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Eastern Arc Mountains Forests of Tanzania (T)
Patrik Netherlands - 12-Apr-21
I visited the Amani forest reserve in januari 2019. I traveled by bus from the coastal town of Tanga and changed in Muheza. There is a daladala (local small bus) up to Amani around 13.00h. The daladala does not depart from the main road but a bit further. A motorbike taxi brought me to the daladala. I thought I was lucky to have caught the daladala just on time but luggage and goods kept being stocked into the daladala. It was not until 15.00h before we started moving. There was a discussion and two women were left behind, looking very upset. I just hoped the discussion was not about me for occupying their seat.
Read OnThe Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track (T)
Patrik Netherlands - 11-Apr-21
I was staying in the hills near Benevento in August 2020 and it was rather hot to go for hikes, and I found out that Saepinium was not very far. For some reason, the title used for the tentative site reminded me of Murakami's book 'A wild sheep chase'. Alas, in Saepinium, the sheep turned out to be about as elusive as in the book.
The region feels rather remote and deserted and it came as a surprise to see the parking almost full. It seemed there just had been an event, I would expect the place more or less deserted in general
Read OnResidences of the Royal House of Savoy
Patrik Netherlands - 07-Apr-21
Early July 2020, I stayed in a Piedmonte countryside apartment near Turin for a week and visited all the buildings included in the inscription.
At the tourist office in Turin, I bought the 'Royal Card Torino' which costs €35 and is valid for 7 days, a substantial saving on the regular entrance fees. In addition to the palaces in Turin and Piedmonte, it includes also access to the rooftop of the Superga Basilica and a tour of the Royal Tombs below the Basilica, which are an interesting addition to the palaces. The Royal apartments at Superga were closed.
Read OnTroy
Patrik Netherlands - 25-Feb-21
I visited Troy on the 18th of March 2020 and the place was almost empty. It was an emotional visit. I had been traveling for almost three years now and the evening before I had made a decision to return home. In the week before it had become clear that Turkey was not immune for covid19 either and nothing could be taken for granted anymore. Will the public transport still run? Will the site be open? Will they close the hotels? Troy would be the last visit on my travel and I did not know when I would be able to travel again.
Read OnLake Naivasha (T)
Patrik Netherlands - 28-Jul-20
I spent a week in Naivasha in February 2019 and used it as a base to visit the lake, Mount Longonot and Hell's Gate national parks. The lake itself is a bit away from the town but one can walk there through dry areas of land that I assume will flood during the rainy season.
The south side has big horticulture farms, an industry that needs a lot of water and workers. The end of the day sees innumerable busses shuttling workers from the farms to the town. The reverse probably happens in the morning at dawn but I was not present to witness that.
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- Alanya (T)
- Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Archaeological site of Ancient Messene (T)
- Architecture Moderne du XX siècle de la Ville de Montevideo (T)
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centro Storico di Lucca (T)
- Centro Storico di Pavia e Certosa (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Dahshour archaeological area (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Eastern Arc Mountains Forests of Tanzania (T)
- Eise Eisinga Planetarium (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago (T)
- Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone (extension) (T)
- Historical City Centre of Yogyakarta (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Inle Lake (T)
- Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento (T)
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
- Kaunas 1919-1939: The Capital Inspired by the Modern Movement (T)
- Kebun Raya Bogor (T)
- Koloniën van Weldadigheid (agricultural pauper colony) (T)
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
- Lake Naivasha (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (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 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 citadelles mosanes (T)
- Les grandes villes d'eaux d'Europe (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (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)
- Médina de Sfax (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge (T)
- Mombasa Old Town (T)
- National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Nice, la ville neuve née du tourisme, ou l’invention de la Riviera (T)
- Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie (T)
- Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo : Paysage méditerranéen (T)
- Ras al Had Turtle Reserve and the Heritage Site of Ras al Jinz (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala (T)
- San Pedro de Atacama (T)
- Seruwila to Sri Pada (Sacred Foot Print Shrine), Ancient pilgrim route along the Mahaweli river in Sri Lanka (T)
- ShUM cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (T)
- Site of the Retiro and the Prado in Madrid (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (Belgium) (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- Sites of Globalization (T)
- Southwest Coast (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
- Taormina and Isola Bella (T)
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- The Burren (T)
- The Central Slave and Ivory Trade Route (T)
- The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains (T)
- The Historic City of Dublin (T)
- The historic town of Korcula (T)
- The Kakemega Forest (T)
- The Lofoten islands (T)
- The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
- The Porticoes of Bologna (T)
- The Ribeira Sacra, Lugo and Orense (T)
- The Rise of Systematic Biology (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses (T)