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Mihai Dascalu
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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200June 28, 2025Brugge, Classical Gardens of Suzhou, Colonies of Benevolence, Flemish Béguinages, Funerary and memory sites of …
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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
Top 10 Missing
About Mihai Dascalu
- Member since
- June 2022
- Country of Origin
- None
Visits
- Rank
- #109
- WHS
- 351
- Tentative Sites
- 58
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 8
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- 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
- Aldabra Atoll 5.0
- Thingvellir 5.0
- Fontainebleau 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Fatehpur Sikri 5.0
- Evora 5.0
- Elvas 5.0
- Galapagos Islands 5.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 5.0
- Delos 5.0
- Dacian Fortresses 5.0
- Cuzco 5.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 5.0
- Temple of Heaven 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
- Te Wahipounamu 5.0
- Taj Mahal 5.0
- Sydney Opera House 5.0
- Brú na Bóinne 5.0
- Bryggen 5.0
- Borobudur 5.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 5.0
- Belem 5.0
- Agra Fort 5.0
- Acropolis 5.0
- Brugge 5.0
- Villages with Fortified Churches 5.0
- Tasmanian Wilderness 5.0
- Vienna 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Fraser Island 5.0
- Xochicalco 5.0
- Verona 5.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 5.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 5.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 5.0
- El Tajin 5.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 5.0
- Vatican City 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
- Valparaiso 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
- Samarkand 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
- Uluru 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
- Andrefana Dry Forests 5.0
- Kutna Hora 5.0
- Kathmandu Valley 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- Imperial Palace 5.0
- Iguazu National Park 5.0
- Iguacu 5.0
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 5.0
- Hiraizumi 5.0
- Himeji-jo 5.0
- Guimarães 5.0
- Hampi 5.0
- Great Wall 5.0
- Bukhara 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Giant's Causeway 5.0
- Alto Douro 4.5
- Epidaurus 4.5
- Socotra Archipelago 4.5
- Rabat 4.5
- Stonehenge 4.5
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 4.5
- University of Coimbra 4.5
- Ilulissat Icefjord 4.5
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 4.5
- Boyana Church 4.5
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 4.5
- Amiens Cathedral 4.5
- Cordoba 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Gondwana Rainforests 4.5
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.5
- Everglades 4.5
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.5
- Puebla 4.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.5
- Urnes Stave Church 4.5
- Takht-i-Bahi 4.5
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 4.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.5
- Ancient Merv 4.0
- Yakushima 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 4.0
- Summer Palace 4.0
- South China Karst 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Sighisoara 4.0
- Shiretoko 4.0
- San Antonio Missions 4.0
- Prambanan 4.0
- Poverty Point 4.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 4.0
- Melaka and George Town 4.0
- Lima 4.0
- Humayun's Tomb 4.0
- Hawaii Volcanoes 4.0
- Fujisan 4.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Colonia del Sacramento 4.0
- Cape Floral Region 4.0
- Cahokia Mounds 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Rideau Canal 4.0
- Gros Morne National Park 4.0
- L'Anse aux Meadows 4.0
- Mistaken Point 4.0
- Nessebar 4.0
- Pirin National Park 4.0
- Rila Monastery 4.0
- Danube Delta 4.0
- Guanajuato 4.0
- Morelia 4.0
- Popocatepetl monasteries 4.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 4.0
- Teotihuacan 4.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 4.0
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino 4.0
- Zacatecas 4.0
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 4.0
- Reims 4.0
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 4.0
- Glacier parks 4.0
- Lord Howe Island 4.0
- Ningaloo Coast 4.0
- Shark Bay 4.0
- Willandra Lakes 4.0
- Mesa Verde 4.0
- Taos Pueblo 4.0
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 4.0
- Miguasha National Park 4.0
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 4.0
- Via Appia 4.0
- Beijing Central Axis 4.0
- Maritime Greenwich 4.0
- Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 4.0
