Shandos Cleaver Profile
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
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.
Read OnCerrado Protected Areas
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 07-Sep-22
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
Read OnQuebrada de Humahuaca
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 07-Sep-22
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.
Paraty and Ilha Grande
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 07-Sep-22
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.
Portobelo-San Lorenzo
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 23-Jul-22
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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Rating StatsAngkor 5Florence 5Granada 5Istanbul 5Pompei 5Prague 5Rome 5Uluru 5Ancient Kyoto 4.5Bagan 4.5Borobudur 4.5Brugge 4.5Calakmul 4.5Dubrovnik 4.5Grand Canyon 4.5Great Wall 4.5Lord Howe Island 4.5Machu Picchu 4.5Meteora 4.5Te Wahipounamu 4.5Versailles 4.5Wulingyuan 4.5Budapest 4Cordoba 4Iguacu 4Olympia 4Ravenna 4Seville 4Tallinn 4Vienna 4Warsaw 4Aachen Cathedral 3.5Ajanta Caves 3.5Altamira Cave 3.5Ancient Nara 3.5Arequipa 3.5Assisi 3.5Avignon 3.5Bauhaus Sites 3.5Belem 3.5Bordeaux 3.5Brú na Bóinne 3.5Burgos Cathedral 3.5Chola Temples 3.5City of Bath 3.5Dolomites 3.5El Tajin 3.5Ellora Caves 3.5Everglades 3.5Fatehpur Sikri 3.5Fraser Island 3.5Fray Bentos 3.5Guanajuato 3.5Haeinsa Temple 3.5Hoi An 3.5Horyu-ji Area 3.5Huangshan 3.5Humayun's Tomb 3.5Hué 3.5Imperial Tombs 3.5Kinderdijk 3.5Kraków 3.5Macao 3.5Matera 3.5Nikko 3.5Oporto 3.5Ouro Preto 3.5Palenque 3.5Prambanan 3.5Puebla 3.5Quito 3.5Qutb Minar 3.5Rani-ki-Vav 3.5Redwood 3.5Rio de Janeiro 3.5San Gimignano 3.5Sanchi 3.5Siena 3.5Sigiriya 3.5Sintra 3.5Taos Pueblo 3.5Temple of Heaven 3.5Toledo 3.5Tower of London 3.5Trier 3.5Uxmal 3.5Willandra Lakes 3.5Xidi and Hongcun 3.5Xochicalco 3.5Albi 3Arles 3Avila 3Bamberg 3Brasilia 3Bryggen 3Burgundy 3Cuenca 3Cuzco 3Delos 3Fujisan 3Graz 3Lima 3Lyon 3Lübeck 3My Son 3Mystras 3Mérida 3Naples 3Nessebar 3Orange 3Pienza 3Potosi 3Potsdam 3Reims 3Riga 3Røros 3Salzburg 3Segovia 3Split 3Syracuse 3Telc 3Tequila 3Trang An 3Trogir 3Valletta 3Vat Phou 3Vegaøyan 3Zamość 3Aquileia 2.5Aranjuez 2.5Banska Stiavnica 2.5Bardejov Town 2.5Baroque Churches 2.5Bellinzone 2.5Boyana Church 2.5Caceres 2.5Canal du Midi 2.5Congonhas 2.5Corfu 2.5Curonian Spit 2.5Danube Delta 2.5El Escurial 2.5Evora 2.5Fagus Factory 2.5Ferrara 2.5Forth Bridge 2.5Genoa 2.5Goias 2.5Guimarães 2.5Gyeongju 2.5Jongmyo Shrine 2.5Kandy 2.5Kronborg Castle 2.5Kutna Hora 2.5Le Havre 2.5Litomysl Castle 2.5Modena 2.5Morelia 2.5Mount Etna 2.5Muskauer Park 2.5Namhansanseong 2.5Nancy 2.5New Lanark 2.5Old Rauma 2.5Pampulha 2.5Panamá 2.5Pannonhalma 2.5Peking Man Site 2.5Provins 2.5Qhapaq Ñan 2.5Red Fort 2.5Reichenau 2.5Rhaetian Railway 2.5Saint-Emilion 2.5Sambor Prei Kuk 2.5Skocjan Caves 2.5Speyer Cathedral 2.5Stevns Klint 2.5Sucre 2.5Tarraco 2.5Thessalonika 2.5Tiwanaku 2.5Torun 2.5Tusi Sites 2.5Urbino 2.5Val di Noto 2.5Verona 2.5Vilnius 2.5Vézelay 2.5West Lake 2.5Western Ghats 2.5Zollverein 2.5Úbeda and Baeza 2.5Belfries 2Campeche 2Corvey 2Elvas 2Hollókö 2Jelling 2Kernavė 2Nice 2Saltaire 2Trebic 2Camino Real 1.5Danube Limes 1.5Ivrea 1.5Schokland 1.5Stoclet House 1.5Valongo Wharf 1.5Reviewed WHS
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