Clyde

Malta \ Member since August 2017

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I love travelling to experience different cultures and new places. Apart from the well-known iconic places and landmarks, I love visiting UNESCO World Heritage Sites as the list also includes places that are quite off the beaten track or places I would have never visited or even read about.

My favourite WHS are a combination of cultural WHS and spectacular nature WHS. I'm not a fan of industrial WHS or modern architecture WHS but I'm always open to visit to learn something new. Since the last few years I try to cover as many top WHS as possible on the longer trips while I try to cover the remaining European WHS on shorter trips or as road trips.

 

My most impressive site: Rapa Nui, Florence, Venice, Borobodur, Komodo NP, Skellig Michael, Angkor Wat, Pyramids of Giza, Taj Mahal, Petra, Great Wall, Rome, Chichen Itza, Tikal, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, Great Barrier Reef, Fraser Island, Tasmanian Wilderness, Galapagos, Machu Picchu, Nemrut Dagi, Goreme NP, Teotihuacan, Mexico City, Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserves, Rock Islands

My proposal for a new site: Drift Passes of Rangiroa

Recent Visits
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    May 1, 2025
    Rock Islands
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    April 15, 2025
    Baroque Churches, Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, Vigan
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    April 11, 2025
    Mount Hamiguitan
Completed Countries

About Clyde

Member since
August 2017
Country of Origin
Malta
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#31
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647
Tentative Sites
229
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Reviews by Clyde

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Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines by Clyde

Krzemionki prehistoric flint … (Inscribed)

Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines

I visited this WHS in August 2020. Due to the works being carried out till 2021 to upgrade the Krzemionki tourist route underground experience and make it more accessible, I …

Białowieża Forest by Clyde

Białowieża Forest (Inscribed)

Białowieża Forest

I visited the Polish side of this WHS in August 2020. Knowing that August isn't the best month for birdwatching, my main goal was to visit the Strict Forest Reserve …

The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski) by Clyde

The Augustow Canal (Kanal Aug… (On tentative list)

The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski)

I visited the Polish side of this tentative WHS in August 2020. Being a transnational tentative site with Belarus and soon up for inscription, I decided to all a long …

Malbork Castle by Clyde

Malbork Castle (Inscribed)

Malbork Castle

I visited this WHS in August 2020. Initially I had planned to visit early in the morning but once I arrived I immediately noticed that the best time for photography …

Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom by Clyde

Gdansk - Town of Memory and F… (On tentative list)

Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom

I visited Gdansk in August 2020 after a detour to Gdynia which turned out to be a wise choice as the only huge traffic jams I encountered in Poland during …

Gdynia by Clyde

Gdynia (Nominated)

Gdynia

I visited this tentative WHS in August 2020 as a slight detour from the Gdansk tentative WHS and Malbork Castle WHS. If the former two manage to get inscribed Gdansk …

Torun by Clyde

Torun (Inscribed)

Torun

I visited this WHS in August 2020. Perhaps because I had too high expectations, I felt Torun was a bit of a let down in terms of its OUV, especially …

Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina by Clyde

Southwest Alentejo and Costa … (Removed from tentat…)

Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina

I visited several sites along the Southwest Coast and Vicentina Route in Algarve and Alentejo in July 2020, ranging from Sao Torpes, the northernmost point, to Sagres, the southernmost point, …

Mafra by Clyde

Mafra (Inscribed)

Mafra

I visited this WHS in July 2020. It is actually made up of 4 components, the Tapada hunting grounds some 7km away from the Mafra Palace-Convent, the Cerco garden and …

Mértola by Clyde

Mértola (On tentative list)

Mértola

I visited this tentative WHS in July 2020. First of all, due to the amount of historic points of interest and limited opening hours (as well as the different lighting …

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in Portugal by Clyde

Routes of Santiago de Compost… (Removed from tentat…)

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in Portugal

Over my two visits of mainland Portugal in August 2014 and July 2020, I visited some of the major monuments/villages along each of the 6 Routes of Santiago de Compostela …

Sites of Globalization  by Clyde

Sites of Globalization (Removed from tentat…)

Sites of Globalization

After having visited (unknowingly) 2 locations of this tentative WHS in Madeira (Funchal) and the Azores (Angra do Heroismo being already inscribed) in 2015, this time round in July 2020 …

Bulwarked Fortresses of the Raia by Clyde

Bulwarked Fortresses of the R… (Nominated)

Bulwarked Fortresses of the Raia

I visited this tentative WHS in July 2020 focusing on the Stronghold of Almeida which is possibly the best bulwarked fortification out of the 4 locations in Portugal. I had …

Montado, Cultural Landscape by Clyde

Montado, Cultural Landscape (Removed from tentat…)

Montado, Cultural Landscape

I visited this tentative WHS in July 2020. The Montado Cultural Landscape is all about cork and is a unique agro-forestry ecosystem found only in the Mediterranean region. It is …

Centre ancien de Sarlat by Clyde

Centre ancien de Sarlat (On tentative list)

Centre ancien de Sarlat

I visited this tentative WHS in July 2020. Actually, most probably I had already visited Sarlat-la-Canéda in March 2014 when I visited the Vezere Valley but I didn't know it …

Valle Salado de Añana by Clyde

Valle Salado de Añana (On tentative list)

Valle Salado de Añana

I visited this tentative WHS in July 2020 as a short detour from Miranda de Ebro in the Basque country. Even though salt production is already covered on the WH …

Donana National Park by Clyde

Donana National Park (Inscribed)

Donana National Park

I visited this WHS in July 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic I had to cancel my trip initially planned for May and although I had already paid in full …

Group of Mozarabic buildings on the Iberian Penins by Clyde

Group of Mozarabic buildings … (On tentative list)

Group of Mozarabic buildings on Iberian Peninsula

In July 2020 I visited 2 locations of this tentative WHS, namely the Mozarabic Church of San Cipriano in Cebrian de Mazote (top photos) and the Mozarabic Church/Ossuary of Santa …

Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications by Clyde

Bulwarked Frontier Fortificat… (On tentative list)

Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications

In July 2020 I visited two locations, close to the border with Portugal, out of the three that make up this peculiar tentative WHS, namely Fort de la Conception in …

Seville by Clyde

Seville (Inscribed)

Seville

I visited this WHS in July 2020. I had skipped this WHS on my last trip to Andalucia to avoid having any 'fatigue' from the sort of Golden Triangle of …

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