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I have travelled with a focus on visiting World Heritage Sites (WHS) since 1997 next to a day job in the management of ICT. In 2022 I quit and since then I have been dedicating all my time to WHS (including running this website) and WH travel.

Plans for 2025

Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia in January (starts late December 2024)

Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey in March/April

Kenya in June

Big Trip to #1,000 (November/December)

The Netherlands Last Update 10.12.24 945 WHS Visited 1060 Reviews 945 WHS Rated 276 TWHS Visited

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Western Ghats

Els Slots The Netherlands - 07-Dec-24

I had a painful ‘near miss’ of the Western Ghats WHS in 2011 when I visited Ooty, saw the Nilgiri Hills and crossed the Ghats by bus from East to West; but I did not enter the core zone anywhere. While preparing for my 2024 India trip, it didn’t fit in either. These 39 parks and reserves are all so isolated. But at the end of my journey, while on the bus from Bangalore to Mysore for almost 4 hours, I tried Googling again to find an accessible location. I 'discovered' Mandalpatti Viewpoint inside the Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuary, reading stories about locals running ‘jeep safaris’ there (more offroading than safari).

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Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple

Els Slots The Netherlands - 06-Dec-24

The Ramappa Temple didn’t show up wrongly in the recent Most Remote Cultural WHS inventory. Over 4.5 hours were needed by car from my hotel in Hyderabad. Staying northeast of the city center may shave off half an hour, but will leave you far from the airport for onward connections.

The drive is not only long, it’s boring as well and the road is only a good 4-lane highway for about half of the 260km distance. Only in the last hour, there are a few roadside ‘attractions’: the large boulders of the Deccan Plateau, some churches (both Catholic and Baptist groups have been successful in converting the local tribal population), cotton and tobacco farms, and finally a forest reserve.

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The Qutb Shahi Monuments of Hyderabad (T)

Els Slots The Netherlands - 04-Dec-24

The TWHS Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate (2014) and The Qutb Shahi Monuments of Hyderabad (2010) both include the Qutb Shahi Tombs in Hyderabad. They have already been on the verge of nomination: examination by ICOMOS of the dossier was postponed in 2014 when India nominated 2 sites that year (they preferred pursuing Rani-ki Vav).

I did a quick afternoon visit to Golconda Fort and the Tombs while staying in Hyderabad the night before going to the Ramappa Temple WHS

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Nalanda

Els Slots The Netherlands - 03-Dec-24

I enjoyed Nalanda, probably because my expectations were low. We arrived just after 9 a.m. from Patna (2h by car on a good road, once you’ve managed your way out of the congested city center). I would suggest arriving this early as the site attracts larger numbers of daily visitors than you can imagine for an archaeological site in rural Bihar. It seems to be included in many of the group tours of the pilgrims visiting the Mahabodhi Temple, so there will be plenty of Asian groups around. Also, it’s a nicely landscaped park that attracts the locals from the nearby large city of Bihar Sharif.

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Mahabodhi Temple Complex

Els Slots The Netherlands - 03-Dec-24

The Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Bodh Gaya is easily reached nowadays in about 2 hours from Patna via a 4-lane highway that bypasses the city of Gaya. The town of Bodh Gaya is essentially a slum, with desperately poor living conditions and full of people whose main goal in life is to get the most out of the Buddhist pilgrims. India shows itself here at its worst: noisy rickshaws, begging children, severely deformed people hoping for compassion, con artists of all kinds, and dirty children made to perform circus acts by their mothers. They all ply the main street leading up to the temple.

