Philipp Peterer Profile

Since 2008 visiting WHS is my primary obsession. I started with about 40 sites I had seen without particular knowledge of their world heritage status and managed to boost this number since. It helped that I started to work for the national airline in 2010 and I had a few years where I could travel intensely. In 2012 I had my personal record year, visiting 60 sites. Between December 2010 and March 2013 I was able to visit 1 or more sites every single month. In March 2013 my son was born, so currently I’m reduced to a much slower pace and the occasional weekend escape on my own.

I really like the diversity of the list. I favor medieval related sites, industrial sites and Greek/Roman remains, if they are clearly visible. On the rear end are modern architecture and fossil sites. The true spirit of our common hobby reveals itself to me each time I visit a place I would have never dreamed of if it wasn’t for the list and turns out to be amazing, such as Sceilg Mhichíl, the Wadi Al Hitan or the Ajanta Caves.

Switzerland Last Update 08.05.20 535 WHS Visited 55 Reviews 534 WHS Rated 156 TWHS Visited

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Southwestern Coast Tidal Flats (T)

Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 05-May-20

I visited two locations of the Tidal Flats, up for inscription in 2020 (or maybe 2021, due to coronavirus): Suncheon Bay and the Gochang Tidal Flats.

Suncheon Bay
This location is ideal and probably the best choice, when the tidal flats become a WHS. Suncheon Bay is close to Naganeupseong TWHS (worth a visit) and Seonamsa monastery WHS.

You need to visit the Suncheon Bay Ecological Park to be able to see the iconic view shown in Clyde’s and Kyle’s pictures. The ticket fee is high and you even pay for parking (very rare in Korea). The park itself is like an Ecological Disneyland. You walk on well-maintained wooden paths, there are restaurants, boat tours and a big museum. Walk to the observatory for the tidal flats where you can admire them from three different levels.

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Baekje Historic Areas

Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 04-May-20

Visit February 2020 - I managed to visit all components of the Baekje Historic Areas on my Korea trip.

Gongju cluster
I started in Gongju, visiting the Gongsanseong fortress upon arrival in the afternoon. It is not a spectacular, but still a nice fortress, with reconstructed gates and earthen walls. You need at least an hour to visit. It’s quite big. After spending the night in this underwhelming town, I visited the royal tombs in the morning. In hind side I should have pushed my schedule the day before for 15 minutes as this was roughly the time I needed for the visit. The tombs are not accessible all you can do is visit the museum with the replicas. Nice, but not the real deal.

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Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen

Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 04-May-20

Visit February 2020 - Dolmen sites are generally not too appealing for me, but in a land full of temples and palaces, they were a nice disruption. Unlike most others I did not visit Ganghwa (easy one for a revisit to Korea) but went for Gochang and Hwasun.

Gochang

Gochang is probable the main site among the three. It is not ideally located, but at least there are two Seowons nearby

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Stone Buddhas and Pagodas at Hwasun Unjusa Temple (T)

Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 04-May-20

This, in my opinion, does not only deserve to be a world heritage site, It would also be Korea’s best world heritage site. Unjusa is unfortunately (or rather fortunately) very off the beaten path. The only WHS close by is the Hwasun dolmen component of the site everybody seems to tick off with Ganghwa near Seoul. I spent the night in Naju, the closest place I could find a hotel online, and visited the temple first thing in the morning. As so often during my off-season Korea trip, I was the only visitor. There is a ticket booth and free parking at the entrance.

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Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies

Philipp Peterer Switzerland - 03-May-20

Visit February 2020 – I managed to visit 5 of the inscribed 9 Seowons on my road trip through Korea. In general, the visits of all Seowons were fairly similar. They mostly have the same buildings (dormitories, lecture halls, library, shrine and walls with a gate) that look the same. Entry to all but Sosu Seowon was free and you frankly don’t need much more than 15 minutes to visit a location. They all have info plates in English on premise and a nice “this is a world heritage site” stone in front of each Seowon. You will find free parking close to each Seowon, but most of the might be a bit tricky to reach with public transport.

