Mihai Dascalu Profile
Retired physician, moved from Romania to US in 1997, trying to visit as many WHS as possible. Grateful to ELS and this community for providing such valuable information
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Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan (T)
Mihai Dascalu Romania - 10-Oct-24
Using the map on this site and the nomination file and having a rented 4WD for our trip on the southern side of Issyk Kul, we went to see Khan Dobo, Tosor and Barskoon. Well it didn’t work out well. For Khan Dobo there is a 6 km paved road out of the highway but after that the last km it’s unpaved and almost inaccesible. There is nothing marked till the end of the road in open field. At some point on the shore of a little lake we could spot some pitiful ruins, only because we were able to climb on a little mound nearby. No markings of any kind. We couldn’t find anything in Tosor except an old cemetery with no marking of anything
Read OnCold winter deserts of Turan
Mihai Dascalu Romania - 10-Oct-24
I will review here Altyn Emel National Park, visited in October 2024 as a tour from Almaty. We combined it with a trip to Tamgaly Petroglyphs. The cost was “outrageous” but we paid ($830 for 3 days in a van) and in the end we were happy with the result. It was a “minor” misunderstanding between the company who arranged it and us and the driver, he wanted to take us to Tamgaly Tas which is on the way to Altyn Emel, we caught it early and he took the Almaty ring road to Tamgaly WHS, then returned to Almaty and drove all the way to the village of Basshi (on Google maps Kalinino). It is 260 km from Almaty and generally an easy drive but in our case it was a day with 580km and we got there in the dark, not pleasant
Read OnTashkent makhallas (T)
Mihai Dascalu Romania - 10-Oct-24
I spent two days in October 2024 in Tashkent trying to figure out what is special about the Tashkent makhallas. I read the nomination document and Nan’s summary and I went to Hazrat Imam Complex, Chorsu, and Shayhantaur as well as many other neighborhoods but everywhere there is construction, fences, barriers etc, hard to say that I saw anything that has OUV.
Read OnMission Ruins of Venn's Town (T)
Mihai Dascalu Romania - 27-Feb-24
We just visited a few hours ago on February 27, 2024. We asked for a taxi at the reception of our hotel in Victoria, it was going to be a lot of money, 600 rupees just to get there so the receptionist called a friend who was willing to take us there for 400. It was a nice ride of 20 minutes once we got out of the afternoon traffic. When we got there we noticed that they now have a lot of signs, a gate, a schedule (they close at 5 pm!). There is an admission fee, we could pay by credit card. 100 Seychelles Rupees, which is just over $7 today, per person. Our driver was curious so he got in for free
Read OnSGang Gwaay
Mihai Dascalu Romania - 01-Oct-23
We visited on July 25, 2023. Following the information shared by Jay T. (thank you so much). We took a four day tour with Moresby Explorers and reached SG̱ang Gwaay in the afternoon of the second day. We were lucky to have a watchman present at the site, he even sang to us a couple songs on a traditional drum. He made good jokes but he was also defensive and sometimes aggressive (and he admitted to it). He contradicted himself sometimes and admitted that he didn't know much of how things worked in the Haida society (because nobody really knows to this day).
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11 Countries Complete
Bulgaria . Holy See . Lesotho . Oman . Pakistan . Qatar . Romania . Seychelles . Singapore . Turkmenistan . United Arab Emirates .Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Arequipa 5Belem 5Bryggen 5Bukhara 5Cuzco 5Delos 5El Tajin 5Elvas 5Evora 5Florence 5Hampi 5Iguacu 5Istanbul 5Macao 5Meteora 5Naples 5Nikko 5Olympia 5Oporto 5Pompei 5Potsdam 5Prague 5Rapa Nui 5Red Fort 5Uluru 5Verona 5Vienna 5Alto Douro 4.5Amiens Cathedral 4.5Boyana Church 4.5Cordoba 4.5Epidaurus 4.5Everglades 4.5Puebla 4.5Rome 4.5Stonehenge 4.5Takht-i-Bahi 4.5Toledo 4.5Budapest 4Fujisan 4Lima 4Morelia 4Nessebar 4Reims 4Sintra 4Tanbaly 4Taxila 4Bahla Fort 3.5Camino Real 3.5Canterbury 3.5El Pinacate 3.5Genbaku Dome 3.5Kunya-Urgench 3.5Monticello 3.5Nancy 3.5Nisa 3.5Provins 3.5Querétaro 3.5SGang Gwaay 3.5Schönbrunn 3.5Selimiye Mosque 3.5Seville 3.5El Escurial 2.5Kew Gardens 2.5Makli, Thatta 2.5Sarazm 2.5Québec 2Al Ain 1.5Belfries 1.5Saryarka 1Qalhat 0.5Visited TWHS
- Ancient Khuttal (T)
- Archaeological Site of Harappa (T)
- Badshahi Mosque, Lahore (T)
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi (T)
- Big Bend National Park (T)
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
- Central Balkan National Park (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (T)
- Chaukhandi Tombs, Karachi (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
- Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
- Dzongs: the centre of temporal and religious authorities (Punakha Dzong, Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, Paro Dzong, Trongsa Dzong and Dagana Dzong) (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Eglises byzantines et post-byzantines de Curtea de Arges (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Le Monastère de Neamt (T)
- Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia (T)
- Les « coules » de Petite Valachie (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- Mission Ruins of Venn's Town (T)
- Necropolises of Middle Egypt, from the Middle Empire to the Roman period (T)
- Petrified Forest National Park (T)
- Pietrosul Rodnei (sommet de montagne) (T)
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument (T)
- Port of Banbhore (T)
- Sacred Sites associated with Phajo Drugom Zhigpo and his descendants (T)
- San Pedro de Atacama (T)
- Shah Jahan Mosque, Thatta (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan (T)
- Silk Roads Sites in Tajikistan (T)
- Silk Roads: Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor (T)
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex: A Center of Medical Treatment (T)
- Tamzhing Monastery (T)
- Tashkent makhallas (T)
- Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity and tradition in Central Asia (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The ancient town of Nicopolis ad Istrum (T)
- The Bachkovo Monastery (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The Roussensky Lom National Park (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Tomb of Bibi Jawindi, Baha'al-Halim and Ustead and the Tomb and Mosque of Jalaluddin Bukhari (T)
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins National Parks, Region of Magallanes (T)
- Two neolithic dwellings with their interior and household furnishings and utensils completely preserved. (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)