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Angkor 5

Ennedi Massif 5

Hampi 5

Kathmandu Valley 5

Machu Picchu 5

Rapa Nui 5

Rome 5

Taj Mahal 5

Bali Subak system 4.5

Bukhara 4.5

Calakmul 4.5

Caral-Supe 4.5

Florence 4.5

Granada 4.5

Grand Canyon 4.5

Ilulissat Icefjord 4.5

Istanbul 4.5

Kakadu National Park 4.5

Manu National Park 4.5

Meroe 4.5

Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.5

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.5

Mountain Railways of India 4.5

Nasca Lines 4.5

Ngorongoro 4.5

Old City of Jerusalem 4.5

Petra 4.5

Sagarmatha National Park 4.5

Sigiriya 4.5

Uluru 4.5

Venice and its Lagoon 4.5

Virunga National Park 4.5

Willandra Lakes 4.5

Aachen Cathedral 4

Acropolis 4

Ajanta Caves 4

Aksum 4

Altamira Cave 4

Ambohimanga 4

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

Ancient Kyoto 4

Ancient Merv 4

Ancient Nara 4

Ancient Thebes 4

Arab-Norman Palermo 4

Archaeological Site of Aigai 4

Arequipa 4

Assisi 4

Baalbek 4

Bagan 4

Beijing Central Axis 4

Borobudur 4

Brazilian Atlantic Islands 4

Budapest 4

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4

Central Amazon Conservation Complex 4

Chaco Culture 4

Chan Chan 4

Chavin 4

Chichen-Itza 4

Chitwan National Park 4

Chola Temples 4

Churches of Chiloé 4

Churches of Moldavia 4

Churches of Peace 4

Cliff of Bandiagara 4

Cordoba 4

Dazu Rock Carvings 4

Djenné 4

Dougga/Thugga 4

Dubrovnik 4

Elvas 4

Epidaurus 4

Etruscan Necropolises 4

Fujian Tulou 4

Galapagos Islands 4

Gebel Barkal 4

Giant's Causeway 4

Great Smoky Mountains 4

Great Zimbabwe 4

Gros Morne National Park 4

Gulf of California 4

Gunung Mulu 4

Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4

Haeinsa Temple 4

Haghpat and Sanahin 4

Hani Rice Terraces 4

Hattusha 4

Hué 4

Iguazu National Park 4

Imperial Palace 4

Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos 4

Kandy 4

Kaziranga National Park 4

Khajuraho Group of Monuments 4

Kraków 4

Kremlin and Red Square 4

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 4

Kunya-Urgench 4

Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4

Lake Baikal 4

Lakes of Ounianga 4

Lalibela 4

Loire Valley 4

Los Glaciares 4

Mahabalipuram 4

Mana Pools 4

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 4

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4

Medina of Fez 4

Medina of Marrakesh 4

Mesa Verde 4

Meteora 4

Mogao Caves 4

Mostar 4

Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4

Namib Sand Sea 4

Nemrut Dag 4

Nubian Monuments 4

Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4

Ogasawara Islands 4

Okavango Delta 4

Orkhon Valley 4

Ouro Preto 4

Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4

Palenque 4

Pantanal 4

Paris, Banks of the Seine 4

Pattadakal 4

Peninsula Valdes 4

Phong Nha - Ke Bang 4

Ping Yao 4

Plantin-Moretus Museum 4

Pompei 4

Potala Palace 4

Prague 4

Puebla 4

Pyramids (Memphis) 4

Rainforests of the Atsinanana 4

Ravenna 4

Rila Monastery 4

Rock Islands 4

Samarkand 4

Sangha Trinational 4

Sceilg Mhichíl 4

Selimiye Mosque 4

Serengeti 4

Serra da Capivara 4

Seville 4

St. Petersburg 4

Stone Town of Zanzibar 4

Sukhothai 4

Sun Temple, Konarak 4

Surtsey 4

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 4

São Luis 4

Takht-e Soleyman 4

Taxila 4

Teide National Park 4

The trulli of Alberobello 4

Tikal National Park 4

Toledo 4

Upper Svaneti 4

Val di Noto 4

Vatnajökull National Park 4

Victoria Falls 4

Vilnius 4

Viñales Valley 4

Wadi Al-Hitan 4

Wadi Rum 4

Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 4

West Norwegian Fjords 4

Western Tien-Shan 4

Works of Antoni Gaudí 4

Wulingyuan 4

Yakushima 4

Agrigento 3.5

Amami-Oshima Island 3.5

Amphitheater of El Jem 3.5

Andrefana Dry Forests 3.5

Angra do Heroismo 3.5

Ani 3.5

Anjar 3.5

Anuradhapura 3.5

Aphrodisias 3.5

Aquileia 3.5

Aranjuez 3.5

Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5

Armenian Monastic Ensembles 3.5

Auschwitz Birkenau 3.5

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3.5

Ayutthaya 3.5

Baroque Churches 3.5

Bauhaus Sites 3.5

Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.5

Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5

Białowieża Forest 3.5

Bolgar 3.5

Bourges Cathedral 3.5

Brugge 3.5

Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.5

Butrint 3.5

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 3.5

Byblos 3.5

Cape Floral Region 3.5

Carthage 3.5

Causses and Cévennes 3.5

Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.5

