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Lut Desert
Jean Lecaillon France - 29-Sep-22
Low in beautiful landscapes, Lut Desert is the exception that proves the rule in Iran. It is known like the hottest place in the world, but frankly speaking, it was nice when i've been there (november 2016). This desert is awesome and rare, it is not an erg or reg, it is a blend of earth and dust. Very special but incredible. The must-see is the light during the sunset, so enjoyable.
In France, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs advises us where we can go and where we should not go thanks to a scale of values: in particular a map with colours, green when it's ok, red when it's not (yellow and orange between green and red). I guess it's more or less similar in other countries (western countries at least). Today, Iran is totally in red for political reasons (especially today it's understandable because of protests and the death of Mahsa Amini, but it was not so obvious before). It was not the case in november of 2016, but Lut Desert and almost all the borders of Iran were coloured in red. The invoked reason was mainly presence of anti-personnel mines
Read OnAgra Fort
Jean Lecaillon France - 04-Sep-22
The Agra Fort is a huge fort very similar to the Red fort in delhi. To be honnest, i'm not able to distinguish either one if i had two pictures in front of me. But, contrary to the red fort, i visited this one.
It's quiet interesting but not so much beautiful compared to all the indian monuments they can build. I mean it's not the best souvenir i had in India. However, the size of the red stones are impressive. And it's rare i guess: you can see another WHS from this WHS! It's obviously the famous Taj Mahal, along the Yamuna river. We could start a thread on the forum about such possibility: to see a WHS from another one? :) (maybe it already exists, i didn't verify)
Read OnNisa
Jean Lecaillon France - 22-Aug-22
I feebly rated this site as the other members of the Community because it remains almost nothing of this old city. It looks like trenches of the WWI in a dry area...It's comparable to susa in Iran.
However, these are the ruins of one of the first capital of the Parthian Empire.
But it's an easy WHS to do thanks to its proximity of the crazy capital of Turkmenistan. So do it :)
Read OnTchogha Zanbil
Jean Lecaillon France - 22-Aug-22
Tchoga Zanbil is a nice and interesting pyramid but in my taste not so wonderful. I guess it depends on the people, one of my friend found it memorable, one of the best place in Iran ; it's not my own opinion.
The real positive point for me is that is the only heritage of the Kingdom of Elam. What is rare is precious.
This site just looks like a big "ziggurat" (pile) of bricks more or less recently arranged. It is, but some of these bricks are carved of an ancient writing, probably restored.
To conclude, it's a very interesting place which deserves its inscription, but I make express reservations due to a kind of non-authentic place.
Read OnAncient Merv
Jean Lecaillon France - 20-Aug-22
Gonur Depe and Merv belong to a very special country that I deeply recommend.
The site is composed of different and distant places which require small routes by car. It's a little bit special to see ruins of buildings dating of periods very different, that's probably why the site is laid out like this.
I remember the multitude of fragments of earthenware jars scattered on the ground, and above all the strange green vestiges of the old ovens.
My favourite building is on the joined picture, quite massive.
