Philipp Peterer Profile
I started focusing my trips on WHS in 2008. Since I leave in Europe, I could greatly increase my count in the following years. Nowadays my yearly goal is to visit more sites than are added the same year.
My trips are usually rather spontaneous and I try to maximize the time I have available by adding as many WHS and TWHS as possible, preferably completing countries or regions in one visit. For efficiency, my preferred method of transport is the combination of airplane and rental car. I’ve been driving a car in more than 50 countries, including Lebanon or India.
A major obsession of mine is to visit WHS with good weather conditions. I move or cancel trips if the forecast is bad. I also have a “revisit needed” list and travel back to WHS, where I had, sometimes due to bad weather, an unsatisfying visit.
In the upcoming years, I will shift my focus to more exotic and harder to reach sites. I also plan to keep up travelling with those community members that became good friends. No better way to celebrate a milestone or finding a hidden TWHS after navigating your car through rice fields than with fellow enthusiasts.
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Recent Reviews Philipp Peterer
Workers’ Assembly Halls (Argentina) (T)
Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 23-Feb-24
I see a lot of potential in this nomination. The CTG is the biggest syndicate in Argentina, a country that loves (and is probably partially ruined by) syndicates. This topic is not represented on the list, so it would fill a gap. The building itself was inaugurated 1950 by Juan Perón and was built in Rationalism style. It survived the military dictatorship and is still in use. Unfortunately, it is currently not open to public, but this could change in case of a successful inscription.
I passed the building on a walk through the city centre. It’s just a few blocks from the Casa Rosada (the Argentinian White House) and close to the interesting Mercado San Telmo, the fancy Perto Madero and Siga La Vaca, the one restaurant that every Uber driver recommended to us
Read OnESMA Site Museum
Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 23-Feb-24
Frederic and Joel covered the site pretty well, so I will try to add a few information from my side as the first reviewer after that visited the site after the inscription.
Important to mention is, [...]
Read OnSaint Catherine Area
Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 18-Jan-24
Most has been mentioned about the monastery itself, so I won’t go into details. According to their website, the monastery is closed on Friday and Sunday, so I picked Saturday to go there. Further the museum and church closed at 11:30 that day, so better early if you want to visit them. We also skipped visiting the mountain. If you are not religious, there is in my opinion little incentive to climb such a mountain.
I went to the monastery from Sharm El Sheikh by rental car and apart from the usual [...]
Read OnMahabalipuram
Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 12-Jan-23
Visit January 2023 - This is one of the sites I struggle to pronounce even after I visited. Still I think Maha Bali Puram (that is how I try to memorize it) is a great site and should be mentioned when talking about India’s best sites.
We took a taxi from Chennai. I offered a generous 3000Rp flat to bring us there, drive us from site to site and drive us back. Be aware that traffic inside the zone is terrible. If you travel without children or elderly, I suggest you walk between locations.
Read OnDholavira: A Harappan City
Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 12-Jan-23
Visit December 2022 – I planned this visit together with Randi and Svein. As Randi described the site very well in her review, I will focus on the logistics.
How to get there
We arrived in Ahmadabad with an early morning flight from BOM. Svein hat prebooked a rental car with Europcar that should have been brought to us at the arrival. As nothing really works as planned in India, we finally took off with a car with driver and around 2.5h delay. The driver took us via Modhera TWHS and Rani Ki Vav WHS to Dholavira. It’s a more than 6h drive from Rani Ki Vav. After spending the night in Dholavira, we visited the site in the morning (around 8am to 11am) and spent the rest of the day driving back to Ahmadabad. The drive takes over 8h, plus lunch and coffee breaks.
