Shandos Cleaver Profile

I'm a travel blogger originally from Australia, currently travelling full-time around the world with my husband.
To complicate matters, we're also travelling with our Miniature Dachshund, 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.
To read more about our World Heritage Journey, check out our blog: https://worldheritagejourney.com.
To read more about travelling with a dog, check out my blog: https://travelnuity.com.
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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
Read OnJesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 23-Jul-22

In South America, there are at least 4 separate World Heritage Sites related to the Jesuits: the Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos in Bolivia (which are still living towns and churches), the Jesuit Block and Estancias of Cordoba in Argentina, the Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis in Argentina and Brazil, and finally the Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus, the lone site in Paraguay. The latter two sites (all in ruins) could have actually been combined, they are even in the same tourist route, but then far fewer of us would have probably visited Paraguay.
Read OnFray Bentos
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 23-Jul-22

Former industrial sites can be divisive World Heritage Sites. I'm not against industrial sites (partially as they can be interesting to photograph), although a multitude of mining and planned town sites being inscribed can be monotonous. Fray Bentos though stands out as a unique and key site for international meat exports (stock cubes and canned corned beef). In the modern era, you forget how big a development these were. The products from this factory were one of the most important exports of South America, shipped to Europe and used on expeditions of exploration and to supply armies in both WWI and WWII.
Read OnEl Tajin
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 21-Feb-22

After a long closure due to Covid and a hurricane, reports came in early February 2022, while we were still in central Mexico, that El Tajin had re-opened. Not that you could tell from the government website, which still said it was temporarily closed. But reviews on Google Maps clearly showed recent visitors, as well as providing the information that the site was only open Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm, with a maximum of 300 visitors per day.
When arriving at the site, the impact of the hurricane couldn't be seen, although whether due to the hurricane or Covid, the area of the site that you could visit was smaller than for previous visitors
Read OnShirakami-Sanchi
Shandos Cleaver Australia - 08-Nov-19

Initially, we hadn't planned to visit Shirakami-Sanchi on our first trip to Japan. But I realised that we had one day of our 14-day JR Pass possibly going to the waste, so I added a few extra bullet train trips to our itinerary. (We definitely got our money's worth from the pass!)
We choose to visit the Aqua Green Village area, with the aim to hike to Anmon Falls. The falls can be reached by public transport and are within the buffer zone (all that you can visit within the permit required for the core).
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Recently Visited WHS
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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 4.5Ha Long Bay 4.5Lord Howe Island 4.5Meteora 4.5Te Wahipounamu 4.5Versailles 4.5Wulingyuan 4.5Budapest 4Cordoba 4Olympia 4Ravenna 4Seville 4Tallinn 4Vienna 4Warsaw 4Aachen Cathedral 3.5Ajanta Caves 3.5Altamira Cave 3.5Ancient Nara 3.5Assisi 3.5Avignon 3.5Bauhaus Sites 3.5Belem 3.5Bordeaux 3.5Brú na Bóinne 3.5Burgos Cathedral 3.5City of Bath 3.5Cracow 3.5Dolomites 3.5El Tajin 3.5Ellora Caves 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 3.5Macao 3.5Matera 3.5Nikko 3.5Oporto 3.5Palenque 3.5Prambanan 3.5Puebla 3.5Qutb Minar 3.5Rani-ki-Vav 3.5Redwood 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 3Bryggen 3Burgundy 3Cuenca 3Delos 3Fujisan 3Graz 3Lyon 3Lübeck 3My Son 3Mystras 3Mérida 3Naples 3Nessebar 3Orange 3Pienza 3Potsdam 3Reims 3Riga 3Røros 3Salzburg 3Segovia 3Split 3Syracuse 3Telc 3Tequila 3Trang An 3Trogir 3Valletta 3Vat Phou 3Vegaøyan 3Vicenza 3Zamosc 3Aquileia 2.5Aranjuez 2.5Banska Stiavnica 2.5Bardejov Town 2.5Baroque Churches 2.5Bellinzone 2.5Boyana Church 2.5Caceres 2.5Canal du Midi 2.5Corfu 2.5Curonian Spit 2.5Danube Delta 2.5El Escurial 2.5Evora 2.5Fagus Factory 2.5Ferrara 2.5Forth Bridge 2.5Genoa 2.5Guimarães 2.5Gyeongju 2.5Jongmyo Shrine 2.5Kandy 2.5Kronborg Castle 2.5Kutna Hora 2.5Le Havre 2.5Litomysl Castle 2.5Ljubljana 2.5Modena 2.5Morelia 2.5Mount Etna 2.5Muskauer Park 2.5Namhansanseong 2.5Nancy 2.5New Lanark 2.5Old Rauma 2.5Pannonhalma 2.5Peking Man Site 2.5Provins 2.5Red Fort 2.5Reichenau 2.5Rhaetian Railway 2.5Saint-Emilion 2.5Sambor Prei Kuk 2.5Silk Roads 2.5Skocjan Caves 2.5Speyer Cathedral 2.5Stevns Klint 2.5Tarraco 2.5Thessalonika 2.5Torun 2.5Tusi Sites 2.5Urbino 2.5Val di Noto 2.5Verona 2.5Vilnius 2.5Vézelay 2.5West Lake 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 1.5Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Archaeological Site and Historic Centre of Panamá City (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Cal Orck'o: Footprints of time (T)
- Çanakkale (Dardanelles) and Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Battles Zones in the First World War (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Chinese Section of the Silk Road (T)
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (T)
- Coron Island Natural Biotic Area (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (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)
- El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area (T)
- ESMA Site Museum - Former Clandestine Centre of Detention, Torture, and Extermination (T)
- Fagaloa Bay - Uafato Tiavea Conservation Zone (T)
- Flinders Ranges (T)
- Gaya Tumuli (T)
- Great Sandy World Heritage Area (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System (T)
- Historical City Centre of Yogyakarta (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Inle Lake (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (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)
- National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
- Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
- Peruvian Central Railway (T)
- Phuphrabat Historical Park (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)
- Seoul City Wall (T)
- Shwedagon Pagoda on Singuttara Hill (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (Belgium) (T)
- Sites of Saytagrah (T)
- The Burren (T)
- The Central Axis of Beijing (including Beihai) (T)
- The Chinese Section of the Silk Roads (T)
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá (Ruta Colonial Transístmica de Panamá) (T)
- The Historic City of Dublin (T)
- The historic town of Korcula (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)
- Waitangi Treaty Grounds (T)
- Wooden Monasteries of Konbaung Period : Ohn Don, Sala, Pakhangyi, Pakhannge, Legaing, Sagu, Shwe-Kyaung (Mandalay) (T)
Reviewed TWHS