Ilya Burlak Profile
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I only started prioritizing visiting World Heritage sites a few years ago and with my limited US-based corporate-warrior time-off allocation and family obligations I can only add a handful to a dozen in any given year. Looking forward to visiting them all after I am able to retire...
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Cuzco
Ilya Burlak USA - 21-Aug-24
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I visited Cuzco in May of 2024. Echoing the previous reviewers, it is a lovely living town with a visible exceptional blend of pre-Columbian and Colonial design, boasting a number of superb points of interest.
The central plaza is the focal point of the historic center, presided over by two magnificent churches. La Compania is primarily interesting from the outside, while the cathedral unusually feels like being made up of three side-by-side churches and offers an additional highlight of the "Andean" Last Supper painting, featuring guinea pig as the main course and Francisco Pizarro as Judas. Balconies of the buildings surrounding the main square - and all around the town - are another visual highlight.
Read OnSalt Mines of Maras (T)
Ilya Burlak USA - 01-Aug-24
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Possibly because I have never toured a salt flats site before, Maras saltineras impressed me a lot. The deceptive simplicity of the process, coupled with the visuals of hundreds - or is it thousands? - terraced ponds, made the site quite memorable. I also very much like that it is an active production, which further differentiates it in the area that is most famous for its remnants of civilizations long gone.
You really only need 25-30 minutes here, including the time to get from the parking lot to the viewing platform and back. The information boards are all in Spanish, so having an English-speaking guide may make the visit more enjoyable for some. There is on-site free wi-fi if you want to use an online translator and your mobile signal starts acting up in the ravine.
Read OnMachu Picchu
Ilya Burlak USA - 31-Jul-24
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I visited Machu Picchu in May of 2024. I suspect it is one of the most obvious bucket-list destinations for anyone who's ever been bitten by the travel bug, so I will skip touting its qualities. In fact, it seems that most of the visit details that I mention in this review have already been covered in the previous reviews. I will probably offer only the slightest of variations. Although not when it comes to rain in the supposedly dry season...
Since the number of visitors is capped daily, whether you hike Camino Inca or ride the bus from Aguas Calientes to the visitor gates, you should purchase your entry tickets in advance. The hour printed on your ticket is the earliest you can enter - and 59 minutes later will be the latest
Read OnArequipa
Ilya Burlak USA - 02-Jul-24
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I visited Arequipa in May of 2024, possibly very close to the time that Dennis was there as well, and truth be told, I have little to add to his review. Arequipa is a type of town I usually label "not without interest" - a different way of saying "pleasant but not exceptional". The volcano peaks and the volcanic rock material used in construction add a bit of appeal. Mestizo Baroque church portals offer occasional eye-catching details, as do a number of buildings within the historic core grid. The overall ensemble, though, is no more than fine.
Read OnLima
Ilya Burlak USA - 12-Jun-24
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My trip to Peru in May 2024 had two full-day bookends in Lima, which gave me plenty of time to explore the historic center. I share the opinion that you can find more impressive ensembles elsewhere. "Ensemble" is the key word here. While there are plenty of eye-catching details, they do not add up to a consistent overall picture. Nor is there a killer must-see feature, as has already been stated.
Plaza de Armas and the San Francisco Convent are the main attractions, and the library at Santo Domingo is as impressive as any old library elsewhere
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Rating StatsBrugge 5Budapest 5Cordoba 5Florence 5Granada 5Petra 5Prague 5Ravenna 5Rome 5Segovia 5Siena 5Vienna 5Wadi Rum 5Acropolis 4.5Assisi 4.5Bryggen 4.5Istanbul 4.5Kraków 4.5Oporto 4.5Pompei 4.5Potsdam 4.5San Gimignano 4.5Seville 4.5Sintra 4.5Stonehenge 4.5Toledo 4.5Vatican City 4.5Versailles 4.5Albi 4Avignon 4Delos 4L'viv 4Mostar 4Split 4Urbino 4Verona 4Arles 3.5City of Bath 3.5El Escurial 3.5Ferrara 3.5Graz 3.5Guimarães 3.5Kotor 3.5Kronborg Castle 3.5Pienza 3.5Pont du Gard 3.5Québec 3.5Tarraco 3.5Val di Noto 3.5Villa d'Este 3.5Arequipa 3Belem 3Belfries 3Cuzco 3Evora 3Lima 3Masada 3Modena 3Odesa 3Reims 3Syracuse 3Trogir 3Beemster Polder 2.5Bethlehem 2.5Biblical Tells 2.5Forth Bridge 2.5Neolithic Orkney 2.5New Lanark 2.5Old City of Acre 2.5Panamá 2.5Poblet Monastery 2.5Schokland 2.5Skogskyrkogarden 2.5Wadden Sea 2.5Nice 2Stećci 2Van Nellefabriek 1.5Reviewed WHS
- Cuzco
- Machu Picchu
- Arequipa
- Lima
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Tikal National Park
- Bursa and Cumalikizik
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Edinburgh
- Neolithic Orkney
- Panamá
- Nice
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Mount Etna
- Syracuse
- Val di Noto
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Agrigento
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Wadi Rum
- Petra
- Old City of Acre
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Masada
- Incense Route of the Negev
- Bethlehem
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Biblical Tells
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim
- Mount Carmel Caves
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- Istanbul
- Semmering Railway
- Kotor
- Dubrovnik
- Stećci
- Mostar
- Trogir
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Split
- Evora
- Sintra
- Belem
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Monastery of Batalha
- Guimarães
- Bom Jesus do Monte
- Alto Douro
- Oporto
- University of Coimbra
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Giant's Causeway
- Stoclet House
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Poblet Monastery
- Pienza
- Reims
- Tarraco
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra
- Assisi
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Acropolis
- Delos
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Vézère Valley
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Canal du Midi
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Albi
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
- Fortifications of Vauban
Visited TWHS
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Caesarea (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Degania & Nahalal (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee (T)
- Ein Karem, a village and its cultural landscape (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Íznik (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Makhteshim Country (T)
- Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex "To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia (T)
- Nuruosmaniye Complex (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in Portugal (T)
- Salt Mines of Maras (T)
- The archeological site of Tanais (T)
- The Crusader Fortresses (T)
- The Karlstejn Castle (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Stolac (T)
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea (T)
- Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Salt Mines of Maras (T)
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes. (T)
- Íznik (T)
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Ein Karem (T)
- Makhteshim Country (T)
- Caesarea (T)
- Jerusalem (T)
- The Crusader Fortresses (T)
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee (T)
- Degania & Nahalal (T)
- Nuruosmaniye Complex (T)
- Stolac (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria (T)
- The Karlstejn Castle (T)
- Volterra (T)
- The Historic City of Dublin (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece (T)
- Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- The city of Bergamo (T)