There doesn’t seem to be much variety in how to do K’gari, the only choice to make is whether to stay overnight or not. As a second day would bring …
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- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Ennedi Massif 5.0
- Kathmandu Valley 5.0
- Taj Mahal 5.0
- Hampi 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.5
- Sagarmatha National Park 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Sigiriya 4.5
- Bali Subak system 4.5
- Mountain Railways of India 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Ilulissat Icefjord 4.5
- Caral-Supe 4.5
- Willandra Lakes 4.5
- Grand Canyon 4.5
- Bukhara 4.5
- Uluru 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Calakmul 4.5
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.5
- Ngorongoro 4.5
- Kakadu National Park 4.5
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.5
- Virunga National Park 4.5
- Petra 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Manu National Park 4.5
- Meroe 4.5
- Nasca Lines 4.5
- Tikal National Park 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Rila Monastery 4.0
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4.0
- Ahwar of Southern Iraq 4.0
- St. Petersburg 4.0
- Altamira Cave 4.0
- Serra da Capivara 4.0
- Samarkand 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Brazilian Atlantic Islands 4.0
- Fujian Tulou 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Baalbek 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Serengeti 4.0
- Medina of Marrakesh 4.0
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments 4.0
- Lake Baikal 4.0
- The trulli of Alberobello 4.0
- Galapagos Islands 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Kunya-Urgench 4.0
- Prague 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Los Glaciares 4.0
- Val di Noto 4.0
- Chan Chan 4.0
- Hani Rice Terraces 4.0
- Beijing Central Axis 4.0
- Upper Svaneti 4.0
- Ancient Kyoto 4.0
- São Luis 4.0
- Iguazu National Park 4.0
- Ancient Merv 4.0
- Surtsey 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang 4.0
- Meteora 4.0
- Nubian Monuments 4.0
- Epidaurus 4.0
- Mostar 4.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Mesa Verde 4.0
- Ogasawara Islands 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 4.0
- Namib Sand Sea 4.0
- Ajanta Caves 4.0
- Peninsula Valdes 4.0
- Takht-e Soleyman 4.0
- Sangha Trinational 4.0
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.0
- Sun Temple, Konarak 4.0
- Mahabalipuram 4.0
- Damascus 4.0
- Chavin 4.0
- Chola Temples 4.0
- Kaziranga National Park 4.0
- Okavango Delta 4.0
- Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Taxila 4.0
- Stone Town of Zanzibar 4.0
- Haghpat and Sanahin 4.0
- Medina of Fez 4.0
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 4.0
- Lakes of Ounianga 4.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 4.0
- Sceilg Mhichíl 4.0
- Puebla 4.0
- Chichen-Itza 4.0
- Ouro Preto 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Gebel Barkal 4.0
- Elvas 4.0
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.0
- Djenné 4.0
- Pompei 4.0
- Churches of Chiloé 4.0
- Rock Islands 4.0
- Nemrut Dag 4.0
- Cliff of Bandiagara 4.0
- Dougga/Thugga 4.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 4.0
- Sukhothai 4.0
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.0
- Loire Valley 4.0
- Churches of Moldavia 4.0
- Selimiye Mosque 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Gulf of California 4.0
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Chaco Culture 4.0
- Chitwan National Park 4.0
- Orkhon Valley 4.0
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 4.0
- Borobudur 4.0
- Gros Morne National Park 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex 4.0
- Arequipa 4.0
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.0
- Djoudj 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.0
- Viñales Valley 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Bagan 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Mana Pools 4.0
- Great Zimbabwe 4.0
- Wadi Rum 4.0
- Yakushima 4.0
- Hattusha 4.0
- Victoria Falls 4.0
- Pantanal 4.0
- Aksum 4.0
- Pattadakal 4.0
- Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing 4.0
- Mogao Caves 4.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.0
- Vilnius 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Lalibela 4.0
- Teide National Park 4.0
- Wulingyuan 4.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.0
- Gunung Mulu 4.0
- Potala Palace 4.0
- Ping Yao 4.0
- Wadi Al-Hitan 4.0
- Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos 4.0
- Kandy 4.0
- Dazu Rock Carvings 4.0
