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Mihai Dascalu
Romania \ Member since June 2022
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Retired physician, moved from Romania to US in 1997, trying to visit as many WHS as possible. Grateful to ELS and this community for providing such valuable information
My most impressive site: Piramids
My proposal for a new site: Brancusi in Tg. Jiu
Check out my website: https://noi6.blogspot.com
Recent Visits
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300July 2, 2025Fourth trip around the world: Aachen Cathedral, Brugge, Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust ...
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160June 1, 2025Baekje Historic Areas, Changdeokgung Palace Complex, Gaya Tumuli, Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats, Gochang, Hwasun, and …
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30May 9, 2025Fort Jesus, Gedi , Memorial Sites of Genocide
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About Mihai Dascalu
- Member since
- June 2022
- Country of Origin
- Romania
Visits
- Rank
- #106
- WHS
- 365
- Tentative Sites
- 54
Website Participation
- Reviews
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Imperial Palace 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 5.0
- Villages with Fortified Churches 5.0
- Vienna 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Valparaiso 5.0
- Uluru 5.0
- Andrefana Dry Forests 5.0
- Thingvellir 5.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 5.0
- Temple of Heaven 5.0
- Te Wahipounamu 5.0
- Taj Mahal 5.0
- Sydney Opera House 5.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 5.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 5.0
- Saint Catherine Area 5.0
- Royal Exhibition Building 5.0
- Rio de Janeiro 5.0
- Red Fort 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Qutb Minar 5.0
- Prague 5.0
- Potsdam 5.0
- Potala Palace 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Oporto 5.0
- Olympia 5.0
- Nubian Monuments 5.0
- Nikko 5.0
- Naples 5.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 5.0
- Monastery of Horezu 5.0
- Monastery of Batalha 5.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 5.0
- Meteora 5.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 5.0
- Mammoth Cave 5.0
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Macao 5.0
- Los Glaciares 5.0
- Longmen Grottoes 5.0
- Kutna Hora 5.0
- Kathmandu Valley 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- Iguazu National Park 5.0
- Iguacu 5.0
- Hiraizumi 5.0
- Himeji-jo 5.0
- Guimarães 5.0
- Hampi 5.0
- Great Wall 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Giant's Causeway 5.0
- Fontainebleau 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Fatehpur Sikri 5.0
- Evora 5.0
- Elvas 5.0
- Delos 5.0
- Dacian Fortresses 5.0
- Cuzco 5.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 5.0
- Churches of Moldavia 5.0
- Churches of Chiloé 5.0
- Churches and Convents of Goa 5.0
- Chartres Cathedral 5.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 5.0
- Brú na Bóinne 5.0
- Bryggen 5.0
- Borobudur 5.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 5.0
- Belem 5.0
- Bali Subak system 5.0
- Ayutthaya 5.0
- Arequipa 5.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Ancient Nara 5.0
- Ancient Kyoto 5.0
- Agra Fort 5.0
- Acropolis 5.0
- El Tajin 5.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 5.0
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 5.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 5.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 5.0
- Verona 5.0
- Xochicalco 5.0
- K’gari (formerly Fraser Island) 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Tasmanian Wilderness 5.0
- Galapagos Islands 5.0
- Aldabra Atoll 5.0
- Bukhara 5.0
- Samarkand 5.0
- Brugge 5.0
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 4.5
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Ilulissat Icefjord 4.5
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 4.5
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.5
- Gondwana Rainforests 4.5
- Boyana Church 4.5
- Rabat 4.5
- Amiens Cathedral 4.5
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 4.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.5
- Urnes Stave Church 4.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.5
- Alto Douro 4.5
- Takht-i-Bahi 4.5
- University of Coimbra 4.5
- Everglades 4.5
- Socotra Archipelago 4.5
- Puebla 4.5
- Stonehenge and Avebury 4.5
- Epidaurus 4.5
- Cordoba 4.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.5
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Mistaken Point 4.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.0
- Nessebar 4.0
- Pirin National Park 4.0
- Rila Monastery 4.0
- Holy Trinity Column 4.0
- Fujisan 4.0
- Danube Delta 4.0
- Tiya 4.0
- Land of Frankincense 4.0
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 4.0
- Beijing Central Axis 4.0
- Shiretoko 4.0
- Sighisoara 4.0
- Maritime Greenwich 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Yakushima 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Petra 4.0
- Sulaiman-Too 4.0
- Tanbaly 4.0
- Lima 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Cold winter deserts of Turan 4.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 4.0
- South China Karst 4.0
- Melaka and George Town 4.0
- Ancient Merv 4.0
- Summer Palace 4.0
- Lake Baikal 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Rideau Canal 4.0
- Gros Morne National Park 4.0
- L'Anse aux Meadows 4.0
- Popocatepetl monasteries 4.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 4.0
- Cape Floral Region 4.0
- Teotihuacan 4.0
- Cahokia Mounds 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 4.0
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino 4.0
- Humayun's Tomb 4.0
- Zacatecas 4.0
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 4.0
- Reims 4.0
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 4.0
- Wulingyuan 4.0
- Glacier parks 4.0
- Rohtas Fort 4.0
- Lord Howe Island 4.0
- Ningaloo Coast 4.0
- Shark Bay 4.0
- Moenjodaro 4.0
- Willandra Lakes 4.0
- San Antonio Missions 4.0
- Mesa Verde 4.0
- Taos Pueblo 4.0
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 4.0
- Miguasha National Park 4.0
- Via Appia 4.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 4.0
- Colonia del Sacramento 4.0
- Guanajuato 4.0
- Tombs of Buganda Kings 4.0
- Hawaii Volcanoes 4.0
- Gedi 4.0
- Taxila 4.0
- Poverty Point 4.0
- Morelia 4.0
- Prambanan 4.0
- Bahla Fort 3.5
- Selimiye Mosque 3.5
- Jeju 3.5
- St. George, Bermuda 3.5
- Australian Convict Sites 3.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 3.5
- Monticello 3.5
- Chitwan National Park 3.5
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3.5
- Kunya-Urgench 3.5
- El Pinacate 3.5
- Independence Hall 3.5
- SGang Gwaay 3.5
- Camino Real 3.5
- Genbaku Dome 3.5
- Querétaro 3.5
- Provins 3.5
- Haeinsa Temple 3.5
- Nancy 3.5
- Schönbrunn 3.5
- Seville 3.5
- Fort and Shalamar Gardens 3.5
- Statue of Liberty 3.5
- Olympic National Park 3.5
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 3.5
- Nisa 3.5
- Canterbury 3.5
- Fossil Hominid Sites 3.0
- Baekje Historic Areas 3.0
- Hahoe and Yangdong 3.0
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 3.0
- Grand Canal 3.0
- Liangzhu Archaeological Site 3.0
- Madara Rider 3.0
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 3.0
- Champagne 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda 3.0
- Gulf of California 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 3.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.0
- Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Orkhon Valley 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- West Lake 3.0
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Grand Pré 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Old Town Lunenburg 3.0
- Vallée de Mai 3.0
- Yosemite National Park 3.0
- Roșia Montană 3.0
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.0
- Tajik National Park 3.0
- Dacian Limes 3.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Itchan Kala 3.0
- Royal Joseon Tombs 3.0
- Shakhrisyabz 3.0
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP 3.0
- Quseir Amra 3.0
- Rock Art in the Hail Region 3.0
- Umm Al-Jimāl 3.0
- Volubilis 3.0
- Asmara 3.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 2.5
- El Escurial 2.5
- Makli, Thatta 2.5
- Minoan Palatial Centres 2.5
- Gaya Tumuli 2.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 2.5
- Um er-Rasas 2.5
- Medina of Fez 2.5
- Medina of Marrakesh 2.5
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Sarazm 2.5
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 2.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.5
- Namhansanseong 2.5
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 2.5
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 2.5
- Kew Gardens 2.5
- As-Salt 2.5
- Hegra 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Mazagan 2.0
- Medina of Essaouira 2.0
- Medina of Tétouan 2.0
- Wadi Rum 2.0
- Pearling 2.0
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 2.0
- Melka Kunture and Balchit 2.0
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 2.0
- Lamu Old Town 2.0
- Memorial Sites of Genocide 2.0
- Fort Jesus 2.0
- Turaif Quarter 2.0
- Historic Jeddah 2.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 2.0
- Aasivissuit - Nipisat 2.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 2.0
- Rwenzori Mountains 2.0
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Québec 2.0
- Al Zubarah 2.0
- The Prosecco Hills 2.0
- Dong Phayayen - Khao Yai 2.0
- Chaco Culture 2.0
- Dilmun Burial Mounds 2.0
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 2.0
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 1.5
- Al Ain 1.5
- Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains 1.5
- Aflaj irrigation system 1.5
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 1.5
- Srebarna Nature Reserve 1.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5
- Belfries 1.5
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 1.5
- Ancient Khuttal 1.5
- Meknes 1.5
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 1.0
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.0
- Gola-Tiwai complex 1.0
- Saryarka 1.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 0.5
- Qalhat 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Archaeological Site of Harappa
- Curtea de Arges Churches
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins NPs
- Le Monastère de Neamt
- Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia
- Pietrosul Rodnei
- San Pedro de Atacama
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument
- Ellis Island
- Mission Ruins of Venn's Town
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir NP
- Badshahi Mosque, Lahore
- Bunce Island
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Dzongs
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte
- Chaukhandi Tombs, Karachi
- Bishop's Basilica and Mosaics of Philippopolis
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi
- Petrified Forest National Park
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu
- Port of Banbhore
- The ancient town of Nicopolis ad Istrum
- Tashkent makhallas
- Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan
- Qoahito Cultural Landscape
- Providence Island
- Tashkent Modernist Architecture
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Reviews by Mihai Dascalu


