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Masjed-e Jâme'
Joyce van Soest The Netherlands - 04-Jan-13
The Jameh Mosque is the third World Heritage Site in the beautiful city of Esfahan (Meidan Emam en Sotun Palace (part of the The Persian Garden World Heritage Site) are the other ones).
The mosque is one of the oldest in Iran, with architecture from the last 12 ages. Walking through the enormous complex you can see a lot of different styles. You can find old brick halls but also beautiful fine mosaics. This is definitely a mosque where you can explore for a long time.
Read OnPersian Garden
Joyce van Soest The Netherlands - 20-Jan-12
All over Iran you can find beautiful gardens. Nine of them are inscribed on the list and I visited six of them.
To fully appreciate it, you should visit the gardens not in wintertime, which unfortunately I did. Most of the fountains in the gardens won't have water in it and the trees are mostly without leaves and there will barely be any flowers.
I did enjoy them nonetheless.
I first visited Bagh-e Eram in Shiraz. There was no water in the canals but the turquoise pond in front of the beautiful Eram palace and the surrounding palm trees from the Canary Islands were lovely.
Read OnDengfeng
Joyce van Soest The Netherlands - 16-Jan-11
I visited Dengfeng in 2009 and I didn't know it was going to be a WHS at that time. The reason I came here was the famous Shaolin monastery. Besides Chinese tourist groups, there was little tourist infrastructure for the individual tourist (it was hard finding a hotel and restaurant) so I didn't know about the other important places in the area. Visiting the Shaolin temple was impressive though. The complex is large and I especially liked the large wall with frescos (see picture). There's also a large pagoda forest and some other temples. Going up the mountain you will get to the cave where Boddhidarma meditated for nine years and where apparently zen Buddhism started and also Shaolin boxing
Read OnTiwanaku
Joyce van Soest The Netherlands - 05-Jul-08
Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco) is a complex of buildings, temples and a pyramid from pre-Inca times and is therefore Bolivia's most important archeological site.
The site consists of two museums and the archeological grounds with the buildings. One museum hosts mostly ceramic artifacts and the other one only hosted one sculpture by the time I visited it (June 2008). More artifacts and sculptures will be brought from the archeological site to the museums in the near future for preservation.
The archeological site has a piramide that covers more square meters than the one from Geops in Egypt, but is less tall. Total excavation is to be done in about 7 years
Read OnArequipa
Joyce van Soest The Netherlands - 05-Jul-08
Ah, beautiful Arequipa, the colonial city surrounded by snowy volcanoes. The city has some beautiful churches and buildings with very ornate facades, there’s a nice vibe on the Plaza de Armas but the highlight of the city is the Santa Catalina Convent. Built from the white local Sillar stone, and often painted red or blue, this convent is an oasis in the busy city. It’s pretty much a small city within the city with it’s little charming streets, houses with ovens, squares with religious paintings and staircases.
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- Decani Monastery, Kosovo (it is not only a beautiful monastery, but going to the monastry protected by armed soldiers is an experience by itself)
Recently Visited WHS
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18 Countries Complete
Albania . Andorra . Belgium . Bulgaria . Cyprus . Dominican Republic . Holy See . Lesotho . Luxembourg . Malta . Morocco . North Macedonia . San Marino . Singapore . Sri Lanka . Switzerland . United Arab Emirates . Zambia .Visited WHS
Rating StatsBaalbek 5Hollókö 4.5Palmyra 4.5Vienna 4.5Pompei 4Verona 4Yazd 4Al Ain 3.5Caral-Supe 3.5Cartagena 3.5Chan Chan 3.5City of Bath 3.5Damascus 3.5Golestan Palace 3.5Jeju 3.5Lima 3.5Longmen Grottoes 3.5Mammoth Cave 3.5Masjed-e Jâme' 3.5Matera 3.5Phu Phrabat 3.5Polonnaruva 3.5Robben Island 3.5San Agustín 3.5Shushtar 3.5Tchogha Zanbil 3.5Yungang Grottoes 3.5Aleppo 3Chavin 3Delos 3Dengfeng 3Kairouan 3My Son 3Naples 3Tiwanaku 3Tyre 3Vigan 3Anjar 2.5Atapuerca 2.5Bosra 2.5Byblos 2.5Camagüey 2.5Cienfuegos 2.5Ferrara 2.5Garajonay 2.5Lake Baikal 2.5Mystras 2.5Persian Garden 2.5Qadisha Valley 2.5Takht-e Soleyman 2.5Trang An 2.5Vall de Boi 2.5Western Ghats 2.5Zamość 2.5Nessebar 2Nice 2Susa 2Bisotun 1.5Madara Rider 1.5Mazagan 1.5Namhansanseong 1.5Danube Limes 0.5Mount Kenya 0.5Reviewed WHS
- Masjed-e Jâme'
- Persian Garden
- Dengfeng
- Tiwanaku
- Arequipa
- Nasca Lines
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
- Dubrovnik
- Kotor
- Mostar
- Skocjan Caves
- Würzburg Residence
- Split
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Aachen Cathedral
- Cologne Cathedral
- Beemster Polder
- Schokland
- City of Luxembourg
- Cologne Cathedral
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Glacier parks
- Kinderdijk
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Bryggen
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Old City of Berne
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Olympic National Park
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
Visited TWHS
Reviewed TWHS
Top 50 Missing Sites
- Bagan
- Concordia
- Cultural Landscape of Santorini
- Death Valley National Park
- Dzongs of Bhutan
- Great Gobi Desert
- Historic University Towns of Oxford and Cambridge
- Jericho
- Klondike and the Gold Rush Trails
- Mecca, Kaaba
- Mount Gerizim: the holiest Samaritan site near Nablus
- Okavango Delta
- Panama Canal
- Pharaonic Temples of Kom Ombo and Edfu
- Silk Roads
- Torres del Paine National Park
- Transiberian Railway
- Varanasi
- Vers une architecture: Major Buildings of Le Corbusier
- Wooden Monasteries of Konbaung Period: Ohn Don, Sala, Pakhangyi, Pakhannge, Legaing, Sagu, Shwe Kyau
Top 200 WHS
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Timbuktu
- Viñales Valley
- Saint-Emilion
- Acropolis
- Pompei
- Segovia
- Trier
- Pont du Gard
- Aleppo
- Historic Cairo
- Damascus
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Tunis
- Hué
- Old Town of Lijiang
- Sigiriya
- Potala Palace
- Borobudur
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Longmen Grottoes
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Taj Mahal
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Humayun's Tomb
- Aachen Cathedral
- Ravenna
- Vatican City
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Westminster
- Flemish Béguinages
- Chartres Cathedral
- Assisi
- Amiens Cathedral
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Studenica Monastery
- Kinderdijk
- Melaka and George Town
- Old Town of Galle
- Old Havana
- Wadi Rum
- Persian Garden
- Jantar Mantar
- Salamanca
- Ancient Thebes
- Ancient Kyoto
- Komodo National Park
- Galapagos Islands
- Ngorongoro
- Serengeti
- Qutb Minar
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Hoi An
- Vienna
- Brugge
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Himeji-jo
- Tower of London
- Zollverein
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Machu Picchu
- Wulingyuan
- Persepolis
- Palmyra
- Versailles
- Golestan Palace
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- City of Luxembourg
- Nasca Lines
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Victoria Falls
- Okavango Delta
- Angkor
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Anuradhapura
- Polonnaruva
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Istanbul
- Rome
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- Salzburg
- Teide National Park
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka