Randi Thomsen Profile
Together with Svein, we travel around the world to explore and enjoy new WHS, countries, culture and great food. In 2010 we become WHS travellers, when we started planning our trips in order to visit WHS.
Hunting for WHS makes us go off the beaten tracks and brings us to new and exciting places, trying to understand the OUV. Travel is more than seeing new places, it’s about learning history, new culture and enjoy excotic food and drinks.
Recent Reviews Randi Thomsen
Hire Benkal, Megalithic Site (T)
Randi Thomsen Norway - 10-Jan-23

Visit December 2022 together with Philipp Peterer. On our way from Pattadakal to Hampi, we decided to check out this new tent site. So far no one in the community had been here. Not very popular among Indians either. We didn't meet a single person during our two-hour visit to site.
The first step was to figure out how to get there. Google maps is not to be trusted on this
Read OnDholavira: A Harappan City
Randi Thomsen Norway - 10-Jan-23

This is a new site and has very few visitors from our community so far. Dholavira is an old Harappan city dating back to 3000 years BC, so we didn’t expect to see much. But we were surprised!
We, that includes Svein and Phillip, were first on site this December morning and we even had to open the gate. The first structure was a very large reservoir in front of the castle’s eastern gate, impressive! It seems like the ancient civilization living here did very well in mastering the water.
Read OnChongoni Rock Art
Randi Thomsen Norway - 01-Oct-22

Visit in July 2022.
This place is rather remote and gets very few visitors.
The rock art of Chongoni is of international importance because it has large and well-preserved rock paintings sites belonging to rare African rock art traditions: by Chewa farmers and by the hunter gathering BaTwa Pygmies. The Chongoni area contains some of the finest examples of Pygmy, rock arts in Africa and more than half of all of central Africa’s farmer rock art. Chongoni has one of the world’s greatest concentrations of rock art known to have been made by women.
Read OnLake Malawi
Randi Thomsen Norway - 10-Sep-22

July is a very good time of the year to visit this site. The temperature is simply perfect! Two nights on Mumbo Island, which is in the south end of the lake about one hour from Cape MacClear, is just an adventure. The Island has never been populated and is still in its natural state with a thick covering of miombo woodland and ancient fig and baobab trees. The island gives you a Robinson Crusoe feeling, unspoiled in the middle of “an ocean”.
The lodge is run by Kayak Africa, which have a lodge in Cape MacClear as well. The camp has 6-7 cabins which is down to earth, with simple cabins build of reeds, timber, thatch and canvas, bucket showers and eco-loos. The place has neither electricity, wifi or telephone service, but the personal service is impeccable!
Read OnThe Central Slave and Ivory Trade Route (T)
Randi Thomsen Norway - 28-Aug-22

