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Baekje Historic Areas
Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 18-Aug-20

After four days of great joy in southwestern South Korea seeing many interesting sites, my friends and I drove back from Jeonju to Seoul in early morning with a plan to have a brief stop in Nonsan to see UNESCO listed Seowon and Gongju for Baekje sites. With some problem with GPS that took us to the only prepaid card highway exit which we did not have, with help from locals, we finally got back to the highway, but decided to go to Gongju directly after noted from GPS that 1-hour detour to other exit if we still want to visit Nonsan, a terrible situation for WHS enthusiast.
Read OnChichen-Itza
Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 03-Aug-20

Originally I planned to visit this world famous site two times in two days, first day in the evening and next day early morning in order to avoid the hoard of visitors, as a result I chose to stay in a hotel that located next to the historical park with special separate entrance that open before and close after official time. Unfortunately, because of terrible car accident, instead of arrived around midday, I arrived the hotel around midnight! I managed to wake up and went to the entrance, after some argument with an officer on my tiny camera tripod which he insisted that it was prohibited, I was quite sleepy when I was standing next to the famous El Castillo, the iconic site of Chichen Itza
Read OnModena
Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 05-Jul-20

To be honest my experience was tainted with my personal negative view toward this World Heritage Site, another Italian Romanesque cathedral in another Italian old beautiful renaissance city, everything seemed to be similar with what I already saw in many corners of Emilia Romagna and Tuscany. As expected Modena and its Piazza Grande, main square around the cathedral, were pretty lovely, I decided to have salad and bread with one of the glorious ingredient that Modena gave to the world, Balsamic Vinegar, in one of the café around the piazza while looking at the leaning bell tower named Torre Civica, another UNESCO listed element of this World Heritage Site.
Read OnDilmun Burial Mounds
Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 01-Jul-20

I visited Dilmun Burial Mounds before UNESCO recognized its status. This World Heritage site was part of my private half day tour around Bahrain. Actually It was not a part of the original tour program, but after had a fruitful discussion on ancient Dilmun civilization with my historical buff guide during our walking tour to see Pearling Heritages in Muharraq, my guild wanted to show me the Dilmun royal mounds, so after negotiated with a driver, we squeezed Dilmun Mounds in the plan. We went to city of Aali, after made a brief stop to see few remains water springs of Bahrain, it hard to believe that Bahrain was once full with water springs and very green island and was considered a heaven on earth, I found myself to be standing on the top of the Royal Mound No.1.
Read OnHawaii Volcanoes
Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 29-Jun-20

Late Autumn 2019 my friends unexpectedly canceled our group’s anticipated road trip from Halifax to Ottawa, Canada and changed to Hawaii instead with dubious reason that they wanted surf, sun and sea instead of ocean of fossil and autumn foliage. At first I was not happy since I planned to see those uninspired Eastern Canadian UNESCO sites, but Hawaii was indeed hard to resist. To accommodate me, Volcanoes National Park was one of the must stop of this trip. Before I visited Hawaii, I already noted that after great eruption in 2018, almost all volcanic activities that made these national park well known were no more. As of late 2019 no lava flow, no eruption, no fume, no smoke and we were wondered that with no volcanic activities, our visit will be worthwhile of not?
