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Willemstad
Zoë Sheng Chinese-Canadian - 03-Jun-20
No trip to Curaçao is complete without a visit to Willemstad. Well, actually it easily could because it's at the opposite of the island as you arrive by air but I suppose there isn't so much to do that you would skip it (besides, it's a 5 minute drive from the airport). If you are coming from Europe, especially The Netherlands, then this is a waste of time though. It's basically a waterfront in Dutch style. I spent very little time here mainly because the parking is expensive like back in Europe so I stopped across the river, photoshoot, walked across the bridge and then circled around the small town a few times. It's actually super small. I later drove through it to get to the nearby beach which is more or less for drinking and partying rather than chilling.
Read OnMountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
Zoë Sheng Chinese-Canadian - 27-May-20
Don't even ask me how to pronounce Ještěd. I tried telling people on the trip about my stay there and they were like "what, where?" and when they finally figured it out the conversation had already shifted to something else.
I really like the tower
Read OnProtected area of Lake Atitlán: multiple use (T)
Zoë Sheng Chinese-Canadian - 11-Apr-20
"multiple uses" of a lake? Already that raises questions. If you read the short description on the official website, which I could paste here but let me get through it instead, it looks more like a placeholder as well as a "let's throw this on a list so that tourists go there - not that the place requires to be promoted any more.
Their first point about natural beauty could easily be granted. The setting is beautiful from every spot on around the lake
Read OnTak'alik Ab'aj National Park (T)
Zoë Sheng Chinese-Canadian - 18-Feb-20
Guatemala hasn't inscribed any WHS since 1981, and their tentative list hardly gets updated. Almost all 2002 documentation is rubbish yet one of these, The Mayan-Olmecan Encounter (hereafter the M-O-E), had been resubmitted as Tak'alik Ab'aj National Park with an excellent description. I inquired if Tak’alik Ab’aj is the only site for the M-O-E and while technically not true it is the only touristy place, accessible place, "good" place to see the mix-up of the cultures.
First off, this is a bit far from the usual places in Guatemala. Me and my BFF took a road trip to the Fuentes Georginas hot springs (come very early if you want to go there it fills up fast!) and continued south to the park and ended up at the coast from where you can easily get back to Antigua - something I would recommend as itinerary
Read OnDiego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
Zoë Sheng Chinese-Canadian - 18-Feb-20
I'm going to be really selfish and champion Frida's "home-study" as worthy to be WHS. The architecture is not that special if you have been to places designed by Le Corbusier but might find a niche with the committee, yet I think the empowering large windows that let the sun into the massive studio makes me feel it is worthy alone. The other buildings I find only kinda interesting and it is mainly a museum with pictures and explanations so I was done quickly. Instead I was relaxing on the benches just across the main facade and imagine Frida's life here (well, also Diego Rivera but I kind of always have to think about Alfred Molina). Definitely something you should include on your Ciudad de México itinerary.
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Recently Visited WHS
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsCalakmul 5Petra 5Potosi 5Rapa Nui 5Huanglong 4.5Shirakami-Sanchi 4.5Shiretoko 4.5Teotihuacan 4.5Victoria Falls 4.5Al-Hijr 4Baalbek 4Bagan 4Fujisan 4Le Morne 4Matera 4Pergamon 4Red Fort 4Redwood 4Sanchi 4Uluru 4Agra Fort 3.5Alto Douro 3.5Copan 3.5Delos 3.5Dong Phayayen 3.5Garajonay 3.5Golestan Palace 3.5Hiraizumi 3.5Jeju 3.5Kinabalu Park 3.5Koguryo Kingdom 3.5Las Medulas 3.5Longmen Grottoes 3.5Mistaken Point 3.5Mogao Caves 3.5Mount Etna 3.5Mount Hamiguitan 3.5Pico Island 3.5Pimachiowin Aki 3.5Potala Palace 3.5Québec 3.5Rideau Canal 3.5Shark Bay 3.5Sucre 3.5Taxila 3.5Vall de Boi 3.5Wadi Rum 3.5Albi 3Bisotun 3El Tajin 3Hampi 3Ivrea 3Kujataa 3Morelia 3My Son 3Mystras 3Olympia 3Orange 3Pompei 3Sigiriya 3Vat Phou 3Vegaøyan 3Yazd 3Ajanta Caves 2.5Anuradhapura 2.5Banska Stiavnica 2.5Byblos 2.5Carlsbad Caverns 2.5Castel del Monte 2.5Chaîne des Puys 2.5Fujian Tulou 2.5Gelati Monastery 2.5Grand Pré 2.5Hollókö 2.5Karlskrona 2.5Koguryo