Zoë Sheng Profile

I'm Zoë. I'm originally from Edmonton, Canada and then moved to Vancouver Island although spent lots of time in China where family members still reside. I also spent a few years at boarding school in England where my trips started when my parents took me around the coastal paths and what later turned out to be world heritage sites which are considered my first "ticks". Since then I traveled a lot, studied part-time in Auckland, and my "skills" of efficiency and organized planning helps a lot - meaning that old towns tend to get an overnight stay to easily explore them while churches, tombs or cemeteries that only take an hour tops to visit are really just scheduled for a quick visit. I do sometimes regret not visiting a place longer but revisits are not out of the question. However, as I don't drink alcohol, party, or require fancy nights out on the town it shortens activities in places too (if you enjoy doing this then I'm happy for you just don't wonder why I get stuff done quicker). I also scuba dive frequently which I love the most in the world though I'm not a tec-diving nerd and keep it simple (thus Bikini Atoll is probably out). No deco diving for me unless it's a special wreck.

Personally I'm very private. I ditched Facebook over a decade ago, Instagram I only lasted for a few months and even Whatsapp I tend to mainly use for staying in touch, contacting hotels and tour guides. I'm not anti-social and usually travel in a small group if it works out, although I do enjoy solo traveling more because nobody will screw up my planning. Anyone tagging along will know "it's her way or no way". I have met two people from our community although they didn't noticed it was me at the time. I also do not know the name of one of them but maybe I'll find out eventually. I also almost ran into the Aussie couple and their dog but I was stuck in the Peruvian mountains while they were partying (joke, or assumption?!) in Cuzco.

Since 2023 I started slowing down world heritage specific traveling mainly because I have just seen so many and so much already. I'd rather spend the time with friends and my marine buddies the sharks and dolphins than seek out a mediocre church or wine county, plus the list keeps growing with lackluster titles that hardly excite me, not that I try tick off tentative sites as I can anyway but outliers and crappy stuff far away from civilization isn't going to be fun to visit.

In 2024 I had a mitral valve replacement (ugly scar now) followed by an RFA to fix my heart rate. It definitely slowed down any traveling I wanted to do and unsure how it will continue. Hopefully I'm as good as new with medication. Even scuba diving is ok!

At the time of writing I still need to visit 160 sites which doesn't seem like a lot but a few are impossible to visit, some require lengthy trips (30 days for one, two weeks for a few others) and can cost a huge sum of money. There are also those warring states that are currently off-limits (+Venezuela for security/embargo reasons). Having visited 150 UN listes countries these are still left with sites:

Afghanistan
Angola
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo, DR
Congo, Republic
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Ghana
Guinea
Haiti
Ivory Coast
Kiribati
Kyrgyzstan
Libya
Madagascar
Mali
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Sudan
Syria
Togo
Turkmenistan
Venezuela
Yemen

For the rest of sites in countries I have been already:

Heard and McDonald Island - requires lengthy boat tour
Macquarie Island - cruise $$$

Khinalig, Azerbaijan - wasn't even tentative I think and it's quite far off the beaten track, next time I visit Azerbaijan it shall be done

Okavango Delta - didn't want to cram this as a 1½ day drive-by on my last Botswana trip; worth a lengthy visit for sure

Peninsula Valdez, thought hard about adding it int my Argentina trip but early February just wasn't good enough to guarantee Right whales and orcas and September just seems better to splurge the money

Brazil - still missing almost half because I backed out twice but I will get it eventually lol

French Austral Lands and Seas - well, that's the one you join a ~30 day cargo ship trip that will visit it along the way, "fun"

Zagori Cultural Landscape, Greece - I drove through this, or past this, but I can't really count it I think. I also don't mind visiting Greece again. For now Europe stays incomplete

Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras - One could tick this by taking a boat around the coast to one of the villages inside the park but visiting this properly isn't easily accomplished - I don't think visiting the villages will give an insight into the heritage of the biosphere reserve at all

India - quite a few places but I feel I've already seen the best so I'm not urging myself to go back. Actually had a plan to tick all off in 2023 but the trip fell through and India keeps adding tentative sites so I can make the trip more worthwhile in the future

Jordan - my first trip was the main things and rest, probably "meh", would need another trip.

