Patrik Profile
I quit my job in April 2017 and wanted to travel as much as possible. As I really enjoy it, I try to stretch my budget, as this means I will be able to travel for a longer time.
I also try to minimize flying and stay in local places, which helps to slightly minimize my negative impact on this beautiful planet. This also means I tend to make longer trips and travel slower.
I try to fit in the Unesco sites at the places I visit and like the challenge of reaching them by local bus or train, or even by walking or hitchhiking.
Recent Reviews Patrik
Hubei Shennongjia
Patrik Netherlands - 23-Jun-25
I visited Shennongjia on a Monday in June. I took a train from Wudangshan in the afternoon to Xingshan. It takes about 2.5 hours and involves a change in Xiangyangdong.
From Xingshan, I took a bus to Muyu from the bus station which is about 5 minutes walk from the train station to the right. The bus took less than 1.5 hours. It is a beautiful ride with pretty views towards the right side for most of the trip.
I did not have much information on Shennongjia before my visit, just that there are several scenic areas and that there should be busses. The guesthouse where I was staying did not have any specific information on buses either
Read OnJodensavanne
Patrik Netherlands - 07-Jul-24
There is a bus from Paramaribo 3 or 4 times a week, leaving for Casipora at 8.30h. It passes right by the access road to the Jodensavanne and takes around 2 hours, including a shopping stop of about 20 minutes at a Chinese supermarket along the way.
The driver told me the return bus passes around 12.10h but when I left Jodensavanne at noon, the caretaker said the bus will only pass the police checkpoint, which is close to the bridge over the Suriname river. So I walked there, arriving around 12.20 and waited and waited until a car stopped around 12.50h and asked me where I am going, and took me back to Paramaribo.
Read OnCentral Amazon Conservation Complex
Patrik Netherlands - 06-Jul-24
I hadn't intended to review this site but after reading Frédéric's review I thought I will add mine as well as there are both similarities and a few differences that may be of interest to others. I visited the site end of June 2024.
I took the night boat from Iquitos to the [...]
Read OnGuanacaste
Patrik Netherlands - 02-Jul-24
I stayed three nights in Liberia in March 2024 and used the full first day to visit the Rincon de la Torre national park. I took an uber taxi there for around $22. The driver gave me his number in case I needed a pickup for the way back at the going rate of $30.
One has to book the tickets online, they cannot be bought at the park itself, though there is wifi and it shouldn't be a problem to book there for the same day.
I was there a bit before 8am and I had to wait to be registered. It was a windy day and I started off with the trail to the waterfalls. There are several karst phenomena, such as an underground river shortly coming to surface.
Read OnTalamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
Patrik Netherlands - 02-Jul-24
When I started to look into the possibilities to visit one of the national parks, the climb up to Chirripo came out as the most attractive option. To properly enjoy the guarrapo, a principal characteristic of the world heritage site, one needs an overnight at the mountain guesthouse. When I checked the site around New Year, there was just one night available in March. I booked this quickly and then planned the rest of my trip around it.
