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Sangiran Early Man Site
Alexander Parsons Australia - 16-Jun-18
Possibly because I was primed for an underwhelming experience for my first 'early hominid' fossil site WHS, I actually quite enjoyed my daytrip from Yogyakarta to Sangiran. The museum exhibits were pretty decent, but without a background in geology or the other scientific fields involved, a lot of the summations of facts and figures and dates didn't really stick. While English versions of the exhibits were clearly abridged summaries of the Indonesian language versions, they were generally present and basically useful.
Read OnKomodo National Park
Alexander Parsons Australia - 16-Jun-18
Rather than as a day trip from Labuanbajo, I visited Komodo National Park over the third and fourth days of a four-day boat trip from Lombok to Flores. While I wholeheartedly recommend this experience for viewing the aquatic elements of the inscribed area, it is absolutely not the best way to see the Komodo dragons if that is your primary reason for visiting the national park.
The tour stopped at a few standard beach-stops along the route within the National Park, [...]
Read OnVenetian Works of Defence
Alexander Parsons Australia - 13-Dec-17
The Fortress of St Nicholas outside Sibenik in Croatia is probably the most decrepit WHS I have visited. Not in the sense of simply being a ruin, but in that it feels entirely abandoned, with no significant attempts at developing it for ‘safe’ tourism. This will probably change over the next few years. The general area seems to be a reasonably popular picnic destination, with a newly constructed EU-funded walking trail along the coast allowing for an easy afternoon walk from the car park, but few bother to actually go inside. This is understandable, as there are two ways to manage this, neither of which are especially practical. Firstly, from the land-side, there is a long wooden plank leading up to a hole in the fortress’ upper walls
Read OnMount Athos
Alexander Parsons Australia - 13-Dec-17
I visited Mount Athos in November 2017, staying three nights. While I certainly enjoyed my visit, it is also something of a cautionary tale, as I definitely did not get the most out of the experience as I could have.
I don’t need to go into particular detail about the practicalities of visiting from Thessaloniki, as they have been readily outlined by the previous review. As I was with only one other visitor, our request for a diamonitirion for entrance about four months later was granted by email within a couple of hours of requesting it, no issues whatsoever. One point, however, is that all ferries from and to Ouranopolis seemed to ‘require’ advance booking. Upon arrival in Ouranopolis, there was almost an hour before the next ferry. When I tried to get a ticket at this point, the ticket office wrote down my ‘reservation’ and declared that I should come back 15 minutes before the ferry departed
Read OnTchogha Zanbil
Alexander Parsons Australia - 11-Jun-16
I visited Tchogha Zanbil (as well as the other nearby WHS) on a long day trip from Ahwaz, between two overnight bus trips. This is not a recommended way to see these sites, as you can find yourself at the whims of an unpleasant driver who decides to double the price of the trip halfway through.
While I showed this driver (the only one at the station willing to take the trip) my map showing a route of Ahwaz-Susa-Tchoga Zanbil-Shushtar-Ahwaz, he nevertheless insisted on going to the ziggurat first, expressly denying the existence of a clearly-marked road linking them east-west. This caused pointless doubling back, which he repeatedly passive-aggressively blamed on me.
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Holy See . Laos . Malta . Myanmar . Qatar . Republic of Korea . Singapore . United Arab Emirates .Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Assisi 5Bagan 5Cuzco 5Granada 5Istanbul 5Meteora 5Petra 5Rome 5Segovia 5Uluru 5Wadi Rum 5Avila 4Cordoba 4Florence 4Gyeongju 4Jeju 4Kotor 4Ping Yao 4Pompei 4Prague 4Seville 4Split 4Toledo 4Valletta 4Vat Phou 4Verona 4Al Ain 3Albi 3Avignon 3Belem 3Belfries 3Bisotun 3Brugge 3Butrint 3Cuenca 3Ephesus 3Hoi An 3Hué 3Lima 3Macao 3Masada 3Mostar 3My Son 3Nikko 3Oporto 3Orange 3Potosi 3Shushtar 3Yazd 3Aranjuez 2Delos 2Fujisan 2Kraków 2Lumbini 2Red Fort 2Sintra 2Sucre 2Susa 2Trogir 2As-Salt 0.5Battir 0.5Le Havre 0.5Maymand 0.5Stoclet House 0.5Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Ancient Buddhist Site of Sarnath (T)
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Arasbaran Protected Area (T)
- Azraq (T)
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang : Hangyangdoseong Capital City Wall, Bukhansanseong Mountain Fortress and Tangchundaeseong Defense Wall (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Alamout (T)
- Daegokcheon Stream Petroglyphs (T)
- Dahshour archaeological area (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- El-Bariyah: wilderness with monasteries (T)
- Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
- Flinders Ranges (T)
- Gadara (Modern Um Qeis or Qays) (T)
- Gorge of Samaria National Park (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Hisham's Palace/ Khirbet al- Mafjar (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Hua Shan Scenic Area (T)
- Inle Lake (T)
- Jame' (Congregational) Mosque of Esfahan (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Kaboud Mosque (T)
- Kerman Historical-Cultural Structure (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- La Moneda Palace (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Mesta Livestock trails (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Naganeupseong, Town Fortress and Village (T)
- Nasqsh-e Rostam and Naqsh-e Rajab (T)
- Nuruosmaniye Complex (T)
- Pella (Modern Tabaqat Fahil) (T)
- Persepolis and other relevant buildings (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Route of Magellan (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
- Shaubak Castle (Montreal) (T)
- Shush (T)
- Sites of the Busan Wartime Capital (T)
- Sri Harimandir Sahib (T)
- Stone Buddhas and Pagodas at Hwasun Unjusa Temple (T)
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex: A Center of Medical Treatment (T)
- Tape Sialk (T)
- Taq-e Bostan (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Historical City of Maybod (T)
- The Historical Village of Abyaneh (T)
- The Historical-Cultural Axis of Fin, Sialk, Kashan (T)
- The Medieval Town of Tansen (T)
- The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
- Workers’ Assembly Halls (Australia) (T)
Reviewed TWHS
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Amritsar
- Bagan
- Chernobyl
- Ciudad Perdida, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
- Cultural Landscape of Santorini
- Ephesus
- Nan Madol
- Okavango Delta
- Pharaonic Temples of Kom Ombo and Edfu
- Plain of Jars / Sites Mégalithiques de la province de Xieng Khouang
- Sistema Vial Andino/Qhapaq Ñan
- The Archaeological Site of Göbeklitepe
- Varanasi