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Recently Visited WHS
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Baalbek 5Granada 5Meteora 5Palenque 5Petra 5Rome 5Segovia 5Sintra 5Brugge 4.5Bryggen 4.5Calakmul 4.5Cesky Krumlov 4.5Chavin 4.5Chichen-Itza 4.5Cuzco 4.5Dong Phayayen 4.5Florence 4.5Grand Canyon 4.5Great Wall 4.5Gwynedd Castles 4.5Imperial Palace 4.5Kraków 4.5Mount Etna 4.5Nasca Lines 4.5Nubian Monuments 4.5Oporto 4.5Plitvice Lakes 4.5Pompei 4.5Prague 4.5Rila Monastery 4.5Salamanca 4.5Siena 4.5Sigiriya 4.5Taj Mahal 4.5Teotihuacan 4.5Vatican City 4.5Versailles 4.5Wadi Al-Hitan 4.5Wadi Rum 4.5Yungang Grottoes 4.5Assisi 4Avignon 4Avila 4Bamberg 4Belem 4Budapest 4Byblos 4Cordoba 4Cuenca 4El Tajin 4Elvas 4Ephesus 4Evora 4Hampi 4Istanbul 4Jeju 4Kotor 4Le Morne 4Masada 4Mostar 4Mystras 4Naples 4Paphos 4Potsdam 4Québec 4Reims 4Rhodes 4Røros 4Salzburg 4Sanchi 4Seville 4Split 4Syracuse 4Telc 4Toledo 4Trier 4Uxmal 4Vienna 4Vilnius 4Warsaw 4Aachen Cathedral 3.5Albi 3.5Alto Douro 3.5Anjar 3.5Aranjuez 3.5Ayutthaya 3.5Banska Stiavnica 3.5Bardejov Town 3.5Biblical Tells 3.5Burgos Cathedral 3.5Butrint 3.5Caceres 3.5Camino Real 3.5Canterbury 3.5Caral-Supe 3.5Castel del Monte 3.5Curonian Spit 3.5Delos 3.5Dolomites 3.5El Escurial 3.5Epidaurus 3.5Ferrara 3.5Garajonay 3.5Gaya Tumuli 3.5Giant's Causeway 3.5Göbekli Tepe 3.5Jantar Mantar 3.5Kandy 3.5Kew Gardens 3.5Kinderdijk 3.5Kronborg Castle 3.5Lima 3.5Lyon 3.5Lübeck 3.5Mafra 3.5Mammoth Cave 3.5Matera 3.5Mazagan 3.5Modernist Kaunas 3.5Monticello 3.5Muskauer Park 3.5Namhansanseong 3.5Neolithic Orkney 3.5Old City of Acre 3.5Olympia 3.5Orange 3.5Pattadakal 3.5Pergamon 3.5Poblet Monastery 3.5Pont du Gard 3.5Provins 3.5Querétaro 3.5Rani-ki-Vav 3.5Ravenna 3.5Rhaetian Railway 3.5Rideau Canal 3.5Rio de Janeiro 3.5Robben Island 3.5Rock Art of Alta 3.5San Gimignano 3.5Santo Domingo 3.5Schönbrunn 3.5Sian Ka'an 3.5Sighisoara 3.5Sinharaja Forest 3.5Stevns Klint 3.5Stonehenge 3.5Strasbourg 3.5Surtsey 3.5Tarraco 3.5Temple of Heaven 3.5Tlacotalpan 3.5Tower of London 3.5Trebic 3.5Trogir 3.5Tyre 3.5Urbino 3.5Val di Noto 3.5Valletta 3.5Verona 3.5Villa d'Este 3.5Vizcaya Bridge 3.5Vlkolinec 3.5Volubilis 3.5Vézère Valley 3.5Westminster 3.5Zamość 3.5Arequipa 3Arles 3Belfries 3Bordeaux 3Campeche 3Corfu 3Divrigi 3Graz 3Ibiza 3Le Havre 3Macao 3Meknes 3Modena 3Mérida 3Nessebar 3Pearling 3Pienza 3Saltaire 3Torun 3Vegaøyan 3Aquileia 2.5Burgundy 2.5Carthage 2.5Champagne 2.5Drottningholm 2.5Forth Bridge 2.5Genoa 2.5Hospicio Cabañas 2.5Imperial Tombs 2.5Ironbridge Gorge 2.5Kairouan 2.5Karlskrona 2.5Kutna Hora 2.5Medina of Fez 2.5Medina of Sousse 2.5Medina of Tunis 2.5Morelia 2.5Nancy 2.5Nice 2.5Panamá 2.5Peking Man Site 2.5Puebla 2.5Red Fort 2.5Regensburg 2.5Stećci 2.5Tequila 2.5Thingvellir 2.5Vézelay 2.5Úbeda and Baeza 2.5Gyeongju 2Hollókö 2Hopewell 2Ivrea 2Kerkuane 2Al Ain 1.5Atapuerca 1.5Bahla Fort 1.5Bauhaus Sites 1.5Bridgetown 1.5Canal du Midi 1.5Corvey 1.5Luther Memorials 1.5Qalhat 1.5ShUM Sites 1.5Stari Grad Plain 1.5Troy 1.5Van Nellefabriek 1.5Jelling 1Kernavė 1As-Salt 0.5Battir 0.5Beemster Polder 0.5Danube Limes 0.5Hortobágy 0.5Lenggong Valley 0.5Madara Rider 0.5Stoclet House 0.5Valongo Wharf 0.5Reviewed WHS
- ESMA Site Museum
- Saint Catherine Area
- Mahabalipuram
- Dholavira: A Harappan City
- Abbey of St Gall
- Lower German Limes
- Nemrut Dag
- As-Salt
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flat
- Baekje Historic Areas
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Medina of Sousse
- Anjar
- Byblos
- Dilmun Burial Mounds
- Cuzco
- Valongo Wharf
- Manu National Park
- Atlantic Forest South-East
- Aphrodisias
- Rio de Janeiro
- Huascaran National Park
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Kairouan
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
- Vredefort Dome
- Garajonay
- Medina of Tunis
- Kerkuane
- Ichkeul National Park
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Le Morne
- Aapravasi Ghat
- Sukhothai
- Pearling
- Al Zubarah
- Bridgetown
- Robben Island
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
Visited TWHS
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