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Dilmun 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.

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Hawaii 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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Rock Islands

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 08-Apr-20

I was fortunate to finish my business trip in Taiwan few days before the pandemic reached this nation and the rest of Asia. During my time in Taiwan, I decided to use this opportunity to visit Palau to see its beautiful World Heritage Site, the Rock Islands. Since I only have 3 days in Palau, my schedule was packed with all the package activities. My experience in this tropical paradise was similar to other reviewers. The stunning milky way and jelly fish lake were truly unique and two of the best highlights of Palau. Compared with Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay, the Rock Islands, in my opinion, was far better for its nicer tropical climate, stunning clean sea, and better management. I felt more safe to swim here than the polluted Vietnamese one

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Aranjuez

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 20-Nov-19

When I looked at the list of all World Heritage Sites around Madrid, Aranjuez was the least interesting site in my initial opinion; however, after visited the place, it became the second least interesting site since Alcala de Hanares won the position. Since I already saw the Royal Palace in Madrid twice including its grand royal park couple of month ago, I was not happy to have a trip just to see another Spanish royal palace, so pairing it with Cuenca was a good idea.

From Madrid I drove to Aranjuez, the city was quite lovely with many greens and fine houses, some kind of prosperous neighborhood, but when I reach city center, the view of ideal royal city welcomed me with grand scale, Grand palace on the right, French landscape gardens on the left and large square with beautiful San Antonio de Padua Church at the far end in the middle. I drove into a small alley next to palace complex, the buildings, pavement, trees were all stately and beautiful design, however those large open spaces in front of the church and next to the palace with few people around made the city a bit desert and lifeless and the area in front of the palace were shockingly rundown with shabby gardens and abandoned and ruined buildings

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Cuenca

Frederik Dawson Netherlands - 14-Nov-19

During my short business trip to Madrid, I had another chance to spend weekend to explored nearby World Heritage sites. I had dilemma between Zaragoza and Cuenca, but decided to visit Cuenca as Aranjuez was possible to visit in the same trip. After spent half day in Aranjuez, I arrived my hotel Parador de Cuenca around 4 PM. My first impression on Cuenca was its unique location, the whole historic town was located on promontory surround by two side of gorges and high hill on the north with lowland entrance from the south with just small creek to separate the old town and the new one.

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Name: Frederik Dawson
Country: Netherlands
Most Impressive: Rapa Nui, Yellowstone
Proposal: Royal temples in Bangkok, Thailand

