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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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Levuka

Shandos Cleaver Australia - 16-Apr-24

Levuka

Levuka is not an easy site to get to, even if you start on the right side of the world in Sydney, Australia. From Sydney, it's a just a quick 4-5hr flight to Nadi, the main airport in Fiji, from where most people head directly to resorts. But then you need to get to Suva, on the other side of Viti Levu, either a short flight or a 4-5hr bus ride. And Levuka is located on the small island of Ovalau, just off the coast to the north. Previously, there were flights to Ovalau, but there haven't been commercial flights now for multiple years due to the state of the runway. Instead, it's a 4-5hr trip by a bus/ferry combo.

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Tasmanian Wilderness

Shandos Cleaver Australia - 03-Mar-24

Tasmanian Wilderness

The Tasmanian Wilderness WHS is huge, covering nearly a quarter of the island of Tasmania. Within the WHS are included seven national parks and multiple other conservation areas. The below reviews concentrate mainly on Cradle Mountain-Lake St Claire National Park, which is deservedly a highlight, but I want to share some more ideas for exploring this WHS, based on my three visits to Tasmania over the years.

Mount Field National Park: The easiest part of this WHS to visit from Hobart is actually Mount Field National Park, less than a 2 hour drive from the centre of Hobart

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Flinders Ranges (T)

Shandos Cleaver Australia - 03-Mar-24

Flinders Ranges (T)

The Flinders Ranges is a well-known tourist destination in South Australia, about a 5 hour drive north of Adelaide in a semi-arid region. It's best known for its beautiful landscapes and hiking, but if you dig further you will discover its important geological records, the reason for this site being added to the tentative list.

Over the years I've visited the region 3 times, firstly as a kid with my family. On my second visit to the region in 2009, we drove along the Brachina Gorge Drive in the north of the park, which has a number of interesting signposted stops to explore the geology of the region

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Australian Convict Sites

Shandos Cleaver Australia - 03-Mar-24

Australian Convict Sites

Growing up in Australia, one of the main subjects of our history classes were convicts. Nearly all of the Australian state capitals were firstly settled by Europeans as convict penal settlements, the destination for criminals sent from England during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It's hard to understand the reasoning behind this decision these days (at the time it was a six month plus voyage!) Regardless, it led to the colonisation of Australia by Britain, and many white inhabitants of the country (myself included) can trace their roots to convicts.

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Parramatta Female Factory and Institutions Precinct (T)

Shandos Cleaver Australia - 03-Mar-24

Parramatta Female Factory and Institutions Precinct (T)

By a funny coincidence, the day that I read of this new Australian site being added to the tentative list, I was already planning on visiting Parramatta (the Wistaria Gardens with their cherry blossom trees in bloom, on the edge of the Old Government House and Domain location for the existing Australian Convict Sites). Usually most new tentative sites are on the other side of the world and require a 24 hour flight, but this only required a 10 minute detour on foot (the existing convict site and this new proposed site are almost adjacent, on opposite sides of the Parramatta River, and easy to visit together).

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

Recently Visited WHS

Update 16.04.24
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
Levuka 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
  1. Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
  2. Archaeological Site and Historic Centre of Panamá City (T)
  3. Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
  4. Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble (T)
  5. Brooklyn Bridge (T)
  6. Cal Orck'o: Footprints of time (T)
  7. Çanakkale (Dardanelles) and Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Battles Zones in the First World War (T)
  8. Capital Fortifications of Hanyang : Hangyangdoseong Capital City Wall, Bukhansanseong Mountain Fortress and Tangchundaeseong Defense Wall (T)
  9. Central Park (T)
  10. Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
  11. Chinese Section of the Silk Road (T)
  12. City of York: historic urban core (T)
  13. City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (T)
  14. Colonial Urban Plan and Fortifications of the Walled City of Manila (T)
  15. Coron Island Natural Biotic Area (T)
  16. Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
  17. Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
  18. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
  19. Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
  20. Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento, Rio de Janeiro (T)
  21. El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area (T)
  22. Flinders Ranges (T)
  23. Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (former S-21)/ Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (former Execution Site of S-21) (T)
  24. Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes (Romania) (T)
  25. Great Sandy World Heritage Area (T)
  26. Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
  27. Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System (T)
  28. Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
  29. Inle Lake (T)
  30. Khor Dubai (T)
  31. Lake Titicaca (T)
  32. Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
  33. Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
  34. Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
  35. Manono, Apolima and Nuulopa Cultural Landscape (T)
  36. Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
  37. Murujuga Cultural Landscape (T)
  38. Napier Art Deco historic precinct (T)
  39. Nasca Aqueducts (T)
  40. National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
  41. Palais de la Culture, ancien siège du Ministere de l'Education et de la Santé, Rio de Janeiro (T)
  42. Parc National de la Serra da Bocaina (Sao Paulo - Rio de Janeiro) (T)
  43. Parramatta Female Factory and Institutions Precinct (T)
  44. Peruvian Central Railway (T)
  45. Phuphrabat Historical Park (T)
  46. Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument (T)
  47. Pulacayo, Industrial Heritage Site (T)
  48. Rural Temples of Cusco (T)
  49. Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
  50. Salt Mines of Maras (T)
  51. Semarang Old Town (T)
  52. Shwedagon Pagoda on Singuttara Hill (T)
  53. Sites of Saytagrah (T)
  54. The Central Axis of Beijing (including Beihai) (T)
  55. The Chinese Section of the Silk Roads (T)
  56. The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá (Ruta Colonial Transístmica de Panamá) (T)
  57. The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
  58. The historic town of Korcula (T)
  59. The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava (T)
  60. The late ancient tomb of Silistra (T)
  61. The Lofoten islands (T)
  62. The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
  63. The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
  64. The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
  65. The Sugar Cultural Landscape of Negros and Panay Islands (T)
  66. Waitangi Treaty Grounds (T)
  67. Wooden Monasteries of Konbaung Period : Ohn Don, Sala, Pakhangyi, Pakhannge, Legaing, Sagu, Shwe-Kyaung (Mandalay) (T)