Cesky Krumlov 3.5

Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5

Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5

Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.5

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5

Classical Weimar 3.5

Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.5

Congonhas 3.5

Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5

Copán 3.5

Costiera Amalfitana 3.5

Cueva de las Manos 3.5

Curonian Spit 3.5

Dacian Fortresses 3.5

Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5

Delos 3.5

Diamantina 3.5

Dinosaur Provincial Park 3.5

Discovery Coast 3.5

Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 3.5

Edinburgh 3.5

El Fuerte de Samaipata 3.5

El Pinacate 3.5

Elephanta Caves 3.5

Ellora Caves 3.5

Ephesus 3.5

Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.5

Everglades 3.5

Fagus Factory 3.5

Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.5

Fasil Ghebbi 3.5

Fatehpur Sikri 3.5

Fontainebleau 3.5

Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.5

Gamzigrad-Romuliana 3.5

Gelati Monastery 3.5

Golestan Palace 3.5

Gordion 3.5

Great Wall 3.5

Guanajuato 3.5

Gulf of Porto 3.5

Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5

Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 3.5

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5

Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3.5

Hegra 3.5

Heritage of Mercury 3.5

High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3.5

Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5

Hiraizumi 3.5

Historic Cairo 3.5

Hoi An 3.5

Huanglong 3.5

Huascaran National Park 3.5

Humayun's Tomb 3.5

Iguacu 3.5

Ischigualasto / Talampaya 3.5

Island of Patmos 3.5

Itchan Kala 3.5

Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus 3.5

Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.5

Jiuzhaigou Valley 3.5

Kairouan 3.5

Khami Ruins 3.5

Kilimanjaro National Park 3.5

Kinderdijk 3.5

Kutna Hora 3.5

L'viv 3.5

Land of Frankincense 3.5

Laponian Area 3.5

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.5

Lençóis Maranhenses National Park 3.5

León Cathedral 3.5

Lima 3.5

Longmen Grottoes 3.5

Longobards in Italy 3.5

Los Alerces National Park 3.5

Luang Prabang 3.5

Lyon 3.5

Makli, Thatta 3.5

Malbork Castle 3.5

Maloti-Drakensberg Park 3.5

Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5

Mapungubwe 3.5

Matera 3.5

Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3.5

Medina of Tétouan 3.5

Mistaken Point 3.5

Moenjodaro 3.5

Monastery of Batalha 3.5

Monastery of Geghard 3.5

Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5

Mount Etna 3.5

Mount Taishan 3.5

Mount Wuyi 3.5

Mtskheta 3.5

My Son 3.5

Mystras 3.5

Nessebar 3.5

Nikko 3.5

Ohrid Region 3.5

Old Havana 3.5

Old Town of Lijiang 3.5

Olympia 3.5

Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5

Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5

Panamá 3.5

Paquimé 3.5

Paramaribo 3.5

Pearling 3.5

Pico Island 3.5

Pitons of Reunion 3.5

Plain of Jars 3.5

Plitvice Lakes 3.5

Polonnaruva 3.5

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5

Portobelo-San Lorenzo 3.5

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5

Potosi 3.5

Prambanan 3.5

Preah Vihear Temple 3.5

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5

Qadisha Valley 3.5

Quanzhou 3.5

Quebrada de Humahuaca 3.5

Quirigua 3.5

Quito 3.5

Quseir Amra 3.5

Qutb Minar 3.5

Québec 3.5

Rani-ki-Vav 3.5

Rhodes 3.5

Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 3.5

Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.5

Robben Island 3.5

Rock Art of Alta 3.5

Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka 3.5

Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5

Royal Joseon Tombs 3.5

Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple 3.5

Rwenzori Mountains 3.5

Safi al-Din Ensemble in Ardabil 3.5

Saint-Emilion 3.5

Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5

Salvador de Bahia 3.5

Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5

San Agustín 3.5

Sanchi 3.5

Sangay National Park 3.5

Santa Cruz de Mompox 3.5

Segovia 3.5

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5

Sewell Mining Town 3.5

Sheki 3.5

Shirakami-Sanchi 3.5

Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5

Siena 3.5

Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 3.5

Simien National Park 3.5

Sintra 3.5

Soltaniyeh 3.5

South China Karst 3.5

Split 3.5

St. George, Bermuda 3.5

Stone Spheres of the Diquís 3.5

Studenica Monastery 3.5

Studley Royal Park 3.5

Summer Palace 3.5

Sundarbans National Park 3.5

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 3.5

Syracuse 3.5

Tak'alik Ab'aj 3.5

Takht-i-Bahi 3.5

Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 3.5

Tallinn 3.5

Tasmanian Wilderness 3.5

Temple of Heaven 3.5

Teotihuacan 3.5

The Sundarbans 3.5

Thingvellir 3.5

Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 3.5

Tierradentro 3.5

Timbuktu 3.5

Tiwanaku 3.5

Torun 3.5

Tower of London 3.5

Trang An 3.5

Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios 3.5

Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5

Tsodilo 3.5

Tyre 3.5

Um er-Rasas 3.5

Urnes Stave Church 3.5

Uxmal 3.5

Vall de Boi 3.5

Vat Phou 3.5

Vatican City 3.5

Verona 3.5

Vienna 3.5

Vigan 3.5

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5

Villa Romana del Casale 3.5

Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5

Visby 3.5

Volubilis 3.5

Vézère Valley 3.5

Westminster 3.5

Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino 3.5

Willemstad 3.5

Wooden Churches of Maramures 3.5

Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.5

Xochicalco 3.5

Yin Xu 3.5

Yogyakarta 3.5

Yungang Grottoes 3.5

Yuso and Suso Monasteries 3.5

Zagori Cultural Landscape 3.5

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 3

Abbey of St Gall 3

Aflaj irrigation system 3

Agra Fort 3

Al Ain 3

Albi 3

Antequera Dolmens Site 3

Antigua Guatemala 3

Archaeological site of Philippi 3

Arles 3

Asante Traditional Buildings 3

Asturian Monuments 3

Atlantic Forest South-East 3

Australian Convict Sites 3

Avignon 3

Baekje Historic Areas 3

Bamberg 3

Ban Chiang 3

Banska Stiavnica 3

Bardejov Town 3

Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3

Belem 3

Belfries 3

Belize Barrier Reef 3

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3

Birka and Hovgarden 3

Blue and John Crow Mountains 3

Bom Jesus do Monte 3

Bordeaux 3

Brasilia 3

Bryggen 3

Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 3

Brú na Bóinne 3

Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur 3

Burgundy 3

Cahokia Mounds 3

Canal du Midi 3

Carlsbad Caverns 3

Cartagena 3

Castel del Monte 3

Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3

Caves and Ice Age Art 3

Champaner-Pavagadh 3

Chartres Cathedral 3

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 3

Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 3

City of Bath 3

City of Luxembourg 3

Classical Gardens of Suzhou 3

Coffee Cultural Landscape 3

Colonia del Sacramento 3

Cordouan Lighthouse 3

Corfu 3

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3

Corvey 3

Crespi d'Adda 3

Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3

Derwent Valley Mills 3

Dolomites 3

Donana National Park 3

Durmitor National Park 3

Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3

Eisinga Planetarium 3

El Escurial 3

El Tajin 3

Engelsberg Ironworks 3

Ferrara 3

Fertö/Neusiedlersee 3

Flemish Béguinages 3

Fort and Shalamar Gardens 3

Forth Bridge 3

Fortifications of Vauban 3

Forts and Castles Gold Coast 3

Fossil Hominid Sites 3

Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda 3

Fray Bentos 3

Fujisan 3

Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3

Gammelstad 3

Garajonay 3

Genoa 3

Gobustan Rock Art 3

Grand Canal 3

Graz 3

Great Spa Towns of Europe 3

Guimarães 3

Gwynedd Castles 3

Gyeongju 3

Hahoe and Yangdong 3

Himeji-jo 3

Holy Trinity Column 3

Hortobágy 3

Horyu-ji Area 3

Hospicio Cabañas 3

Huangshan 3

Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works 3

Imperial Tombs 3

Ironbridge Gorge 3

Isole Eolie 3

Itsukushima Shrine 3

Ivrea 3

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 3

Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3

Jantar Mantar 3

Jeju 3

Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3

Jomon Prehistoric Sites 3

Jongmyo Shrine 3

Joya de Ceren 3

Kaeng Krachan Forest 3

Kaiping Diaolou 3

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 3

Kerkuane 3

Kernavė 3

Kii Mountain Range 3

Kinabalu Park 3

Koh Ker 3

Kotor 3

Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 3

Kulangsu 3

L'Anse aux Meadows 3

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 3

La Lonja de la Seda 3

Le Havre 3

Litomysl Castle 3

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 3

Mahabodhi Temple Complex 3

Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3

Major Town Houses 3

Manas Wildlife Sanctuary 3

Matobo Hills 3

Maulbronn Monastery 3

Mazagan 3

Medici Villas and Gardens 3