- Ambohimanga 4.0
- Hué 4.0
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana 4.0
- Churches of Peace 4.0
- Ancient Thebes 4.0
- Western Tien-Shan 4.0
- Haeinsa Temple 4.0
- Palenque 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Fasil Ghebbi 3.5
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5
- Mistaken Point 3.5
- Ephesus 3.5
- Nessebar 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- Bosra 3.5
- Studenica Monastery 3.5
- Stone Spheres of the Diquís 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Bolgar 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Butrint 3.5
- Tower of London 3.5
- Trang An 3.5
- Edinburgh 3.5
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.5
- Copán 3.5
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 3.5
- Rwenzori Mountains 3.5
- Rani-ki-Vav 3.5
- Golestan Palace 3.5
- Simien National Park 3.5
- Mtskheta 3.5
- Gelati Monastery 3.5
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.5
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5
- El Pinacate 3.5
- Cueva de las Manos 3.5
- Rhodes 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Delos 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Mount Etna 3.5
- Island of Patmos 3.5
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya 3.5
- L'viv 3.5
- Ancient Ksour 3.5
- Huascaran National Park 3.5
- Lima 3.5
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo 3.5
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá 3.5
- Moenjodaro 3.5
- Takht-i-Bahi 3.5
- Makli, Thatta 3.5
- Volubilis 3.5
- Medina of Tétouan 3.5
- Guanajuato 3.5
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino 3.5
- Paquimé 3.5
- Monastery of Geghard 3.5
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 3.5
- Heritage of Mercury 3.5
- Uxmal 3.5
- Pearling 3.5
- Bassari Country 3.5
- Xochicalco 3.5
- Carthage 3.5
- Amphitheater of El Jem 3.5
- Kairouan 3.5
- Kilimanjaro National Park 3.5
- Causses and Cévennes 3.5
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3.5
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 3.5
- Dacian Fortresses 3.5
- Angra do Heroismo 3.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5
- Mystras 3.5
- Anjar 3.5
- Byblos 3.5
- Tyre 3.5
- Qadisha Valley 3.5
- Longobards in Italy 3.5
- Prambanan 3.5
- Ancient villages of Northern Syria 3.5
- Brugge 3.5
- Old Havana 3.5
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Plitvice Lakes 3.5
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.5
- Fagus Factory 3.5
- Hiraizumi 3.5
- Auschwitz Birkenau 3.5
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5
- Torun 3.5
- Malbork Castle 3.5
- Aleppo 3.5
- Saloum Delta 3.5
- Pitons of Reunion 3.5
- Historic Cairo 3.5
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 3.5
- Santa Cruz de Mompox 3.5
- Tierradentro 3.5
- San Agustín 3.5
- Baroque Churches 3.5
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 3.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5
- Crac des Chevaliers 3.5
- Vézère Valley 3.5
- Fontainebleau 3.5
- Safi al-Din Ensemble in Ardabil 3.5
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 3.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- The Sundarbans 3.5
- Royal Joseon Tombs 3.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.5
- Potosi 3.5
- Matera 3.5
- Ayutthaya 3.5
- Siena 3.5
- Tiwanaku 3.5
- Fuerte de Samaipata 3.5
- Preah Vihear Temple 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5
- Hegra 3.5
- Agrigento 3.5
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5
- Salvador de Bahia 3.5
- Bom Jesus do Congonhas 3.5
- Armenian Monastic Ensembles 3.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5
- Gulf of Porto 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- Bourges Cathedral 3.5
- Lyon 3.5
- Saint-Emilion 3.5
- Cesky Krumlov 3.5
- Kutna Hora 3.5
- Samarra 3.5
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana 3.5
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.5
- Diamantina 3.5
- Teotihuacan 3.5
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 3.5
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3.5
- Québec 3.5
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- Tsodilo 3.5
- Yungang Grottoes 3.5
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.5
- Iguacu 3.5
- Lamu Old Town 3.5
- Vat Phou 3.5
- South China Karst 3.5
- Aranjuez 3.5
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.5
- Willemstad 3.5
- Sangay National Park 3.5
- Sewell Mining Town 3.5
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 3.5
- Yin Xu 3.5
- Vigan 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.5
- Paramaribo 3.5
