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Why buy a book of the 1000 best places to visit if they are already been assigned as the World Heritage Sites ?  I have the goal to visit them all, but realize that is next to impossible.  So let's start with visiting as many as possible on my current travels.

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High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago

DutchHorn United States - 30-Sep-24

High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago

In the summer of 2010 before we said goodbye to Norway, we had one final roadtrip to visit a large part of this country.  We drove as far North as Lofoten, then cut across to Sweden and came back south through there.  On the way back, Becki and Jasper flew from Lulea to Stockholm while I drove the car through boring forests for ten hours.  About halfway there is this WHS which is of geological importance as it is the fastest rising place in the world due to the glacier melting.  They had a nice visitor center and a map with the UNESCO sign, so I was happy while I took a picture.  For the rest this place is not very exciting, a lot of trees, water and I am sure a lot of mosquitoes.  

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Great Smoky Mountains

DutchHorn United States - 26-Sep-24

Great Smoky Mountains

In June we went on a vacation to the Smokey Mountains. I had promised myself a real vacation this year which involves going somewhere that I had not been yet and did not involve visiting family. This vacation fit that request perfectly and we had a great time in this wonderful part of the country where I had not been to before. We walked in the woods including a short part of the Appalachian trail, threw rocks in the river, even tubed down it, hopped on a train and in general relaxed in the great cabin that we had found in Bryson City, North Carolina. The second day there was hiking day as we hiked to the top of the Smokey Mountains National Park. From there you had a great view of miles and miles of green forest all directions. 

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Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau

DutchHorn United States - 11-Oct-24

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau

In the summer of 2010, I was in Barcelona for the 2010 EAGE conference.  One day I had an evening to go for a walk in town and find this WHS.  I also walked along the Ramblas and found the old hostel I stayed at during previous Barcelona trips.  This site is a pretty building from the outside, but not that impressive in my view.  

Apparently, the inside is quite impressive and the other building that is part of this WHS is quite nice as well.  I was actually a bit disappointed that downtown Barcelona does not have more sites.  This city seems to have so much old and new history that I would think there would be more interesting sites.

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Thingvellir

DutchHorn United States - 11-Oct-24

Thingvellir

In the spring of 2010, we took a trip to Iceland from Stavanger for a long weekend.  We rented a car and did quite a bit of sightseeing in this beautiful and interesting country.  One of the trips was to this National Park which is a WHS.  The reason for this site is that it is of historical importance.  However, I did not really see much interesting in that regard.

However, what was interesting to us was that park is in the middle of the rift zone and apparently this is on top of the plate boundaries with the American plate to the West and the European plate to the right

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Laponian Area

DutchHorn United States - 30-Sep-24

Laponian Area

In the summer of 2010 before we said goodbye to Norway, we had one final roadtrip to visit a large part of this country.  We drove as far North as Lofoten, then cut across to Sweden and came back south through there.  We crossed the polar circle in Norway and passed it again by a nice sign on the way back.  This is the Laponian area of Sweden.  There was a nice museum in Jokkmokk on the indigenous people who were living here and we found this sign on the side of the road with a detailed description.  The site has both natural, hiking and people components to it.  As we had limited time and were traveling with young baby we stopped at the museum, took pictures of the signs, but did not have the time for hiking or much exploring.

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DutchHorn
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