Medina Azahara 3

Medina of Sousse 3

Megalithic Temples of Malta 3

Melaka and George Town 3

Memorial Sites of Genocide 3

Messel Pit 3

Miguasha National Park 3

Mir Castle 3

Monastery of Alcobaça 3

Monastery of Horezu 3

Monticello 3

Morelia 3

Mountain Resort, Chengde 3

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3

Mérida 3

Nalanda 3

Namhansanseong 3

Naples 3

Naumburg Cathedral 3

Nesvizh 3

New Lanark 3

Niah Caves 3

Nisa 3

Novodevichy Convent 3

Old Town Lunenburg 3

Old Town of Galle 3

Olinda 3

Oporto 3

Pampulha 3

Paphos 3

Paraty and Ilha Grande 3

Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3

Pergamon 3

Petäjävesi Old Church 3

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3

Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3

Pirin National Park 3

Pont du Gard 3

Potsdam 3

Poverty Point 3

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 3

Pyu Ancient Cities 3

Qal'at al-Bahrain 3

Quedlinburg 3

Rabat 3

Rammelsberg and Goslar 3

Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3

Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 3

Red Fort 3

Reichenau 3

Rhaetian Railway 3

Riga 3

Rio de Janeiro 3

Rjukan / Notodden 3

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3

Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco 3

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3

Rohtas Fort 3

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3

Roșia Montană 3

Ruins of León Viejo 3

Røros 3

Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 3

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3

Safranbolu 3

Salamanca 3

Salzburg 3

San Cristobal de La Laguna 3

San Gimignano 3

San Miguel de Allende 3

Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3

Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3

Santa Maria delle Grazie 3

Santiago de Compostela 3

Santo Domingo 3

Saryarka 3

Schönbrunn 3

Semmering Railway 3

Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 3

Serra de Tramuntana 3

Shakhrisyabz 3

Shiretoko 3

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 3

Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3

Singapore Botanic Gardens 3

Southern Öland 3

Speyer Cathedral 3

Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3

Stari Ras and Sopocani 3

Statue of Liberty 3

Stevns Klint 3

Stećci 3

Stonehenge 3

Strasbourg 3

Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3

Sucre 3

Sulaiman-Too 3

Sviyazhsk 3

Sydney Opera House 3

Tabriz Bazaar 3

Talayotic Menorca 3

Tanbaly 3

Taos Pueblo 3

Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley 3

Tequila 3

Thang Long 3

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3

The Porticoes of Bologna 3

Thessalonika 3

Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 3

Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 3

Tombs of Buganda Kings 3

Tower of Hercules 3

Trier 3

Tusi Sites 3

Twyfelfontein 3

University of Coimbra 3

Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3

Urbino 3

Van Nellefabriek 3

Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3

Versailles 3

Via Appia 3

Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3

Villa d'Este 3

Vredefort Dome 3

Völklingen Ironworks 3

Wachau Cultural Landscape 3

Wadden Sea 3

Walled City of Baku 3

West Lake 3

Western Ghats 3

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3

Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3

Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3

Xanthos-Letoon 3

Xidi and Hongcun 3

Zollverein 3

iSimangaliso Wetland Park 3

Avila 2.5

Bagerhat 2.5

Bellinzone 2.5

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5

Boyana Church 2.5

Camagüey 2.5

Canterbury 2.5

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5

Champagne 2.5

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5

Church of Atlántida 2.5

Cienfuegos 2.5

Cologne Cathedral 2.5

Cuenca 2.5

Erbil Citadel 2.5

Grand Place, Brussels 2.5

Guanacaste 2.5

Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 2.5

Hierapolis-Pamukkale 2.5

Historic Jeddah 2.5

Hwaseong Fortress 2.5

Ibiza 2.5

Independence Hall 2.5

Kazan Kremlin 2.5

Keoladeo National Park 2.5

Kuldiga 2.5

Lake District 2.5

Liangzhu Archaeological Site 2.5

Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5

Lushan National Park 2.5

Luther Memorials 2.5

Lübeck 2.5

Macao 2.5

Mammoth Cave 2.5

Maritime Greenwich 2.5

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Tokaji Wine Region 2

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