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Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
GabLabCebu Philippines - 09-Jan-25
I guess this may just be the perspective of someone who was unable to go on a guided tour here (due to scheduling, so try to be here in the morning), but I found Writing-on-Stone to be not too outstanding of a cultural WHS, but just deserving enough. Without the tour, one can only really observe the rock art by walking the Hoodoo Trail. Even then, spotting a glyph is challenging, even with the guidebook telling you exactly what to look out for. There were a couple that I couldn't see no matter how much I stared at every inch of the rock face. I'll echo the thought of Frédéric that Stop 7 was the clearest example on the trail, and the only one I can still remember vividly months later other than the battle scene
Read OnCanadian Rocky Mountain Parks
GabLabCebu Philippines - 09-Jan-25
In July 2024, I took 5 days to experience the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. Travel by car is definitely the optimal way to get around here, with many excursions on foot, maybe a few on boat, and one on the Ice Explorer (more on that later). While I wanted to be thorough, I would have been the only one keen on hiking in my group, so I was unable to go on any long hikes. Still, we made the most of our time by visiting all 5 parks accessible by road: Mount Robson, Jasper, Banff, Yoho, and Kootenay.
Read OnKitanglad and Kalatungan Mountain Ranges (T)
GabLabCebu Philippines - 05-Jan-25
I listed the Kitanglad Range under my proposed WHS years ago, and to my surprise, it has now come up on the tentative list. I visited back in February 2019 through Dahilayan Adventure Park, Manolo Fortich; this is a few hours from Cagayan de Oro City. The adventure park is located just inside of the Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park with wonderful views of the mountain range. This is probably the easiest way to visit this site, along with driving the nearby countryside roads that also reach the edge of the natural park (which we also did). However, the best way to experience it would be to climb Mt. Dulang-dulang (2941masl., 2nd highest in the country) and/or Mt. Kitanglad (2899masl., 4th highest), or Mt Kalatungan (2860masl., 5th highest) in the neighboring Mt
Read OnWanuskewin (T)
GabLabCebu Philippines - 29-Dec-24
Wanuskewin is not the kind of place you simply stumble into; it's a site one would usually have to make quite a journey for. Most definitely, it once drew Native Americans in far greater numbers than it does today's tourists. However, I was lucky enough to visit Western Canada in July 2024 and figured it was the perfect time to make the journey all the way out here. A journey it was! Unless you live in or frequent Saskatchewan, it's a 6-hour drive from the big cities of Alberta over endless fields of grass, corn, and canola. At least Prince Albert National Park is just about a 2-hour drive away, to make the journey more worthwhile.
Read OnSansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries
GabLabCebu Philippines - 08-Aug-23
To me, the Sansa embody the ideal and typical Korean temple. They may not have the historic significance of Bulguksa or the unique library of Haeinsa, but they are much better preserved, containing some of the oldest standing wooden architecture in the peninsula, and some of the most beautiful too. For that, I have to say they are a much-needed WHS, and I had a dilemma on which of the seven to fit into my trip to Korea in June 2023. Upon examining the evaluation file, I found that only four were actually advised for inscription - Tongdosa, Buseoksa, Beopjusa,Daeheungsa
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- GabLabCebu
- Country
- Philippines
- Ranking
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- Most Impressive
- Te Wahipounamu, Canadian Rockies, Yellowstone, Ancient Thebes
- Proposal
- Baroque Churches of Southern Cebu, Dalaguete Range and Chocolate Hills: Karst Landscapes of the Visayas, San Sebastian Church (Manila), Historic Town of Jimenez (Misamis Occ.), Taroko National Park (Taiwan), Great Basin National Park (USA),
Recently Visited WHS
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Petra 5Rome 5Cordoba 4.5Grand Canyon 4.5Iguacu 4.5Kraków 4.5Redwood 4.5Gyeongju 4Prague 4Quito 4Seville 4Acropolis 3.5Ancient Nara 3.5Biblical Tells 3.5Cuzco 3.5Dubrovnik 3.5Granada 3.5Himeji-jo 3.5Salamanca 3.5Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5Sintra 3.5Wadi Rum 3.5Wulingyuan 3.5Arequipa 3Belem 3Brasilia 3Budapest 3Jeju 3Macao 3Trang An 3Ayutthaya 2.5Bethlehem 2.5Grand Canal 2.5Jongmyo Shrine 2.5Koh Ker 2.5Kotor 2.5Masada 2.5Namhansanseong 2.5Rabat 2.5Thang Long 2.5Vienna 2.5Bryggen 2Lima 2Sucre 2Warsaw 2Rio de Janeiro 1.5Nice 1Reviewed WHS