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- Frederik Dawson
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- Most Impressive
- Rapa Nui, Yellowstone
- Proposal
- Royal temples in Bangkok, Thailand
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 16.10.20
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Rapa Nui 5Ajanta Caves 4.5Ancient Kyoto 4.5Borobudur 4.5Bukhara 4.5Chichen-Itza 4.5Dolomites 4.5Ellora Caves 4.5Florence 4.5Glacier parks 4.5Granada 4.5Grand Canyon 4.5Imperial Palace 4.5Loire Valley 4.5Machu Picchu 4.5Mesa Verde 4.5Nasca Lines 4.5Prague 4.5Prambanan 4.5Ravenna 4.5Redwood 4.5Rock Islands 4.5Rome 4.5Samarkand 4.5Siena 4.5St. Petersburg 4.5Sukhothai 4.5Uxmal 4.5Vatican City 4.5Vienna 4.5Wulingyuan 4.5Assisi 4Brugge 4Budapest 4Cordoba 4Cuzco 4Hué 4Lyon 4Ping Yao 4Segovia 4Seville 4Sigiriya 4Toledo 4Aachen Cathedral 3.5Agra Fort 3.5Albi 3.5Anuradhapura 3.5Aquileia 3.5Arequipa 3.5Avignon 3.5Avila 3.5Bahla Fort 3.5Bamberg 3.5Belem 3.5Bellinzone 3.5Blenheim Palace 3.5Bordeaux 3.5China Danxia 3.5Dong Phayayen 3.5Fontainebleau 3.5Fujisan 3.5Genbaku Dome 3.5Genoa 3.5Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5Himeji-jo 3.5Hoi An 3.5Humayun's Tomb 3.5Kew Gardens 3.5Kinderdijk 3.5Luther Memorials 3.5Lübeck 3.5Mammoth Cave 3.5Mount Wutai 3.5My Son 3.5Nancy 3.5Nikko 3.5Oporto 3.5Pienza 3.5Potsdam 3.5Puebla 3.5Quito 3.5Regensburg 3.5Salamanca 3.5Salzburg 3.5San Gimignano 3.5Silk Roads 3.5Sintra 3.5Stonehenge 3.5Strasbourg 3.5Trang An 3.5Trier 3.5Tubbataha Reefs 3.5Valletta 3.5Valparaiso 3.5Van Nellefabriek 3.5Verona 3.5Vicenza 3.5Villa d'Este 3.5Visby 3.5Wartburg Castle 3.5West Lake 3.5Western Ghats 3.5Yungang Grottoes 3.5Belfries 3Cuenca 3Ferrara 3Gyeongju 3Jeju 3Lima 3Macao 3Novgorod 3Orange 3Pearling 3Reims 3Urbino 3Aranjuez 2.5Baroque Churches 2.5Cahokia Mounds 2.5Campeche 2.5Centennial Hall 2.5Classical Weimar 2.5Graz 2.5Guimarães 2.5Hiraizumi 2.5Jongmyo Shrine 2.5Kandy 2.5Kronborg Castle 2.5Kutna Hora 2.5Namhansanseong 2.5Provins 2.5Red Fort 2.5Shakhrisyabz 2.5Skogskyrkogarden 2.5Telc 2.5Thang Long 2.5The Four Lifts 2.5Tower of London 2.5Vat Phou 2.5Yaroslavl 2.5Zollverein 2.5Modena 2Saltaire 2Trebic 2Reviewed WHS
- Baekje Historic Areas
- Chichen-Itza
- Modena
- Dilmun Burial Mounds
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Rock Islands
- Aranjuez
- Cuenca
- Reichenau
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Okinoshima Island
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Holy Trinity Column
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Tugendhat Villa
- Telc
- Historic Cairo
- Kutna Hora
- Holasovice
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Val d'Orcia
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Urbino
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Trang An
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
- Bali Subak system
- Causses and Cévennes
- Lake District
- Lyon
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Bordeaux
- Saint-Emilion
- Vézère Valley
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Albi
- New Lanark
- Forth Bridge
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Qal'at al-Bahrain
- Pearling
- Borobudur
- Chan Chan
- Nasca Lines
- Arequipa
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Lima
- Valparaiso
- Quito
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang
- Hué
- Prambanan
- Ujung Kulon National Park
- Hoi An
- My Son
- Ayutthaya
- Mesa Verde
- Redwood
- Tusi Sites
- Champagne
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Statue of Liberty
- Taos Pueblo
- San Antonio Missions
- Cahokia Mounds
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Sian Ka'an
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Puebla
- Campeche
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Teotihuacan
- Namhansanseong
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Grand Canal
- Silk Roads
- Dong Phayayen
- Yaroslavl
- Lenggong Valley
- Churches and Convents of Goa
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Bahla Fort
- Aflaj irrigation system
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Ellora Caves
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
- Ajanta Caves
- Elephanta Caves
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan
- Western Ghats
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Yellowstone
- Fujisan
- Shiretoko
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Kew Gardens
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Liverpool
- Maritime Greenwich
- Saltaire
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Canterbury
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Blenheim Palace
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Studley Royal Park
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
- Baroque Churches
- Independence Hall
- Jeju
- Genbaku Dome
