Mihai Dascalu Profile
Retired physician, moved from Romania to US in 1997, trying to visit as many WHS as possible. Grateful to ELS and this community for providing such valuable information
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Bunce Island (T)
Mihai Dascalu Romania - 17-Mar-25
I am now on a Lupine tour in March 2025. Even though it was not on the schedule, five of us payed extra to get here and we're taken there by Bassie from Lupine West Africa +232 76 947442. From Freetown it is more than an hour on a speedboat (what the locals call a speedboat, just a bigger dingy with a Honda engine). You go up on Sierra Leone River, passing by the ferry loading, passing by a railroad that ends up half way above the river and it is used by Chinese to load the iron ore. Then passing by Tasso Island, much bigger and full of locals.
Read OnQoahito Cultural Landscape (T)
Mihai Dascalu Romania - 09-Mar-25
Seen in February 2025 on a Lupine groups trip to Eritrea. The group had a bus, but the bus broke down just outside Dekemhare, 38 km out of Asmara. We waited in a “pub” for 2.5 hours, until they found and brought from Asmara three 4WD cars to load us all up. With a few more stops we eventually got to Qohaito at 3 pm, where we visited the following sites: the ancient dam (maybe 2500 years old, see picture, Aksum civilization??), the viewpoint over the canyon, the Egyptian Tomb, Temple of Mariam Wakiro columns and eventually the Adi Alauti cave paintings
Read OnSilk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan (T)
Mihai Dascalu Romania - 10-Oct-24
Using the map on this site and the nomination file and having a rented 4WD for our trip on the southern side of Issyk Kul, we went to see Khan Dobo, Tosor and Barskoon. Well it didn’t work out well. For Khan Dobo there is a 6 km paved road out of the highway but after that the last km it’s unpaved and almost inaccesible. There is nothing marked till the end of the road in open field. At some point on the shore of a little lake we could spot some pitiful ruins, only because we were able to climb on a little mound nearby. No markings of any kind. We couldn’t find anything in Tosor except an old cemetery with no marking of anything
Read OnCold winter deserts of Turan
Mihai Dascalu Romania - 10-Oct-24
I will review here Altyn Emel National Park, visited in October 2024 as a tour from Almaty. We combined it with a trip to Tamgaly Petroglyphs. The cost was “outrageous” but we paid ($830 for 3 days in a van) and in the end we were happy with the result. It was a “minor” misunderstanding between the company who arranged it and us and the driver, he wanted to take us to Tamgaly Tas which is on the way to Altyn Emel, we caught it early and he took the Almaty ring road to Tamgaly WHS, then returned to Almaty and drove all the way to the village of Basshi (on Google maps Kalinino). It is 260 km from Almaty and generally an easy drive but in our case it was a day with 580km and we got there in the dark, not pleasant
Read OnTashkent makhallas (T)
Mihai Dascalu Romania - 10-Oct-24
I spent two days in October 2024 in Tashkent trying to figure out what is special about the Tashkent makhallas. I read the nomination document and Nan’s summary and I went to Hazrat Imam Complex, Chorsu, and Shayhantaur as well as many other neighborhoods but everywhere there is construction, fences, barriers etc, hard to say that I saw anything that has OUV.
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Recently Visited WHS
- Update 17.03.25
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- Tombs of Buganda Kings
- Rwenzori Mountains
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Lamu Old Town
- Melka Kunture and Balchit
- Tiya
- Asmara
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Bahrain . Bulgaria . Eritrea . Holy See . Jordan . Lesotho . Morocco . Oman . Pakistan . Qatar . Romania . Seychelles . Singapore . Turkmenistan . Uganda . United Arab Emirates .Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Arequipa 5Belem 5Bryggen 5Bukhara 5Cuzco 5Delos 5El Tajin 5Elvas 5Evora 5Florence 5Hampi 5Iguacu 5Istanbul 5Macao 5Meteora 5Naples 5Nikko 5Olympia 5Oporto 5Pompei 5Potsdam 5Prague 5Rapa Nui 5Red Fort 5Uluru 5Verona 5Vienna 5Alto Douro 4.5Amiens Cathedral 4.5Boyana Church 4.5Cordoba 4.5Epidaurus 4.5Everglades 4.5Puebla 4.5Rabat 4.5Rome 4.5Stonehenge 4.5Takht-i-Bahi 4.5Toledo 4.5Budapest 4Fujisan 4Lima 4Morelia 4Nessebar 4Petra 4Reims 4Sintra 4Tanbaly 4Taxila 4Tiya 4Bahla Fort 3.5Camino Real 3.5Canterbury 3.5El Pinacate 3.5Genbaku Dome 3.5Kunya-Urgench 3.5Monticello 3.5Nancy 3.5Nisa 3.5Provins 3.5Querétaro 3.5SGang Gwaay 3.5Schönbrunn 3.5Selimiye Mosque 3.5Seville 3.5Asmara 3As-Salt 2.5El Escurial 2.5Kew Gardens 2.5Makli, Thatta 2.5Medina of Fez 2.5Sarazm 2.5Um er-Rasas 2.5Hegra 2Mazagan 2Pearling 2Québec 2Wadi Rum 2Al Ain 1.5Belfries 1.5Meknes 1.5Saryarka 1Qalhat 0.5Visited TWHS
- Abraj Al-Kuwait (T)
- Ancient Khuttal (T)
- Archaeological Site of Harappa (T)
- Azraq (T)
- Badshahi Mosque, Lahore (T)
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi (T)
- Big Bend National Park (T)
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
- Bunce Island (T)
- Central Balkan National Park (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (T)
- Chaukhandi Tombs, Karachi (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (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)
- Eglises byzantines et post-byzantines de Curtea de Arges (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Gola-Tiwai complex (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Le Monastère de Neamt (T)
- Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia (T)
- Les « coules » de Petite Valachie (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- Mission Ruins of Venn's Town (T)
- Necropolises of Middle Egypt, from the Middle Empire to the Roman period (T)
- Pella (Modern Tabaqat Fahil) (T)
- Petrified Forest National Park (T)
- Pietrosul Rodnei (sommet de montagne) (T)
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument (T)
- Port of Banbhore (T)
- Qoahito Cultural Landscape (T)
- Sacred Sites associated with Phajo Drugom Zhigpo and his descendants (T)
- San Pedro de Atacama (T)
- Shah Jahan Mosque, Thatta (T)
- Shaubak Castle (Montreal) (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Tajikistan (T)
- Silk Roads: Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor (T)
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex: A Center of Medical Treatment (T)
- Tamzhing Monastery (T)
- Tashkent makhallas (T)
- Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity and tradition in Central Asia (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The ancient town of Nicopolis ad Istrum (T)
- The Bachkovo Monastery (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The Roussensky Lom National Park (T)
- The Sanctuary of Agios Lot, At Deir 'Ain 'Abata (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Tomb of Bibi Jawindi, Baha'al-Halim and Ustead and the Tomb and Mosque of Jalaluddin Bukhari (T)
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins National Parks, Region of Magallanes (T)
- Two neolithic dwellings with their interior and household furnishings and utensils completely preserved. (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Western Area Peninsula National Park (T)