- Soltaniyeh 3.5
- Quebrada de Humahuaca 3.5
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- Mapungubwe 3.5
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5
- Luang Prabang 3.5
- Cape Floral Region 3.5
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- Um er-Rasas 3.5
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3.5
- Pico Island 3.5
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- Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 3.5
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3.5
- Old Town of Lijiang 3.5
- Tasmanian Wilderness 3.5
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.5
- Tak'alik Ab'aj 3.5
- Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5
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- Yogyakarta 3.5
- Great Barrier Reef 3.5
- Lençóis Maranhenses National Park 3.5
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Zagori Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5
- Gordion 3.5
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 3.5
- Quanzhou 3.5
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Qutb Minar 3.5
- Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5
- Elephanta Caves 3.5
- Sundarbans National Park 3.5
- Sanchi 3.5
- Hatra 3.5
- Monastery of Batalha 3.5
- Quseir Amra 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus 3.5
- Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple 3.5
- Timbuktu 3.5
- Urnes Stave Church 3.5
- Rock Art of Alta 3.5
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park 3.5
- St. George, Bermuda 3.5
- Land of Frankincense 3.5
- Visby 3.5
- Longmen Grottoes 3.5
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.5
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.5
- Laponian Area 3.5
- Amami-Oshima Island 3.5
- León Cathedral 3.5
- Villa Romana del Casale 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Sheki 3.5
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.5
- Quito 3.5
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.5
- Shirakami-Sanchi 3.5
- Robben Island 3.5
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5
- Mount Taishan 3.5
- Great Wall 3.5
- Los Alerces National Park 3.5
- Jiuzhaigou Valley 3.5
- Huanglong 3.5
- Quirigua 3.5
- Aphrodisias 3.5
- Göbekli Tepe 3.5
- Summer Palace 3.5
- Temple of Heaven 3.5
- Mount Wuyi 3.5
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 3.5
- Hoi An 3.5
- My Son 3.5
- Ani 3.5
- Sucre 3.0
- Xanthos-Letoon 3.0
- Safranbolu 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Major Town Houses 3.0
- Oporto 3.0
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Antigua Guatemala 3.0
- Himeji-jo 3.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 3.0
- Gammelstad 3.0
- Southern Öland 3.0
- Salamanca 3.0
- Agra Fort 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Asturian Monuments 3.0
- Salzburg 3.0
- Semmering Railway 3.0
- Schönbrunn 3.0
- Graz 3.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Walled City of Baku 3.0
- Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur 3.0
- Mir Castle 3.0
- Belize Barrier Reef 3.0
- 17th Century Port Royal 3.0
- Olinda 3.0
- Brasilia 3.0
- Atlantic Forest South-East 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Monticello 3.0
- Taos Pueblo 3.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 3.0
- Shakhrisyabz 3.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 3.0
- Engelsberg Ironworks 3.0
- Kinabalu Park 3.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.0
- Santo Domingo 3.0
- Trier 3.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 3.0
- Potsdam 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 3.0
- Messel Pit 3.0
- Reichenau 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Santiago de Compostela 3.0
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.0
- Garajonay 3.0
- Mérida 3.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 3.0
- San Cristobal de La Laguna 3.0
- Manas Wildlife Sanctuary 3.0
- Brú na Bóinne 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Ruins of León Viejo 3.0
- Colonia del Sacramento 3.0
- Røros 3.0
- Bryggen 3.0
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3.0
- Gyeongju 3.0
- Isole Eolie 3.0
- Imperial Tombs 3.0
- Holy Trinity Column 3.0
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.0
- Bardejov Town 3.0
- Xidi and Hongcun 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP 3.0
- Fossil Hominid Sites 3.0
- Paphos 3.0
- Huangshan 3.0
- Mountain Resort, Chengde 3.0
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 3.0
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3.0
- Mount Kenya 3.0
- Jongmyo Shrine 3.0
