There is simply no place like it. Kathmandu Valley is perhaps the greatest synthesis of Asian culture on the entire continent. Its legacy and influence span from its architectural contributions …
Gablabcebu
Philippines \ Member since August 2019
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MY RATING SYSTEM 😅
0.5/5.0: A site not worth a visit at all
1.0/5.0: Definite disapproval for WHS status (no OUV in my opinion), but a good experience for visiting
1.5/5.0: Equivocal disapproval for WHS status – I can see the argument for OUV
2.0/5.0: Below-average WHS, but deserving nonetheless (clear OUV demonstrated, in my opinion)
2.5/5.0: What I consider the standard for WHS
3.0/5.0: Above-average WHS
3.5/5.0: What I consider wonders of the world
4.0-4.5/5.0: Higher-tier wonders
5.0/5.0: A truly complete, authentic, and top-tier WHS
*Rankings drop with severe threats to integrity and authenticity of sites, especially when these negatively affect my visiting experience.
Recent Visits
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42July 6, 2025Chitwan National Park, Kathmandu Valley, Lumbini, Melaka and George Town, Panauti ...
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50Jan. 20, 2025Citadel of the Ho Dynasty, Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago, Thang Long, Trang …
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91Aug. 7, 2024Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Olympic National Park, Redwood ...
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About GabLabCebu
- Member since
- August 2019
- Country of Origin
- Philippines
Visits
- Rank
- #433
- WHS
- 123
- Tentative Sites
- 39
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 102
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Te Wahipounamu 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5.0
- Kii Mountain Range 4.5
- Kathmandu Valley 4.5
- Grand Canyon 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.5
- Redwood 4.5
- Cordoba 4.5
- Kraków 4.5
- Iguacu 4.5
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.5
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Ancient Kyoto 4.0
- Vatican City 4.0
- Prague 4.0
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 4.0
- Granada 4.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.0
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 4.0
- Olympic National Park 4.0
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Nubian Monuments 4.0
- Quito 4.0
- Gyeongju 4.0
- Historic Cairo 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 3.5
- Dubrovnik 3.5
- Ancient Nara 3.5
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5
- Himeji-jo 3.5
- Wadi Rum 3.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
- Acropolis 3.5
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.5
- Biblical Tells 3.5
- Salamanca 3.5
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.5
- Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5
- Wulingyuan 3.5
- Yosemite National Park 3.5
- Versailles 3.5
- Cuzco 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Trang An 3.0
- Nasca Lines 3.0
- Jeju 3.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.0
- Everglades 3.0
- Medina of Marrakesh 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Old City of Acre 3.0
- Arequipa 3.0
- Horyu-ji Area 3.0
- Budapest 3.0
- Brasilia 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Preah Vihear Temple 3.0
- Haeinsa Temple 3.0
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3.0
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.0
- Baroque Churches 3.0
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.0
- Chitwan National Park 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 2.5
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 2.5
- Koh Ker 2.5
- Grand Canal 2.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5
- Vienna 2.5
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 2.5
- Ayutthaya 2.5
- Cambodian Memorial Sites 2.5
- Kotor 2.5
- Thang Long 2.5
- Greater Blue Mountains 2.5
- Hahoe and Yangdong 2.5
- Bethlehem 2.5
- Yen Tu 2.5
- Itsukushima Shrine 2.5
- Masada 2.5
- Rabat 2.5
- Baekje Historic Areas 2.5
- Namhansanseong 2.5
- Genbaku Dome 2.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.0
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 2.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.0
- Bryggen 2.0
- Royal Joseon Tombs 2.0
- Lumbini 2.0
- Warsaw 2.0
- Gaya Tumuli 2.0
- Jongmyo Shrine 2.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 2.0
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 2.0
- Lima 2.0
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 2.0
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2.0
- Saint Catherine Area 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Sucre 2.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 1.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.5
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 1.5
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 1.5
- Sydney Opera House 1.5
- Rio de Janeiro 1.5
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 1.0
- Nice 1.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 1.0
- Royal Exhibition Building 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Walled City of Manila
- Kitanglad and Kalatungan Mountain Ranges
- Mt. Malindang Range Natural Park
- Butuan Archeological Sites
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- Cal Orck’o
- Chiang Mai
- Panauti
- Baroque Churches of the Philippines (Extension)
- Timna
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Coron Island Natural Biotic Area
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Mayon Volcano Cultural Landscape
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of Dead Sea Scrolls
- Auckland Volcanic Fields
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve
- Chocolate Hills Natural Monument
- Bet She'an
- Jerusalem
- Sacred Titicaca Lake
- Makhteshim Country
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Sea of Galilee
- Central Park
- Waters and seabed of Fiordland
- El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area
- Lake Titicaca
- Phnom Kulen
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Towns and Landscape of Taal Volcano and its Calder
- Tilaurakot-Kapilavastu
- Amalienborg and its district
- Ein Karem
- Caesarea
- Arbel
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Egyptian Museum
- Wanuskewin
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Reviews by GabLabCebu