One first books and pays the park entrance at the SINAC website, then one sends a whatsapp message to the mountain hut organisation with the SINAC reservation number
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- Hubei Shennongjia
- Jodensavanne
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex
- Guanacaste
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
- Forth Bridge
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
- Pirin National Park
- Dacian Fortresses
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Troy
- Kenya Lake System
Visited TWHS
- Agioi Varnavas and Ilarion at Peristerona (Five-domed churches) (T)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Alanya (T)
- Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Amazonia Theaters (T)
- Anavilhanas Ecological Station (T)
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Archaeological Site and Historic Centre of Panamá City (T)
- Archaeological site of Ancient Messene (T)
- Architecture Moderne du XX siècle de la Ville de Montevideo (T)
- Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
- Azraq (T)
- Baiheliang Ancient Hydrological Inscription (T)
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
- Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Çanakkale (Dardanelles) and Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Battles Zones in the First World War (T)
- Canyon du Rio Peruaçu, Minas Gerais (T)
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang : Hangyangdoseong Capital City Wall, Bukhansanseong Mountain Fortress and Tangchundaeseong Defense Wall (T)
- Carmona’s cultural landscape (T)
- Casablanca, Ville du XXème siécle, carrefour d'influences (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Cavernas do Peruaçu Federal Environmental Protection Area (APA) / Veredas Do Peruaçu State Park (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Church of Panagia Aggeloktisti (T)
- City Hall, Georgetown (T)
- City of Tigre and its rowing clubs (T)
- City of York: historic urban core (T)
- Civil Rights Movement Sites (T)
- Daegokcheon Stream Petroglyphs (T)
- Dahshour archaeological area (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Djerdap National Park (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Eastern Arc Mountains Forests of Tanzania (T)
- Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento, Rio de Janeiro (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
- Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (former S-21)/ Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (former Execution Site of S-21) (T)
- Fortress of Spinalonga (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes in Bulgaria (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Serbia) (T)
- Georgetown's Plantation Structure and Historic Buildings (T)
- Gorge of Samaria National Park (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Hala Sultan Tekke and the Larnaka Salt Lake Complex (T)
- Harran and Sanliurfa (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Hell’s Gate National Park (T)
- Hikone-Jo (castle) (T)
- Historic Center of the City of Trujillo (T)
- Hoge Kempen Rural - Industrial Transition Landscape (T)
- Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen (T)
- Inle Lake (T)
- Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Kakamega Forest (T)
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
- Kebun Raya Bogor (T)
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- La Rambla (promenade maritime) de la Cité de Montevideo (T)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom (T)
- Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia (T)
- Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Le plateau des Hautes-Fagnes (T)
- Le tronçon Bavay-Tongres de la chaussée romaine Boulogne-Cologne situe sur le territoire de la Région wallonne (T)
- Les « coules » de Petite Valachie (T)
- Les citadelles mosanes (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (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)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (S) (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas du nord-ouest de l'Europe (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
- Médina de Sfax (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
- Møns Klint (T)
- Mývatn and Laxá (T)
- Nasca Aqueducts (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Old Town of Bar (T)
- Olympic Park Munich (T)
- Orheiul Vechi Archaeological Landscape (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Palais de la Culture, ancien siège du Ministere de l'Education et de la Santé, Rio de Janeiro (T)
- Parc National de la Serra da Bocaina (Sao Paulo - Rio de Janeiro) (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Pietrosul Rodnei (sommet de montagne) (T)
- Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo : Paysage méditerranéen (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Ras al Had Turtle Reserve and the Heritage Site of Ras al Jinz (T)
- Rocks of Belogradchik (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád (T)
- Rundāle Palace Ensemble with a Garden and Forest Park (T)
- Rural Temples of Cusco (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Salt Mines of Maras (T)
- San Pedro de Atacama (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Seruwila to Sri Pada (Sacred Foot Print Shrine), Ancient pilgrim route along the Mahaweli river in Sri Lanka (T)
- Shaubak Castle (Montreal) (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- Sites of the Busan Wartime Capital (T)
- Smederevo Fortress (T)
- St.Georges Anglican Cathedral (T)
- Stone Buddhas and Pagodas at Hwasun Unjusa Temple (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Ancient Waterfront Towns in the South of Yangtze River (T)
- The architectural legacy of Rogelio Salmona: an ethical, political, social and poetic manifesto (T)
- The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
- The Bachkovo Monastery (T)
- The Central Slave and Ivory Trade Route (T)
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá (Ruta Colonial Transístmica de Panamá) (T)
- The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The historic urban site of Počitelj (T)
- The Karlstejn Castle (T)
- The Lofoten islands (T)
- The Magoura cave with drawings from the bronze age. (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Blagaj (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Jajce (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Stolac (T)
- The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
- The Ribeira Sacra, Lugo and Orense (T)
- The Rise of Systematic Biology (T)
- The Roussensky Lom National Park (T)
- The royal necropolis of the Thracian city of Seuthopolis – a serial site, extension of the Kazanlak Thracian tomb (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- The Tara National Park with the Drina River Canyon (T)
- The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery (T)
- The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track (T)
- The Turf House Tradition (T)
- The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic – Heritage of the First World War (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Triolet French Drugstore (Pharmacy Museum) (T)
- Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
- Ver-o-Peso (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Vila Viçosa (T)
- Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
Reviewed TWHS