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3.0
- Pirin National Park 3.0
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 3.0
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3.0
- Stari Ras and Sopocani 3.0
- Durmitor National Park 3.0
- Kotor 3.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 3.0
- Stonehenge and Avebury 3.0
- Gwynedd Castles 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Island of Gorée 3.0
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast 3.0
- Asante Traditional Buildings 3.0
- Thessalonika 3.0
- Banska Stiavnica 3.0
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.0
- Banc d'Arguin 3.0
- Rohtas Fort 3.0
- Morelia 3.0
- El Tajin 3.0
- Hospicio Cabañas 3.0
- Kerkuane 3.0
- Medina of Sousse 3.0
- Monastery of Horezu 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.0
- Castel del Monte 3.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.0
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 3.0
- Cartagena 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Arles 3.0
- Strasbourg 3.0
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 3.0
- Petäjävesi Old Church 3.0
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3.0
- Crespi d'Adda 3.0
- San Gimignano 3.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3.0
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.0
- Avignon 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Canal du Midi 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Litomysl Castle 3.0
- L'Anse aux Meadows 3.0
- Miguasha National Park 3.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 3.0
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- Guimarães 3.0
- Tombs of Buganda Kings 3.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Mahabodhi Temple Complex 3.0
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 3.0
- Kunta Kinteh Island 3.0
- Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda 3.0
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3.0
- Matobo Hills 3.0
- Mazagan 3.0
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 3.0
- Champaner-Pavagadh 3.0
- Tanbaly 3.0
- Novodevichy Convent 3.0
- Kernavė 3.0
- Shiretoko 3.0
- Vredefort Dome 3.0
- Nesvizh 3.0
- Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works 3.0
- Le Havre 3.0
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 3.0
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 3.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.0
- Stone Circles of Senegambia 3.0
- Tequila 3.0
- Genoa 3.0
- Aflaj irrigation system 3.0
- Jeju 3.0
- Sydney Opera House 3.0
- Kaiping Diaolou 3.0
- Bordeaux 3.0
- Corfu 3.0
- Red Fort 3.0
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 3.0
- Twyfelfontein 3.0
- Nisa 3.0
- Gobustan Rock Art 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3.0
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3.0
- Saryarka 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Rhaetian Railway 3.0
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- Albi 3.0
- Thang Long 3.0
- Kenya Lake System 3.0
- West Lake 3.0
- Coffee Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Al Ain 3.0
- Serra de Tramuntana 3.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 3.0
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 3.0
- Rio de Janeiro 3.0
- Western Ghats 3.0
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.0
- Fujisan 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Corvey 3.0
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- Grand Canal 3.0
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.0
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- Poverty Point 3.0
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- Kaeng Krachan Forest 3.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.0
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- Ivrea 3.0
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3.0
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3.0
- Medina Azahara 3.0
- Roșia Montană 3.0
- Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Memorial Sites of Genocide 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.0
- Paraty and Ilha Grande 3.0
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 3.0
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Cordouan Lighthouse 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Koh Ker 3.0
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 3.0
- Via Appia 3.0
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3.0
- Gedi 3.0
- Khinalig 3.0
- Old Town of Galle 3.0