Tombs 2.5Kulangsu 2.5Lut Desert 2.5Lübeck 2.5Mahabalipuram 2.5Mount Taishan 2.5Mount Wutai 2.5Mtskheta 2.5Nan Madol 2.5Naples 2.5Nesvizh 2.5Old Rauma 2.5Palenque 2.5Pattadakal 2.5Persian Garden 2.5Ping Yao 2.5Qinghai Hoh Xil 2.5Querétaro 2.5Reims 2.5Rohtas Fort 2.5Røros 2.5Sian Ka'an 2.5Takht-i-Bahi 2.5Taputapuātea 2.5Tiwanaku 2.5Trang An 2.5Visby 2.5Willemstad 2.5Yungang Grottoes 2.5Al Ain 2Anjar 2Bagerhat 2Camagüey 2Lima 2Paquimé 2Pearling 2Provins 2Quirigua 2Shushtar 2Susa 2Troy 2Tyre 2Vigan 2Zamosc 2Bahla Fort 1.5Ban Chiang 1.5Campeche 1.5Chaco Culture 1.5Cienfuegos 1.5Gammelstad 1.5Gonbad-e Qâbus 1.5Historic Jeddah 1.5Ibiza 1.5Island of Patmos 1.5Kaesong 1.5Levuka 1.5León Cathedral 1.5Maymand 1.5Nalanda 1.5Namhansanseong 1.5Panamá 1.5Quedlinburg 1.5Robben Island 1.5Rock Art of Alta 1.5Stećci 1.5Surtsey 1.5Tabriz Bazaar 1.5Tsodilo 1.5Wudang Mountains 1.5Zacatecas 1.5Dengfeng 1Gyeongju 1Qalhat 1Tequila 1Aapravasi Ghat 0.5Abu Mena 0.5Al-Ahsa Oasis 0.5Battir 0.5Hortobágy 0.5Kuk 0.5Lumbini 0.5Luther Memorials 0.5Mir Castle 0.5Peking Man Site 0.5Sammallahdenmäki 0.5Sheki 0.5Taos Pueblo 0.5Valparaiso 0.5Yin Xu 0.5Reviewed WHS
- Willemstad
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Ruins of León Viejo
- Coiba National Park
- Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda
- Teotihuacan
- Archipiélago de Revillagigedo
- Chan Chan
- Sucre
- Tierradentro
- Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
- ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape
- Kakadu National Park
- Taxila
- Migratory Bird Sanctuaries
- Chiribiquete National Park
- Vegaøyan
- Antigua Naval Dockyard
- Mistaken Point
- Pimachiowin Aki
- Aasivissuit - Nipisat
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Fagus Factory
- Mount Wutai
- Lumbini
- Al-Hijr
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver Mine
- Koguryo Kingdom
- Safi al-Din Ensemble in Ardabil
- Susa
- Robben Island
- Fossil Hominid Sites
- Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains
- Hyrcanian Forests
- Takht-e Soleyman
- Ancient Thebes
- Lake Malawi
- Gonbad-e Qâbus
- Abu Mena
- Maymand
- Pasargadae
- Qinghai Hoh Xil
- Rock Art in the Hail Region
- Qalhat
- Champaner-Pavagadh
- Petra
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
- Xidi and Hongcun
- Al-Ahsa Oasis
- Khangchendzonga National Park
- Nalanda
- Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
- Chengjiang Fossil Site
- Alto Douro
- Hubei Shennongjia
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Plain of Jars
- Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
- Chief Roi Mata's Domain
- Gunung Mulu
- Liangzhu Archaeological Site
- Sigiriya
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- First Coffee Plantations
- Yakushima
- Wood Buffalo National Park
- Papahanaumokuakea
- Mount Hamiguitan
- Medina Azahara
- Kladruby nad Labem
- Fanjingshan
- Okinoshima Island
- Mount Wuyi
Visited TWHS
Reviewed TWHS
- Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
- Protected area of Lake Atitlán: multiple use (T)
- Tak'alik Ab'aj National Park (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- Town of Chichicastenango (T)
- The Cuenca Mirador (T)
- Bawomataluo Site (T)
- Tianzhushan (T)
- Volcan Masaya National Park (T)
- Las Pozas, Xilitla (T)
- Historic Center of the Port City of Odessa (T)
- Paper Mill at Velké Losiny (T)
- Eise Eisinga Planetarium (T)
- Virgilio Barco Library (T)
- Plantations in West Curacao (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- The Episcopal See of Egara and its pictorial decoration (5th-8th centuries) (T)
- Talayotic Culture of Minorca (T)
- Salt Mines of Maras (T)
- Tatacoa Desert (T)
- Breiðafjörður Nature Reserve (T)
- Taihang Mountain (T)
- Hima a rock art site in Najran (T)
- Aires volcaniques et forestières de la Martinique (T)
- Phare de Cordouan (T)
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel (T)
- Baquedano Street (T)
- Moravian Church Settlements (T)
- Bonaire Marine Park (T)
- Archaeological and Historical National Park of Pueblo Viejo, La Vega (T)
- City Hall, Georgetown (T)
- St.Georges Anglican Cathedral (T)
- Rock Art of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (T)
- Mývatn and Laxá (T)
- City of Azúa de Compostela (T)
- Parque Nacional Jaragua (T)
- Arte Rupestre Prehispanico en Republica Dominicana (T)
- Historic zone of Basseterre (T)
- Primeros Ingenios Coloniales Azucareros de América (T)
- The Glorious Kakatiya Temples and Gateways (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Sitio Arqueológico de la Villa La Isabela (T)
