World Heritage Site

This website is a fully independent source of information about World Heritage Sites (WHS) and does not intend to make a profit. We value open discussion at the Forum, the exchange of personal travel experiences via reviews of WHS visits and enhancing our knowledge, regardless of a contributor's origins or how many WHS he or she has visited.

... for World Heritage Travellers

It is a website for travellers dedicated to visiting the locations listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. For travellers with an unsaturable curiosity about the world in all its cultural and natural manifestations. Those who want to share and to learn about it. For travellers that enjoy ticking off lists as well. And armchair travellers are just as much welcome.

How this website came about

The idea for this website was developed by me, Els Slots. It has been a long journey since 1997 to get where the site stands now. The full story can be read here.

Not many people have a clear goal in life. I do: mine is to visit all WHS. To achieve this goal I get away about once every month, with trips varying in difficulty and length between a (long) weekend in Europe and a 5.5 month trip around the world covering 47 WHS.

I plan my travels around WHS and TWHS (sites on the Tentative List), but also try to fit in capital cities, national museums, rewarding day-hikes and local festivities. Some of my most memorable experiences from the last years include tracking gorillas and chimpanzees in Virunga National Park, enjoying the art and architecture of Florence with 20 art history students for a week and celebrating Now Ruz with 1 million Kurds in Sulaymaniyah.

I have lived in the Netherlands all my life, and have 'retired' in 2022 to fully dedicate my life to travel and this website.

The technical stuff

Maintaining this website has become a community effort as well over the years. We do improvement ‘projects’, such as gathering all geographical coordinates for all TWHS.

Nan has been responsible for a full technical make-over of the website during 2016-2017. Yes, thank him for those wonderful maps, the responsiveness on mobile devices and even the long-awaited password reset function. He has also performed the migration to a much-needed new hosting partner in 2024.

If you find any technical errors on the website or have ideas for improvements, please add them to our Backlog.

Where to start?

• If you want to keep track of how many WHS you have already visited yourself and post full reviews with photos included, sign up.
• If you want to discuss at the Forum, go here. Access is only for registered community members - after joining you can add yourself via a separate login.
• If you want to browse through my trip reports and get an overview of my WH-related posts, go to my Blog Archive page.