Mongolia - a few sites and a couple of these are HARD to visit as they are in the middle of nowhere.

Sub-Antarctic Islands, NZ - cruise
Te Wahipounamu, NZ south island - technically have been there but I want to hike for a week+ to count this visit

Russia is currently off-limits to me personally

Aldabra Atoll used to have a $$$ cruise but I think Covid killed it (literally) so the only way to visit is taking the cruise from Zanzibar that stops there on the way. Not super expensive and seeing that you get a cruise it's a nice vacay - if you are into that. Having already done Zanzibar and the Seychelles doesn't help me but maybe fun in a small group

Tajik National Park (& Tugay Forests) require a lengthy road trip best done by car from Osh - however, for the last few years the countries haven't seen eye to eye so they won't let rental cars from Kyrgyzstan cross over thus one would have to go from Dushanbe and that's a hefty additional mileage!

Gough and Inaccessible Islands - named "inaccessible" with reason
Henderson Island - you need special permission to visit although joining a charter trip would include it; however, they are rare and $$$

Tauric Chersonese - well, Crimea is now in "Russian" territory and not sure I'm even allowed to visit

Zimbabwe I have only visited Victoria Falls but definitely interested in exploring the rest!

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The Central Axis of Beijing (including Beihai) (T)

Zoë Sheng Chinese-Canadian - 25-May-24

I definitely like this nomination but it needs to be limited to only important areas. I used this picture (public domain) because it shows 100 years ago Tiananmen Square was an important place and unfortunately the modern student protests including a car terrorist attack in 2013 make us feel the place isn't right for UNESCO. It was also massively renovated with the people's hall, Mao's mausoleum (which used to be the Gate of China area), the museum, none of these should be listed as world heritage. This is only the square, with the other locations usually the same: important, old, but renovated and improved. My picture of Qianmen above (not actually public domain) shows a modern shopping street

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Orkhon Valley

Zoë Sheng Chinese-Canadian - 25-May-24

One of the easier Mongolia sites with a bus going daily from UB and it "only" takes most of the day with lunch break. The main reason would be to visiting Karakorum's Erdene Zuu. The town is small and was the capital of the Mongol Empire for only a short time. One often thinks of the Mongol Empire as a huuuuuge place but people were scarce and if they would join the empire it's mainly because "woah this guy has a horse" and they never see him again. Well you might giggle now but this wasn't exactly Alexander the Great conquesting the area. With the monastery gone (it's an hour visit tops and right in town) you can arrange for your hotel/homestay to go visit the locals

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Kilifi Caves (T)

Zoë Sheng Chinese-Canadian - 18-Jan-24

I visited all three components although Mawe Meru appears to be just the black rocks on top of Chasimba Caves which is even marked so on the map. Also I don't see ANY cave. Maybe 70,000 years ago this was a cave system and has now been eroded to just have rocks. Both cave sites are taken care of by the local family (unofficially?) and they'll be happy to take you on a small tour. By tour it means you walk over sharp karst and maybe fall if you aren't careful - honestly this is so not recommended to visit. My advice is to save you some money (not that it cost a lot to tip them) and just take a picture of the wall rock as you drive past it

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Le parc national de la Kibira (T)

Zoë Sheng Chinese-Canadian - 18-Jan-24

A natural extension to Rwanda’s Nyungwe NP, boasting the same floral and fauna. That park has already got a great review so I won't bump it down with my scribblings. Instead I can focus on the Burundi side which is easier to reach than the loooong drive from Kigali.

I dropped my bag off in town and took a bus from COTEBU market to Bugarama. It's a single road so you can't do much wrong. Just ask the drivers for Bugarama and they'll advice you. My empty bus departed soon and took 90 minutes, costing me 10k francs

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The Historic Town of Gedi (T)

Zoë Sheng Chinese-Canadian - 19-Jan-24

Gedi is to be nominated very soon and I wouldn't be surprised if it slides through even though the visitor centers are all "Kenyan style" half built and then left forgotten. It can do without so just seeing the ruins is enough.