- Seville Heritage Park (T)
- White Sands National Monument (T)
- Bradyseism in the Flegrea Area (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Kydonia) (T)
- Colchis Wetlands and Forests (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Archipelago of la Maddalena and Islands of Bocche di Bonifacio (T)
- Greek Archaeological ensemble in Empúries, l'Escala, Girona (T)
- Priorat-Montsant-Siurana paysage agricole de la montagne méditerranéenne (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (Belgium) (T)
- The Neanderthal fossil sites of Wallonia (T)
- Hôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose - Lessines (T)
- Çanakkale (Dardanelles) and Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Battles Zones in the First World War (T)
- Dzongs: the centre of temporal and religious authorities (T)
- Early Farmsteads of the Cape Winelands (T)
- Ramagrama, the relic stupa of Lord Buddha (T)
- The monasteries of the Arab Desert and Wadi Natrun (T)
- Voormalige Nazorgkolonie en Sanatorium Zonnestraal (T)
- Sungai Buloh Leprosarium (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- Huangguoshu Scenic Area (T)
- The Natural-Historical Landscape of Izeh (T)
- The Cultural Landscape of the Central Region in the Emirate of Sharjah (T)
- Sacred Sites associated with Phajo Drugom Zhigpo and his descendants (T)
- Augustow Canal (T)
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex: A Center of Medical Treatment (T)
- Aizanoi Antique City (T)
- Phra That Phanom, its related historic buildings and associated landscape (T)
- Ayvalık Industrial Landscape (T)
- Historic quarters and monuments of Rosetta/Rachid (T)
- Wooden Structures of Liao Dynasty (T)
- ShuDao (T)
- Ngwenya Mines (T)
- Welwitschia Plains (T)
- Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (T)
- Yıldız Palace Complex (T)
- Nuruosmaniye Complex (T)
- al Dimaniyyat Islands Nature Reserve (T)
- Alisadr Cave (T)
- Trans-Iranian Railway (T)
- Seljuk Caravanserais on the route from Denizli to Dogubeyazit (T)
- Hamoun Lake (T)
- Ras al Had Turtle Reserve and the Heritage Site of Ras al Jinz (T)
- The Persian House in Central plateau of Iran (T)
- Persian Caravanserai (T)
- The Collection of Historical Bridges (T)
- The Zandiyeh Ensemble of Fars Province (T)
- Zozan (T)
- Salt Domes of Iran (T)
- Asbads (windmill) of Iran (T)
- Group of Monuments at Mandu, Madhya Pradesh (T)
- Royal Manas National Park (RMNP) (T)
- Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate (T)
- Al Bidya Mosque (T)
- Evolution of Temple Architecture - Aihole-Badami- Pattadakal (T)
- Ekamra Kshetra - The Temple City, Bhubaneswar (T)
- Ancient Ruin of Drukgyel Dzong (T)
- Iconic Saree Weaving Clusters of India (T)
- Worship wooden architecture (17th -18th centuries) in Polesye (T)
- Tr’ondëk-Klondike (T)
- Gombak Selangor Quartz Ridge (T)
- Mining Historical Heritage (T)
- Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)
- Pharaon Island (T)
- Fagaloa Bay - Uafato Tiavea Conservation Zone (T)
- Ring of cenotes of Chicxulub Crater, Yucatan (T)
- Yukon Ice Patches (T)
- Limes Romanus - The Roman antique monuments on the Middle Danube (T)
- Prehistoric Cave Sites in Maros-Pangkep (T)
- Gaya Tumuli (T)
- The Ipolytartnóc Fossils (T)
- Kangjingun Kiln Sites (T)
- Ras Mohammed (T)
- Valle Salado de Añana (T)
- Qinghai Lake (T)
- The Wine in Iberia (T)
- Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
- Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, the northern part of Okinawa Island and Iriomote Island (T)
- The Ancient Waterfront Towns in the South of Yangtze River (T)
- Vertical Vegetation Landscape and Volcanic Landscape in Changbai Mountain (T)
- SanFangQiXiang (T)
- Žatec – the Hops Town (T)
- Maijishan Scenic Spots (T)
- Kvetera Church (T)
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains (T)
- Salterns (T)
- The Four Sacred Mountains as an Extension of Mt. Taishan (T)
- Ancient Porcelain Kiln Site in China: The Yue-Kiln Site at Shanglin Lake (T)
- The President Coolidge (T)
- Jinfushan Scenic Spot (T)
- Marine Protected Areas of American Samoa (T)
- The Complex of Yen Tu Monuments and Landscape (T)
- The Djavolja Varos (Devil's Town) Natural Landmark (T)
- Baiheliang Ancient Hydrological Inscription (T)
- Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
- Stone Buddhas and Pagodas at Hwasun Unjusa Temple (T)
- Hua Shan Scenic Area (T)
- The Sado complex of heritage mines, primarily gold mines (T)
- The Alligator Sinensis Nature Reserve (T)
- Sites of Hongshan Culture (T)