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
Visits
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#31
WHS
647
Tentative Sites
229
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Reviews
786
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Reviews by Clyde

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Guanajuato by Clyde

Guanajuato (Inscribed)

Guanajuato

I visited this WHS in December 2021 and January 2022. I must confess that it was the most pleasant surprise during my Mexico road trip. While Mexico City has already …

Hospicio Cabañas by Clyde

Hospicio Cabañas (Inscribed)

Hospicio Cabañas

I visited this WHS in January 2022. The whole area in front of the entrance to Hospicio Cabañas is a modern jewellery trading center and would have serious issues for …

Popocatepetl monasteries by Clyde

Popocatepetl monasteries (Inscribed)

Popocatepetl monasteries

I visited this WHS in December 2021 focusing on three locations offering some of the best interior murals and exterior architectural details: namely Atlatlahucan, Tepotzlan and Cuernevaca.

Coming from …

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque by Clyde

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque (Inscribed)

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque

I visited this WHS in December 2021 (the aqueduct proper) and in January 2022 (Otumba and Zempoala). After a magical hot air balloon ride experience over Teotihuacan, I drove for …

Huichol Route through Sacred Sites to Huiricuta by Clyde

Wixarika Route (Inscribed)

Wixarika Route

I visited this tWHS in January 2022 as a half day trip from Guadalajara, Jalisco. While hovering on Mexico's country map I noticed the rather close location of Isla de …

Teotihuacan by Clyde

Teotihuacan (Inscribed)

Teotihuacan

I visited this WHS in December 2021 and spent 2 nights here to have ample time for taking photos at sunrise and sunset, at the WHS proper, from a distance …

Historic Town of San Sebastian del Oeste by Clyde

Historic Town of San Sebastia… (On tentative list)

Historic Town of San Sebastian del Oeste

I visited this tWHS as a stopover en route from Tequila to Punta Mita, Nayarit. Being just a slight detour, albeit adding several hairpins in a protected natural environment (on …

Church of Santa Prisca and its Surroundings by Clyde

Church of Santa Prisca and it… (On tentative list)

Church of Santa Prisca and its Surroundings

I visited Taxco in Guerrero in December 2021. The Church of Santa Prisca and its surroundings are visible from quite a distance away from a viewpoint just before heading towards …

Camino Real by Clyde

Camino Real (Inscribed)

Camino Real

I visited this WHS in December 2021 and January 2022. I visited several locations that are already WHS on their own such as Mexico City, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Queretaro and San …

Luis Barragán House and Studio by Clyde

Luis Barragán House and Studio (Inscribed)

Luis Barragán House and Studio

I visited this WHS in December 2021. I had been chasing tickets online for months before my planned trip to Mexico, checking every week for availabilities as bookings are only …

Central University City Campus of the UNAM by Clyde

Central University City Campu… (Inscribed)

Central University City Campus of the UNAM

I visited this WHS in December 2021 on a sunny morning. The most iconic building of the Central University City Campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is …

Mexico City and Xochimilco by Clyde

Mexico City and Xochimilco (Inscribed)

Mexico City and Xochimilco

All in all I spent some 14 nights in Mexico City in December 2021 and January 2022. I knew Mexico City was a very large city with a lot to …

Bursa and Cumalikizik by Clyde

Bursa and Cumalikizik (Inscribed)

Bursa and Cumalikizik

I visited this WHS in Spring 2021. I'm glad I had done some research where to safely park my rental car upon arrival as Bursa is a very busy city …

Troy by Clyde

Troy (Inscribed)

Troy

I visited this WHS in Spring 2021. The vast majority of this site are ruins and foundations of old buildings. There are no "iconic" buildings here, in fact the only …

Pergamon by Clyde

Pergamon (Inscribed)

Pergamon

I visited this WHS in Spring 2021 focusing first on the many lacklustre tumuli and the Kybele Sanctuary in the 8 locations close to Bergama town, Islamsaray and Kapikaya leaving …

Ephesus by Clyde

Ephesus (Inscribed)

Ephesus

I visited this WHS in Spring 2021. The main location is definitely the Ancient Site of Ephesus, but there are three other locations which make up this WHS which can …

Aphrodisias by Clyde

Aphrodisias (Inscribed)

Aphrodisias

I visited this WHS in Spring 2021 as an early day trip from Pamukkale. Unlike some other WHS and tWHS with a few or no intact remains, Aphrodisias has many …

Archaeological site of Laodikeia by Clyde

Archaeological site of Laodik… (On tentative list)

Archaeological site of Laodikeia

I visited this tWHS in Spring 2021 as a side trip on my way back from Aphrodisias WHS. It lies very close to Akhan Caravanserai and the Pamukkale-Hierapolis mixed WHS.

Hierapolis-Pamukkale by Clyde

Hierapolis-Pamukkale (Inscribed)

Hierapolis-Pamukkale

I visited this WHS in Spring 2021. It truly is an excellent example of a mixed site and as such I feel it deserves my 4 star rating. That said, …

Ancient Cities of Lycian Civilization by Clyde

Ancient Cities of Lycian Civi… (On tentative list)

Ancient Cities of Lycian Civilization

I visited this tWHS in Spring 2021 focusing mainly on Patara apart from the already inscribed Xanthos. My thumbs down is not for the quality of the proposed sites, but …

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