- Horyu-ji Area 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Cahokia Mounds 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Joya de Ceren 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Donana National Park 3.0
- Fort and Shalamar Gardens 3.0
- Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco 3.0
- Hortobágy 3.0
- Versailles 3.0
- Old Town Lunenburg 3.0
- Zollverein 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- Kii Mountain Range 3.0
- Cidade Velha 3.0
- Tabriz Bazaar 3.0
- Rabat 3.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.0
- Niah Caves 3.0
- Ban Chiang 3.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 3.0
- K’gari (formerly Fraser Island) 3.0
- Tower of Hercules 3.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 2.5
- Warsaw 2.5
- Zamość 2.5
- Niokolo-Koba National Park 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.5
- Qalhat 2.5
- Ibiza 2.5
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 2.5
- Vézelay 2.5
- Poblet Monastery 2.5
- Liangzhu Archaeological Site 2.5
- Bagerhat 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 2.5
- Maritime Greenwich 2.5
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2.5
- Zacatecas 2.5
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 2.5
- Cuenca 2.5
- Reims 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Erbil Citadel 2.5
- Migratory Bird Sanctuaries China 2.5
- Mijikenda Kaya Forests 2.5
- Keoladeo National Park 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- Boyana Church 2.5
- Bellinzone 2.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
- Camagüey 2.5
- Hwaseong Fortress 2.5
- Guanacaste 2.5
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Tarraco 2.5
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2.5
- Mammoth Cave 2.5
- Thimlich Ohinga 2.5
- Tlacotalpan 2.5
- Trebic 2.5
- Valparaiso 2.5
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 2.5
- Macao 2.5
- Cienfuegos 2.5
- Skocjan Caves 2.5
- San Antonio Missions 2.5
- Independence Hall 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- Nancy 2.5
- Tugendhat Villa 2.5
- Meknes 2.5
- Morne Trois Pitons 2.5
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.5
- Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands 2.5
- Kuldiga 2.5
- Arslantepe Mound 2.5
- Kazan Kremlin 2.5
- Lushan National Park 2.5
- Valletta 2.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 2.5
- Si Thep 2.5
- Medina of Essaouira 2.5
- Historic Jeddah 2.5
- Wartburg Castle 2.5
- Çatalhöyük 2.5
- Nice 2.5
- Champagne 2.5
- Medina of Tunis 2.5
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.5
- Luther Memorials 2.5
- Mount Athos 2.5
- Avila 2.5
- Pienza 2.5
- Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia 2.5
- Lake District 2.5
- Phu Phrabat 2.5
- Lübeck 2.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- Cologne Cathedral 2.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
- Würzburg Residence 2.5
- Church of Atlántida 2.5
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 2.5
- Canterbury 2.5
- Laurisilva of Madeira 2.0
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 2.0
- Al Zubarah 2.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2.0
- Gondwana Rainforests 2.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 2.0
- Ichkeul National Park 2.0
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 2.0
- Blenheim Palace 2.0
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 2.0
- Choirokoitia 2.0
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.0
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Palmeral of Elche 2.0
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 2.0
- Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens 2.0
- Madara Rider 2.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 2.0
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba 2.0
- Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art 2.0
- Cuzco 2.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 2.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 2.0
- Caceres 2.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 2.0
- Bahla Fort 2.0
- Gorham's Cave Complex 2.0
- Drottningholm 2.0
- Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius 2.0
- Peking Man Site 2.0
- Colonies of Benevolence 2.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Old Rauma 2.0
- Telc 2.0
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 2.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 2.0
- Island of Saint-Louis 2.0
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops 2.0
- Mafra 2.0
- The Four Lifts 2.0
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 2.0
- Grimeton Radio Station 2.0
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 2.0
