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Old Town Lunenburg

Craig Harder Vancouver Canada - 05-Aug-18

Old Town Lunenburg

Visited 20JUL 2018

This lovely town is exemplary of how good planning can create beauty.  There are so many great old buildings that have been preserved in this fishing village. 

In 1753, the British founded Lunenburg as their first colonial outpost in Nova Scotia beyond Halifax. The first settlers arrived in June 1753. Mostly Protestant German, Swiss and French colonists, the settlers participated in a formal lottery, choosing cards to determine the plots of land upon which they would settle and build.

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Grand Pré

Craig Harder Vancouver Canada - 05-Aug-18

Visited 20JUL 2018

This site is in a marshland area on the south shore of the Bay of Fundy, close to Wolfeville, being pleasant and historic and would be a good place to stay nearby. 

 The Visitor Centre at Grand Pré is impressive, especially its multimedia exhibits of the brilliant diking systems of the Acadians and in-depth explanations of their cruel expulsion by the British from the lands they worked so hard to tame from the sea. 

Caught between French and British power struggles, around 10,000 Acadians were eventually put on ships and taken to other colonies, many winding up in Louisiana in the US, but some of whom found their way back to their cherished homeland

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Joggins Fossil Cliffs

Craig Harder Vancouver Canada - 02-Aug-18

Joggins Fossil Cliffs

The cliffs are near the Nova Scotia border with New Brunswick. 

Although we were told to book a day or two in advance to get the extensive tour, we were informed it was booked up when we followed that advice.  However, when we arrived they allowed us to join the fully engaged two-hour tour.  It was a very hot day, and we almost regretted having taken that extensive tour rather than the half hour option which would have been sufficient.

The guide was patient and spent most of the time answering questions about whether various rocks were fossils or just rocks    It is definitely important to have a guide as many of the fossils, mostly of plants, are not easy to find on one’s own. 

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L'Anse aux Meadows

Craig Harder Vancouver Canada - 02-Aug-18

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L'Anse aux meadows lies at the very tip of Northwest Newfoundland.  Nearby is the small town of St. Anthony, where we saw several icebergs and met some bikers, who were also exceptionally friendly and personable, like all Newfoundlanders.  

The Viking site of L’Anse aux Meadows is scenic, enabling you to believe that the Norse chose it partly for its beauty. Three icebergs were visible in the distance.  Tall grasses, tiny wildflowers and horizontal forests brought Mistaken Point to mind.  The Visitor’s Centre was beautifully done and informative with a lovely Viking ship replica. The UNESCO Plaque is very impressive!

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Gros Morne National Park

Craig Harder Vancouver Canada - 30-Jul-18

Gros Morne National Park

Visited 15JUL 2018

This is a huge park situated on a vast body of fresh water, which makes it not officially a fjord, although the soaring cliffs and rock formations make it seem like one.  We took the Western Brook boat tour to take in the dramatic rock formations and occasional waterfalls.  It is good to book in advance with BonTours as this is a popular activity. 

One aspect that is not so well-liked is the 3-kilometre walk from the park to the dock on rough gravel through the bog-like but attractive scenery.  Beware those black flies if the wind isn’t blowing.   It seems like there are plans to have some sort of transport in the future for those unwilling or unable to make the trek.  

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Craig Harder
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Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
Proposal
Dresden should be reinstated!