- Sulaiman-Too 4.0
- Tanbaly 4.0
- Cold winter deserts of Turan 4.0
- Moenjodaro 4.0
- Rohtas Fort 4.0
- Taxila 4.0
- Land of Frankincense 4.0
- Holy Trinity Column 4.0
- Petra 4.0
- Tiya 4.0
- Tombs of Buganda Kings 4.0
- Gedi 4.0
- Lake Baikal 4.0
- Wulingyuan 4.0
- Seville 3.5
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3.5
- Camino Real 3.5
- Canterbury 3.5
- Querétaro 3.5
- Olympic National Park 3.5
- Genbaku Dome 3.5
- Kunya-Urgench 3.5
- Nisa 3.5
- Provins 3.5
- St. George, Bermuda 3.5
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 3.5
- Schönbrunn 3.5
- Chitwan National Park 3.5
- Independence Hall 3.5
- Monticello 3.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 3.5
- Selimiye Mosque 3.5
- SGang Gwaay 3.5
- Australian Convict Sites 3.5
- Bahla Fort 3.5
- Haeinsa Temple 3.5
- Nancy 3.5
- El Pinacate 3.5
- Fort and Shalamar Gardens 3.5
- Statue of Liberty 3.5
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco 3.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.0
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park 3.0
- Itchan Kala 3.0
- Grand Canal 3.0
- West Lake 3.0
- Baekje Historic Areas 3.0
- Shakhrisyabz 3.0
- Champagne 3.0
- Liangzhu Archaeological Site 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 3.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.0
- Dacian Limes 3.0
- Madara Rider 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Gulf of California 3.0
- Volubilis 3.0
- Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- Umm Al-Jimāl 3.0
- Rock Art in the Hail Region 3.0
- Quseir Amra 3.0
- Asmara 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 3.0
- Vallée de Mai 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Fossil Hominid Sites 3.0
- Grand Pré 3.0
- Hahoe and Yangdong 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- Old Town Lunenburg 3.0
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 3.0
- Orkhon Valley 3.0
- Roșia Montană 3.0
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.0
- Yosemite National Park 3.0
- Tajik National Park 3.0
- El Escurial 2.5
- Gaya Tumuli 2.5
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 2.5
- Namhansanseong 2.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 2.5
- Kew Gardens 2.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Makli, Thatta 2.5
- Sarazm 2.5
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 2.5
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 2.5
- As-Salt 2.5
- Medina of Fez 2.5
- Medina of Marrakesh 2.5
- Um er-Rasas 2.5
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 2.5
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 2.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 2.0
- Aasivissuit - Nipisat 2.0
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 2.0
- Québec 2.0
- Chaco Culture 2.0
- The Prosecco Hills 2.0
- Al Zubarah 2.0
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 2.0
- Lamu Old Town 2.0
- Melka Kunture and Balchit 2.0
- Rwenzori Mountains 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Memorial Sites of Genocide 2.0
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 2.0
- Pearling 2.0
- Turaif Quarter 2.0
- Fort Jesus 2.0
- Medina of Tétouan 2.0
- Medina of Essaouira 2.0
- Crespi d'Adda 2.0
- Mazagan 2.0
- Hegra 2.0
- Dilmun Burial Mounds 2.0
- Dong Phayayen - Khao Yai 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.0
- Wadi Rum 2.0
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 2.0
- Historic Jeddah 2.0
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5
- Aflaj irrigation system 1.5
- Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains 1.5
- Al Ain 1.5
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 1.5
- Srebarna Nature Reserve 1.5
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 1.5
- Meknes 1.5
- Belfries 1.5
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 1.5
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 1.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.0
- Saryarka 1.0
- Qalhat 0.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte
- Curtea de Arges Churches
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins National P
- 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 National
- Ancient Khuttal
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu
- Port of Banbhore
- The ancient town of Nicopolis ad Istrum
- Bunce Island
- Chaukhandi Tombs, Karachi
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Phil
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Tashkent makhallas
- Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan
- Qoahito Cultural Landscape
- Badshahi Mosque, Lahore
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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 …