Joyce Van Soest

Netherlands \ Member since December 2005

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My most impressive site: Decani Monastery, Kosovo (it is not only a beautiful monastery, but going to the monastry protected by armed soldiers is an experience by itself)

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July 14, 2025

Cambodian Memorial Sites, Minoan Palatial Centres
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March 8, 2025

Island of Gorée, Kunta Kinteh Island, Saloum Delta, Stone Circles of Senegambia
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Dec. 2, 2024

Amami-Oshima Island, Fujisan, Genbaku Dome, Gusuku of Ryukyu, Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region …

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About Joyce van Soest

Member since: December 2005

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Visits

Rank: #63

WHS: 486

Tentative Sites: 0

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Reviews: 31

Ratings Ratings World Heritage Sites Serengeti 5.0 Baalbek 5.0 Ancient Kyoto 5.0 Himeji-jo 5.0 Persepolis 5.0 Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5.0 Ngorongoro 5.0 Sigiriya 4.5 Vienna 4.5 Taj Mahal 4.5 Palmyra 4.5 Arequipa 4.5 Hollókö 4.5 Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5 Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 4.5 Meidan Emam, Esfahan 4.5 Prambanan 4.0 Nikko 4.0 Luang Prabang 4.0 Jantar Mantar 4.0 Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4.0 Mahabalipuram 4.0 Teide National Park 4.0 Sukhothai 4.0 Roman Walls of Lugo 4.0 Itsukushima Shrine 4.0 Fujisan 4.0 iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP 4.0 Kremlin and Red Square 4.0 Schönbrunn 4.0 Victoria Falls 4.0 Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 4.0 Anuradhapura 4.0 Glacier parks 4.0 South China Karst 4.0 Hahoe and Yangdong 4.0 Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 4.0 Tierradentro 4.0 Yazd 4.0 Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4.0 Okavango Delta 4.0 Fatehpur Sikri 4.0 Chola Temples 4.0 Maloti-Drakensberg Park 4.0 Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0 Eisinga Planetarium 4.0 Santo Domingo 4.0 Verona 4.0 Su Nuraxi di Barumini 4.0 University of Coimbra 4.0 Pompei 4.0 Brugge 4.0 Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0 Old Havana 4.0 Jaipur City, Rajasthan 4.0 Salamanca 4.0 Wulingyuan 4.0 Longmen Grottoes 3.5 Crac des Chevaliers 3.5 Damascus 3.5 Tchogha Zanbil 3.5 Safi al-Din Ensemble in Ardabil 3.5 Stone Town of Zanzibar 3.5 Dinosaur Provincial Park 3.5 Robben Island 3.5 Shushtar 3.5 San Agustín 3.5 Cartagena 3.5 Mammoth Cave 3.5 Matera 3.5 The trulli of Alberobello 3.5 Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3.5 Kaeng Krachan Forest 3.5 Lima 3.5 Caral-Supe 3.5 Chan Chan 3.5 Huascaran National Park 3.5 Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 3.5 Yungang Grottoes 3.5 Serra de Tramuntana 3.5 City of Bath 3.5 Masjed-e Jâme' 3.5 Golestan Palace 3.5 Old Town of Lijiang 3.5 Pirin National Park 3.5 Central Highlands 3.5 Jeju 3.5 Al Ain 3.5 Polonnaruva 3.5 Kii Mountain Range 3.5 Phong Nha - Ke Bang 3.5 Olympic National Park 3.5 Phu Phrabat 3.5 Schwerin Residence Ensemble 3.5 Amami-Oshima Island 3.5 Saloum Delta 3.5 Dong Phayayen - Khao Yai 3.5 Nasca Lines 3.5 Xidi and Hongcun 3.5 Medina of Tunis 3.5 Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3.5 Rhaetian Railway 3.5 Olympia 3.5 Red Fort 3.5 Medina of Essaouira 3.5 Hué 3.5 Sighisoara 3.5 Kinderdijk 3.5 Ancient Nara 3.5 Elvas 3.0 Crespi d'Adda 3.0 Komodo National Park 3.0 Beijing Central Axis 3.0 Wartburg Castle 3.0 Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios 3.0 Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3.0 Wooden Churches of Maramures 3.0 Genbaku Dome 3.0 Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.0 Bourges Cathedral 3.0 Tiwanaku 3.0 Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 3.0 Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 3.0 Island of Gorée 3.0 Banska Stiavnica 3.0 Belfries 3.0 Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 3.0 Colonies of Benevolence 3.0 Bardejov Town 3.0 Amphitheater of El Jem 3.0 Cuenca 3.0 Altamira Cave 3.0 Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.0 Medina of Tétouan 3.0 Huangshan 3.0 Aleppo 3.0 San Cristobal de La Laguna 3.0 Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.0 Sinharaja Forest 3.0 Bryggen 3.0 Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.0 Tyre 3.0 Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0 Flemish Béguinages 3.0 Viñales Valley 3.0 Naples 3.0 Namib Sand Sea 3.0 Stralsund and Wismar 3.0 Grand Place, Brussels 3.0 Dengfeng 3.0 Kandy 3.0 Ohrid Region 3.0 Quseir Amra 3.0 Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex 3.0 Qutb Minar 3.0 Delos 3.0 Cape Floral Region 3.0 Desembarco del Granma National Park 3.0 Holasovice 3.0 Chavin 3.0 Mount Taishan 3.0 Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0 Van Nellefabriek 3.0 Urbino 3.0 Bellinzone 3.0 Horyu-ji Area 3.0 Medina of Sousse 3.0 Las Medulas 3.0 Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 3.0 Vigan 3.0 Humayun's Tomb 3.0 Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.0 Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 3.0 Selimiye Mosque 3.0 Angra do Heroismo 3.0 Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 3.0 The Four Lifts 3.0 Stonehenge and Avebury 3.0 Old Town of Galle 3.0 Saint-Emilion 3.0 Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3.0 Kairouan 3.0 Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3.0 Castel del Monte 3.0 My Son 3.0 Beemster Polder 3.0 Quedlinburg 3.0 Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0 Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0 Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 2.5 Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 2.5 Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 2.5 Mountain Railways of India 2.5 Western Ghats 2.5 Moravian Church Settlements 2.5 Torun 2.5 Garajonay 2.5 Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.5 Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 2.5 Persian Garden 2.5 Lushan National Park 2.5 Atapuerca 2.5 Mystras 2.5 Coffee Cultural Landscape 2.5 The Persian Qanat 2.5 Trang An 2.5 Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 2.5 Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 2.5 Durham Castle and Cathedral 2.5 Zamość 2.5 Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 2.5 Churches of Moldavia 2.5 Lake Baikal 2.5 Kenya Lake System 2.5 Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 2.5 Gyeongju 2.5 Litomysl Castle 2.5 Bosra 2.5 Mountain Resort, Chengde 2.5 Sintra 2.5 Vézelay 2.5 Antequera Dolmens Site 2.5 Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 2.5 Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2.5 Byblos 2.5 Takht-e Soleyman 2.5 Butrint 2.5 Spissky Hrad and Levoca 2.5 Villages with Fortified Churches 2.5 Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 2.5 Pienza 2.5 Cienfuegos 2.5 Qadisha Valley 2.5 Monastery of Horezu 2.5 Camagüey 2.5 Anjar 2.5 Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 2.5 Vall de Boi 2.5 Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 2.5 Manu National Park 2.5 Malbork Castle 2.5 Sangiran Early Man Site 2.5 Ferrara 2.5 Stone Circles of Senegambia 2.0 Santa Cruz de Mompox 2.0 Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 2.0 Peking Man Site 2.0 Royal Joseon Tombs 2.0 Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.0 Muskauer Park 2.0 Białowieża Forest 2.0 Pannonhalma 2.0 Fossil Hominid Sites 2.0 Persian Caravanserai 2.0 Vlkolinec 2.0 Kunta Kinteh Island 2.0 Hwaseong Fortress 2.0 La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.0 Tomioka Silk Mill 2.0 Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 2.0 Novodevichy Convent 2.0 Choirokoitia 2.0 Churches of Peace 2.0 Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius 2.0 Nessebar 2.0 Kaiping Diaolou 2.0 Susa 2.0 Yuso and Suso Monasteries 2.0 Nice 2.0 Schokland 2.0 Ban Chiang 2.0 Provins 2.0 Rideau Canal 2.0 Trebic 2.0 Fagus Factory 2.0 Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 2.0 Messel Pit 2.0 Lake Malawi 2.0 Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 2.0 Keoladeo National Park 2.0 Le Havre 2.0 Jelling 2.0 Cilento and Vallo di Diano 2.0 Tabriz Bazaar 2.0 Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.0 Baroque Churches 2.0 Qhapaq Ñan 2.0 Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.0 Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.0 Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.0 Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2.0 Aachen Cathedral 2.0 Vizcaya Bridge 2.0 Classical Gardens of Suzhou 2.0 Burgos Cathedral 2.0 Yogyakarta 2.0 Pasargadae 2.0 Hortobágy 2.0 Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.0 Soltaniyeh 2.0 Bisotun 1.5 Benedictine Convent of St. John 1.5 Baekje Historic Areas 1.5 Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 1.5 Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 1.5 Tokaji Wine Region 1.5 Kladruby nad Labem 1.5 Mazagan 1.5 Minoan Palatial Centres 1.5 Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 1.5 Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 1.5 Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 1.5 Namhansanseong 1.5 Madara Rider 1.5 Dacian Fortresses 1.0 Srebarna Nature Reserve 1.0 Tower of Hercules 1.0 Lower German Limes 1.0 Mount Kenya 0.5 Danube Limes 0.5: 320 0