Recently Visited WHS

Update 25.06.22
Rating Stats
Brugge 5
Elvas 5
Graz 5
Kotor 5
Lyon 5
Masada 5
Matera 5
Mostar 5
Oporto 5
Petra 5
Prague 5
Puebla 5
Rabat 5
Reims 5
Riga 5
Rome 5
Sintra 5
Toledo 5
Trier 5
Verona 5
Vienna 5
Bethlehem 4.5
Nessebar 4.5
Albi 4
Arles 4
Assisi 4
Avila 4
Belem 4
Corvey 4
Cuenca 4
Ibiza 4
Macao 4
Meknes 4
Nancy 4
Pienza 4
Pompei 4
Rhodes 4
Siena 4
Split 4
Telc 4
Trebic 4
Urbino 4
Uxmal 4
Aquileia 3.5
Burgundy 3.5
Corfu 3.5
Dolomites 3.5
Evora 3.5
Genoa 3.5
Mazagan 3.5
Mérida 3.5
Orange 3.5
Red Fort 3.5
Reichenau 3.5
Torun 3.5
Lima 3
Modena 3
Naples 3
Trogir 3
Warsaw 3
Abu Mena 2.5
Camagüey 2.5
Battir 2
Levuka 2
Nice 2
  1. Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library (T)
  2. Architecture Moderne du XX siècle de la Ville de Montevideo (T)
  3. Brooklyn Bridge (T)
  4. Caesarea (T)
  5. Casablanca, Ville du XXème siécle, carrefour d'influences (T)
  6. Central Park (T)
  7. Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
  8. Citadel of Alessandria (T)
  9. Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
  10. City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (T)
  11. Dahab (T)
  12. Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
  13. Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
  14. Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
  15. Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
  16. Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
  17. Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
  18. Historic zone of Basseterre (T)
  19. Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
  20. Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza) (T)
  21. Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
  22. Jerusalem (T)
  23. Karstic caves in prehistoric Apulia (T)
  24. Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
  25. La Rambla (promenade maritime) de la Cité de Montevideo (T)
  26. Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
  27. Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
  28. Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France) (T)
  29. Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
  30. Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
  31. Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
  32. Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
  33. Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
  34. Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
  35. Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
  36. Petrified Forest National Park (T)
  37. Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
  38. Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument (T)
  39. Qawra/Dwejra (T)
  40. Rade de Marseille (T)
  41. Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
  42. Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
  43. Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
  44. The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
  45. The late ancient tomb of Silistra (T)
  46. Tokaj Wine Region (T)
  47. Trakai Historical National Park (T)
  48. White Sands National Monument (T)

Reviewed TWHS

Top 50 Missing Sites

  1. Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library
  2. Cultural Landscape of Santorini
  3. Dilwara Temples at Mt Abu
  4. Ephesus
  5. Fortified City of Famagusta
  6. Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge
  7. Huaca de la Luna and Huaca del Sol
  8. Klondike and the Gold Rush Trails
  9. Meenakshi Temple in Madurai
  10. Minoan palaces of Crete
  11. Mount Rushmore
  12. Neuschwanstein Castle
  13. Panama Canal
  14. Petrified Forest National Park
  15. Scrovegni's Chapel
  16. Suez Canal
  17. Synagogue of Subotica
  18. Triple arch Gate at Dan & Sources of the Jordan
  19. Vers une architecture: Major Buildings of Le Corbusier
  20. Westhoek: places of memory and monuments of the Great War