Visit July 2022
Bagamoyo is one on several sub-sites in the tentative site of “The Central Slave and Ivory Trade Route”. It is now a small town, 1,5 hours north of Dar es Salam. We booked a trip by car with driver through our travel agent.
It is a historical town with ruins of early settlement from 1300 century (Kaole), but the town is more famous for its part in slave trades. This was the end of the Central Slave Route with slaves from the area around Lake Tanganyika, Kongo, Uganda. The journey by foot, chained and with little food and water, lasted up to 6-8 months. Many of them never made it all the way to Bagamoyo. Here they were examined and stored. The strongest were sent to slave market in Zanzibar, the rest to plantations along the shore. In late 1800 the trade was abolished by various countries, but trade was secretly going on until 1920’s when it was totally abolished in Tanganyika
Read OnProfile Data
- Name
- Randi Thomsen
- Country
- Norway
- Most Impressive
- There are so many impressive places in the world. I have a special feeling for Natural WHS like Galapagos, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and Norwegian Fjords, but places like Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat and Rome is impressive
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 21.05.23
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- Altamira Cave
- Asturian Monuments
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Atapuerca
- Burgos Cathedral
- Santiago de Compostela
- Las Medulas
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Tower of Hercules
Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Petra 5Pompei 5Rome 5Baalbek 4.5Cordoba 4.5Florence 4.5Namib Sand Sea 4.5Ngorongoro 4.5Nubian Monuments 4.5Plitvice Lakes 4.5Redwood 4.5Serengeti 4.5Sigiriya 4.5Taj Mahal 4.5Anjar 4Brugge 4Budapest 4Butrint 4Carthage 4Elvas 4Ephesus 4Granada 4Hampi 4Hué 4Istanbul 4Mystras 4Ping Yao 4Prague 4Ravenna 4Toledo 4Vienna 4Wadi Rum 4Aachen Cathedral 3.5Altamira Cave 3.5Alto Douro 3.5Amiens Cathedral 3.5Aphrodisias 3.5Assisi 3.5Bamberg 3.5Brú na Bóinne 3.5Caral-Supe 3.5Carlsbad Caverns 3.5Cesky Krumlov 3.5Champagne 3.5Chan Chan 3.5Classical Weimar 3.5Cuzco 3.5Edinburgh 3.5El Pinacate 3.5El Tajin 3.5Garajonay 3.5Ha Long Bay 3.5Hoi An 3.5Humayun's Tomb 3.5Kraków 3.5Lake District 3.5Laponian Area 3.5Loire Valley 3.5Luang Prabang 3.5Matera 3.5Medina of Fez 3.5Mount Etna 3.5My Son 3.5Naples 3.5Nasca Lines 3.5Olympia 3.5Oporto 3.5Paphos 3.5Pattadakal 3.5Pergamon 3.5Plain of Jars 3.5Potsdam 3.5Quito 3.5Quseir Amra 3.5Québec 3.5Rani-ki-Vav 3.5Riga 3.5Salzburg 3.5Segovia 3.5Selimiye Mosque 3.5Siena 3.5Sighisoara 3.5Sinharaja Forest 3.5Sintra 3.5Stonehenge 3.5Surtsey 3.5Syracuse 3.5Temple of Heaven 3.5The Four Lifts 3.5Tiwanaku 3.5Tsodilo 3.5Tugendhat Villa 3.5Tyre 3.5Vat Phou 3.5Vegaøyan 3.5Villa d'Este 3.5Vizcaya Bridge 3.5Albi 3Arequipa 3Avignon 3Belem 3Belfries 3Burgundy 3Byblos 3Chavin 3Cuenca 3Genoa 3Graz 3Kairouan 3Kandy 3Kotor 3Le Havre 3Lima 3Lyon 3Lübeck 3Morelia 3Mostar 3Mérida 3Nessebar 3Orange 3Paquimé 3Pienza 3Puebla 3Rabat 3Reims 3Røros 3Seville 3Split 3Stećci 3Tequila 3Torun 3Trang An 3Trier 3Trogir 3Verona 3Vilnius 3Visby 3Abbey of St Gall 2.5Aquileia 2.5Aranjuez 2.5Arles 2.5As-Salt 2.5Atapuerca 2.5Avila 2.5Ayutthaya 2.5Bahla Fort 2.5Bardejov Town 2.5Bauhaus Sites 2.5Blenheim Palace 2.5Bordeaux 2.5Boyana Church 2.5Bryggen 2.5Caceres 2.5Cahokia Mounds 2.5Canal du Midi 2.5Centennial Hall 2.5Cienfuegos 2.5Curonian Spit 2.5Dong Phayayen 2.5Drottningholm 2.5El Escurial 2.5Elephanta Caves 2.5Evora 2.5Ferrara 2.5Gammelstad 2.5Giant's Causeway 2.5Gwynedd Castles 2.5Hollókö 2.5Hospicio Cabañas 2.5Ibiza 2.5Jelling 2.5Kerkuane 2.5Kondoa 2.5Kronborg Castle 2.5Kyiv 2.5Litomysl Castle 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Mammoth Cave 2.5Mazagan 2.5Medina of Sousse 2.5Medina of Tunis 2.5Meknes 2.5Mir Castle 2.5Modena 2.5Muskauer Park 2.5Nancy 2.5Nesvizh 2.5Nice 2.5Poverty Point 2.5Provins 2.5Qalhat 2.5Querétaro 2.5Red Fort 2.5Regensburg 2.5Reichenau 2.5Saltaire 2.5Sammallahdenmäki 2.5Stari Grad Plain 2.5Tallinn 2.5Tarraco 2.5Telc 2.5Trebic 2.5Troy 2.5Urbino 2.5Valletta 2.5Vredefort Dome 2.5Vézelay 2.5Warsaw 2.5Wartburg Castle 2.5Western Ghats 2.5Xanthos-Letoon 2.5Zamość 2.5Al Ain 2Ivrea 2Corvey 1.5Crespi d'Adda 1.5Danube Limes 1.5Grand Pré 1.5Kernavė 1.5New Lanark 1.5Pearling 1.5Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Art and Architecture in the Prehistory of Sardinia. The domus de janas. (T)
- Augustow Canal (T)
- Azraq (T)
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi (T)
- Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape (T)
- Beng Malea Temple (T)
- Big Bend National Park (T)
- Brandberg National Monument Area (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Cascata delle Marmore and Valnerina: Monastic sites and ancient hydrogeological reclamation works (T)
- Cattolica Monastery in Stilo and Basilian-Byzantine complexes (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre historique de Saida (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Cetinje Historic Core (T)
- Chobe Linyanti System (T)
- Chott El Jerid (T)
- Citadel of Alessandria (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- City of Motovun (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Creswell Crags (T)
- Cultural Landscape of "Cave Towns" of the Crimean Gothia (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (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)
- Edifices for Worship of Fortress Type in Belarus, Poland and Lithuania (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Etosha Pan (T)
- Evolution of Temple Architecture - Aihole-Badami- Pattadakal (T)
- Flow Country (T)
- Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (former S-21)/ Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (former Execution Site of S-21) (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Dacia (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes (Romania) (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes in Bulgaria (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Serbia) (T)
- Geyser in Herlany (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Group of Mozarabic buildings on the Iberian Peninsula (T)
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System (T)
- Habitat troglodytique et le monde des ksour du Sud tunisien (T)
- Heiligenkreuz Abbey (T)
- Hire Benkal, Megalithic Site (T)
- Historic Center of the City of Trujillo (T)
- Historical City Centre of Yogyakarta (T)
- Historical-town planning ensemble of Ston (T)
- Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (T)
- Île de Djerba (T)
- Island of St Helena (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Jozani - Chwaka Bay Conservation Area (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Koh Ker: Archeological site of Ancient Lingapura Or Chok Gargyar (T)
- L'amphitheatre de Durres (T)
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (T)
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural Landscape (T)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- Las Pozas, Xilitla (T)
- Le centre historique de la ville de Batroun (T)
- Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom (T)
- Le complexe hydraulique romain de Zaghouan-Carthage (T)
- Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le site archéologique de Sbeïtla (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France) (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy) (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
- Les Mausolées Royaux de Numidie, de la Maurétanie et les monuments funéraires pré-islamiques (Tunisia) (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 (S) (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Makgadikgadi Pans Landscape (T)
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes (T)
- Marianas Trench Marine National Monument (T)
- Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
- Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Médina de Sfax (T)
- Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)
- Mole National Park (T)
- Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
- Mothia and Lilibeo Island: The Phoenician-Punic Civilization in Italy (T)
- Mount Vernon (T)
- Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof (T)
- Mývatn and Laxá (T)
- National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
- Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia (T)
- Nuruosmaniye Complex (T)
- Oasis de Gabes (T)
- Oasis of Fayoum, hydraulic remains and ancient cultural landscapes (T)
- Okavango Delta (T)
- Old Synagogue and Mikveh in Erfurt - Testimonies of everyday life, religion and town history between change and continuity (T)
- Old Town of Bar (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Parc National d'El Feija (T)
- Petrified Forest National Park (T)
- Phuphrabat Historical Park (T)
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument (T)
- Primošten Vineyards (T)
- Qasr Al-Mushatta (T)
- Rocks of Belogradchik (T)
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese (T)
- Salt Mines of Maras (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Saviour Transfiguration Church and St. Sophia Cathedral in the town of Polatsk (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 along the Uttarapath, Badshahi Sadak, Sadak-e-Azam, Grand Trunk Road (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 of Saytagrah (T)
- SS. Boris and Gleb (Kalozha) Church in the city of Hrodna (T)
- Sun Temple, Modhera and its adjoining monuments (T)
- Svalbard Archipelago (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slovak) (T)
- Talayotic Culture of Minorca (T)
- Temple d’Echmoun (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
- The Central Slave and Ivory Trade Route (T)
- The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio (T)
- The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The historic town of Korcula (T)
- The historical surroundings of Crimean Khans' capital in Bakhchysarai (T)
- The Karlstejn Castle (T)
- The Laponian Area - Tysfjord, the fjord of Hellemobotn and Rago (T)
- The Lofoten islands (T)
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbour - A ‘skipper-town’ from the era of the great tall ships in the 18th and 19th centuries (T)
- The Murge of Altamura (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Jajce (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Rise of Systematic Biology (T)
- The Roussensky Lom National Park (T)
- The Sanctuary of Agios Lot, At Deir 'Ain 'Abata (T)
- The Silver Route (T)
- The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery (T)
- The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track (T)
- The Turf House Tradition (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Torfajökull Volcanic System / Fjallabak Nature Reserve (T)
- Troodos, Mt.Olympus (T)
- Trowulan (T)
- Umm al-Jimal (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Vestfold Ship Burials and Hyllestad Quernstone Quarries (T)
- Villas of the Papal Nobility (T)
- Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (T)
- Welwitschia Plains (T)
- White Sands National Monument (T)
- Worship wooden architecture (17th -18th centuries) in Polesye (T)
- Žatec – the Hops Town (T)
Reviewed TWHS
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library
- Baikonur Cosmodrome / Cape Canaveral
- Cenotes of the Yucatan
- Death Valley National Park
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry
- Mount Rushmore
- Panama Canal
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Rainforests of Polynesia
- Scrovegni's Chapel
- Silk Roads
- Svalbard
- Tempelhof Airport, Berlin