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
- Southern Öland
- Karlskrona
- Drottningholm
- Visby
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Hiraizumi
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Novgorod
- St. Petersburg
- Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Samarkand
- Wulingyuan
- Kaiping Diaolou
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Hahoe and Yangdong
- Royal Joseon Tombs
- China Danxia
- Old Town of Lijiang
- West Lake
- Bukhara
- Shakhrisyabz
- Ban Chiang
- Kii Mountain Range
- Ancient Nara
- Horyu-ji Area
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Macao
- Gunung Mulu
- South China Karst
- Thang Long
- Central Highlands
- Bourges Cathedral
- Abbey of St Gall
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Genoa
- Gusuku of Ryukyu
- Ping Yao
- Yungang Grottoes
- Mount Wutai
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Longmen Grottoes
- Luang Prabang
- Angkor
- Old Town of Galle
- Kandy
- Polonnaruva
- Anuradhapura
- Melaka and George Town
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Preah Vihear Temple
- Haeinsa Temple
- Gyeongju
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Sukhothai
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Agra Fort
- Loire Valley
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Zollverein
- Belem
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Provins
- Classical Weimar
- Kinderdijk
- Guimarães
- Alcala de Henares
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Dong Phayayen
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Nancy
- Monastery of Batalha
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Würzburg Residence
- Vat Phou
- Novodevichy Convent
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Avila
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
Visited TWHS
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, the northern part of Okinawa Island and Iriomote Island (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Chinese Section of the Silk Road (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (T)
- Classical Karst (in Slovene language: Klasicni kras) (T)
- Coral Stone Mosques of Maldives (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
- Dali Chanshan Mountain and Erhai Lake Scenic Spot (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria (T)
- Eglises romanes d'Andorre (T)
- Ensemble of Phanom Rung, Muang Tam and Plai Bat Sanctuaries (T)
- Fenghuang Ancient City (T)
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - Lower German Limes (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Austria) (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Germany) (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (UK) (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago (T)
- Hikone-Jo (castle) (T)
- Hiraizumi (extension) (T)
- Historic Center of the City of Trujillo (T)
- Historical City Centre of Yogyakarta (T)
- Historical city of Izamal (Izamal, Mayan continuity in an Historical City) (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Hua Shan Scenic Area (T)
- Iconic Saree Weaving Clusters of India (T)
- Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (KKFC) (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- La Moneda Palace (T)
- Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Los Petenes-Ría Celestún (T)
- Manama, City of Trade, Multiculturalism and Religious Coexistence (T)
- Mediterranean Wind Mills (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Naganeupseong, Town Fortress and Village (T)
- National Park "Hohe Tauern" (T)
- Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region (T)
- Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Peruvian Central Railway (T)
- Phra That Phanom, its related historic buildings and associated landscape (T)
- Phuphrabat Historical Park (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Ring of cenotes of Chicxulub Crater, Yucatan (T)
- Rostov Kremlin (T)
- Route of Magellan. First around the World (T)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Routes in Portugal (T)
- San Francisco Church and Convent (T)
- Seoul City Wall (T)
- Seruwila to Sri Pada (Sacred Foot Print Shrine) (T)
- Shwedagon Pagoda on Singuttara Hill (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (T)
- Site of Southern Yue State (T)
- Site of the Retiro and the Prado in Madrid (T)
- Southwestern Coast Tidal Flats (T)
- Temples, Shrines and other structures of Ancient Kamakura (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- The Ancient Town of Si Thep (T)
- The Ancient Waterfront Towns in the South of Yangtze River (T)
- The Central Axis of Beijing (including Beihai) (T)
- The Chinese Section of the Silk Roads (T)
- The Four Sacred Mountains as an Extension of Mt. Taishan (T)
- The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees (France-Spain) (T)