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Reviews by Joyce van Soest

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Masjed-e Jâme' (Inscribed)

Masjed-e Jâme'

The Jameh Mosque is the third World Heritage Site in the beautiful city of Esfahan (Meidan Emam en Sotun Palace (part of the The Persian Garden World Heritage Site) are …

Keep reading Joyce van… 04/01/13

Persian Garden (Inscribed)

Persian Garden

All over Iran you can find beautiful gardens. Nine of them are inscribed on the list and I visited six of them.

To fully appreciate it, you should visit the …

Keep reading Joyce van… 20/01/12

Dengfeng (Inscribed)

Dengfeng

I visited Dengfeng in 2009 and I didn't know it was going to be a WHS at that time. The reason I came here was the famous Shaolin monastery. Besides …

Keep reading Joyce van… 16/01/11

Tiwanaku (Inscribed)

Tiwanaku

Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco) is a complex of buildings, temples and a pyramid from pre-Inca times and is therefore Bolivia's most important archeological site.

The site consists of two museums and the …

Keep reading Joyce van… 05/07/08

Nasca Lines (Inscribed)

Nasca Lines

Still unknown why they are made, the Nasca lines form an interesting phenomenon. There are several agencies in town that will fly above the lines for an excellent view. Take …

Keep reading Joyce van… 05/07/08

Arequipa (Inscribed)

Arequipa

Ah, beautiful Arequipa, the colonial city surrounded by snowy volcanoes. The city has some beautiful churches and buildings with very ornate facades, there’s a nice vibe on the Plaza de …

Keep reading Joyce van… 05/07/08

Skocjan Caves (Inscribed)

Skocjan Caves

The caves can only be visited on a guided 2-hour tour where you will visit 3 kilometers of the total of 6 kilometers of tunnels and rooms filled with stalagmites …