- Hopewell 2.0
- Kronborg Castle 2.0
- Val d'Orcia 2.0
- Vegaøyan 2.0
- Risco Caido 2.0
- Kew Gardens 2.0
- Dong Phayayen - Khao Yai 2.0
- Úbeda and Baeza 2.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 2.0
- Faya Palaeolandscape 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Tokaji Wine Region 2.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 2.0
- Aapravasi Ghat 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.0
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Troy 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Provins 2.0
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Chinchorro Culture 2.0
- Holasovice 2.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.0
- Modernist Kaunas 2.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- Le Morne 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.0
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 2.0
- Sado Island Gold Mines 2.0
- Mount Sanqingshan 2.0
- ESMA Site Museum 2.0
- Royal Palace at Caserta 2.0
- Las Medulas 2.0
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.0
- Cold winter deserts of Turan 2.0
- Sammallahdenmäki 2.0
- Genbaku Dome 2.0
- Orange 2.0
- Central Highlands 2.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 2.0
- Amiens Cathedral 2.0
- Moidams 2.0
- Camino Real 2.0
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 2.0
- São Francisco Square 2.0
- China Danxia 2.0
- Par force hunting landscape 2.0
- Dacian Limes 2.0
- Hollókö 2.0
- Evora 2.0
- Sighisoara 2.0
- Fort Jesus 2.0
- Burgos Cathedral 2.0
- Danube Delta 2.0
- Campeche 2.0
- Querétaro 2.0
- Margravial Opera House 2.0
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 2.0
- Okinoshima Island 2.0
- Vlkolinec 2.0
- As-Salt 2.0
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos 2.0
- Lumbini 2.0
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 1.5
- Srebarna Nature Reserve 1.5
- Bridgetown 1.5
- Danube Limes 1.5
- Kladruby nad Labem 1.5
- Stari Grad Plain 1.5
- Santiniketan 1.5
- Grand Pré 1.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5
- Chaîne des Puys 1.5
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 1.5
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1.5
- Sangiran Early Man Site 1.5
- Bahá’i Holy Places 1.5
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves 1.5
- Neolithic Orkney 1.5
- Centennial Hall 1.5
- Djerba 1.5
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 1.5
- Ahmadabad 1.5
- Valongo Wharf 1.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
- Gaya Tumuli 1.5
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 1.5
- Regensburg 1.5
- Chengjiang Fossil Site 1.5
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 1.5
- Old City of Berne 1.5
- Sítio Roberto Burle Marx 1.5
- Sian Ka'an 1.0
- Lower German Limes 1.0
- Royal Exhibition Building 1.0
- Lenggong Valley 1.0
- Alto Douro 1.0
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 1.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 1.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 1.0
- Karlskrona 1.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.0
- Dilmun Burial Mounds 1.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
- The Prosecco Hills 1.0
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 1.0
- Atapuerca 1.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 1.0
- Beemster Polder 1.0
- Turaif Quarter 1.0
- Schokland 1.0
- Hyrcanian Forests 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Old City of Mosul
- Sarajevo
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Yapese Disk Money Regional Sites
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
- Benguela Current
- Etosha Pan
- Ram Janaki Temple
- City of Granada and its natural environment
- Svalbard Archipelago
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex
- Aalto Works
- Wooden Monasteries of Konbaung Period
- Ancient City of Kaunos
- La Haute Ville d’Antananarivo
- Ancien site industriel de Mantasoa
- Mughal and Colonial Temples of Bangladesh
- Hejaz Railway
- Port of Banbhore
- Uch Sharif monuments
- Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam
- Grand Trunk Road sites
- Tombs of Jahangir, Asif Khan and Akbari Sarai
- Modern Architecture of Montevideo
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins NPs
- Fell and Pali Aike Caves
- Fishriver Canyon
- Naletale Cluster of Dzimbabwes
- China-Egypt hydrological sites
- Region Lacan-Tún - Usumacinta
- Alba Julia
- Triolet French Drugstore
- Sumela Monastery
- Valle Calchaquí
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Hikone-Jo
- Sun Temple, Modhera
- Ekamra Kshetra
- The Qutb Shahi Monuments of Hyderabad