You arrive at the main gate where you can pick 3 tickets. If you are into snakes and butterflies stolen from the nearby forest then be my guest. They also guilt you into thinking you are supporting the local community this way. What you could do it hire a guide for the Gedi ruins alone. I chose not to because Gedi is like Angkor Wat and you explore overgrown ruins on your own. Zoe Croft was not going to miss out on this one!! (Don't want a sidekick for that!)

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Name: Zoë Sheng
Country: Chinese-Canadian
Most Impressive: Abu Simbel, Ilulissat Icefjord, Cocos Island
Proposal: Mariana Trench

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Ancient Kyoto 5

Ancient Thebes 5

Angkor 5

Archipiélago de Revillagigedo 5

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 5

Calakmul 5

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5

Cocos Island 5

Desembarco del Granma National Park 5

Florence 5

Galapagos Islands 5

Grand Canyon 5

Gunung Mulu 5

Iguazu National Park 5

Ilulissat Icefjord 5

Komodo National Park 5

Lagoons of New Caledonia 5

Los Glaciares 5

Machu Picchu 5

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 5

Nasca Lines 5

Ngorongoro 5

Nubian Monuments 5

Petra 5

Potosi 5

Pyramids (Memphis) 5

Rapa Nui 5

Rock Islands 5

Rome 5

Statue of Liberty 5

Stonehenge 5

Taj Mahal 5

Tasmanian Wilderness 5

Vatnajökull National Park 5

Venice and its Lagoon 5

Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 5

West Norwegian Fjords 5

Works of Antoni Gaudí 5

Yakushima 5

Yellowstone 5

Yosemite National Park 5

Dolomites 4.5

Dubrovnik 4.5

Ephesus 4.5

Everglades 4.5

Giant's Causeway 4.5

Gondwana Rainforests 4.5

Granada 4.5

Great Barrier Reef 4.5

Great Wall 4.5

Gros Morne National Park 4.5

Gulf of California 4.5

Göreme NP 4.5

Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.5

Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.5

Huanglong 4.5

Maloti-Drakensberg Park 4.5

Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4.5

Nemrut Dag 4.5

Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5

Pitons of Reunion 4.5

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 4.5

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.5

Shirakami-Sanchi 4.5

Sintra 4.5

Teotihuacan 4.5

Tikal National Park 4.5

Tugendhat Villa 4.5

Victoria Falls 4.5

Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino 4.5

iSimangaliso Wetland Park 4.5

Acropolis 4

Agrigento 4

Alejandro de Humboldt National Park 4

Amami-Oshima Island 4

Amphitheater of El Jem 4

Ani 4

Aphrodisias 4

Archaeological Site of Delphi 4

Baalbek 4

Bagan 4

Belize Barrier Reef 4

Borobudur 4

Brugge 4

Budapest 4

Burgos Cathedral 4

Cape Floral Region 4

Caral-Supe 4

Central Suriname Nature Reserve 4

Cesky Krumlov 4

City of Bath 4

Cordoba 4

Costiera Amalfitana 4

Cuzco 4

Danube Delta 4

Darien National Park 4

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 4

Donana National Park 4

Dorset and East Devon Coast 4

Dougga/Thugga 4

East Rennell 4

Edinburgh 4

Eisinga Planetarium 4

Ellora Caves 4

Fanjingshan 4

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4

Fujisan 4

Genbaku Dome 4

Glacier parks 4

Greater Blue Mountains 4

Gulf of Porto 4

Göbekli Tepe 4

Hani Rice Terraces 4

Hawaii Volcanoes 4

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 4

Hegra 4

Huangshan 4

Huascaran National Park 4

Hubei Shennongjia 4

Humayun's Tomb 4

Ischigualasto / Talampaya 4

Isole Eolie 4

Istanbul 4

Itsukushima Shrine 4

Jiuzhaigou Valley 4

Jodrell Bank Observatory 4

Kakadu National Park 4

Kaziranga National Park 4

Khangchendzonga National Park 4

Kii Mountain Range 4

Kilimanjaro National Park 4

Kotor 4

Kremlin and Red Square 4

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 4

L'viv 4

Lake Malawi 4

Laurisilva of Madeira 4

Le Morne 4

Loire Valley 4

Lord Howe Island 4

Lorentz National Park 4

Los Alerces National Park 4

Major Town Houses 4

Manu National Park 4

Mapungubwe 4

Matera 4

Medina of Marrakesh 4

Mesa Verde 4

