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Author elsslots
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#76 | Posted: 11 May 2022 04:41 
Remaining 23:
Niokolo-Koba National Park
Sabratha
Aldabra Atoll
Timgad
Lake Malawi
Matobo Hills
Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers
Khami Ruins
Cliff of Bandiagara
Rio Abiseo National Park
Kasbah of Algiers
Shark Bay
Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
Island of Mozambique
Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
Coro and its Port
Canaima National Park
Golden Mountains of Altai
Sukur
Lorentz National Park
Koguryo Tombs
Ruins of Loropéni
Socotra Archipelago

Author elsslots
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#77 | Posted: 11 May 2022 06:48 | Edited by: elsslots 
Thanks to Jarek for Niokolo-Koba National Park, Loropeni, Altai and Coro! He keeps sending more... Canaima as well.

Author elsslots
Admin
#78 | Posted: 11 May 2022 10:48 
And Puerto Princesa by Zos!

Author elsslots
Admin
#79 | Posted: 11 May 2022 10:53 
17 left:
Sabratha
Aldabra Atoll
Timgad
Lake Malawi
Matobo Hills
Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers
Khami Ruins
Cliff of Bandiagara
Rio Abiseo National Park
Kasbah of Algiers
Shark Bay
Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
Island of Mozambique
Sukur
Lorentz National Park
Koguryo Tombs
Socotra Archipelago

Author Sjobe
Partaker
#80 | Posted: 11 May 2022 11:27 
I can send some photos of Timgad and Kasbah of Algiers.

Author elsslots
Admin
#81 | Posted: 11 May 2022 11:37 
Sjobe:
some photos of Timgad and Kasbah of Algiers.

Yes please!

Author scleaver
Partaker
#82 | Posted: 23 May 2022 06:02 
I'll send a few photos to choose from for Shark Bay.

Author christravelblog
Partaker
#83 | Posted: 24 May 2022 16:58 
elsslots

I have plenty of: Koguryo Tombs of course Tomb of King Tongmyong

but i have been to 3 others of which I have been inside of 2 and have photos. (cost me 100 euro per tomb though).
happy to share. sent me an email at chris@christravelblog.com
i will license them to you but strictly to you for free :-) sorry about that but it's also part of my living to sell them.

Author elsslots
Admin
#84 | Posted: 26 May 2022 01:30 | Edited by: elsslots 
Thanks to Marcel, there are now 12 left:
Sabratha
Aldabra Atoll
Timgad
Lake Malawi
Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers
Rio Abiseo National Park
Kasbah of Algiers
Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
Island of Mozambique
Sukur
Lorentz National Park
Socotra Archipelago

Author elsslots
Admin
#85 | Posted: 14 Jun 2022 17:19 
Thanks to Roman Bruehwiler for sharing a photo of Heard Island!

Author elsslots
Admin
#86 | Posted: 26 Dec 2022 10:41 | Edited by: elsslots 
Over the past month or so, a couple of new TWHS have been added. I am still looking for photos for the following sites:
- Denisova Cave
- Archeological Site Naranjo Sa'aal
- Bashkir Shikhans
- Tendaguru Paleontological Site
- Rock-cut Sculptures and Reliefs of the Unakoti
- Vadnagar – A multi-layered Historic town

If you have one that may be published on the website, please share it with me by e-mail.

Done:
- (Sun Temple, Modhera, L'observatoire du pic du Midi de Bigorre) -- already provided

Author Zoe
Partaker
#87 | Posted: 26 Dec 2022 13:04 
elsslots:
Thanks to Marcel, there are now 12 left:

Is this all done? I had a random check and crocodylus porosus is covering Lorentz so I guess yes?

Author elsslots
Admin
#88 | Posted: 26 Dec 2022 13:13 
Zoe:
Is this all done?

They all have photos, although some could be improved. Especially the Kasbah of Algiers (looks like one from the 1950s), and Socotra (now one taken with UNESCO copyright, but tons of people have been there over the past 2 years, so more original ones might be available).

Author Solivagant
Partaker
#89 | Posted: 27 Dec 2022 05:04 | Edited by: Solivagant 
elsslots:
some could be improved. Especially the Kasbah of Algiers (looks like one from the 1950s)

But what do you want your lead photo on Algiers to "say" about the city? From the experience of our visit in 2012 I can identify somewhat with this quote which, although it related to the 1960s and a far more troubled period, still contained more than an essence of "truth" based on my experiences - "The sun smiles down on Algiers - but the inhabitants do not smile back. It is a surly city, harrowed by the stresses of over-population and under-employment; with the architecture of Cannes, but the atmosphere of Aberdeen!....." (Alistair Horne)

I have already provided an archetypal "casbah alleyway" photo with my review and have plenty more. But, If you want narrow alleyways with scurrying inhabitants dressed in Arab garments - then why not stick with the B+W example you currently have? If you want the later reality of vast areas of tumbled down buildings - I can also provide a few of those.

Or what about the "architecture of Cannes"? The map of the inscribed Casbah "surprisingly" (since there is absolutely NO mention of such aspects anywhere in the UNESCO site information) shows that it includes large areas of colonial buildings including the magnificent "Boulevarde Erneste Che Guevara" (Originally "Boulevard de l'Impératrice" and, later "Boulevard de la République") running along the waterfront. Or apartment blocks which could be situated in a French provincial town ...or even Paris itself? Or the wonderful neo-Moorish "Grande Poste d'Alger" from 1911?

Or do we need a few "mosques"? I can provide ones of the Ketchaoua Mosque - built in the Ottoman period of the 17th C and said by Wiki to be "noted for its unique fusion of Moorish and Byzantine architecture" (unfortunately looking rather the worse for wear and surrounded by scaffolding and barriers) or the more overtly North African Djamaʽa el Djedid.

Or, at a smaller level, what about indigenous architectural details of doorways of humble dwellings, hammams and even the occasional palace? I can find a range from the "decrepit" upwards ..... even edging towards the "magnifiicent". But the latter wouldn't be "typical" from my experience.

"Choose the one which encapsulates Algiers for you" you might say! I would probably choose the collapsed buildings! Perhaps my visit from 2012 is already "history" and Algiers might have managed to spruce itself up - it has, after all, found the money to build the "Great Mosque" (outside the inscribed area!) - the World's 3rd largest after Mecca and Medina but having the World's tallest minaret!

Author elsslots
Admin
#90 | Posted: 28 Dec 2022 02:34 
Thanks to Jarek for sending me a bunch of photos of Saudi TWHS!

And Solivagant: yes, please, send me a better one of Algiers (with semi-collapsed buildings)!

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