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    Top 50 Missing: the results!
    Since 2008 we have been discussing a Top 50 Missing on the Forum of this website. Which sites of universal value aren't listed on the WH List, but should be? Forum members have created a longlist, and exactly 100 members of this website have casted their votes over the past 2 weeks.

    Here's the site we miss most on the WH List: Bagan.

    Go to the Full list of Missing, 2014

    Mexico #6: Morelos (January 2014)

    I spent my last 3 days in Mexico exploring some sites in the state of Morelos. I stayed in Cuernavaca, which is a "City of Eternal Spring" (always nice) and a pleasant midsize Mexican city in general. From here, it's easy to tick off the state's 2 WHS. I was the only visitor at the hilltop archaelogical site of Xochicalco, and did meet only a handful more at the former monasteries of Cuernavaca and Tepoztlan.

    . Popocatepetl monasteries
    . Xochicalco



    Mexico #5: North East Yucatan (January 2014)

    The North and East of Yucatan Peninsula are covered with Maya ruins. It's also the most touristy area I have been to in Mexico, drawing in the crowds because of its beaches. I enjoyed visiting the ruins listed as WHS, but also checked out several smaller sites. Of the latter, Ek Balam (at no list at all) is worth a special mention for its great and steep pyramid with almost Peruvian-style reliëfs.

    . Sian Ka'an
    . Chichen-Itza
    . Uxmal



    Mexico #4: Campeche (January 2014)

    Campeche is one of the 3 federal states that cover the Yucatan Peninsula (the others are Quintana Roo and Yucatan). It stretches from the northwest coast with the WH listed capital Campeche to the vast Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the south. That nature reserve includes a great site to visit for both cultural and natural reasons: the WHS of Calakmul.

    . Campeche
    . Calakmul



    Your WHS reviews

    Telc
    'Please find a link below to my latest film, this time from the town of Telc in the Czech Republic, a visit that coincided with their 20th anniversary as a World Heritage Site including market, food and a medieval feast.'
    Posted by Christer Sundberg, 09-03-2014    		 Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
    'Gdansk is a wonderful city, in which I would like to live, especially along the river, between the crane and the nicely renovated medieval city center.'
    Posted by Bojana Bartol, 04-03-2014
     
    El Pinacate
    'Leaving Los Angeles at 5am, roughly 8 hours later my wife and I found ourselves crossing the border into Mexico at Lukeville, Arizona.'
    Posted by Kyle Magnuson, 03-03-2014    		 Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
    'It is a very interesting site and of great importance to Europe history. Perhaps not special enough for the rest of the world.'
    Posted by Ingemar Eriksson, 01-03-2014
     
    White Sands National Monument (T)
    'It was very fascinating to visit White Sands, also to go there, I took the way from Carlsbad Caverns.'
    Posted by Ingemar Eriksson, 01-03-2014    		 Aflaj irrigation system
    'Driving from Muscat, the capital city of Oman, to the city of Nizwa was my first time to see Middle East desert environment, I was shocked to witness how dry of the landscape could be, all red lands and dark mountains looked like they had been burned by fire with no single tree or a sign of life except fast driving cars on the road.'
    Posted by Frederik Dawson, 01-03-2014