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Tiwanaku
Dennis Nicklaus - 05-Jun-24
There's just enough left of the Tiwanaku site that I was able to get a decent appreciation for this ancient culture. The museums are very well done, featuring several impressive stone sculptures. The highlight of the museums is the Bennett Monolith, an amazing 7-meter tall statue in excellent condition after over 2000 years. It survived the Spanish by being buried until rediscovered in the 1930s. Out in the main site, we started our tour at the Akapana Pyramid which gives a nice overview of the site. While the Sun Gate on the Kalasasaya courtyard is probably the most famous artifact here, I really liked the semi-subterranean temple. This sunken area is where the Bennett Monolith was found
Read OnLake Titicaca (T)
Dennis Nicklaus - 29-May-24
I visited the beautiful Lake Titicaca from both the Peruvian and the Bolivian sides. From Puno, Peru, I took an excursion out to see the Uros floating islands. While they are unique, these islands constructed out of reeds seem to have mostly devolved into platforms for little floating markets. At least the one I visited seemed to be supported by the resident family selling touristy souvenirs and cloth weavings. All things that I'm sure they bought wholesale and are just reselling and providing us visitors a way to thank them for letting us tour their little island. And I got the impression that's how most of the tours work, just to different little islands. I guess you're kind of sunk if you aren't lucky enough to attract a tour boat to your island
Read OnArequipa
Dennis Nicklaus - 29-May-24
Arequipa is a pleasant enough city and I enjoyed my stay there, but it didn't seem particularly outstanding to me. The main square and cathedral are quite nice, and there are a couple nice small museums featuring Andean mummies. I think the volcano connection makes it a little special -- the city has grand views of multiple snow-capped volcanos, and the signature white buildings are made from pyroclastic stone. This is the first place where I was aware of that being used as a building material.
Read OnNasca Aqueducts (T)
Dennis Nicklaus - 14-May-24
The Nasca Aqueducts are a very impressive work of hydrological engineering from the pre-Columbian Nazca culture. The Cantalloc Aqueducts are the best preserved of these, just outside the city of Nazca. The Nazca culture flourished between about 200 and 700 A.D., and these aqueducts are generally dated to around 300 A.D. Several of them still have water flowing through them and are useful today. A large part of the extensive network of water channels (many kilometers) is/was underground, which makes the work even more impressive to me, that the ancient Nazca were able to build and maintain these. At Cantalloc, the most visually striking element are the broad spiral access points
Read OnNasca Lines
Dennis Nicklaus - 14-May-24
Seeing the Nazca lines was the biggest thrill of my April 2024 Peru trip. I had been to Peru about 25 years prior, but back then had not been able to include Nazca and Lake Titicaca in the itinerary, so this trip was to make up for that. The Nazca lines have been such an iconic site for me since I was in grade school, so I'm feeling very satisfied to visit them. Seeing the three figures from the roadside viewing tower was nice, but I had to get the full experience with the flight. My flight was midday, and it all went off without any problems. I flew with AeroNazca, but I'd echo what others have said about the provider probably not making much difference, with taxes & all it cost about US$100
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8 Countries Complete
El Salvador . Holy See . Israel . Jamaica . Luxembourg . Micronesia . Palau . Zambia .Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Calakmul 5Cuzco 5Ephesus 5Florence 5Granada 5Iguacu 5Istanbul 5Lalibela 5Masada 5Palenque 5Petra 5Rapa Nui 5Rome 5Sigiriya 5Uluru 5Uxmal 5Ancient Kyoto 4.5Arles 4.5Brú na Bóinne 4.5Dolomites 4.5Edinburgh 4.5Giant's Causeway 4.5Grand Canyon 4.5Kraków 4.5Loire Valley 4.5Prague 4.5Rio de Janeiro 4.5Budapest 4Copán 4Gyeongju 4Panamá 4Rhodes 4Salzburg 4Trang An 4Verona 4Vienna 4Ancient Nara 3.5Burgundy 3.5Cahokia Mounds 3.5Himeji-jo 3.5Saint-Emilion 3.5Tiwanaku 3.5Toledo 3.5Arequipa 3Avignon 3Bordeaux 3Brugge 3Caceres 3Evora 3Kandy 3Kotor 3Lima 3Mérida 3Split 3Tarraco 3Canal du Midi 2.5Regensburg 2.5Schönbrunn 2.5Seville 2.5Temple of Heaven 2.5Yogyakarta 2.5Reviewed WHS
- Tiwanaku
- Arequipa
- Nasca Lines
- Robben Island
- Caral-Supe
- Verona
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Vézère Valley
- Olympic National Park
- Socotra Archipelago
- Chichen-Itza
- Lalibela
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Palenque
- Tikal National Park
- Rapa Nui
- Rock Islands
- Nan Madol
- Taputapuātea
Visited TWHS
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Archaeological Site and Historic Centre of Panamá City (T)
- Bet She'an (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Caesarea (T)
- Cara Sucia / El Imposible (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- City of York: historic urban core (T)
- Dayton Aviation Sites (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System (T)
- Hikone-Jo (castle) (T)
- Imeong Conservation Area (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- Nasca Aqueducts (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Protected area of Lake Atitlán: multiple use (T)
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- Shaubak Castle (Montreal) (T)
- The Bodrum Castle (T)
- The Crusader Fortresses (T)
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains (T)
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles (T)
- The Karlstejn Castle (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins National Parks, Region of Magallanes (T)
- Town of Chichicastenango (T)
- University City of Bogotá (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- White Sands National Monument (T)
- Wineries and Vineyards for traditional Pisco Production (T)
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