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Angkor 5

Gunung Mulu 5

Pyramids (Memphis) 5

Rapa Nui 5

Te Wahipounamu 5

Teotihuacan 5

Yellowstone 5

Ajanta Caves 4.5

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5

Ancient Kyoto 4.5

Borobudur 4.5

Bukhara 4.5

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.5

Chichen-Itza 4.5

Classical Gardens of Suzhou 4.5

Dolomites 4.5

Ellora Caves 4.5

Florence 4.5

Glacier parks 4.5

Granada 4.5

Grand Canyon 4.5

Imperial Palace 4.5

Kremlin and Red Square 4.5

Loire Valley 4.5

Machu Picchu 4.5

Mesa Verde 4.5

Nasca Lines 4.5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5

Prague 4.5

Prambanan 4.5

Ravenna 4.5

Redwood 4.5

Rock Islands 4.5

Rome 4.5

Samarkand 4.5

Siena 4.5

St. Petersburg 4.5

Sukhothai 4.5

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.5

Uxmal 4.5

Vatican City 4.5

Venice and its Lagoon 4.5

Vienna 4.5

Wulingyuan 4.5

Ancient Nara 4

Assisi 4

Ayutthaya 4

Bali Subak system 4

Bauhaus Sites 4

Brugge 4

Budapest 4

Canterbury 4

Carlsbad Caverns 4

Cesky Krumlov 4

Chaco Culture 4

Chan Chan 4

Churches of Peace 4

Cordoba 4

Cuzco 4

Edinburgh 4

Fatehpur Sikri 4

Fortified City of Carcassonne 4

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4

Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4

Grand Canal 4

Grand Place, Brussels 4

Great Wall 4

Gwynedd Castles 4

Ha Long Bay 4

Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4

Historic Cairo 4

Hué 4

Itchan Kala 4

Itsukushima Shrine 4

Kinabalu Park 4

Lake District 4

Longmen Grottoes 4

Lyon 4

Major Town Houses 4

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4

Mexico City and Xochimilco 4

Mont-Saint-Michel 4

Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4

Old Town of Lijiang 4

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4

Ping Yao 4

Plain of Jars 4

Polonnaruva 4

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4

Qhapaq Ñan 4

Rietveld Schröderhuis 4

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4

Santa Maria delle Grazie 4

Schönbrunn 4

Segovia 4

Seville 4

Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 4

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 4

Sigiriya 4

Skocjan Caves 4

South China Karst 4

Summer Palace 4

Taj Mahal 4

Taos Pueblo 4

Temple of Heaven 4

Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 4

Toledo 4

Tugendhat Villa 4

Ujung Kulon National Park 4

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4

Versailles 4

Vézère Valley 4

Westminster 4

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4

Aachen Cathedral 3.5

Agra Fort 3.5

Albi 3.5

Anuradhapura 3.5

Aquileia 3.5

Arequipa 3.5

Avignon 3.5

Avila 3.5

Bahla Fort 3.5

Bamberg 3.5

Belem 3.5

Bellinzone 3.5

Blenheim Palace 3.5

Bordeaux 3.5

Bourges Cathedral 3.5

Causses and Cévennes 3.5

Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5

China Danxia 3.5

Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5

City of Luxembourg 3.5

Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3.5

Dong Phayayen 3.5

Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5

Fontainebleau 3.5

Fujisan 3.5

Genbaku Dome 3.5

Genoa 3.5

Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5

Himeji-jo 3.5

Hoi An 3.5

Humayun's Tomb 3.5

Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5

Kew Gardens 3.5

Kii Mountain Range 3.5

Kinderdijk 3.5

Luther Memorials 3.5

Lübeck 3.5

Mammoth Cave 3.5

Manu National Park 3.5

Medici Villas and Gardens 3.5

Monastery of Batalha 3.5

Mount Wutai 3.5

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5

My Son 3.5

Nancy 3.5

Nikko 3.5

Oporto 3.5

Phong Nha - Ke Bang 3.5

Pienza 3.5

Potsdam 3.5

Preah Vihear Temple 3.5

Puebla 3.5

Quito 3.5

Regensburg 3.5

Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5

Salamanca 3.5

Salzburg 3.5

San Gimignano 3.5

Santiago de Compostela 3.5

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5

Silk Roads 3.5

Sintra 3.5

Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 3.5

Statue of Liberty 3.5

Stonehenge 3.5

Strasbourg 3.5

Sydney Opera House 3.5

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.5

Tongariro National Park 3.5

Trang An 3.5

Trier 3.5

Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5

Tubbataha Reefs 3.5

Valletta 3.5

Valparaiso 3.5

Van Nellefabriek 3.5

Verona 3.5

Vicenza 3.5

Villa d'Este 3.5

Visby 3.5

Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5

Wartburg Castle 3.5

West Lake 3.5

Western Ghats 3.5

Western Tien-Shan 3.5

Yungang Grottoes 3.5

Abbey of St Gall 3

Amiens Cathedral 3

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3

Ban Chiang 3

Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3

Belfries 3

Camino Real 3

Central Highlands 3

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3

Champagne 3