Kathmandu Valley (Inscribed)
A Peak of Civilization Among the Himalayas

Panauti (On tentative list)
Newari in a Nutshell
I am conflicted in writing this review on the hidden gem that is Panauti. It was one of the highlights of my July 2025 trip to Nepal, but it's partly …

Tilaurakot-Kapilavastu (On tentative list)
Good Call, WHC!
As I researched Tilaurakot before my June 2025 trip to Nepal, I wondered to myself why Nepal hadn't just nominated it as an extension to Lumbini. Perhaps, I thought, there …

Chitwan National Park (Inscribed)
Monsoon Safari
At the end of a 7-hour “tourist” bus ride (filled at least 90% by locals) through the bumpy hellscape that is the Nepalese highway system, we arrived at the Sauraha …

Trang An (Inscribed)
Trang An
Trang An, just two hours out of Hanoi, seems a world away from it. I was equally excited to visit Trang An as I was Ha Long Bay when I …

Thang Long (Inscribed)
Thang Long
Thang Long is surely far from being the most popular WHS here. As I planned my January 2025 trip to northern Vietnam, I fully expected it to be close to …

Dinosaur Provincial Park (Inscribed)
Dinosaur Provincial Park
Dinosaurs have been an interest of mine since childhood. Little me would memorize every single species I could find in the books and their family, size, and modern-day locality. But …

Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi (Inscribed)
Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
I guess this may just be the perspective of someone who was unable to go on a guided tour here (due to scheduling, so try to be here in the …

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (Inscribed)
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
In July 2024, I took 5 days to experience the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. Travel by car is definitely the optimal way to get around here, with many excursions on …

Kitanglad and Kalatungan Moun… (On tentative list)
Kitanglad and Kalatungan Mountain Ranges
I listed the Kitanglad Range under my proposed WHS years ago, and to my surprise, it has now come up on the tentative list. I visited back in February 2019 …

Wanuskewin (Nominated)
Wanuskewin
Wanuskewin is not the kind of place you simply stumble into; it's a site one would usually have to make quite a journey for. Most definitely, it once drew Native …

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa… (Inscribed)
Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
With many recent mixed reviews on this site, I wasn't sure what to expect of Seokguram and Bulguksa. All I knew was that I had to include them on my …

Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Mona… (Inscribed)
Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries
To me, the Sansa embody the ideal and typical Korean temple. They may not have the historic significance of Bulguksa or the unique library of Haeinsa, but they are much …

Preah Vihear Temple (Inscribed)
Preah Vihear Temple
Seeing most photos of Preah Vihear with the clear blue skies, I can't help but wonder if my January 2023 experience visiting this great site might have felt different if …

Gyeongju (Inscribed)
Gyeongju
The Korean nation has been unified by just three powers in its history, the Silla in Gyeongju, the Koryeo in Kaesong, and the Joseon in Seoul. For that, these are …

Sambor Prei Kuk (Inscribed)
Sambor Prei Kuk
As the capital of the Chenla Empire, Ancient Ishanapura is one of the greatest and most influential ancient cities in Southeast Asia. Today, it, along with all of Cambodia's other …

Cambodian Memorial Sites (Inscribed)
Cambodian Memorial Sites
It's not often that a major city, especially a national capital, has genocide memorials as its most famous and important tourist attraction, but for all Phnom Penh has to offer, …

Phnom Kulen (On tentative list)
Phnom Kulen
Phnom Kulen was never on my plans for my trip to Cambodia in January 2023. All that I'd known about it was that there was a mini-version of Kbal Spean, …

Namhansanseong (Inscribed)
Namhansanseong
Despite the low number of reviews, I would say Namhansanseong is covered pretty well by its earlier visitors, and I don't have all that much to add. In June 2023, …

Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa … (Inscribed)
Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
Dolmens have always interested me, at least ever since I found out about them. In fact, I first encountered them on the List, reading about the newly inscribed Antequera Dolmens …