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I am now retired but  I have been "travelling" for a "hobby" since I was 18!

Austria Last Update 14.12.24 262 WHS Visited 4 Reviews 257 WHS Rated 60 TWHS Visited

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Lübeck

GerhardM Austria - 01-Oct-24

We visited Lübeck in September 2024.

Lübeck is an old venerable Hanseatic city. But Lübeck is not just a city with a lot of history, brick art and many impressive churches. Lübeck is also a city with a lot of lively life, streets with beautiful renovated houses and many attractive shops (Marzipan too of course). 

The Holster Tor is certainly a highlight and a hike along the harbor is simply lovely. 

It´s not a modern city with just a few patches of history. 

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Îles volcaniques de Sao Tomé et Principe (T)

GerhardM Austria - 04-Jan-24

We visited Sao Tome in 2021, during Covid Time. We did not visit the sister island of Principe.

We spent there one week.

Our journey took place via Lisboa and Ghana/Accra by TAP Airways. For the last leg of our journey from Accra to Sao Tome the flight takes about one hour and twenty minutes.

The airport of the capital Sao Tome (same name as the state) is a small airport with a couple of flights per day. 

Sao Tome and Principe is the second smallest African state.  with only about 220.000 inhabitants, but the number is fast growing like in other African countries. 

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Rani-ki-Vav

GerhardM Austria - 21-Dec-23

We visited this wonderful place in 2009 and we were really overwhelmed when entering, which means going downstairs. It is a really impressing site in Gujarat, where you can discover such a lot of beautiful places.

Stepwells are a very special form of subterranean water resource and storage systems on the Indian subcontinent, and have been constructed since the 3rd millennium BC. Till now I have not heared from stepwells in other countrys.

It is a spectacular building with a long and rich history, a long way off the beaten tourist tracks. We visited this place on a 8 day journey through Gujarat whith a driver from Ahmedabad and visited it, like al lot of other people together with the sun temple of Modhera, also an interesting and really worthy place. 

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Hopewell

GerhardM Austria - 29-Jul-23

I've been to seven of these eight sites, and I've been to four of them (Mound City, Fort Ancient, Seip Mound and Newark Earthworks) more than once.  They never cease to fill me with a sense of awe.  They are immense and at the same time remarkably precise; the circular earthworks are almost perfectly round, while several of the earthworks have almost perfect astronomical alignments.  I particularly like that the people who constructed the earthworks lived in tiny hamlets in a society that was, so far as anyone can tell, remarkably egalitarian.  These sites are a sixteen hundred year old testimony to the skill, passion, knowledge and ability to cooperate of the Native Americans who made them