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- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (France), Cliffs of Bonifacio (France), Jardins à la française (France), citadelles cathares (France), Bryce canyon (USA), Saint-Malo (France), Varanasi (India), Gustave Eiffel's architecture (France, Portugal, Hungary, Vietnam, Algeria), Lucknow (India), Indian wells (India), Jerash (Jordan), Melnik (Bulgaria), Transfagaran road (Romania), Dallol's depression (Ethiopia), Churches in Tigre (Ethiopia), Eastern's landscape of Caspian Sea (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan), Ronda (Spain), Derawar Fort (Pakistan), Hingol NP (Pakistan) Sumela Monastery (Turkey), İshak Paşa Sarayı (Turkey), Danxia National Park (China), Chocolate Hills (Philippines), Fjaðrárgljúfur (Iceland), Mandalay historical sites (Myanmar), Canal de Panama (Panama), Frank Gehry's architecture (Panama, Spain, France, USA, Rep.Tcheque, Germany, Switzerland, UAE), Zaha Hadid's architecture (Germany, Azerbaïdjan, Spain, UAE, China, Russia, UK, France, South Korea, Italia, Belgium, Morocco), Neuschwanstein Castle (Germany)
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16 Countries Complete
Andorra . Bahrain . Belgium . Estonia . Finland . Holy See . Ireland . Lesotho . Luxembourg . Moldova . Qatar . Saint Lucia . Singapore . Turkmenistan . Uzbekistan . Zambia .Visited WHS
Rating StatsAlbi 5Bagan 5Burgundy 5El Tajin 5Petra 5Rome 5Wadi Rum 5Cordoba 4.5Giant's Causeway 4.5Guanajuato 4.5Hegra 4.5Iguacu 4.5Lalibela 4.5Persepolis 4.5Poblet Monastery 4.5Samarkand 4.5St. Petersburg 4.5Tequila 4.5Toledo 4.5Uluru 4.5Vatican City 4.5Versailles 4.5Yazd 4.5Belem 4Granada 4Istanbul 4Lübeck 4Maymand 4Quito 4Shushtar 4Tallinn 4Trogir 4Vézelay 4Ancient Merv 3.5Bahla Fort 3.5Bamberg 3.5Belfries 3.5Bellinzone 3.5Bordeaux 3.5Brugge 3.5Bukhara 3.5Caceres 3.5Canterbury 3.5Champagne 3.5Fatehpur Sikri 3.5Fontainebleau 3.5Historic Jeddah 3.5Itchan Kala 3.5Kinderdijk 3.5Kotor 3.5Kunya-Urgench 3.5Lyon 3.5Medina Azahara 3.5Morelia 3.5Mostar 3.5Nancy 3.5Old Rauma 3.5Oporto 3.5Palenque 3.5Panamá 3.5Prague 3.5Querétaro 3.5Reims 3.5Seville 3.5Sintra 3.5Soltaniyeh 3.5Split 3.5Stari Grad Plain 3.5Takht-e Soleyman 3.5Tchogha Zanbil 3.5Tiya 3.5Villa d'Este 3.5Willandra Lakes 3.5Aksum 3Arles 3Avignon 3Elvas 3Evora 3Nessebar 3Pearling 3Potsdam 3Provins 3Puebla 3Uxmal 3Al Zubarah 2.5Boyana Church 2.5Crespi d'Adda 2.5Hospicio Cabañas 2.5Le Havre 2.5Orange 2.5Pasargadae 2.5Quseir Amra 2.5Red Fort 2.5Reichenau 2.5Sian Ka'an 2.5Tabriz Bazaar 2.5Tower of London 2.5Turaif Quarter 2.5Via Appia 2.5Vizcaya Bridge 2.5Wadden Sea 2.5Aranjuez 2Bisotun 2Mérida 2Susa 2Tarraco 2Trier 2Abbey of St Gall 1.5Atapuerca 1.5Jelling 1.5Nisa 1.5Qalhat 1.5Robben Island 1.5Stoclet House 1.5Van Nellefabriek 1.5Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Barbar Temple (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- City of Motovun (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Eglises byzantines et post-byzantines de Curtea de Arges (T)
- Hejaz Railway (T)
- Historical city of Izamal (Izamal, Mayan continuity in an Historical City) (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Hôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose - Lessines (T)
- Inle Lake (T)
- Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento (T)
- Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza) (T)
- Jame' (Congregational) Mosque of Esfahan (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Kerman Historical-Cultural Structure (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le Charolais-Brionnais, paysage culturel de l'élevage bovin (T)
- Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Les citadelles mosanes (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Manama, City of Trade, Multiculturalism and Religious Coexistence (T)
- Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Møns Klint (T)
- Nasqsh-e Rostam and Naqsh-e Rajab (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Olympic Park Munich (T)
- Patzcuaro, Site of Humanistic Memory and Cultural Confluence (T)
- Persepolis and other relevant buildings (T)
- Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo : Paysage méditerranéen (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- Sacred Landscapes of Tigray (T)
- Shush (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Turkmenistan (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan (T)
- Taq-e Bostan (T)
- Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity and tradition in Central Asia (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbour - A ‘skipper-town’ from the era of the great tall ships in the 18th and 19th centuries (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The royal necropolis of the Thracian city of Seuthopolis – a serial site, extension of the Kazanlak Thracian tomb (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery (T)
- Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
- Vila Viçosa (T)
- Workers’ Assembly Halls (Denmark) (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
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