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Name: Philipp Peterer
Country: Switzerland
Most Impressive: Machu Picchu
Proposal: Ancient Salamis (Northern Cyprus)

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Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple

Haeinsa Temple

Jongmyo Shrine

Changdeokgung Palace Complex

Hwaseong Fortress

Jeju

Royal Joseon Tombs

Hahoe and Yangdong

Namhansanseong

Baekje Historic Areas

Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies

Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries

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Ajanta Caves 5

Angkor 5

Baalbek 5

Elephanta Caves 5

Ellora Caves 5

Fatehpur Sikri 5

Granada 5

Komodo National Park 5

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 5

Loire Valley 5

Machu Picchu 5

Meteora 5

Mont-Saint-Michel 5

Palenque 5

Petra 5

Rome 5

Sceilg Mhichíl 5

Segovia 5

Sintra 5

Summer Palace 5

Venice and its Lagoon 5

Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 4.5

Auschwitz Birkenau 4.5

Brugge 4.5

Bryggen 4.5

Cesky Krumlov 4.5

Chavin 4.5

Chichen-Itza 4.5

Costiera Amalfitana 4.5

Cracow 4.5

Cuzco 4.5

Dong Phayayen 4.5

Florence 4.5

Grand Canyon 4.5

Great Wall 4.5

Gwynedd Castles 4.5

Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.5

Huascaran National Park 4.5

Imperial Palace 4.5

Kremlin and Red Square 4.5

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.5

Mount Etna 4.5

Nasca Lines 4.5

Oporto 4.5

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5

Plitvice Lakes 4.5

Pompei 4.5

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.5

Prague 4.5

Pyramids (Memphis) 4.5

Rila Monastery 4.5

Salamanca 4.5

Siena 4.5

Sigiriya 4.5

Taj Mahal 4.5

Teotihuacan 4.5

The trulli of Alberobello 4.5

Vatican City 4.5

Versailles 4.5

Wadi Al-Hitan 4.5

Wadi Rum 4.5

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.5

Yosemite National Park 4.5

Yungang Grottoes 4.5

Abbey of St Gall 4

Agrigento 4

Altamira Cave 4

Amiens Cathedral 4

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

Archaeological Site of Delphi 4

Assisi 4

Avignon 4

Avila 4

Bali Subak system 4

Bamberg 4

Belem 4

Berat and Gjirokastra 4

Blenheim Palace 4

Budapest 4

Byblos 4

Cape Floral Region 4

Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 4

Chan Chan 4

Churches of Peace 4

City of Bath 4

City of Luxembourg 4

Convent of Christ in Tomar 4

Cordoba 4

Cuenca 4

Dacian Fortresses 4

Danube Delta 4

Dougga/Thugga 4

Dubrovnik 4

Edinburgh 4

Elvas 4

Ephesus 4

Etruscan Necropolises 4

Everglades 4

Evora 4

Falun Great Copper Mountain 4

Fontainebleau 4

Fortified City of Carcassonne 4

Gamzigrad-Romuliana 4

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 4

Guanajuato 4

Guimarães 4

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4

Heritage of Mercury 4

Humayun's Tomb 4

Hwaseong Fortress 4

Independence Hall 4

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 4

Isole Eolie 4

Istanbul 4

Jeju 4

Kinabalu Park 4

Kotor 4

Kyiv 4

La Fortaleza 4

Las Medulas 4

Le Morne 4

Luang Prabang 4

Manu National Park 4

Masada 4

Mostar 4

Mountain Resort, Chengde 4

Mycenae and Tiryns 4

Mystras 4

Naples 4

Ohrid Region 4

Old City of Jerusalem 4

Paphos 4

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4

Plantin-Moretus Museum 4

Polonnaruva 4

Potsdam 4

Preah Vihear Temple 4

Qhapaq Ñan 4

Quedlinburg 4

Qutb Minar 4

Rammelsberg and Goslar 4

Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 4

Reims 4

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 4

Rhodes 4

Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka 4

Salzburg 4

San Marino and Mount Titano 4

San Miguel de Allende 4

Sanchi 4

Santa Maria delle Grazie 4

Seville 4

Skocjan Caves 4

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 4

Split 4

Studenica Monastery 4

Studley Royal Park 4

Sukhothai 4

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 4

Syracuse 4

Teide National Park 4

Telc 4

The Four Lifts 4

Toledo 4

Trier 4

Trinity Sergius Lavra 4

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4

Vall de Boi 4

Vienna 4

Villa Romana del Casale 4

Vilnius 4

Wachau Cultural Landscape 4

Warsaw 4

Wartburg Castle 4

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4

Xochicalco 4

Aachen Cathedral 3.5

Albi 3.5

Alto Douro 3.5

Amphitheater of El Jem 3.5

Anjar 3.5

Antequera Dolmens Site 3.5

Arab-Norman Palermo 3.5

Aranjuez 3.5

Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5

Atlantic Forest South-East 3.5

Ayutthaya 3.5

Bardejov Town 3.5

Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.5

Biblical Tells 3.5

Bourges Cathedral 3.5

Brimstone Hill Fortress 3.5

Burgos Cathedral 3.5

Butrint 3.5

Caceres 3.5