Top 200 WHS

  1. Timbuktu
  2. Palmeral of Elche
  3. Acropolis
  4. Ephesus
  5. Pompei
  6. Tower of Hercules
  7. Bahá’i Holy Places
  8. Taj Mahal
  9. Um er-Rasas
  10. Aachen Cathedral
  11. Bethlehem
  12. Vatican City
  13. Mont-Saint-Michel
  14. Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
  15. Luther Memorials
  16. Cologne Cathedral
  17. Amiens Cathedral
  18. Reims
  19. Pilgrimage Church of Wies
  20. Reichenau
  21. Roskilde Cathedral
  22. Burgos Cathedral
  23. Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
  24. Vézelay
  25. Bourges Cathedral
  26. Westminster
  27. Kinderdijk
  28. Québec
  29. Cartagena
  30. Antigua Guatemala
  31. Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
  32. Macao
  33. Old Town Lunenburg
  34. Querétaro
  35. Campeche
  36. Zacatecas
  37. Levuka
  38. Old Havana
  39. Lima
  40. Sintra
  41. Wadi Rum
  42. Viñales Valley
  43. Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
  44. Upper Middle Rhine Valley
  45. Muskauer Park
  46. Olympic National Park
  47. Sian Ka'an
  48. Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
  49. Bauhaus Sites
  50. University of Coimbra
  51. Ancient Thebes
  52. Pyramids (Memphis)
  53. Nubian Monuments
  54. Grand Canyon
  55. Crespi d'Adda
  56. Fagus Factory
  57. Komodo National Park
  58. Galapagos Islands
  59. Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
  60. Wood Buffalo National Park
  61. Donana National Park
  62. Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
  63. Calakmul
  64. Garajonay
  65. Glacier parks
  66. Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
  67. Khajuraho Group of Monuments
  68. Qutb Minar
  69. Skocjan Caves
  70. Desembarco del Granma National Park
  71. Cuzco
  72. Mexico City and Xochimilco
  73. Great Barrier Reef
  74. Maritime Greenwich
  75. Lübeck
  76. Stralsund and Wismar
  77. Siena
  78. Granada
  79. Dubrovnik
  80. Vienna
  81. Brugge
  82. Budapest
  83. Assisi
  84. Rhodes
  85. Rammelsberg and Goslar
  86. Bamberg
  87. Quedlinburg
  88. Avignon
  89. Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
  90. Strasbourg
  91. Avila
  92. Guimarães
  93. Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
  94. Provins
  95. Cuenca
  96. Longobards in Italy
  97. Regensburg
  98. Auschwitz Birkenau
  99. Statue of Liberty
  100. Agra Fort
  101. Hill Forts of Rajasthan
  102. Great Wall
  103. Masada
  104. Malbork Castle
  105. Tower of London
  106. Fortress of Suomenlinna
  107. Bellinzone
  108. Kronborg Castle
  109. Red Fort
  110. La Fortaleza and San Juan
  111. Elvas
  112. Zollverein
  113. Guanajuato
  114. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
  115. Kilimanjaro National Park
  116. Machu Picchu
  117. Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
  118. Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
  119. Dolomites
  120. Petra
  121. Palmyra
  122. Necropolis of Bet She'arim
  123. Quseir Amra
  124. Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin
  125. Imperial Palace
  126. Versailles
  127. Potsdam
  128. Schönbrunn
  129. Wartburg Castle
  130. El Escurial
  131. Summer Palace
  132. Royal Palace at Caserta
  133. Fontainebleau
  134. Dinosaur Provincial Park
  135. Peking Man Site
  136. Mount Carmel Caves
  137. Kew Gardens
  138. Villa d'Este
  139. Botanical Garden, Padua
  140. Carthage
  141. Florence
  142. St. Petersburg
  143. Paris, Banks of the Seine
  144. Val di Noto
  145. Grand Place, Brussels
  146. City of Luxembourg
  147. Urbino
  148. La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
  149. Old City of Berne
  150. Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
  151. Úbeda and Baeza
  152. Classical Weimar
  153. Nancy
  154. Teotihuacan
  155. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
  156. Chichen-Itza
  157. Palenque
  158. Uxmal
  159. Xochicalco
  160. Stonehenge
  161. Biblical Tells
  162. Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
  163. Villa Romana del Casale
  164. Medici Villas and Gardens
  165. Works of Antoni Gaudí
  166. Rietveld Schröderhuis
  167. Major Town Houses
  168. Hospicio Cabañas
  169. Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
  170. Stoclet House
  171. Victoria Falls
  172. Danube Delta
  173. Altamira Cave
  174. Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
  175. Coa Valley and Siega Verde
  176. Elephanta Caves
  177. Mountain Railways of India
  178. Vizcaya Bridge
  179. Rideau Canal
  180. The Four Lifts
  181. Rhaetian Railway
  182. Venice and its Lagoon
  183. Old City of Jerusalem
  184. Prague
  185. Toledo
  186. Matera
  187. Salzburg
  188. The trulli of Alberobello
  189. Segovia
  190. Caceres
  191. Old City of Acre
  192. Verona
  193. Graz
  194. Corfu
  195. Evora
  196. Cordoba
  197. Pienza
  198. Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
  199. Le Havre
  200. Hawaii Volcanoes