Meteora 4

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4

Mont-Saint-Michel 4

Mount Kenya 4

Mount Wuyi 4

Nahanni National Park 4

Namib Sand Sea 4

Ningaloo Coast 4

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park 4

Northern Martinique 4

Nyungwe National Park 4

Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4

Ogasawara Islands 4

Old City of Jerusalem 4

Old Town of Lijiang 4

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4

Papahanaumokuakea 4

Paphos 4

Pergamon 4

Persepolis 4

Phong Nha - Ke Bang 4

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4

Plain of Jars 4

Plitvice Lakes 4

Prague 4

Prambanan 4

Qutb Minar 4

Red Fort 4

Redwood 4

Rhaetian Railway 4

Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 4

Rio Abiseo National Park 4

Rock Art in the Hail Region 4

Royal Palace at Caserta 4

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 4

Rwenzori Mountains 4

Safi al-Din Ensemble in Ardabil 4

Sagarmatha National Park 4

San Agustín 4

Sanchi 4

Santa Maria delle Grazie 4

Segovia 4

Serengeti 4

Seville 4

Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 4

Shiretoko 4

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 4

Sinharaja Forest 4

St. Petersburg 4

Sukhothai 4

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4

Sydney Opera House 4

Teide National Park 4

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 4

The trulli of Alberobello 4

Timgad 4

Tower of London 4

Uluru 4

Vallée de Mai 4

Verona 4

Versailles 4

Villa Romana del Casale 4

Villa d'Este 4

Virunga National Park 4

Vézère Valley 4

Völklingen Ironworks 4

Wet Tropics of Queensland 4

Wood Buffalo National Park 4

Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 4

Wulingyuan 4

Xochicalco 4

Aachen Cathedral 3.5

Agra Fort 3.5

Ahwar of Southern Iraq 3.5

Alto Douro 3.5

Arab-Norman Palermo 3.5

Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5

Ashur 3.5

Auschwitz Birkenau 3.5

Avignon 3.5

Ayutthaya 3.5

Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.5

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.5

Bordeaux 3.5

Brimstone Hill Fortress 3.5

Brú na Bóinne 3.5

Butrint 3.5

Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 3.5

Central Highlands 3.5

Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex 3.5

Chartres Cathedral 3.5

Chichen-Itza 3.5

Chinchorro Culture 3.5

Chiribiquete National Park 3.5

Churches of Moldavia 3.5

Classical Gardens of Suzhou 3.5

Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.5

Cologne Cathedral 3.5

Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5

Copán 3.5

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5

Dazu Rock Carvings 3.5

Delos 3.5

Djémila 3.5

Dong Phayayen 3.5

Engelsberg Ironworks 3.5

Etruscan Necropolises 3.5

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.5

Ferrara 3.5

Fontainebleau 3.5

Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5

Garajonay 3.5

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.5

Getbol, Korean Tidal Flat 3.5

Golden Mountains of Altai 3.5

Golestan Palace 3.5

Gordion 3.5

Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain 3.5

Great Smoky Mountains 3.5

Haeinsa Temple 3.5

Hiraizumi 3.5

Hué 3.5

Hwaseong Fortress 3.5

Imperial Palace 3.5

Jeju 3.5

Kenya Lake System 3.5

Keoladeo National Park 3.5

Khajuraho Group of Monuments 3.5

Kinabalu Park 3.5

Koguryo Kingdom 3.5

Koh Ker 3.5

Las Medulas 3.5

Longmen Grottoes 3.5

Luis Barragán House and Studio 3.5

Margravial Opera House 3.5

Masada 3.5

Medici Villas and Gardens 3.5

Medina of Sousse 3.5

Migratory Bird Sanctuaries China 3.5

Mistaken Point 3.5

Mogao Caves 3.5

Monastery of Batalha 3.5

Morne Trois Pitons 3.5

Mount Etna 3.5

Mount Hamiguitan 3.5

Mount Sanqingshan 3.5

Mountain Resort, Chengde 3.5

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5

Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5

Mérida 3.5

Nikko 3.5

Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5

Pico Island 3.5

Pimachiowin Aki 3.5

Pitons Management Area 3.5