Camino Real 3.5

Canterbury 3.5

Caral-Supe 3.5

Castel del Monte 3.5

Chartres Cathedral 3.5

Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.5

Curonian Spit 3.5

Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3.5

Dolomites 3.5

Donana National Park 3.5

El Escurial 3.5

Epidaurus 3.5

Ferrara 3.5

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.5

Garajonay 3.5

Giant's Causeway 3.5

Grand Place, Brussels 3.5

Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5

Incense Route of the Negev 3.5

Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5

Jantar Mantar 3.5

Kandy 3.5

Keoladeo National Park 3.5

Kew Gardens 3.5

Kinderdijk 3.5

Kronborg Castle 3.5

La Lonja de la Seda 3.5

Lima 3.5

Liverpool 3.5

Luis Barragán House and Studio 3.5

Lyon 3.5

Lübeck 3.5

Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5

Matera 3.5

Maulbronn Monastery 3.5

Mazagan 3.5

Medici Villas and Gardens 3.5

Medina of Tétouan 3.5

Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5

Monastery of Alcobaça 3.5

Monastery of Batalha 3.5

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5

Muskauer Park 3.5

Namhansanseong 3.5

Necropolis of Bet She'arim 3.5

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3.5

Neolithic Orkney 3.5

Novodevichy Convent 3.5

Oaxaca and Monte Alban 3.5

Old City of Acre 3.5

Old City of Berne 3.5

Olympia 3.5

Orange 3.5

Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.5

Poblet Monastery 3.5

Pont du Gard 3.5

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5

Popocatepetl monasteries 3.5

Provins 3.5

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5

Querétaro 3.5

Ravenna 3.5

Rhaetian Railway 3.5

Rio de Janeiro 3.5

Robben Island 3.5

Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5

Royal Palace at Caserta 3.5

San Gimignano 3.5

Santa Maria de Guadelupe 3.5

Santiago de Compostela 3.5

Schönbrunn 3.5

Sighisoara 3.5

Sinharaja Forest 3.5

Stari Ras and Sopocani 3.5

Statue of Liberty 3.5

Stevns Klint 3.5

Stonehenge 3.5

Strasbourg 3.5

Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3.5

Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver Mine 3.5

Tarraco 3.5

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.5

Temple of Heaven 3.5

Tower of London 3.5

Trebic 3.5

Trogir 3.5

Tyre 3.5

University of Coimbra 3.5

Urbino 3.5

Val di Noto 3.5

Valletta 3.5

Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3.5

Verona 3.5

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5

Villa d'Este 3.5

Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5

Vizcaya Bridge 3.5

Volubilis 3.5

Vézère Valley 3.5

Völklingen Ironworks 3.5

West Norwegian Fjords 3.5

Westminster 3.5

White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 3.5

Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3.5

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3.5

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.5

Würzburg Residence 3.5

Yuso and Suso Monasteries 3.5

Acropolis 3

Agra Fort 3

Anuradhapura 3

Aphrodisias 3

Arequipa 3

Arles 3

Asturian Monuments 3

Baekje Historic Areas 3

Bahá’i Holy Places 3

Ban Chiang 3

Belfries 3

Bellinzone 3

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3

Bethlehem 3

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 3

Bordeaux 3

Botanical Garden, Padua 3

Boyana Church 3

Brú na Bóinne 3

Campeche 3

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 3

Centennial Hall 3

Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3

Chaîne des Puys 3

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 3

Choirokoitia 3

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 3

Classical Weimar 3

Cologne Cathedral 3

Corfu 3

Crespi d'Adda 3

Defence Line of Amsterdam 3

Derwent Valley Mills 3

Dorset and East Devon Coast 3

Durham Castle and Cathedral 3

Fortress of Suomenlinna 3

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3

Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 3

Gorham's Cave Complex 3

Graz 3

Haeinsa Temple 3

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3

Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town 3

High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3

Historic Cairo 3

Ibiza 3

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3

Le Havre 3

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 3

Litomysl Castle 3

Longobards in Italy 3

Macao 3

Margravial Opera House 3

Meknes 3

Melaka and George Town 3

Mexico City and Xochimilco 3

Modena 3

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3

Mérida 3

Nessebar 3

New Lanark 3

Old Rauma 3

Old Town of Galle 3

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3

Pannonhalma 3

Pearling 3

Pienza 3

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3

