Michael Ayers Profile
129 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 begins in April 2019, with plans to visit many more sites!
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Recent Reviews Michael Ayers
Île d'Anticosti (T)
Michael Ayers USA - 29-May-19
Visit in May 2019
It is my understanding that the nomination of Île d'Anticosti, a large island in the Gulf of St Lawrence, is primarily supported by its being one of the premier locations for obtaining fossilized life from the Silurian epoch. If inscribed, the site will join several other Canadian fossil WHSs, and will share several features with those other sites. I was not able to determine exactly what the proposed boundaries of the site would be, or whether the site would include the entire island. From readings I did before arriving, it seems that fossils are often found wherever there is a rocky outcropping, especially at seaside cliffs and riverbanks. So it may be that most, or all, of the island is being nominated
Read OnChaco Culture
Michael Ayers USA - 21-Apr-19
Visit in April 2019.
I will add another review for this WHS because I included a stop at Aztec Ruins National Monument, which has not been covered previously. The Monument is located within the relatively pleasant town of Aztec, New Mexico (both usages of the name “Aztec” are acknowledged misnomers,) and so would make an easy visit for a traveler who wants to learn something about the interesting Chaco Culture and visit this WHS.
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Read OnCoffee Cultural Landscape
Michael Ayers USA - 02-Mar-19
Visited in February 2019.
Like many members, I am often bewildered when trying to determine exactly what I am supposed to see when visiting a Cultural Landscape site. Colombia's recently-inscribed Coffee Cultural Landscape is a perfect example of that.
As I prepared my recent visit, there was a map available on the UNESCO page for this site that, in theory, gives the location of the core- and buffer-zones of this site. However, the map is close to impossible to read easily, seemingly being created from whatever public-domain map its creators could find. Text labels for cities and towns are sometimes in the wrong place, and the roadways, and other landmarks, are also not very clear
Read OnTayrona and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Parks and their Archaeological Sites (T)
Michael Ayers USA - 02-Mar-19
Visit in February 2019.
As I understand it, the current iteration of this nomination consists of two National Parks, Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona, each containing an interesting archeological site. The parks are close to each other, and to the city of Santa Marta, which serves as the gateway to the site. Tayrona Park is the smaller of the two, and is located on the Caribbean coast, while the larger Sierra Nevada Park is slightly inland and its mountainous terrain creates a more humid biome compared to the surrounding area, which is semi-arid
Read OnHawaii Volcanoes
Michael Ayers USA - 24-May-18
Visit in May 2018.
It had been a surprisingly long, and often frustrating, ten years since I last had the opportunity to visit a new WHS in person. Only a few recent inscriptions of places I had visited in the past were added to my total during that time. Then, in 2018, a hastily-arranged trip, which was part personal business and part pleasure, would allow me the opportunity to see seven sites that I had not previously visited. Chronologically, the last of those was Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
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- Michael Ayers
- Country
- USA
- Most Impressive
- Can't decide.
- Proposal
- Geological Remnants of Ice Age Floods, USA; Spiny Forest Protected Areas, Madagascar; Antarctica (all of it)
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Recently Visited WHS
- Update 14.07.19
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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
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Ancient Ruin of Drukgyel Dzong (T)
- California Current Conservation Complex (T)
- Cienaga de Zapata National Park (T)
- City of Granada and its natural environment (T)
- Dzongs: the centre of temporal and religious authorities (Punakha Dzong, Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, Paro Dzong, Trongsa Dzong and Dagana Dzong) (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)
- Mon cities : Bago, Hanthawaddy (T)
- Mount Vernon (T)
- Reef System in the Cuban Caribbean (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Site d'Oudong (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)
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