Michael Ayers Profile
132 of the sites I have visited I saw during my bicycle tour of the southern continents (02005-02008).
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A new Grand Tour began in April 2019, with plans to visit many more sites!
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Brazilian Atlantic Islands
Michael Ayers USA - 06-Jan-20
Visit January 2020
My short visit to Fernado de Noronha was probably one that I should have skipped, but now that it is in the past I am happy to be able to include it to my visited Sites count. One reason that I should have changed my plans was that I have not been in perfect health for a couple of weeks, which, not surprisingly, cut down on my level of enjoyment. A more important reason, however, was that a visit to this island is significantly expensive, and, since I have been routinely exceeding my travel budget lately, I really didn’t need another costly addition to my route.
Read OnSerra da Capivara
Michael Ayers USA - 30-Nov-19
Visit in November 2019
Sites that have been inscribed primarily to protect important areas containing ancient Rock Art are among my favorite types of sites to visit and it had been a fairly long time since I had been to a site from that category. Consequently, I was definitely looking forward to my visit to Serra da Capivara National Park. Though I only had one full day available for this visit, I found the park to be beautiful and fascinating, and felt that my time there was well spent.
As the previous review mentioned, the park is a long way from anywhere else that most travelers might be when visiting Brazil, so getting to the area will generally be time consuming. The transport infrastructure is in reasonably good condition coming from any direction, but, while the small cities and towns that one will pass through along the way are friendly, and contain most of the important services, they are usually not the most attractive examples to be found in Brazil. One of the nicer places is São Raimundo Nonato, the main service center for the park, located just to its south
Read OnCentral Suriname Nature Reserve
Michael Ayers USA - 29-Sep-19
Visit in September 2019
As of this writing, there is still only one realistic way to visit this isolated rainforest site. Organized tours to natural sites are often not my preferred choice because my interests are usually focused on observing and photographing flora and fauna, especially birds. Tours offered to the general public frequently consist of a series of programed activities that take too much time away from those goals, and may also be quite crowded. Consequently, I tried to search for another route to the site that would let me see the forest in a more independent way. There were one or two sites on the Web that describe journeys to the southernmost of the three national parks that were combined and expanded when the site was inscribed
Read OnAasivissuit - Nipisat
Michael Ayers USA - 24-Jul-19
Visit in July 2019
I have only a small amount to add to the two previous reviews.
If you should happen to have your own bicycle in Kangerlussuaq, it is possible to ride through the core zone of the Aasivissuit-Nipisat WHS along the way to the western edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet. In total, the road runs for 35.5 km from the airport in Kangerlussuaq up to the edge of the ice, rising from sea level to 520 meters a.m.s.l. along the way. It is Greenland’s longest road, and, some may say, Greenland’s only road, which is, more or less, correct. The road is gravel, and at the start is in a reasonably good condition, but, in a typical manner, as you progress towards the east the condition deteriorates more and more, with several short, steep sections having a rather loose surface near the end
Read OnSurtsey
Michael Ayers USA - 16-Jul-19
Visit in July 2019.
Surtsey is a place that I have been fascinated with for essentially my entire life. In fact, the island and I are almost exactly the same age. Technically, Surtsey was “born” about eight weeks before I was, but I also existed at the time Surtsey rose from the sea, I just hadn't “erupted” quite yet. I also remember watching movies about the creation of the island, and also of the eruption ten years later on the nearby island of Heimaey, in the Vestmannaeyjar, when I was in the fifth grade in primary school. Consequently, I was very motivated to make an actual visit to this difficult-to-reach WHS.
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Recently Visited WHS
- Update 18.03.20
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsLalibela 5Redwood 5Luang Prabang 4.5Cuzco 3.5Diamantina 3.5Fraser Island 3.5Guanajuato 3.5Kathmandu Valley 3.5Monticello 3.5Ouro Preto 3.5Potala Palace 3.5Potosi 3.5Quito 3.5Sigiriya 3.5Zacatecas 3.5Ambohimanga 2.5Goias 2.5Lumbini 2.5Puebla 2.5Vat Phou 2.5Lima 2Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Amazonia Theaters (T)
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Ancient Ruin of Drukgyel Dzong (T)
- Breiðafjörður Nature Reserve (T)
- California Current Conservation Complex (T)
- Cienaga de Zapata National Park (T)
- City Hall, Georgetown (T)
- City of Granada and its natural environment (T)
- Darwin's Landscape Laboratory (T)
- Dzongs: the centre of temporal and religious authorities (Punakha Dzong, Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, Paro Dzong, Trongsa Dzong and Dagana Dzong) (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Historic Center of the City of Trujillo (T)
- Historical city of Izamal (Izamal, Mayan continuity in an Historical City) (T)
- Île d'Anticosti (T)
- Inle Lake (T)
- La Haute Ville d’Antananarivo (T)
- La Rambla (promenade maritime) de la Cité de Montevideo (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- Lalbagh Fort (T)
- Le lac Tanganyika (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Mon cities : Bago, Hanthawaddy (T)
- Mount Vernon (T)
- Reef System in the Cuban Caribbean (T)
- Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Site d'Oudong (T)
- St.Georges Anglican Cathedral (T)
- Sud-Ouest Malgache, Pays Mahafaly (T)
- Tayrona and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Parks and their Archaeological Sites (T)
- The medieval palace complex of Gorkha (T)
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins National Parks, Region of Magallanes (T)
- Ver-o-Peso (T)
Reviewed TWHS
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Andaman Islands
- Bagan
- Baikonur Cosmodrome / Cape Canaveral
- Cape York and the islands of the Torres Strait
- Ciudad Perdida, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
- Dzongs of Bhutan
- Forests of Southern New Caledonia
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Lake Titicaca
- Major Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Mammoth Bone Burials
- Mt Kailash
- Naica Cave: Cave of the Crystals
- Okavango Delta
- Plain of Jars / Sites Mégalithiques de la province de Xieng Khouang
- Railways of the Andes
- Shwedagon Pagoda
- The Sacred Complex of Babylon
- The Sublime Karsts of Papua New Guinea
- Torres del Paine National Park