Pitons Management Area 3

Portobelo-San Lorenzo 3

Qadisha Valley 3

Qal'at al-Bahrain 3

Quseir Amra 3

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3

Saint-Emilion 3

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3

Saltaire 3

Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3

Selimiye Mosque 3

Semmering Railway 3

Serra de Tramuntana 3

Singapore Botanic Gardens 3

Skogskyrkogarden 3

Stralsund and Wismar 3

Thessalonika 3

Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 3

Tower of Hercules 3

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3

Um er-Rasas 3

Venetian Works of Defence 3

Vicenza 3

Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai 3

Vredefort Dome 3

Wadden Sea 3

Zollverein 3

Alcala de Henares 2.5

Aquileia 2.5

Burgundy 2.5

Causses and Cévennes 2.5

Central Highlands 2.5

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 2.5

Champagne 2.5

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.5

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2.5

Drottningholm 2.5

Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2.5

Forth Bridge 2.5

Fortifications of Vauban 2.5

Genoa 2.5

Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.5

Imperial Tombs 2.5

Ironbridge Gorge 2.5

Kairouan 2.5

Kutna Hora 2.5

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5

Maritime Greenwich 2.5

Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 2.5

Medina of Fez 2.5

Medina of Marrakesh 2.5

Medina of Sousse 2.5

Medina of Tunis 2.5

Monastery of Horezu 2.5

Morelia 2.5

Nancy 2.5

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 2.5

Palmeral of Elche 2.5

Panamá 2.5

Peking Man Site 2.5

Petäjävesi Old Church 2.5

Puebla 2.5

Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos 2.5

Red Fort 2.5

Regensburg 2.5

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2.5

Roman Walls of Lugo 2.5

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.5

Royal Joseon Tombs 2.5

Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 2.5

Site of Carthage 2.5

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.5

Stećci 2.5

Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.5

Vézelay 2.5

Úbeda and Baeza 2.5

Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2

Birka and Hovgarden 2

Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2

Coa Valley and Siega Verde 2

Fagus Factory 2

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2

Fossil Hominid Sites 2

Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2

Gyeongju 2

Hahoe and Yangdong 2

Holasovice 2

Hollókö 2

Holy Trinity Column 2

Ichkeul National Park 2

Ivrea 2

Jodrell Bank Observatory 2

Jongmyo Shrine 2

Kerkuane 2

Lake District 2

Land of Frankincense 2

Medina Azahara 2

Mount Carmel Caves 2

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2

Primeval Beech Forests 2

Reichenau 2

Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin 2

Roskilde Cathedral 2

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2

San Cristobal de La Laguna 2

Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in Braga 2

Speyer Cathedral 2

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2

Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 2

Tokaji Wine Region 2

Tugendhat Villa 2

Val d'Orcia 2

Aflaj irrigation system 1.5

Al Ain 1.5

Atapuerca 1.5

Bahla Fort 1.5

Bauhaus Sites 1.5

Bridgetown 1.5

Canal du Midi 1.5

Caves and Ice Age Art 1.5

Corvey 1.5

Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 1.5

Flemish Béguinages 1.5

Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5

Luther Memorials 1.5

Major Town Houses 1.5

Mining Sites of Wallonia 1.5

Monte San Giorgio 1.5

Rietveld Schröderhuis 1.5

Stari Grad Plain 1.5

Van Nellefabriek 1.5

Aapravasi Ghat 1

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1

Al Zubarah 1

Christiansfeld 1

Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 1

Dilmun Burial Mounds 1

Jelling 1

Kernavë 1

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1

Messel Pit 1

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1

Sammallahdenmäki 1

Schokland 1

Srebarna Nature Reserve 1

The Prosecco Hills 1

Water Management System of Augsburg 1

White City of Tel-Aviv 1

Battir 0.5

Beemster Polder 0.5

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 0.5

Hortobágy 0.5

Lenggong Valley 0.5

Madara Rider 0.5

Par force hunting landscape 0.5

Stoclet House 0.5

Struve Geodetic Arc 0.5

Valongo Wharf 0.5

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple

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Stone Buddhas and Pagodas at Hwasun Unjusa Temple (T)

Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies

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