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Vat Phou
Timonator Germany - 03-Aug-24
One more review to give a post-Covid view on how things are working today.
The temple lies about 15 km down the road from small town Champasak. I stayed in Champasak after coming from Ayutthaya. I took the night train to Ubon Ratchathani (About 9 hours, slim but comfortable beds with privacy curtain, about 20 USD, arriving at 06:15 a.m.) and then the Bus from Ubon to Pakse at 09:30 a.m. from the bus terminal in Ubon. You have to cross the city to reach the bus terminal from train terminal e.g. by Grab, Tuk Tuk or taxi. The bus waits at the border to Laos keeping the big luaggage inside where I got my 60 day Visa for 40 USD (I was expecting to only get 30 days). The bus reached Pakse bus station at shortly after 12
Read OnPreah Khan Kompong Svay (T)
Timonator Germany - 21-Aug-24
We have visited this big temple area in the forest on our way from Kompong Thom (base for Sambor Prei Kuk) to the BeTreed Adventures Eco Project. Actually the temple was a recommendation from Sharyn who runs BeTreed with her husband Ben for many years to stop along the way. We had to tell our private driver arranged by BeTreed to return as he had already passed the place. I only found out later that it´s a tentative WHS. I was only semi keen on visiting the temple at that moment of time as I had already seen quite a few of the Khmer WHS temples and was expecting similar.
Read OnBan Chiang
Timonator Germany - 21-May-24
The worldheritagesite in Ban Chiang relates to the remains of the Ban Chiang culture that was named after the village that developed on the site where the ancient culture has lived around 200 years ago when settlers moved there from the territory that is today Laos. The site is famous for the pottery which was most famously used for burial rituals and that can be split into three time intervals between around 5,000 years ago and 2,000 years ago. Additionally remains of bronze and iron processing have been found often next to skeletons. We have visited the three components that are presented in the leaflet available in the national museum of Ban Chiang
Read OnDong Phayayen
Timonator Germany - 21-May-24
We've done the full day tour in Khao Yai National Park and stayed overnight in the park after the tour. The second day we did the trail number 1 close to the visitor center and afterwards another half day tour by our recommandable operator Greenleaf outside the national park which however was the most memorable visit. For the full day tour we were picked up early in the morning by a Greenleaf driver at our hostel in Pak Chong which is connected by a train line to Ayutthaya and Bangkok. The car brought us to the operators' place on the road towards the most popular entrance of the huge Khao Yai NP. This area of the road is still full of commercial life incl
Read OnSi Thep
Timonator Germany - 18-May-24
I chose the nearby city of Lam Narai based on various factors including Thomas' review with transportation options as a base to explore Si Thep. It has a "Grand Hotel" (600 THB per night), a train station that is a 2 hour direct ride away from Ayutthaya and some other city advantages like restaurants, transport etc.. It turned out that a car rental with taxi driver would only work our at 2500 THB for a full day which was too much for us as we paid the same for the two national park visits in the west of Thailand which involved much more driving (around 200 km vs. 60 km to Si Thep and back). However our hotel reception arranged us a Tuk Tuk for 1000 THB for 5 hours for the next day which worked perfectly fine
Read OnRecently Visited WHS
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Cambodia . Chile . Holy See . Laos . Luxembourg . Paraguay . Peru . Singapore . Viet Nam .Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Rapa Nui 5Dubrovnik 4.5Great Wall 4.5Istanbul 4.5Los Glaciares 4.5Machu Picchu 4.5Te Wahipounamu 4.5Arequipa 4Chavin 4Hoi An 4Iguacu 4Seville 4Ayutthaya 3.5Chan Chan 3.5Cuzco 3.5Dengfeng 3.5Dong Phayayen 3.5Hué 3.5Imperial Palace 3.5Kaiping Diaolou 3.5Peninsula Valdes 3.5Rila Monastery 3.5Schönbrunn 3.5Sucre 3.5Sukhothai 3.5Temple of Heaven 3.5Vat Phou 3.5Koh Ker 3Lima 3My Son 3Potosi 3Si Thep 3Tiwanaku 3Ban Chiang 2.5Nasca Lines 2.5Plain of Jars 2.5Lenggong Valley 1.5Qhapaq Ñan 0.5Reviewed WHS
- Vat Phou
- Ban Chiang
- Dong Phayayen
- Si Thep
- Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
- Lenggong Valley
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Rio Abiseo National Park
- Huascaran National Park
- Chan Chan
- Chavin
- Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex
- Caral-Supe
- Nasca Lines
- Manu National Park
- Machu Picchu
- Arequipa
- Chinchorro Culture
- Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
- Tiwanaku
- Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
- El Fuerte de Samaipata
- Sucre
- Potosi
- Quebrada de Humahuaca
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya
- Sewell Mining Town
- Valparaiso
- Rapa Nui
- Churches of Chiloé
- Los Alerces National Park
- Cueva de las Manos
- Los Glaciares
- Peninsula Valdes
- Dubrovnik
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Fray Bentos
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
Visited TWHS
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Cal Orck'o: Footprints of time (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Chachapoyas sites of the Utcubamba Valley (T)
- Chinese Section of the Silk Road (T)
- City of Tigre and its rowing clubs (T)
- Cueva de las Manos and associated sites of the Pinturas river basin (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (former S-21)/ Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (former Execution Site of S-21) (T)
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System (T)
- Historic Center of the City of Trujillo (T)
- Iconic Riverfront of the Historic City of Varanasi (T)
- Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Kahurangi National Park, Farewell Spit and Canaan karst system (T)
- La Moneda Palace (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France) (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy) (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
- Napier Art Deco historic precinct (T)
- Nasca Aqueducts (T)
- Olympic Park Munich (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- San Pedro de Atacama (T)
- Templo San Buenaventura de Yaguaron (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- The ancient complex of Preah Khan Kompong Svay (T)
- The broader region of Mount Olympus (T)
- The Chinese Section of the Silk Roads (T)
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
- The Lijiang River Scenic Zone at Guilin (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Padang Civic Ensemble (T)
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins National Parks, Region of Magallanes (T)
- Waitangi Treaty Grounds (T)
- Wineries and Vineyards for traditional Pisco Production (T)
- Yerba Mate Cultural Landscape (T)
Reviewed TWHS