandoma, a regional centre on a train line to Arkhangelsk. From there a transport has to be arranged to Kargopol and one of the local tourist hubs in the National Park - Morschikinskaya on Lake Lyokshmozero, which forms the southern sector of the national park, or to Pershlakta, which is the main entrance point to the northern sector.
Read OnPetroglyphs of the Lake Onega and the White Sea
Martina Ruckova Slovakia - 19-Jul-21

After ticking off most WHSs in Russia, Ivan and I are trying to visit the most of the tentative sites that seem to be in for a subscription. And especially those more remote ones, so we don't have to return there once we'll leave Russia for good. So we did one of our weekend trips by night train and rode to Petrozavodsk to visit the petroglyphs of Lake Onega and Kenozero National Park.
As far as this site is concerned, it can be done as a round trip whilst visiting Solovetsky islands and Kizhi pogost
Read OnChurches of the Pskov School of Architecture
Martina Ruckova Slovakia - 07-Mar-21

Ivan and I have visited Pskov and seen some of its churches many years ago, before it was inscribed - with Ivan's Dad. We made this town on the Estonian borders an overnight stop when taking the car through the borders and back due to customs reasons. It was a lovely summer afternoon and evening, which added to the beauty and pleasure of the experience.
Since we haven’t been anywhere via an overnight train, one of our favourite modes of travel in Russia, in a long time, we decided to make a weekend trip out of revisiting [...]
Read OnLandscapes of Dauria
Martina Ruckova Slovakia - 13-Sep-20

