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Chinchorro Culture
Walter Switzerland - 20-Sep-22
The property centers around the Chinchorro people who lived in the arid coastal area of the Atacama Desert (in northern Chile and southern Peru), from around 5000 BC to 1000 BC. They were marine hunters-gatherers and are known for having left behind the oldest know artificial mummification of bodies (predating the Egyptian mummies). The Chinchoro mummified all the dead, including children and even miscarried fetuses.Over the centuries, the mummification process complexified with dismembering and reassembling the bodies and the use of artificial clay face masks
Read OnTajik National Park
Walter Switzerland - 20-Sep-19
This propriety covers more than 2.5 million hectares in the east of Tajikistan, about 18% of the national territory, at the center of the so-called “Pamir Knot”, a meeting point of the highest mountain ranges on the Eurasian continent. It consists of high plateaux in the east and, to the west, rugged peaks, some of them over 7,000 meters high.
Visit to this propriety is difficult, because it is the remotest part of Tajikistan. Even if independent travel is possible, I would recommend to travel with a local guide or through a guided tour
Read OnSilk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan (T)
Walter Switzerland - 12-Sep-19
This serial nomination consists of 14 proprieties, assembled in six different groups. One group (The Upper Chui Valley with its three elements), is already on the WHS as part of the Chang’an-Tianshan Corridor Silk Roads.
I had the chance to visit some of those proprieties on my trip to Central Asia in June 2019
First, I headed with a rental car in the southeastern high-mountainous part of Kyrgystan, some 300 km from Bishkek, arounf the town of Naryn. It is where the first group (the nomadic monuments of Inner Tien Shan) lie. I visited two proprieties, Koshoi-Korgon and Tash-Rabat and had a quick look at a third one.
Read OnSilk Roads Sites in Tajikistan (T)
Walter Switzerland - 03-Sep-19
This serial nomination has 8 different proprieties, six of them having an additional specific entry as their own on the tentative list. I had a chance to visit four of them on my trip to Central Asia in June 2019. Ancient Penjikent and Ancient Town of Khulbuk are reviewed on their specific entries.
Two components are therefore reviewed: Yamchun Castle and Hissar Castle.
These two castles stand on two totally different extremes. Hissar is heavily reconstructed, extremely popular with Tadjik for wedding, and very close to Dushanbe. Yamchun is in the empty, isolated and magnificent Wakham valley, in the extreme south of Tadjikistan, about two days drive (on very very bad roads) from Dushanbe.
Read OnKhulbuk – the capital of ancient Khuttal (T)
Walter Switzerland - 24-Aug-19
Hulbuk is a medieval town on Southern Tadjikistan, in the village of Kurban Shaid (Pingan on google map, near Vose). It lies next to the main road from Dushanbe to Kulab (and from there to the Pamir highway).
It is on the TL as “Palace of the Governor”, but appears for to be for examination in 2020 (although incomplete) as ”medieval town”. It also appears on “Silk Roads in Tadjikistan” project, sometimes written Khulbuk, sometimes Hulbuk.
Hulbuk was the capital of the Banijuridsm, Turco-Iranian dynasty reigning ca 847 to 963, vassals of the Samanids (who ruled Samarcande) and their successors, until its destruction, probably by the Mongols.
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsAni 5Baalbek 5Florence 5Granada 5Kotor 5Petra 5Pompei 5Prague 5Rome 5Valletta 5Iguacu 4.5Los Glaciares 4.5Ouro Preto 4.5Teotihuacan 4.5Uluru 4.5Yakushima 4.5Anjar 4Assisi 4Avignon 4Budapest 4Caceres 4Cordoba 4Istanbul 4Kraków 4Lyon 4Mostar 4Mtskheta 4Naples 4Oporto 4Riga 4Salzburg 4Seville 4Tallinn 4Tanbaly 4Vilnius 4Wadi Rum 4Arles 3.5Diamantina 3.5Goias 3.5Potosi 3.5Salamanca 3.5Sheki 3.5Split 3.5Aquileia 3Avila 3Bamberg 3Belem 3Bryggen 3Butrint 3Cuzco 3Ephesus 3Ferrara 3Genoa 3Gyeongju 3Ivrea 3Kernavė 3Modena 3Nancy 3Potsdam 3Québec 3Røros 3Segovia 3Sintra 3Stećci 3Sucre 3Telc 3Tiwanaku 3Toledo 3Trebic 3Trogir 3Urbino 3Verona 3Vienna 3Visby 3Vézelay 3Lima 2.5Nesvizh 2.5Pampulha 2.5Sarazm 2.5Tyre 2.5Valongo Wharf 2.5Bordeaux 2Corvey 2Cuenca 2Elvas 2Evora 2Ibiza 2Jelling 2Lübeck 2Mérida 2Orange 2Pienza 2Torun 2Trier 2Warsaw 2Aranjuez 1.5Arslantepe Mound 1.5Battir 1.5Byblos 1.5Corfu 1.5Divrigi 1.5Guanacaste 1.5Carthage 1Graz 1Tarraco 1Beemster Polder 0.5Centennial Hall 0.5Qalhat 0.5Schokland 0.5Tak'alik Ab'aj 0.5Reviewed WHS
- Chinchorro Culture
- Tajik National Park
- Sarazm
- Sítio Roberto Burle Marx
- Valongo Wharf
- Ani
- Białowieża Forest
- Upper Svaneti
- ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape
- Talayotic Menorca
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
- Namib Sand Sea
- Pico Island
- Aflaj irrigation system
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Battir
- Stevns Klint
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Wadi Rum
- Um er-Rasas
- Quseir Amra
- Haeinsa Temple
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Laponian Area
Visited TWHS
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