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Update 14.12.24
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    Rating Stats
    Ancient Kyoto 5
    Angkor 5
    Bagan 5
    Copán 5
    Hoi An 5
    Mont-Saint-Michel 5
    Palenque 5
    Petra 5
    Rani-ki-Vav 5
    Sun Temple, Konarak 5
    Venice and its Lagoon 5
    Ancient Thebes 4.5
    Aquileia 4.5
    Belem 4.5
    Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 4.5
    Costiera Amalfitana 4.5
    Dubrovnik 4.5
    Granada 4.5
    Grand Canyon 4.5
    Great Wall 4.5
    Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5
    Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.5
    Istanbul 4.5
    Kathmandu Valley 4.5
    Khajuraho Group of Monuments 4.5
    Loire Valley 4.5
    Luang Prabang 4.5
    Medina of Fez 4.5
    Mostar 4.5
    Ngorongoro 4.5
    Plitvice Lakes 4.5
    Pyramids (Memphis) 4.5
    Rome 4.5
    Taj Mahal 4.5
    Teotihuacan 4.5
    Tikal National Park 4.5
    Vienna 4.5
    Ahmadabad 4
    Ajanta Caves 4
    Antigua Guatemala 4
    Brugge 4
    Budapest 4
    Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 4
    Cesky Krumlov 4
    Chichen-Itza 4
    Chola Temples 4
    City of Bath 4
    Dolomites 4
    Ellora Caves 4
    Ephesus 4
    Florence 4
    Fortified City of Carcassonne 4
    Haghpat and Sanahin 4
    Himeji-jo 4
    Imperial Palace 4
    Itsukushima Shrine 4
    Kraków 4
    Lübeck 4
    Mahabalipuram 4
    Medina of Marrakesh 4
    Mesa Verde 4
    Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4
    Nikko 4
    Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4
    Paris, Banks of the Seine 4
    Petäjävesi Old Church 4
    Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4
    Pont du Gard 4
    Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4
    Prague 4
    Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 4
    Rila Monastery 4
    Salzburg 4
    San Gimignano 4
    Schwerin Residence Ensemble 4
    Schönbrunn 4
    Siena 4
    Sigiriya 4
    Split 4
    Stone Town of Zanzibar 4
    Stonehenge 4
    Strasbourg 4
    Tallinn 4
    Via Appia 4
    Wachau Cultural Landscape 4
    Westminster 4
    Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 4
    Works of Antoni Gaudí 4
    Yellowstone 4
    Agra Fort 3.5
    Ancient Nara 3.5
    Antigua Naval Dockyard 3.5
    Anuradhapura 3.5
    Arles 3.5
    Ayutthaya 3.5
    Bamberg 3.5
    Belize Barrier Reef 3.5
    Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.5
    Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5
    Boyana Church 3.5
    Champaner-Pavagadh 3.5
    Chartres Cathedral 3.5
    Churches of Peace 3.5
    Classical Weimar 3.5
    Fatehpur Sikri 3.5
    Ferrara 3.5
    Fontainebleau 3.5
    Fort and Shalamar Gardens 3.5
    Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
    Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5
    Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5
    Hué 3.5
    Imperial Tombs 3.5
    Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5
    Jantar Mantar 3.5
    Kotor 3.5
    Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 3.5
    Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3.5
    Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5
    Maulbronn Monastery 3.5
    Meidan Emam, Esfahan 3.5
    Monastery of Geghard 3.5
    Nessebar 3.5
    Nice 3.5
    Oaxaca and Monte Alban 3.5
    Ohrid Region 3.5
    Old City of Berne 3.5
    Plečnik's Ljubljana 3.5
    Potsdam 3.5
    Quedlinburg 3.5
    Qutb Minar 3.5
    Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.5
    Regensburg 3.5
    Reims 3.5
    Rhaetian Railway 3.5
    Riga 3.5
    San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
    Santa Maria delle Grazie 3.5
    Sintra 3.5
    Sukhothai 3.5
    The trulli of Alberobello 3.5
    Torun 3.5
    Trier 3.5
    Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios 3.5
    Uxmal 3.5
    Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3.5
    Verona 3.5
    Versailles 3.5
    Vézelay 3.5
    Vézère Valley 3.5
    Wadi Rum 3.5
    Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3.5
    Zamość 3.5
    Abbey of St Gall 3
    Acropolis 3
    Amsterdam Canal Ring 3
    Avignon 3
    Belfries 3
    Bellinzone 3
    Bordeaux 3
    Bryggen 3
    Burgundy 3
    Bursa and Cumalikizik 3
    Butrint 3
    Castel del Monte 3
    Champagne 3
    Churches and Convents of Goa 3
    Cienfuegos 3
    City of Luxembourg 3
    Cologne Cathedral 3
    Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 3
    Elephanta Caves 3
    Everglades 3
    Fertö/Neusiedlersee 3
    Fujisan 3
    Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3
    Genoa 3
    Graz 3
    Great Spa Towns of Europe 3
    Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3
    Historic Cairo 3
    Kairouan 3
    Kandy 3
    Kew Gardens 3
    Khangchendzonga National Park 3
    Luther Memorials 3
    Madara Rider 3
    Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 3
    Melaka and George Town 3
    Mexico City and Xochimilco 3
    Modena 3