- Tarrafal Concentration Camp
- Wazir Khans Mosque, Lahore
- Gorge of Samaria National Park
- Dzongs
- The mausoleum of Nakhichevan
- Garni and the ‘Basalt Organ’ Columnar Joint
- Tatev Monastery and Vorotan Gorge
- National Museum of Qatar
- Cultural Landscape of Mahasthan and Karatoya River
- Chiang Mai
- Central Park
- Apamee
- Noréas de Hama
- Ugrarit
- Ancient Kamakura
- Amarbayasgalant monastery
- Badshahi Mosque, Lahore
- Chaukhandi Tombs, Karachi
- Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites
- Asuka-Fujiwara
- Centre historique d'Irkoutsk
- Ananuri
- Chor-Bakr
- Bahoutdin Architectural Complex
- Ngwenya Mines
- Baghdad Rusafa
- Anatolian Seljuks Madrasahs
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Egyptian Museum
- Enclos paroissiaux du Finistère
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States
- Harran and Sanliurfa
- Chobe Linyanti System
- Old Dongola
- The Royal Sites of Ireland
- The Medieval Town of Tansen
- Lalish Temple
- Dana Biosphere Reserve
- Torfajökull Volcanic System / Fjallabak Reserve
- Mývatn and Laxá
- The Turf House Tradition
- Archaeological Sites of the Ancient Shu State
- Shwedagon Pagoda
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar
- Corcovado and Isla del Cano
- Bishop's Basilica and Mosaics of Philippopolis
- Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan
- Lake Tana Island Monasteries and Wetland
- Amazonia Theaters
- Ver-o-Peso
- Serra da Capivara National Park
- Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento
- The Historical City of Masouleh
- Varanasi
- The Archeological complex of Banteay Chhmar
- Iznik
- Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization
- Ancient Cities of Lycian Civilization
- Khor Dubai
- Baltic Klint
- L'Ile d'Arwad
- Uplistsikhe Cave Town
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia
- Surakhany, Atashgyakh
- The Danube Limes (Croatia)
- Fortifications at Komárno
- Hôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose - Lessines
- Kokino Archaeo-astronomical Site
- L'amphitheatre de Durres
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Medieval Settlement of Kirtipur
- The Historical Port City of Izmir
- Alvaro Siza's Architecture
- Vila Viçosa
- Old Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Batroun
- The Ancient City of Nineveh
- Sites of the Busan Wartime Capital
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- Bouches de Bonifacio
- Tartus
- Plantations in West Curacao
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie
- Saar Heritage Park
- Barbar Temple
- Manama
- Kaboud Mosque
- Les coules de Petite Valachie
- Derawar and the Desert Forts of Cholistan
- Amedy city
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège
- Centre historique de Praia
- The Bachkovo Monastery
- Azraq
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
- Cara Sucia / El Imposible
- Chalchuapa
- Ciudad Vieja / La Bermuda
- Canal del Dique - Dike Canal
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Civita di Bagnoregio
- Tet el Bad
- La Rambla de la Cité de Montevideo
- Nahr el-Kalb
- Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument
- San Pedro de Atacama
- Les citadelles mosanes
- Delhi - A Heritage City
- Casablanca
- Paysage culturel d'Azougui
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Andaman Sea Nature Reserves of Thailand
- Sungai Buloh Leprosarium
- Baquedano Street
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- 989 157
- Locations
- 418
- Zones
- 345
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Reviews by Els Slots
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Wet Tropics of Queensland (Inscribed)
Daintree
All reviewers of the Wet Tropics of Queensland so far have covered Barron Gorge National Park, which is an easy train ride from Cairns. The other 40 or so parks …
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Els Slots
08/11/25
Great Barrier Reef (Inscribed)
Great Barrier Reef with dry feet
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) poses the same issue for a “non-waterperson” like me as several other marine sites: how to create a satisfying visit that touches upon the site’s …
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Els Slots
05/11/25
Faya Palaeolandscape (Inscribed)
Faya unraveled
I visited Faya in November 2025 on the UAE road trip with Philipp and Jay, and I am the first to report back on it since its inscription this summer. …
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Els Slots
03/11/25
Lower German Limes (Inscribed)
Berg en Dal Aqueduct
Site visited: May 2021