- The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic – Heritage of the First World War (T)
- Via Appia "Regina Viarum" (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan, Nakhon Si Thammarat (T)
- Waters and seabed of Fiordland (Te Moana O Atawhenua) (T)
- White Sands National Monument (T)
- Wineries and Vineyards for traditional Pisco Production (T)
- Yapease Quarry Sites (T)
Reviewed TWHS
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Amritsar
- Bagan
- Cenotes of the Yucatan
- Chicago School of Architecture
- Cultural Landscape of Santorini
- Dzongs of Bhutan
- Jebel Shams, Wadi Nakhur, and Wadi Ghul
- Mammoth Bone Burials
- Minoan palaces of Crete
- Naica Cave: Cave of the Crystals
- Nan Madol
- Plain of Jars / Sites Mégalithiques de la province de Xieng Khouang
- Shwedagon Pagoda
- Suez Canal
- Tana Toraja Cultural Landscape
- The Grand Canal
- The Sacred Complex of Babylon
- The Soviet Architecture of Moscow
- Torres del Paine National Park
- Wooden Monasteries of Konbaung Period: Ohn Don, Sala, Pakhangyi, Pakhannge, Legaing, Sagu, Shwe Kyau
Top 200 WHS
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Brasilia
- Naples
- City of Bath
- Toledo
- Prague
- Sana'a
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Rome
- Istanbul
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Grand Canal
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Silk Roads
- Anuradhapura
- Sukhothai
- Angkor
- Altamira Cave
- Lakes of Ounianga
- Iguazu National Park
- The Sundarbans
- Okavango Delta
- Victoria Falls
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan
- Kenya Lake System
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex
- Tugendhat Villa
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Nasca Lines
- Stonehenge
- Palenque
- Chichen-Itza
- Tikal National Park
- Teotihuacan
- Chan Chan
- Mesa Verde
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- St. Petersburg
- Florence
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Fossil Hominid Sites
- Schönbrunn
- Blenheim Palace
- Golestan Palace
- Versailles
- Imperial Palace
- Rapa Nui
- Takht-e Soleyman
- Nemrut Dag
- Petra
- Persepolis
- Tchogha Zanbil
- Samarra
- Rwenzori Mountains
- Tajik National Park
- Dolomites
- Huanglong
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Machu Picchu
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Great Wall
- Himeji-jo
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Agra Fort
- Independence Hall
- Statue of Liberty
- Genbaku Dome
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Avignon
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- San Gimignano
- Budapest
- Brugge
- Vienna
- Cracow
- Dubrovnik
- Granada
- Siena
- Oporto
- Lübeck
- Maritime Greenwich
- Socotra Archipelago
- Great Barrier Reef
- Rock Islands
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Cuzco
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang
- Ha Long Bay
- South China Karst
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Mount Taishan
- Nikko
- Huangshan
- Temple of Heaven
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Hampi
- Prambanan
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Chola Temples
- Los Glaciares
- Te Wahipounamu
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Redwood
- Vallée de Mai
- Cape Floral Region
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Yellowstone
- Galapagos Islands
- Aldabra Atoll
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Grand Canyon
- Nubian Monuments
- Ancient Thebes
- Salamanca
- Jantar Mantar
- Darien National Park
- Virunga National Park
- Namib Sand Sea
- Champagne
- Rio de Janeiro
- Loire Valley
- Kew Gardens
- Uluru
- Bali Subak system
- Persian Garden
- Wadi Rum
- West Lake
- Old Havana
- Salvador de Bahia
- Guanajuato
- Quito
- Cartagena
- Québec
- Ouro Preto
- Puebla
- Great Zimbabwe Ruins
- Cliff of Bandiagara
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Kinderdijk
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Sydney Opera House
- Kyiv
- Rila Monastery
- Luther Memorials
- Belem
- Chartres Cathedral
- Churches and Convents of Goa
- Westminster
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Vatican City
- Meteora
- Ravenna
- Kizhi Pogost
- Lalibela
- Aachen Cathedral
- Göreme NP
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius
- Taj Mahal
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Mogao Caves
- Mahabodhi Temple Complex
- Borobudur
- Potala Palace
- Ajanta Caves
- Itchan Kala
- Old Town of Lijiang
- Hué
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Kathmandu Valley
- Bukhara
- Ping Yao
- Samarkand
- Damascus
- Historic Cairo
- Pompei
- Ephesus
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Acropolis
- Tequila
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Timbuktu
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Aksum