Plečnik's Ljubljana 3.5

Potala Palace 3.5

Preah Vihear Temple 3.5

Quebrada de Humahuaca 3.5

Québec 3.5

Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli 3.5

Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3.5

Ravenna 3.5

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.5

Rhodes 3.5

Rideau Canal 3.5

Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.5

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3.5

Samarkand 3.5

San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5

Shark Bay 3.5

Siena 3.5

Skocjan Caves 3.5

South China Karst 3.5

St. Kilda 3.5

Sucre 3.5

Tadrart Acacus 3.5

Tassili n'Ajjer 3.5

Taxila 3.5

Telc 3.5

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.5

Thingvellir 3.5

Tomioka Silk Mill 3.5

Tubbataha Reefs 3.5

University of Coimbra 3.5

Urnes Stave Church 3.5

Uxmal 3.5

Vall de Boi 3.5

Valletta 3.5

Vienna 3.5

Volubilis 3.5

Wadi Rum 3.5

Warsaw 3.5

Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 3.5

Westminster 3.5

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.5

Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3.5

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.5

Würzburg Residence 3.5

Aasivissuit - Nipisat 3

Abbey of St Gall 3

Albi 3

Amiens Cathedral 3

Ancient Nara 3

Arequipa 3

Armenian Monastic Ensembles 3

Assisi 3

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3

Avila 3

Babylon 3

Bali Subak system 3

Bamberg 3

Belem 3

Belfries 3

Bellinzone 3

Bisotun 3

Bryggen 3

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 3

Causses and Cévennes 3

Central Amazon Conservation Complex 3

Chan Chan 3

Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 3

China Danxia 3

Church of Atlántida 3

Churches of Chiloé 3

Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3

Classical Weimar 3

Coiba National Park 3

Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands 3

Colonia del Sacramento 3

Cordouan Lighthouse 3

Corfu 3

Cueva de las Manos 3

Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 3

Dinosaur Provincial Park 3

Drottningholm 3

Durmitor National Park 3

El Escurial 3

El Tajin 3

Elephanta Caves 3

Elvas 3

Falun Great Copper Mountain 3

Fatehpur Sikri 3

Fort and Shalamar Gardens 3

Forth Bridge 3

Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda 3

Fraser Island 3

Gamzigrad-Romuliana 3

Grand Place, Brussels 3

Great Spa Towns of Europe 3

Grimeton Radio Station 3

Guanacaste 3

Guanajuato 3

Guimarães 3

Gwynedd Castles 3

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3

Hampi 3

Hattusha 3

Hawraman/Uramanat 3

Heritage of Mercury 3

Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3

Himeji-jo 3

Historic Cairo 3

Hoi An 3

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3

Itchan Kala 3

Ivrea 3

Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3

Jantar Mantar 3

Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3

Kaiping Diaolou 3

Kerkuane 3

Kew Gardens 3

Kronborg Castle 3

Kujataa 3

Kutna Hora 3

Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 3

Land of Frankincense 3

Laponian Area 3

Litomysl Castle 3

Los Katios National Park 3

Makli, Thatta 3

Malbork Castle 3

Malpelo 3

Mammoth Cave 3

Moenjodaro 3

Morelia 3

My Son 3

Mystras 3

Odesa 3

Old City of Berne 3

Old Havana 3

Old Town Lunenburg 3

Olympia 3

Oporto 3

Orange 3

Paraty and Ilha Grande 3

Persian Caravanserai 3

Pienza 3

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3

Plantin-Moretus Museum 3

Polonnaruva 3

Pompei 3

Puebla 3

Purnululu National Park 3

Qadisha Valley 3

Quanzhou 3

Riga 3

Rila Monastery 3

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3

Roman Walls of Lugo 3

San Gimignano 3

Saryarka 3

Sceilg Mhichíl 3

Schönbrunn 3

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3

Si Thep 3

Sighisoara 3

Sigiriya 3

Silk Roads Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3

Soltaniyeh 3

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3

Split 3

Stoclet House 3

Strasbourg 3

Studley Royal Park 3

Summer Palace 3