The Dutch part of the Lower German Limes TWHS comprises 26 locations along the 2nd-century Roman frontier on the River Rhine. Together with a string of …
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Els Slots
30/10/25
Bosra (Inscribed)
Bosra
I was close to Bosra 5 months ago, when I visited Umm Al-Jimal. That Jordanian WHS lies just some 25km away and is said to have been within the …
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Els Slots
27/09/25
Maaloula (On tentative list)
Maaloula - Feast of the Cross
One of the charms of Northern Iraq, Northern Syria and Lebanon is the existence of remote Christian sites. Sometimes these are relict landscapes, but there are also thriving religious communities. …
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Els Slots
27/09/25
L'Ile d'Arwad (On tentative list)
Arwad
Arwad is a small island that was settled in the early 2nd millennium BC by the Phoenicians. The still inhabited island lies across the sea from the Syrian port of …
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Els Slots
19/09/25
Ugrarit (On tentative list)
Ugarit
The Tentative Site of Ugarit (or Ugrarit) lies just outside the Syrian coastal city of Latakia. The archeological site is fenced, staffed, has some information panels in Arabic, English and …
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Els Slots
19/09/25
Apamee (On tentative list)
Apamea
Let's start this sobering review with a Fun Fact: Apamea was named after Apamee, the first wife of Seleucid ruler Seleucus I Nicator (c. 358 BC – 281 BC). His …
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Els Slots
18/09/25
Ancient villages of Northern … (Inscribed)
Serjilla
The Ancient Villages of Northern Syria have been inaccessible during Syria’s Civil War due to their proximity to the front line between the Syrian Army and the “rebel” capital of …
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Els Slots
17/09/25
Aleppo (Inscribed)
Ruined
Along with Palmyra, Aleppo presents the saddest story among Syria’s WHS. Tours in the past would allocate two days to it, spending the night in one of the traditional Syrian …
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Els Slots
16/09/25
Crac des Chevaliers (Inscribed)
Castles of Syria
When I started preparing for a visit to this WHS, I was wondering why this site is not limited to the famous Crac des Chevaliers only, but also includes Saladin …
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Els Slots
14/09/25
Palmyra (Inscribed)
Palmyra
Palmyra is pretty far ‘out there’: on the 3-hour drive from Damascus, the only thing we saw was desert. It still needs a special permit to access (I visited in …
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Els Slots
13/09/25
Noréas de Hama (On tentative list)
Waterwheels of Hama
The waterwheels of Hama are one of the most iconic images of Syria. With their history of lifting water and supplying it into aqueducts to be used for irrigation since …
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Els Slots
12/09/25
Damascus (Inscribed)
Hidden treasures of Damascus
Somehow Damascus felt very familiar: it is the quintessential Old Town of the Middle East, with narrow alleyways and busy souks selling everything, from spices to lingerie. Numerous comparisons came …
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Els Slots
07/09/25
Rachid Karami International F… (Inscribed)
The White Elephant of Tripoli
A visit to Tripoli’s Rachid Karami International Fair Grounds not only brought me one ‘tick’ closer to 1,000, but it also corrected a very annoying near miss that I had …
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Els Slots
06/09/25
Nahr el-Kalb (On tentative list)
Nahr el-Kalb
The commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb have always fascinated me, although this quirky site probably already has earned enough international recognition by its inscription in the Memory of the World …
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Els Slots
05/09/25
Wooded meadows (On tentative list)
Wooded Meadows
Estonia’s Tentative List isn’t exactly a cause for excitement, and an entry just called “Wooded meadows” sounds even less appealing than “Baltic Klint”. Still, these wooded meadows are a typical …
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Els Slots
23/08/25
Struve Geodetic Arc (Inscribed)
Struve's Roots
Visiting your first component of the Struve Geodetic Arc is a rite of passage for a WH Traveller: it marks the moment that you have gone from a tourist enjoying …
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Els Slots
21/08/25
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