    Paphos 3
    Pergamon 3
    Pienza 3
    Polonnaruva 3
    Rabat 3
    Red Fort 3
    Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3
    Saint-Emilion 3
    Sammallahdenmäki 3
    Singapore Botanic Gardens 3
    Statue of Liberty 3
    Stralsund and Wismar 3
    Telc 3
    Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 3
    Tower of London 3
    Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3
    Val d'Orcia 3
    Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3
    Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 3
    Villa d'Este 3
    Vlkolinec 3
    Volubilis 3
    Warsaw 3
    Wartburg Castle 3
    Western Ghats 3
    Würzburg Residence 3
    Albi 2.5
    Ban Chiang 2.5
    Banska Stiavnica 2.5
    Bauhaus Sites 2.5
    Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
    Cahokia Mounds 2.5
    Campeche 2.5
    Caves of Yagul and Mitla 2.5
    Corvey 2.5
    Flemish Béguinages 2.5
    Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.5
    Hollókö 2.5
    Hopewell 2.5
    Le Morne 2.5
    Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2.5
    Nancy 2.5
    Old Rauma 2.5
    Orange 2.5
    Pirin National Park 2.5
    Provins 2.5
    San Antonio Missions 2.5
    Sinharaja Forest 2.5
    Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 2.5
    Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 2.5
    Trogir 2.5
    Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
    Aapravasi Ghat 2
    Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2
    Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2
    Blue and John Crow Mountains 2
    Danube Limes 2
    Lower German Limes 2
    Old Havana 2
    Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2
    Speyer Cathedral 2
    Srebarna Nature Reserve 1.5
    Brú na Bóinne
    Forth Bridge
    Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
    Malbork Castle
    Maritime Greenwich
    Olympia
    Seville
    Thessalonika
    1. Abbey of Kremsmünster (T)
    2. Alanya (T)
    3. Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library (T)
    4. Ancient Ruin of Drukgyel Dzong (T)
    5. Aqaba Marine Reserve (T)
    6. Archaeological remains of a Harappa Port-Town, Lothal (T)
    7. Archaeological Site of Perge (T)
    8. Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
    9. Black River Gorges National Park (T)
    10. Bregenzerwald (Bregenz Forest) (T)
    11. Brooklyn Bridge (T)
    12. California Current Conservation Complex (T)
    13. Cathedral of Gurk (T)
    14. Central Park (T)
    15. Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
    16. Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
    17. City of Motovun (T)
    18. Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
    19. Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
    20. Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
    21. Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
    22. Dzongs: the centre of temporal and religious authorities (Punakha Dzong, Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, Paro Dzong, Trongsa Dzong and Dagana Dzong) (T)
    23. Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
    24. Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Croatia) (T)
    25. Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
    26. Gwalior Fort, Madhya Pradesh (T)
    27. Hall in Tyrol - The Mint (T)
    28. Heiligenkreuz Abbey (T)
    29. Hochosterwitz Castle (T)
    30. Îles volcaniques de Sao Tomé et Principe (T)
    31. Inle Lake (T)
    32. Iron Trail with Erzberg and the old town of Steyr (T)
    33. L'amphitheatre de Durres (T)
    34. La Camargue (T)
    35. Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France) (T)
    36. Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
    37. Les roças de Monte Café, Agua-lzé e Sundy de São Tomé e Príncipe (T)
    38. Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
    39. Moulay Idriss Zerhoun (T)
    40. Mount Vernon (T)
    41. Mountain Railways of India (Extension) (T)
    42. National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
    43. National Theater of Guatemala (T)
    44. Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
    45. Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
    46. Shwedagon Pagoda on Singuttara Hill (T)
    47. Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple (T)
    48. Sun Temple, Modhera and its adjoining monuments (T)
    49. Tamzhing Monastery (T)
    50. Temple of Hator built by Ramses III (T)
    51. Temples of Kanchipuram (T)
    52. The Ancient City of Apollonia (T)
    53. The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
    54. The Bodrum Castle (T)
    55. The historic ensemble of Orchha (T)
    56. The Historical Port City of Izmir (T)
    57. The Karlstejn Castle (T)
    58. The monasteries of Tatev and Tatevi Anapat and the adjacent areas of the Vorotan Valley (T)
    59. The monastery of Noravank and the upper Amaghou Valley (T)
    60. Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)

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