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.
Visited Sites Shandos Cleaver
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Recent Reviews Shandos Cleaver
Ichkeul National Park
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 07-May-25
Visiting a site like Ichkeul National Park, where it's not clear what if anything you can visit, is a lot harder to plan by public transport than by car. Especially when you've just arrived in the country, aren't yet confident with louages and can't speak French. A staff member at our Tunis hostel recommended we request a permit at the Ministry of Tourism (he had unsuccessfully tried to visit within the last year or two), but other sources said a different department was required.
We decided to go ahead without getting a permit, as we weren't too keen on wasting time in government offices. At the last minute, we changed plans from taking a bus or louage to Mateur to taking a louage to Menzel Bourguiba. After all, the latter city was almost on the edge of the lake - our back-up option to tick off a visit
Read OnLevuka
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 16-Apr-24
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.
Read OnTasmanian Wilderness
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 03-Mar-24
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
Read OnFlinders Ranges (T)
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 03-Mar-24
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
Read OnAustralian Convict Sites
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 03-Mar-24
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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Recently Visited WHS
- Update 30.04.25
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- Djerba
- Dougga/Thugga
- Kairouan
- Medina of Sousse
- Kerkuane
- Amphitheater of El Jem
- Carthage
- Medina of Tunis
- Ichkeul National Park
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23 Countries Complete
Andorra . Austria . Bulgaria . Estonia . Fiji . Finland . Holy See . Luxembourg . Malta . Moldova . Morocco . Nepal . Norway . Paraguay . San Marino . Singapore . Slovakia . Slovenia . Sri Lanka . Switzerland . Tunisia . Uruguay . Viet Nam .Visited WHS
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 4.5Kathmandu Valley 4.5Lord Howe Island 4.5Machu Picchu 4.5Meteora 4.5Te Wahipounamu 4.5Versailles 4.5Wulingyuan 4.5Budapest 4Cordoba 4Iguacu 4Olympia 4Ping Yao 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 3.5Medina of Fez 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 3Dengfeng 3Fujisan 3Graz 3Kairouan 3Kerkuane 3Levuka 3Lima 3Lyon 3Lübeck 3My Son 3Mystras 3Mérida 3Naples 3Nessebar 3Orange 3Pienza 3Potosi 3Potsdam 3Rabat 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 2.5Carthage 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 2.5Lumbini 2.5Medina of Sousse 2.5Meknes 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 2.5Phu Phrabat 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 2.5Yin Xu 2.5Zollverein 2.5Úbeda and Baeza 2.5Belfries 2Campeche 2Corvey 2Djerba 2Elvas 2Hollókö 2Jelling 2Kernavė 2Mazagan 2Nice 2Saltaire 2Trebic 2Camino Real 1.5Danube Limes 1.5Ivrea 1.5Schokland 1.5Stoclet House 1.5Valongo Wharf 1.5Reviewed WHS
- Ichkeul National Park
- Levuka
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Australian Convict Sites
- Western Ghats
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
- Cerrado Protected Areas
- Quebrada de Humahuaca
- Paraty and Ilha Grande
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
- Fray Bentos
- El Tajin
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Liangzhu Archaeological Site
- Gorham's Cave Complex
- Garajonay
Visited TWHS
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Archaeological Site and Historic Centre of Panamá City (T)
- Archaeological Sites of the Ancient Shu State: Site at Jinsha and Joint Tombs of Boat- shaped Coffins in Chengdu City, S (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Australian Cornish Mining Sites: Burra and Moonta (T)
- Birkenhead Park, the pioneering People’s Park (T)
- Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Cal Orck'o: Footprints of time (T)
- Çanakkale (Dardanelles) and Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Battles Zones in the First World War (T)
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang : Hangyangdoseong Capital City Wall, Bukhansanseong Mountain Fortress and Tangchundaeseong Defense Wall (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Chinese Section of the Silk Road (T)
- City of York: historic urban core (T)
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (T)
- Colonial Urban Plan and Fortifications of the Walled City of Manila (T)
- Coron Island Natural Biotic Area (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento, Rio de Janeiro (T)
- El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area (T)
- Flinders Ranges (T)
- Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (former S-21)/ Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (former Execution Site of S-21) (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes (Romania) (T)
- Great Sandy World Heritage Area (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System (T)
- Inle Lake (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- Le complexe hydraulique romain de Zaghouan-Carthage (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 Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Manono, Apolima and Nuulopa Cultural Landscape (T)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Murujuga Cultural Landscape (T)
- Napier Art Deco historic precinct (T)
- Nasca Aqueducts (T)
- Palais de la Culture, ancien siège du Ministere de l'Education et de la Santé, Rio de Janeiro (T)
- Parc National de la Serra da Bocaina (Sao Paulo - Rio de Janeiro) (T)
- Parramatta Female Factory and Institutions Precinct (T)
- Peruvian Central Railway (T)
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument (T)
- Pulacayo, Industrial Heritage Site (T)
- Rural Temples of Cusco (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Salt Mines of Maras (T)
- Semarang Old Town (T)
- Shwedagon Pagoda on Singuttara Hill (T)
- Sites of Saytagrah (T)
- The Chinese Section of the Silk Roads (T)
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá (Ruta Colonial Transístmica de Panamá) (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- The historic town of Korcula (T)
- The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava (T)
- The late ancient tomb of Silistra (T)
- The Lofoten islands (T)
- The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- The Sugar Cultural Landscape of Negros and Panay Islands (T)
- Tilaurakot, the archaeological remains of ancient Shakya Kingdom (T)
- Victorian Goldfields (T)
- Village de Sidi Bou Saïd : Harmonie architecturale et spirituelle en Méditerranée (T)
- Waitangi Treaty Grounds (T)
- Wooden Monasteries of Konbaung Period : Ohn Don, Sala, Pakhangyi, Pakhannge, Legaing, Sagu, Shwe-Kyaung (Mandalay) (T)
Reviewed TWHS