Qoahito Cultural Landscape (On tentative list)
Qoahito Cultural Landscape
Seen in February 2025 on a Lupine groups trip to Eritrea. The group had a bus, but the bus broke down just outside Dekemhare, 38 km out of Asmara. We …

Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan (On tentative list)
Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan
Using the map on this site and the nomination file and having a rented 4WD for our trip on the southern side of Issyk Kul, we went to see Khan …

Cold winter deserts of Turan (Inscribed)
Cold winter deserts of Turan
I will review here Altyn Emel National Park, visited in October 2024 as a tour from Almaty. We combined it with a trip to Tamgaly Petroglyphs. The cost was “outrageous” …

Tashkent makhallas (On tentative list)
Tashkent makhallas
I spent two days in October 2024 in Tashkent trying to figure out what is special about the Tashkent makhallas. I read the nomination document and Nan’s summary and I …

Mission Ruins of Venn's Town (On tentative list)
Mission Ruins of Venn's Town
We just visited a few hours ago on February 27, 2024. We asked for a taxi at the reception of our hotel in Victoria, it was going to be a …

SGang Gwaay (Inscribed)
SGang Gwaay
We visited on July 25, 2023. Following the information shared by Jay T. (thank you so much). We took a four day tour with Moresby Explorers and reached SG̱ang Gwaay …

Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysa… (Inscribed)
Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
I visited Keshava Temple in January 2012, during a 15 months round the world trip with our 3 children. We spent 4 nights in Mysore and from there it was …