Chartres Cathedral 3

City of Bath 3

Cuenca 3

Dorset and East Devon Coast 3

Drottningholm 3

El Escurial 3

Elephanta Caves 3

Etruscan Necropolises 3

Ferrara 3

Flemish Béguinages 3

Forth Bridge 3

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3

Gyeongju 3

Haeinsa Temple 3

Hahoe and Yangdong 3

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3

Hawaii Volcanoes 3

Horyu-ji Area 3

Huascaran National Park 3

Hwaseong Fortress 3

Imperial Tombs 3

Independence Hall 3

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3

Jantar Mantar 3

Jeju 3

Kaiping Diaolou 3

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3

Lima 3

Litomysl Castle 3

Liverpool 3

Luang Prabang 3

Macao 3

Maritime Greenwich 3

Maulbronn Monastery 3

Megalithic Temples of Malta 3

Melaka and George Town 3

Mount Etna 3

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3

Novgorod 3

Novodevichy Convent 3

Old City of Berne 3

Old Town of Galle 3

Orange 3

Pannonhalma 3

Pearling 3

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3

Pimachiowin Aki 3

Plantin-Moretus Museum 3

Pont du Gard 3

Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 3

Qal'at al-Bahrain 3

Qutb Minar 3

Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3

Reims 3

Roskilde Cathedral 3

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3

Saint-Emilion 3

Sangay National Park 3

Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3

Semmering Railway 3

Shiretoko 3

Sian Ka'an 3

Singapore Botanic Gardens 3

Sinharaja Forest 3

Southern Öland 3

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3

Speyer Cathedral 3

Stralsund and Wismar 3

Studley Royal Park 3

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3

Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 3

University of Coimbra 3

Urbino 3

Val d'Orcia 3

Venetian Works of Defence 3

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3

Würzburg Residence 3

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.5

Aflaj irrigation system 2.5

Aranjuez 2.5

Baekje Historic Areas 2.5

Baroque Churches 2.5

Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5

Cahokia Mounds 2.5

Campeche 2.5

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5

Centennial Hall 2.5

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.5

Classical Weimar 2.5

Cologne Cathedral 2.5

Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5

Falun Great Copper Mountain 2.5

Fortifications of Vauban 2.5

Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5

Graz 2.5

Guimarães 2.5

Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 2.5

Hiraizumi 2.5

Jongmyo Shrine 2.5

Kandy 2.5

Keoladeo National Park 2.5

Kladruby nad Labem 2.5

Kronborg Castle 2.5

Kutna Hora 2.5

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.5

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5

Longobards in Italy 2.5

Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5

Monastery of Alcobaça 2.5

Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 2.5

Namhansanseong 2.5

Papahanaumokuakea 2.5

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5

Primeval Beech Forests 2.5

Provins 2.5

Red Fort 2.5

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5

Royal Joseon Tombs 2.5

San Antonio Missions 2.5

San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5

Shakhrisyabz 2.5

Skogskyrkogarden 2.5

Telc 2.5

Thang Long 2.5

The Four Lifts 2.5

Tomioka Silk Mill 2.5

Tower of London 2.5

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5

Vat Phou 2.5

Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai 2.5

Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.5

Völklingen Ironworks 2.5

Yaroslavl 2.5

Zollverein 2.5

Alcala de Henares 2

Australian Convict Sites 2

Beemster Polder 2

Benedictine Convent of St. John 2

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2

Birka and Hovgarden 2

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2

Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 2

Canal du Midi 2

Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 2

Defence Line of Amsterdam 2

Derwent Valley Mills 2

Dilmun Burial Mounds 2

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2

Heritage of Mercury 2

Holasovice 2

Holy Trinity Column 2

Ironbridge Gorge 2

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 2

Karlskrona 2

Lenggong Valley 2

Mining Sites of Wallonia 2

Modena 2

Monte San Giorgio 2

New Lanark 2

Okinoshima Island 2

Par force hunting landscape 2

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2

Reichenau 2

Rhaetian Railway 2

Saltaire 2

Shirakami-Sanchi 2

The Prosecco Hills 2

Trebic 2

Tusi Sites 2

Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 1.5

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5

Royal Exhibition Building 1.5

Schokland 1

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