Shandos Cleaver Profile

Shandos Cleaver
Shandos Cleaver.

My WHS journey started properly in 2017, at the start of a multi-year trip to Europe. My husband and I had planned to travel "slowly", but that was quickly forgotten as we criss-crossed Europe ticking off WHS.

Complicating matters was the fact that we were travelling with our dog, a Miniature Dachshund called Schnitzel. Despite not being allowed into many sites, he's probably the dog who's visited the most WHS!

We're pictured here visiting the picturesque town of Edam, in the Netherlands - on a day where we visited the Beemster Polder and part of the Defences of Amsterdam sites.

In the years since, we've made multiple overseas trips targeting WHS, most recently a 3-month trip to South America - finally visiting the continent for the first time after multiple attempts! 

If you're also travelling with a dog, check out my blog, Travelnuity: Dog-Friendly Travel.

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Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala

Shandos Cleaver Australia - 03-Mar-24

Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala

After booking cheap flights to the southern India city of Tiruchirappali (or Trichy for short), we were disappointed that we didn't have quite enough time to visit Kochi. However, I realised that with our spare day, we could visit one of the temples comprising the recently inscribed Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala, just outside of Mysore.

Keshava Temple is located in the village of Somanathapura, a 45 minute drive outside of Mysore. It was quite easy to get there - we asked at the taxi stand opposite the main bus station and close to our hotel, and were immediately offered 1500 rupees for the afternoon trip (only slightly more than the 1200 rupees listed in the 2023 Lonely Planet). Lonely Planet also lists the option of taking a bus to Bannur and then a tuktuk to the temple. 

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Cerrado Protected Areas

Shandos Cleaver Australia - 07-Sep-22

Cerrado Protected Areas

Our visit to the Cerrado Protected Areas was nearly a near miss for us. Arriving at the Movida rental car counter at Brasilia Airport at lunchtime, it ended up taking over 3 hours to pick up our car, mainly because their system didn't like our credit card so couldn't take a deposit (although expect pick-up to be slow regardless). Finally, after trying every alternative and calling our bank, they accepted our debit card instead. (Make sure you have a second credit card if hiring a car in Brazil, just in case!) So, it was a rather late arrival at our pousada in Alto Paraiso de Goias, not helped by a truck crash on the outskirts of Brasilia and endless speed bumps on the rural highway

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Quebrada de Humahuaca

Shandos Cleaver Australia - 07-Sep-22

Quebrada de Humahuaca

Originally when visiting Argentina, we planned to hire a car to visit the Quebrada de Humahuaca. However, a quick search online showed that there were multiple reasonably priced day trips leaving Salta visiting the valley, so we skipped sourcing a rental car and booked two tickets on a day trip.


We booked our day trip with Nordic Travel through Viator, for about $50 USD per person. Our bus seated about 25 passengers and we had a bilingual guide (although only four of us didn't speak Spanish) plus lunch was included.

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Paraty and Ilha Grande

Shandos Cleaver Australia - 07-Sep-22

Paraty and Ilha Grande

There's a lot of options for how to visit the Paraty WHS, which is not surprising considering it is a Mixed site and consists of a number of different locations, including the offshore island of Ilha Grande.


Like previous visitors, our main base for our visit was the town of Paraty. We stayed for three nights just outside the historic centre in one of the many guesthouses. The town is a popular getaway spot for the nearby cities of Rio and Sao Paulo. The weekend after we visited, despite being late winter, nearly everything was booked out for a cachaca festival.

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Portobelo-San Lorenzo

Shandos Cleaver Australia - 23-Jul-22

Portobelo-San Lorenzo

Initially when planning our stopover in Panama City (an easy and cheap option with COPA), we had planned to visit the Panama WHS and the Portobelo part of the Portobelo-San Lorenzo WHS, using public transport. But after seeing how easy driving is in the country (a whole swathe of the country was basically part of the USA for years), we decided to hire a car for the day to visit San Lorenzo and the canal.

Visiting San Lorenzo is easier than it used to be, thanks to the building of a new bridge north of Gatun, the Puente Atlantico. It's an impressive bridge to drive across, and there's no toll. Continue down the road past Fort Sherman, past the old military booth where no-one waved us down

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Profile Data

Name
Shandos Cleaver
Country
Australia
Proposal
Antartica - surely our greatest natural site?

Recently Visited WHS

Update 25.02.24
Rating Stats
Angkor 5
Pompei 5
Prague 5
Rome 5
Uluru 5
Bagan 4.5
Borobudur 4.5
Brugge 4.5
Calakmul 4.5
Dubrovnik 4.5
Meteora 4.5
Iguacu 4
Vienna 4
Warsaw 4
Arequipa 3.5
Assisi 3.5
Avignon 3.5
Belem 3.5
Bordeaux 3.5
Dolomites 3.5
El Tajin 3.5
Hoi An 3.5
Huangshan 3.5
Hué 3.5
Kraków 3.5
Macao 3.5
Matera 3.5
Nikko 3.5
Oporto 3.5
Palenque 3.5
Prambanan 3.5
Puebla 3.5
Quito 3.5
Redwood 3.5
Sanchi 3.5
Siena 3.5
Sigiriya 3.5
Sintra 3.5
Toledo 3.5
Trier 3.5
Uxmal 3.5
Albi 3
Arles 3
Avila 3
Cuenca 3
Cuzco 3
Delos 3
Graz 3
Lima 3
Lyon 3
My Son 3
Naples 3
Orange 3
Pienza 3
Potosi 3
Reims 3
Riga 3
Røros 3
Split 3
Telc 3
Trogir 3
Aquileia 2.5
Aranjuez 2.5
Caceres 2.5
Congonhas 2.5
Corfu 2.5
Evora 2.5
Ferrara 2.5
Genoa 2.5
Goias 2.5
Gyeongju 2.5
Kandy 2.5
Le Havre 2.5
Modena 2.5
Morelia 2.5
Nancy 2.5
Old Rauma 2.5
Pampulha 2.5
Panamá 2.5
Provins 2.5
Red Fort 2.5
Reichenau 2.5
Sucre 2.5
Tarraco 2.5
Tiwanaku 2.5
Torun 2.5
Urbino 2.5
Verona 2.5
Vilnius 2.5
Vézelay 2.5
West Lake 2.5
Corvey 2
Elvas 2
Nice 2
Trebic 2
Ivrea 1.5
Schokland 1.5
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