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Asante Traditional Buildings
Little Lauren Travels USA - 20-Jan-25
I booked a tour with a local company, Ashanti African Tours, to spend four days in Ghana, visiting the forts and the Asante traditional buildings as well as the Akwasidae Festival, a traditional Asante festival that happens once every six weeks. I was too focused on visas and anti-malarials and a snow storm to closely check the itinerary, which just had an afternoon visiting the site. I was disappointed to learn that only the shrine at Ejisu-Besease had been included. I asked that more be added and also visited Adako-Jackie, which is nearby. I would be specific on any tour and say you want to visit multiple of the shrines. Although I usually have a 30% rule — e.g
Read OnGuanacaste
Little Lauren Travels USA - 20-Jan-25
Guanacaste is a large area in northwestern Costa Rica that is easily accessible from the Liberia Airport, which has nonstop flights to many U.S. airports. Needing a short break to a warm climate, I hopped on a last-minute flight to Costa Rica to visit this World Heritage Site. Over 48 hours split over three days, I managed to visit three different areas of the vast site. Although the site is huge, most parts are within a two hour drive of the Liberia airport, off the Pan-American Highway; which is pretty well maintained.
Read OnForts and Castles Gold Coast
Little Lauren Travels USA - 20-Jan-25
This is a serial site consisting of 3 castles and over 20 forts along the Ghanaian coast. The castles, especially Cape Coast and Elmina, are huge European fortresses built and occupied by various European colonial powers — Portuguese, Dutch, British — between the late 1400s and the early twentieth century. Their constant use means that they are still standing today, whereas most buildings from the era are long gone. The forts were built to protect settlements on the coast, including the castles, and are generally smaller and more strategically located. One of the important and dark chapters in the 500+ year history of the castles was the transatlantic slave trade
Read OnThe Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa
Little Lauren Travels USA - 18-Jan-25
I visited one of the three inscribed sites, Pinnacle Point, near Mossel Bay. It was the only one of the inscribed sites that had readily available online information about how to visit, and it’s an easy stop when driving the Garden Route.
Tours are arranged in advance, via WhatsApp, and occur daily at 9, 11, 1, and 3. They arranged a special tour for us at an extra fee, which was so kind, to accommodate other activities in the area. The actual site is a series of caves under the golf course in a gated community. Although locals knew of the caves for some time, the archaeological assessment in connection with building the golf course led to further study. The golf course went ahead, but the caves are preserved and recently opened for visits.
Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites
Little Lauren Travels USA - 16-Oct-24
I organized a private day tour from Johannesburg to visit eight of the fourteen sites on the final inscription that are in or around Johannesburg: (a) Liliesleaf, (b) Constitution Hill, (c) Orlando West, (d) Walter Sisulu Square, and (e-h) the four Sharpeville sites. It would have been difficult to visit on my own, so I emailed several tour companies listed on TripAdvisor with the list of sites, and several responded that they’d be pleased to set up a tour. It ended up being a 9+ hour day and I could have taken longer in Orlando West and Liliesleaf, but overall I was pleased with the day and I feel like I have a good enough sense of the site to mark it as visited.
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Antigua and Barbuda . Cyprus . Egypt . Ghana . Holy See . Iceland . Luxembourg . Tanzania .Visited WHS
Rating StatsBaalbek 5Burgos Cathedral 4.5Matera 4.5Ohrid Region 4.5Ouro Preto 4.5Pampulha 4.5Puebla 4.5Arequipa 4Kondoa 4Caceres 3.5Diamantina 3.5El Tajin 3.5Morelia 3.5Quirigua 3.5Byblos 3Copán 3Anjar 2.5Aphrodisias 2.5Butrint 2.5Caral-Supe 2.5Chavin 2.5Congonhas 2.5Guanacaste 2.5Nasca Lines 2.5Wadi Al-Hitan 2.5Surtsey 2Uluru 2Atapuerca 1.5Poverty Point 1.5Stećci 1.5Abu Mena 0.5Cahokia Mounds 0.5Cuenca 0.5Reviewed WHS
Visited TWHS
- Abydos, city of pilgrimage of the Pharaohs (T)
- Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library (T)
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel (T)
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi (T)
- Casablanca, Ville du XXème siécle, carrefour d'influences (T)
- Cattolica Monastery in Stilo and Basilian-Byzantine complexes (T)
- Cuetzalan and its Historical, Cultural and Natural Surrounding (T)
- Dahshour archaeological area (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Desert National Park (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Gebel Qatrani Area, Lake Qaroun Nature Reserve (T)
- Great Desert Landscapes (T)
- Hala Sultan Tekke and the Larnaka Salt Lake Complex (T)
- Historic Center of the City of Trujillo (T)
- Kakum National Park (T)
- L'amphitheatre de Durres (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- Les tombes de la Basse Selca (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Parc National de la Serra da Bocaina (Sao Paulo - Rio de Janeiro) (T)
- Pharaon Island (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Pre-Hispanic City of Cantona (T)
- Ras Mohammed (T)
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese (T)
- Siwa archaeological area (T)
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III (T)
- The Ancient City of Apollonia (T)
- The monasteries of the Arab Desert and Wadi Natrun (T)
- The Murge of Altamura (T)
- The Turf House Tradition (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Two citadels in Sinai from the Saladin period (Al-Gundi and Phataoh's island) (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)