Searching high and low for unvisited WHSs in Russia, we followed a visit to Sikhote-Alin to a visit to Dauria on the Russian side. From what we understood, the most interesting aspect of the site are lakes that dry out and then refill with water in 30 year cycles. Those attract many interesting species of birds and the stepe is a wonderful place to look for all kinds of fauna and flora. However, as for the lakes, that's a visit to be planned well in advance - they are located in the border zone and you have to file an entry permit with Russian FSB - not a problem, but it takes 60 days to be issued. We did not have luxury of such time advance as we planned a trip something like three weeks before we departed
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Recently Visited WHS
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Baalbek 5Istanbul 5Meteora 5Pompei 5Rome 5Granada 4.5Ha Long Bay 4.5Hampi 4.5Lake District 4.5Lena Pillars 4.5Matera 4.5Prague 4.5Putorana Plateau 4.5Sigiriya 4.5Vienna 4.5Westminster 4.5Belem 4Brugge 4Budapest 4Bukhara 4Cordoba 4Cracow 4Derbent 4Ephesus 4Florence 4Hoi An 4Hué 4Naples 4Oporto 4Paphos 4Pergamon 4Ravenna 4Salzburg 4Segovia 4Seville 4Siena 4Sintra 4Syracuse 4Tallinn 4Toledo 4Trang An 4Valletta 4Visby 4Anjar 3.5Anuradhapura 3.5Assisi 3.5Avila 3.5Bamberg 3.5Ban Chiang 3.5Bauhaus Sites 3.5Bisotun 3.5Bryggen 3.5Brú na Bóinne 3.5Burgundy 3.5Butrint 3.5Cesky Krumlov 3.5Cuenca 3.5Delos 3.5Dong Phayayen 3.5El Tajin 3.5Ellora Caves 3.5Garajonay 3.5Golestan Palace 3.5Hattusha 3.5Historic Cairo 3.5Humayun's Tomb 3.5Ironbridge Gorge 3.5Isole Eolie 3.5Kew Gardens 3.5Kotor 3.5Kronborg Castle 3.5Kutna Hora 3.5Le Morne 3.5Lyon 3.5Lübeck 3.5Masada 3.5Medina Azahara 3.5Mostar 3.5Nice 3.5Old City of Acre 3.5Olympia 3.5Pattadakal 3.5Persian Garden 3.5Pienza 3.5Pont du Gard 3.5Potsdam 3.5Puebla 3.5Qadisha Valley 3.5Querétaro 3.5Qutb Minar 3.5Regensburg 3.5Reims 3.5Rhodes 3.5Riga 3.5Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5San Gimignano 3.5Selimiye Mosque 3.5Shushtar 3.5Sighisoara 3.5Sinharaja Forest 3.5Skogskyrkogarden 3.5Split 3.5Strasbourg 3.5Tabriz Bazaar 3.5Tequila 3.5Thingvellir 3.5Torun 3.5Trier 3.5Trogir 3.5Troy 3.5Val d'Orcia 3.5Vall de Boi 3.5Vat Phou 3.5Verona 3.5Vilnius 3.5Viñales Valley 3.5Wadi Al-Hitan 3.5Warsaw 3.5Wartburg Castle 3.5Western Ghats 3.5Xanthos-Letoon 3.5Xochicalco 3.5Zacatecas 3.5Çatalhöyük 3.5Aquileia 3Aranjuez 3Arles 3Belfries 3Bolgar 3Bordeaux 3Byblos 3Caceres 3Corvey 3Elvas 3Ferrara 3Genoa 3Hollókö 3Kyiv 3L'viv 3Le Havre 3Morelia 3Mtskheta 3Mystras 3Mérida 3Nancy 3Nessebar 3Novgorod 3Pearling 3Provins 3Qalhat 3Røros 3Tarraco 3Telc 3Tyre 3Urbino 3Vicenza 3Vézelay 3Yazd 3Zamosc 3Al Ain 2.5Ancient Merv 2.5Bahla Fort 2.5Boyana Church 2.5Camino Real 2.5Choirokoitia 2.5Cienfuegos 2.5Crespi d'Adda 2.5Danube Limes 2.5Drottningholm 2.5Evora 2.5Graz 2.5Ibiza 2.5Ivrea 2.5Jelling 2.5Kandy 2.5Kernavė 2.5Litomysl Castle 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Madara Rider 2.5Maymand 2.5Mir Castle 2.5Modena 2.5My Son 2.5Nesvizh 2.5New Lanark 2.5Sammallahdenmäki 2.5ShUM Sites 2.5Speyer Cathedral 2.5Stevns Klint 2.5Stećci 2.5Tanbaly 2.5Thang Long 2.5Vlkolinec 2.5Úbeda and Baeza 2.5Camagüey 2Corfu 2Nisa 2Saltaire 2Sarazm 2Saryarka 2Susa 2Trebic 2Aapravasi Ghat 1.5Al Zubarah 1.5Battir 1.5Hortobágy 1.5Pasargadae 1.5Schokland 1.5Reviewed WHS
- Putorana Plateau
- Petroglyphs of the Lake Onega and the White Sea
- Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture
- Landscapes of Dauria
- Central Sikhote-Alin
- Sambor Prei Kuk
- Preah Vihear Temple
- My Son
- Hoi An
- Hué
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
- Trang An
- Ha Long Bay
- Thang Long
- Vlkolinec
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Tyre
- Qadisha Valley
- Byblos
- Anjar
- Baalbek
- Pearling
- Sigiriya
- Qalhat
- Western Caucasus
- Lake Baikal
- Virgin Komi Forests
- Ferapontov Monastery
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Lena Pillars
- Sarazm
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
- Tauric Chersonese
Visited TWHS
- Alisadr Cave (T)
- Ancient Cities of Lycian Civilization (T)
- Ancient City of Kaunos (T)
- Ancient City of Stratonikeia (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Archaeological site of Laodikeia (T)
- Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans (T)
- Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape (T)
- Bashkir Ural (T)
- Bet She'an (T)
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Buenos Aires – La Plata: Two capitals of the Culture of Modernity, Eclecticism and Immigration (T)
- Caesarea (T)
- Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior with the Medieval Rampart City Wall of Pereslavl-Zalessky (1152-1157) (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
- Centre historique de la ville de Gorokhovets (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Early Medieval Monastic Sites (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- El Fayoum (T)
- Ensemble of the Astrakhan Kremlin (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
- Fann mountains (T)
- Firuzabad Ensemble (T)
- Fungal Flora of Bukovské Hills (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Gemer and Abov churches with the medieval mural paintings (T)
- Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
- Hegmataneh (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Jame' (Congregational) Mosque of Esfahan (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
- Kekova (T)
- Kerman Historical-Cultural Structure (T)
- Khorramabad Valley (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization (T)
- Krasnoyarsk Stolby (T)
- Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
- L'amphitheatre de Durres (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France) (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy) (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
- Luther memorials in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia (T)
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes (T)
- Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex "To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" (T)
- Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
- Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
- Mausoleum and Sacred area of Hecatomnus (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Medieval City of Beçin (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Mission Ruins of Venn's Town (T)
- Mývatn and Laxá (T)
- Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Oasis of Fayoum, hydraulic remains and ancient cultural landscapes (T)
- Orheiul Vechi Archaeological Landscape (T)
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Persepolis and other relevant buildings (T)
- Persian Caravanserai (T)
- Phuphrabat Historical Park (T)
- Rostov Kremlin (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- Seljuk Caravanserais on the route from Denizli to Dogubeyazit (T)
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
- Shush (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Turkmenistan (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (T)
- Silk Route (Also as Silk Road) (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- St. Nicholas Church (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slovak) (T)
- Taq-e Bostan (T)
- Tbilisi Historic District (T)
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III (T)
- Testament of Kenozero Lake (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
- The Bachkovo Monastery (T)
- The Collection of Historical Bridges (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The Historic City of Dublin (T)
- The Historical Port City of Izmir (T)
- The historical surroundings of Crimean Khans' capital in Bakhchysarai (T)
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
- The Karlstejn Castle (T)
- The Memorial of Chatam Sófer (T)
- The Monastic City of Clonmacnoise and its Cultural Landscape (T)
- The Site of Ancient Town of Pyanjekent (T)
- Tokaj Wine Region (T)
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- Virgin Komi Forests (re-nomination) (T)
- Vyatskoe village (T)
- Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan, Nakhon Si Thammarat (T)
- Western Caucasus (re-nomination) (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Testament of Kenozero Lake (T)
- The Memorial of Chatam Sófer (T)
- Koh Ker: Archeological site of Ancient Lingapura Or Chok Gargyar (T)
- Beng Malea Temple (T)
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
- Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- Centre historique de la ville de Gorokhovets (T)
- Barbar Temple (T)
- The forts of Rostaq and al-Hazm (T)
- Abraj Al-Kuwait (T)
- Mission Ruins of Venn's Town (T)
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Chernobyl
- Communist heritage of Volgograd
- Cultural Landscape of Santorini
- Divided Cities along the German Border
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry
- Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge
- Minoan palaces of Crete
- Modern Legacy of Vienna
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Olympic Park in Munich
- The Soviet Architecture of Moscow
- Transiberian Railway