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I have visited many WH sites in the course of both my professional work and as a tourist. The first was the Matopos as a child in 1963, long before the World Heritage Convention was conceived of. I haven't stopped since!
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- Name
- Wait About
- Country
- South Africa
- Most Impressive
- Gunkanjima Island, part of the Meiji Industrial Revolution sites in Japan. Also Pico Island and the Richtersveld.
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 14.07.20
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- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
- Stonehenge
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan
- Persian Garden
- Asmara
- ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape
- Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains
- Qalhat
Visited WHS
Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Abu Dhabi Sabkha (T)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- al Dimaniyyat Islands Nature Reserve (T)
- Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape (T)
- Black River Gorges National Park (T)
- Buenos Aires – La Plata: Two capitals of the Culture of Modernity, Eclecticism and Immigration (T)
- Casablanca, Ville du XXème siécle, carrefour d'influences (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Chinese Section of the Silk Road (T)
- Civil Rights Movement Sites (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Bisya & Salut and its Archaeological Remains (T)
- Darwin's Landscape Laboratory (T)
- ESMA Site Museum - Former Clandestine Centre of Detention, Torture, and Extermination (T)
- Fishriver Canyon (T)
- Gcwihaba Caves (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
- Maputo National Park (formerly Ponto d’ Ouro Partial Marine Reserve - POPMR) (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Mombasa Old Town (T)
- Mount Vernon (T)
- Mulanje Mountain Biosphere Reserve (T)
- Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region (T)
- Okavango Delta (T)
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (T)
- Persian Caravanserai (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Ras al Had Turtle Reserve and the Heritage Site of Ras al Jinz (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slovak) (T)
- Tbilisi Historic District (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Bachkovo Monastery (T)
- The Collection of Historical Bridges (T)
- The Emergence of Modern Humans: The Pleistocene occupation sites of South Africa (T)
- The forts of Rostaq and al-Hazm (T)
- The Historical Village of Abyaneh (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery (T)
- Thomas Jefferson Buildings (T)
- White Sands National Monument (T)
Reviewed TWHS
Top 200 WHS
- Aksum
- Djenné
- Timbuktu
- Harar
- Lamu Old Town
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Pico Island
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Fez
- Meknes
- Tabriz Bazaar
- Samarkand
- Bukhara
- Hué
- Taj Mahal
- Tombs of Buganda Kings
- Blue and John Crow Mountains
- Aflaj irrigation system
- Great Zimbabwe Ruins
- Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara
- Khami Ruins
- Stone Circles of Senegambia
- Macao
- Island of Mozambique
- Olinda
- Old Town of Galle
- Wadi Rum
- Richtersveld
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Mijikenda Kaya Forests
- Le Morne
- Namib Sand Sea
- Vredefort Dome
- New Lanark
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Derwent Valley Mills
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
- Ngorongoro
- Serengeti
- Mana Pools
- Cape Floral Region
- Tsodilo
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Socotra Archipelago
- Dubrovnik
- Budapest
- Robben Island
- Agra Fort
- Crac des Chevaliers
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Bahla Fort
- Red Fort
- Røros
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Mount Kenya
- Maloti Drakensberg
- Rwenzori Mountains
- Al Ain
- Drottningholm
- Fossil Hominid Sites
- Wadi Al-Hitan
- Victoria Falls
- Okavango Delta
- Lake Malawi
- Ohrid Region
- Matobo Hills
- Twyfelfontein
- Chongoni Rock Art
- Kondoa
- Island of Gorée
- Aapravasi Ghat
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- Birka and Hovgarden