Kbecq Profile

We are a couple living in Brussels and love to travel.

Although we do not select our travel destination based on the WHS list, we find the list a good guide to discover a country's most interesting (and sometimes otherwise overlooked) sites.

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Cueva de las Manos

Kbecq Belgium - 07-Apr-25

Cueva de las Manos

To add another (practical) perspective to J_neveryes’ recent review: we also visited Cueva de las Manos in March 2025, but from the Northwest. 

We had some trouble fitting in Cueva de las Manos in our Chile and Argentina trip and in the end the best solution was to fly from Santiago to Balmaceda (in Chile, on the border with Argentina) and drive to Cueva de las Manos by rental car. The flight to Balmaceda landed in the morning, but taking into account some potential uncertainties (time needed to cross the border?, would the flight be on time?, …) we decided to drive to the Perito Moreno area on day 1 and visit Cueva de las Manos on day 2.

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Aldabra Atoll

Kbecq Belgium - 16-Apr-24

Aldabra Atoll

We visited Aldabra for two days at the end of February with a ship going from Tanzania (Zanzibar) to the Seychelles, making several stops along the way (the other way around is also possible, we crossed our ship’s sister ship near Assumption island). Aldabra is the world's second largest coral atoll (after Kwajalein, part of the Marshall Islands we were told) and the largest raised atoll.

There doesn’t seem to be a standard plan or schedule to land on Aldabra since the expedition team had to negotiate with the Seychelles Islands Foundation (or SIF, which manages a.o. Aldabra) before we could set foot on the atoll

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Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona

Kbecq Belgium - 30-Oct-23

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona

Mid August we visited the Sardona region for a couple of days. As mentioned in the description, the area is most famous for the ‘Glarus thrust’ whereby older mountains are located on top of younger mountains because of movement of the earth's crust. Below some practical points with respect to the three hikes we did in and around the core zone.

Elm: from the small village of Elm, the Tschinglenbahn cable car goes to the Tschinglenalp where a relatively short and easy hike to the Firstboden viewpoint starts

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Surtsey

Kbecq Belgium - 07-Jul-22

Surtsey

Surtsey is sometimes called the newest place on earth since it only rose up out of the sea in 1963.

As mentioned below, the island is off limits to tourists and only a handful of scientists are allowed to stay there, which makes it very hard to visit Surtsey. Nevertheless, we gave it a try starting with the tips provided in other reviews, i.e. we contacted SACA to sail to Surtsey in a small Rib boat.

The people at SACA were very helpful, answered all of our questions and even provided us with an overview of the route. However, the price was above our budget/what we wanted to spend so we asked SACA if there were other interested parties willing to share a boat and the cost. There was indeed a fellow WHS enthousiast wanting to go to Surtsey but unfortunately our travel dates did not match.

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Engelsberg Ironworks

Kbecq Belgium - 05-Mar-21

Engelsberg Ironworks

Although this site already received a number of reviews, we will add another since it seems that none of the reviewers managed to get a look at the inside of the buildings.

In high season there are regular guided tours during which the buildings can be visited. In principle the tours are in Swedish, but the (very knowledgeable) guide also made the translation in English for us. The tours are in very small groups but since we visited the site in 2020 / covid times, we don’t know if this is always the case.

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Name
Kbecq
Country
Belgium
Ranking
140
Most Impressive
Calakmul
Proposal
World War I memorials and cemeteries

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