Sun Temple, Konarak 3

Tak'alik Ab'aj 3

Takht-e Soleyman 3

Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 3

Tallinn 3

Tanbaly 3

Tarraco 3

Temple of Heaven 3

The Four Lifts 3

The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 3

Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 3

Tierradentro 3

Toledo 3

Tongariro National Park 3

Tower of Hercules 3

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3

Tropical Rainforest Sumatra 3

Tr’ondëk-Klondike 3

Turaif Quarter 3

Twyfelfontein 3

Upper Svaneti 3

Urbino 3

Val di Noto 3

Vat Phou 3

Vatican City 3

Vegaøyan 3

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3

Villages with Fortified Churches 3

Vilnius 3

Viñales Valley 3

Wadden Sea 3

Wadi Al-Hitan 3

Water Management System of Augsburg 3

West Lake 3

Willandra Lakes 3

Wooden Churches of Maramures 3

Xanthos-Letoon 3

Yazd 3

Yungang Grottoes 3

ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape 3

'Uruq Bani Ma'arid 2.5

Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 2.5

Ajanta Caves 2.5

Angra do Heroismo 2.5

Anticosti 2.5

Anuradhapura 2.5

Archaeological site of Philippi 2.5

Asturian Monuments 2.5

Banska Stiavnica 2.5

Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains 2.5

Białowieża Forest 2.5

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5

Blenheim Palace 2.5

Blue and John Crow Mountains 2.5

Bourges Cathedral 2.5

Boyana Church 2.5

Byblos 2.5

Carlsbad Caverns 2.5

Castel del Monte 2.5

Caves of Yagul and Mitla 2.5

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 2.5

Chaîne des Puys 2.5

Chitwan National Park 2.5

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.5

Churches of Peace 2.5

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.5

Cuenca 2.5

Curonian Spit 2.5

Derwent Valley Mills 2.5

Diamantina 2.5

Durham Castle and Cathedral 2.5

First Coffee Plantations 2.5

Fujian Tulou 2.5

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2.5

Gelati Monastery 2.5

Grand Pré 2.5

Hatra 2.5

Hedeby and Danevirke 2.5

Himā Cultural area 2.5

Hollókö 2.5

Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works 2.5

Incense Route of the Negev 2.5

Ironbridge Gorge 2.5

Island of Mozambique 2.5

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 2.5

Jomon Prehistoric Sites 2.5

Kairouan 2.5

Karlskrona 2.5

Kathmandu Valley 2.5

Koguryo Tombs 2.5

Kulangsu 2.5

Lake Turkana 2.5

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.5

Luang Prabang 2.5

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Lyon 2.5

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Mexico City and Xochimilco 2.5

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Mtskheta 2.5

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Qinghai Hoh Xil 2.5

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Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara 2.5

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Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 2.5

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St. George, Bermuda 2.5

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Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 2

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Longobards in Italy 2

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Baekje Historic Areas 1.5

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Chief Roi Mata's Domain 1.5

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Cold winter deserts of Turan 1.5

ESMA Site Museum 1.5

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Evaporitic Karst and Caves 1.5

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Fossil Hominid Sites 1.5

Gammelstad 1.5

Gobustan Rock Art 1.5

Gonbad-e Qâbus 1.5

Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 1.5

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Kaeng Krachan Forest 1.5

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Manas Wildlife Sanctuary 1.5

Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 1.5

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