ZCTLife Profile
I’m trying to visit world heritage sites (and other places) by zero carbon emission vehicle. Feel free to read more about my visits to date on my ad-free blog. Thanks,
Ned
P.S. Wow, lots of serious travelers here! OK, I’ll add places I visited before giving up on carbon travel.
Recent Reviews ZCTLife
Ayutthaya
ZCTLife USA - 06-May-25
Many years ago, I traveled with the famed Lonely Planet book, South East Asia on a Shoestring, the storied ‘Yellow Bible’ of discount travelers, my prize possession. I remember traveling around Thailand in those days, taking colorful 3 wheeled Tuk-Tuks, eating simple Pad Thai street food, and staying at the cheapest guest house hostels I could find. I remember watching a truck filled with children stop at the end of a touristy street, unload two dozen street urchins, and drive to the other end of the street to pick them up after they had collected their begging money
Read OnOgasawara Islands
ZCTLife USA - 23-Apr-25
I traveled here years ago while teaching English in Tokyo. I had a vacation, had already traveled widely, and this place caught my eye, for its obscurity. Administratively, the islands are part of the city of Tokyo, even though they’re on the same latitude as Okinawa, much further out into the Pacific than any other Japanese islands. Iwo Jima, where the US Marines raised their flag on 23 February 1945, is part of the island group, but civilian visitation is almost completely restricted. Another island was also off limits when I visited, due to a Japanese military base. At the time, traveling by ferry in the cheapest class seemed like an interesting travel experience, and I remember lying around on fake tatami mats, eating snacks and drinking beer
Read OnTequila
ZCTLife USA - 30-Mar-25
The town of Tequila is only about an hour from Guadalajara, and there are many different distilleries to visit. There are many tours, easily arranged but some seemed pricey to me. I don’t drink as much as when I was younger, and I don’t like taking tour buses. So I just did a solo day trip to one distillery, Tres Mujeres. Even though I had toured a much fancier tequila distillery—with a Mariachi band—years before, I appreciated the simple working nature of this one. There weren’t any tour buses, so I had the place almost to myself. The guides spoke excellent English and answered all my questions.
Read OnRecently Visited WHS
- Update 31.03.25
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- Kew Gardens
- Edinburgh
- Tower of London
- Loire Valley
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- Galapagos Islands
- Cesky Krumlov
- Beijing Central Axis
- West Lake
- Macao
- Temple of Heaven
- Summer Palace
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Potala Palace
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Imperial Palace
- Great Wall
- Brugge
- Salzburg
- Great Barrier Reef
- City of Bath
- Westminster
- St. George, Bermuda
- Djerba
- Medina of Tunis
- Ayutthaya
- Serengeti
- Ngorongoro
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Lake Baikal
- St. Petersburg
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Ancient Jericho
- Bethlehem
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- City of Luxembourg
- Ogasawara Islands
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Kyoto
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Florence
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Budapest
- Rome
- Vatican City
- National History Park
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Nice
- Bordeaux
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Avignon
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Strasbourg
- Versailles
- Mont-Saint-Michel
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsRedwood 5Chaco Culture 4.5Mammoth Cave 4.5Québec 4.5Djerba 4Medina of Tunis 3.5Puebla 3.5West Lake 3.5Tequila 3El Pinacate 2.5Hopewell 2.5Lake Baikal 2.5Morelia 2.5Poverty Point 2.5Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Big Bend National Park (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- California Current Conservation Complex (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- City of York: historic urban core (T)
- Civil Rights Movement Sites (T)
- Dayton Aviation Sites (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Habitat troglodytique et le monde des ksour du Sud tunisien (T)
- Mount Vernon (T)
- Petrified Forest National Park (T)
- Temples, Shrines and other structures of Ancient Kamakura (T)
- White Sands National Monument (T)
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