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries
- Preah Vihear Temple
- Gyeongju
- Sambor Prei Kuk
- Namhansanseong
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
- Hahoe and Yangdong
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies
- Baekje Historic Areas
- Gaya Tumuli
- Ancient Thebes
- Cuzco
- Sucre
- Rio de Janeiro
- Brasilia
- Iguacu
- Seville
- Salamanca
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Rabat
- Nubian Monuments
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Te Wahipounamu
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Wadi Rum
- Ancient Kyoto
- Petra
- Horyu-ji Area
- Ancient Nara
- Historic Cairo
- Himeji-jo
- Genbaku Dome
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun
- Kii Mountain Range
- Saint Catherine Area
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- Biblical Tells
- Old City of Acre
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin
- Masada
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Bethlehem
- Macao
- Ayutthaya
- Wulingyuan
- Grand Canal
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Jeju
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Baroque Churches
- Grand Canyon
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
Visited TWHS
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Arbel (arbel, nebe shueb, horns of hittim) (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Baroque Churches of the Philippines (Extension) (T)
- Bet She'an (T)
- Butuan Archeological Sites (T)
- Caesarea (T)
- Cal Orck'o: Footprints of time (T)
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang : Hangyangdoseong Capital City Wall, Bukhansanseong Mountain Fortress and Tangchundaeseong Defense Wall (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Chocolate Hills Natural Monument (T)
- Colonial Urban Plan and Fortifications of the Walled City of Manila (T)
- Coron Island Natural Biotic Area (T)
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Ein Karem, a village and its cultural landscape (T)
- El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area (T)
- Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (former S-21)/ Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (former Execution Site of S-21) (T)
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Kitanglad and Kalatungan Mountain Ranges: Sacred Sites of Bukidnon (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- Makhteshim Country (T)
- Mayon Volcano Natural Park (T)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Mt. Malindang Range Natural Park (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Phnom Kulen: Archeological Site/Ancient Site of Mahendraparvata (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (T)
- Route of Magellan (T)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in Portugal (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles (T)
- The Historic Towns and Landscape of Taal Volcano and its Caldera Lake (T)
- The Yen Tu Complex of Monuments and Landscapes (T)
- Timna (T)
- Wanuskewin (T)
- Waters and seabed of Fiordland (Te Moana O Atawhenua) (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Kitanglad and Kalatungan Mountain Ranges (T)
- Wanuskewin (T)
- Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum / Choeung Ek (T)
- Phnom Kulen (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt (T)
- Sea of Galilee (T)
- Bet She'an (T)
- Makhteshim Country (T)
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (T)
- Cal Orck'o: Footprints of time (T)
- Timna (T)
- Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System (T)
- Arbel (T)
- Ein Karem (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Coron Island Natural Biotic Area (T)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Routes in Portugal (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (T)
- Mayon Volcano Natural Park (T)
- Caesarea (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee (T)
- Chocolate Hills Natural Monument (T)
- Waters and seabed of Fiordland (Te Moana O Atawhenua) (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Route of Magellan. First around the World (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Baroque Churches of the Philippines (Extension) (T)