Site visited April 2015. The small and puzzling site of Tiya left me with mixed feelings. For me it was the first taste of Ethiopia and as such it was …
Juha Sjoeblom
Member since May 2012
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I have been interested in world heritage from year 2008 and I have visited sites since then whenever possible. I usually travel 3-5 times a year. My main areas of interest are Northern Africa, Middle East, Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia.
I'm an independent traveller and when travelling, I want to use public transport as much as possible. Since the sites are not always easy to reach, I’m curious how other travellers have got to them.
I’ll write reviews when I supposedly have some fresh point of view or when the site has only very few reviews. I also tell my overall feelings about the site and how I have travelled to it.
My most impressive site: Medina of Fez, Lalibela
Recent Visits
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40Sept. 16, 2024Çatalhöyük, Gordion, Safranbolu, Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia
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02Jan. 1, 2024Visit nominated site: Aalto Works, Central Park
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01Jan. 1, 2020Trakai Historical National Park
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About Juha Sjoeblom
- Member since
- May 2012
- Country of Origin
- None
Visits
- Rank
- #281
- WHS
- 192
- Tentative Sites
- 38
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 28
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Istanbul 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Samarkand 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Simien National Park 5.0
- Lalibela 5.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 5.0
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan 5.0
- Bukhara 5.0
- Acropolis 4.5
- Medina of Fez 4.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.5
- Itchan Kala 4.5
- Persepolis 4.5
- Baalbek 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Grand Canal 4.5
- Çatalhöyük 4.0
- Dougga/Thugga 4.0
- Caral-Supe 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Pergamon 4.0
- Longmen Grottoes 4.0
- Ping Yao 4.0
- Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 4.0
- M'Zab Valley 4.0
- Fasil Ghebbi 4.0
- Djémila 4.0
- Aphrodisias 4.0
- Timgad 4.0
- Byblos 4.0
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Masjed-e Jâme' 4.0
- Vézère Valley 4.0
- Wudang Mountains 4.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- Chavin 4.0
- Medina of Marrakesh 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Trier 4.0
- Amphitheater of El Jem 4.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Kotor 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.0
- Plitvice Lakes 4.0
- Ephesus 4.0
- Tyre 4.0
- Aksum 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5
- Lima 3.5
- Dengfeng 3.5
- Persian Garden 3.5
- Rabat 3.5
- Gordion 3.5
- Huascaran National Park 3.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 3.5
- Cuzco 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Visby 3.5
- Haghpat and Sanahin 3.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- Agrigento 3.5
- Volubilis 3.5
- Island of Patmos 3.5
- L'viv 3.5
- Qadisha Valley 3.5
- Statue of Liberty 3.5
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 3.5
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.5
- Naples 3.5
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- Kairouan 3.5
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 3.5
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana 3.5
- Vilnius 3.5
- Qhapaq Ñan 3.5
- Trogir 3.0
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 3.0
- Val di Noto 3.0
- Vienna 3.0
- Gobustan Rock Art 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Syracuse 3.0
- Vizcaya Bridge 3.0
- Tauric Chersonese 3.0
- Stevns Klint 3.0
- Stećci 3.0
- Arles 3.0
- Avignon 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Altamira Cave 3.0
- Burgos Cathedral 3.0
- Quseir Amra 3.0
- Medina of Tunis 3.0
- Carthage 3.0
- Studenica Monastery 3.0
- Westminster 3.0
- Thessalonika 3.0
- Delos 3.0
- Skogskyrkogarden 3.0
- Drottningholm 3.0
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.0
- Butrint 3.0
- Urnes Stave Church 3.0
- Old Rauma 3.0
- Petäjävesi Old Church 3.0
- Bryggen 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.0
- Kronborg Castle 3.0
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3.0
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3.0
- Medina of Essaouira 3.0
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.0
- Schönbrunn 3.0
- Meknes 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.0
- Tallinn 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 3.0
- Mostar 3.0
- Walled City of Baku 3.0
- Stari Ras and Sopocani 3.0
- Monastery of Geghard 3.0
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.0
- Corfu 3.0
- Ohrid Region 3.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.0
- Mtskheta 3.0
- Novodevichy Convent 3.0
- Anjar 3.0
- Bauhaus Sites 3.0
- Pasargadae 3.0
- Royal Palace at Caserta 3.0
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.0
- Albi 3.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.0
- Safranbolu 3.0
- Jelling 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.5
- Asturian Monuments 2.5
- Tipasa 2.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 2.5
- Rjukan / Notodden 2.5
- Canal du Midi 2.5
- Luther Memorials 2.5
- Sheki 2.5
- Shakhrisyabz 2.5
- Residence of Bukovinian & Dalmatian Metropolitans 2.5
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 2.5
- Riga 2.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.5
- Sulaiman-Too 2.5
- Gammelstad 2.5
- Atapuerca 2.5
- Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia 2.5
- Curonian Spit 2.5
- Kasbah of Algiers 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Yin Xu 2.5
- Birka and Hovgarden 2.5
- Medina of Sousse 2.5
- Laurisilva of Madeira 2.0
- Zollverein 2.0
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge 2.0
- Stari Grad Plain 2.0
- Um er-Rasas 2.0
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.0
- Kernavė 2.0
- Golestan Palace 2.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2.0
- Sammallahdenmäki 2.0
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 2.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 2.0
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos 2.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.0
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 2.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 1.5
- Tiya 1.5
- Mir Castle 1.5
- Nesvizh 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Anatolian Seljuks Madrasahs
- Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Monastery of St. Amenaprkich
- Nasqsh-e Rostam and Naqsh-e Rajab
- Tbilisi Historic District
- The historical surroundings of Crimean Khans' capi
- The Historical Village of Abyaneh
- The Historical-Cultural Axis of Fin, Sialk, Kashan
- The Persian House in Central plateau of Iran
- The Ringed Seal Archipelagos of Lake Saimaa
- Cultural Landscape of Canyon in Kamenets-Podilsk
- Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization
- Haci Bayram District
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Reviews by Juha Sjoeblom


Cultural Landscape of Canyon … (On tentative list)
Cultural Landscape of Canyon in Kamenets-Podilsk
Site visited July 2013. Kamyanets-Podilsky was a pleasant surprise. This site really deserves to be inscribed. It is not to be missed if you travel in Western Ukraine.
Kamyanets-Podilsky is …

Tauric Chersonese (Inscribed)
Tauric Chersonese
Site visited June 2013. I visited this site when Crimea was still under Ukrainian rule. It has been inscribed just a few days earlier.
Chersonese or Chersonesus is an ancient …

Kasbah of Algiers (Inscribed)
Kasbah of Algiers
Site visited January 2014. I’ve always been intrigued by the Kasbah of Algiers so I looked forward to visit it. I wanted to see if it lives up to its …

M'Zab Valley (Inscribed)
M'Zab Valley
Site visited December 2013. My visit to M'Zab Valley WHS could be categorized ’nearly missed’ due to the riots that took place in Ghardaïa that time. But I consider it …

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasa… (Inscribed)
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
Site visited April 2014. The grandiose Timurid era mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi is the highlight of Kazakhstan and also one of the highlights in Central Asia.
I flew from …

Sulaiman-Too (Inscribed)
Sulaiman-Too
Site visited April 2014. Osh was the last stop on my tour in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. In Osh I wanted to see what the Sulaiman-Too or Sulayman Mountain is all …

Stećci (Inscribed)
Stećci
Site visited July 2016. I visited two newly inscribed stećci sites in Serbia, Mramorje – Rastište and Mramorje – Perućac. Both sites are quite near each other in the vicinity …