Patrik Profile
I quit my job in April 2017 and wanted to travel as much as possible. As I really enjoy it, I try to stretch my budget, as this means I will be able to travel for a longer time.
I also try to minimize flying and stay in local places, which helps to slightly minimize my negative impact on this beautiful planet. This also means I tend to make longer trips and travel slower.
I try to fit in the Unesco sites at the places I visit and like the challenge of reaching them by local bus or train, or even by walking or hitchhiking.
Recent Reviews Patrik
Jodensavanne
Patrik Netherlands - 07-Jul-24
There is a bus from Paramaribo 3 or 4 times a week, leaving for Casipora at 8.30h. It passes right by the access road to the Jodensavanne and takes around 2 hours, including a shopping stop of about 20 minutes at a Chinese supermarket along the way.
The driver told me the return bus passes around 12.10h but when I left Jodensavanne at noon, the caretaker said the bus will only pass the police checkpoint, which is close to the bridge over the Suriname river. So I walked there, arriving around 12.20 and waited and waited until a car stopped around 12.50h and asked me where I am going, and took me back to Paramaribo.
Read OnCentral Amazon Conservation Complex
Patrik Netherlands - 06-Jul-24
I hadn't intended to review this site but after reading Frédéric's review I thought I will add mine as well as there are both similarities and a few differences that may be of interest to others. I visited the site end of June 2024.
I took the night boat from Iquitos to the [...]
Read OnSt.Georges Anglican Cathedral (T)
Patrik Netherlands - 02-Jul-24
I visited the Cathedral on a Friday just after 13.00h, it was probably still open after the noon mass, as the lady was closing up. I walked by also on Saturday and Sunday but everything seemed closed (and almost everything in Georgetown is closed on Sunday).
The renovations are finished and the whiteness on the outside is dazzling, except for the steeple. Perhaps they overdid things at the start and ran out of paint.
I walked around for several hours outside in Georgetown taking pictures with my old phone and did not feel unsafe at all, so it seems things have changed for the better.
Read OnGuanacaste
Patrik Netherlands - 02-Jul-24
I stayed three nights in Liberia in March 2024 and used the full first day to visit the Rincon de la Torre national park. I took an uber taxi there for around $22. The driver gave me his number in case I needed a pickup for the way back at the going rate of $30.
One has to book the tickets online, they cannot be bought at the park itself, though there is wifi and it shouldn't be a problem to book there for the same day.
I was there a bit before 8am and I had to wait to be registered. It was a windy day and I started off with the trail to the waterfalls. There are several karst phenomena, such as an underground river shortly coming to surface.
Read OnTalamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
Patrik Netherlands - 02-Jul-24
When I started to look into the possibilities to visit one of the national parks, the climb up to Chirripo came out as the most attractive option. To properly enjoy the guarrapo, a principal characteristic of the world heritage site, one needs an overnight at the mountain guesthouse. When I checked the site around New Year, there was just one night available in March. I booked this quickly and then planned the rest of my trip around it.
One first books and pays the park entrance at the SINAC website, then one sends a whatsapp message to the mountain hut organisation with the SINAC reservation number
Read OnProfile Data
- Name
- Patrik
- Country
- Netherlands
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 09.12.24
-
37 Countries Complete
Albania . Andorra . Austria . Belgium . Belize . Brazil . Bulgaria . Croatia . Cyprus . Ecuador . El Salvador . Estonia . Finland . Guatemala . Holy See . Hungary . Lithuania . Luxembourg . Malta . Moldova . Montenegro . Morocco . Nicaragua . North Macedonia . Norway . Paraguay . San Marino . Serbia . Singapore . Slovakia . Slovenia . Spain . Sri Lanka . Sweden . Switzerland . United Arab Emirates . Uruguay .Visited WHS
Reviewed WHS
- Jodensavanne
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex
- Guanacaste
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
- Forth Bridge
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
- Pirin National Park
- Dacian Fortresses
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Troy
- Kenya Lake System
Visited TWHS
- Agioi Varnavas and Ilarion at Peristerona (Five-domed churches) (T)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Alanya (T)
- Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Amazonia Theaters (T)
- Anavilhanas Ecological Station (T)
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar : Innwa, Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun, Mandalay (T)
- Archaeological Site and Historic Centre of Panamá City (T)
- Archaeological site of Ancient Messene (T)
- Architecture Moderne du XX siècle de la Ville de Montevideo (T)
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Philippopolis, Roman Province of Thrace (T)
- Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Çanakkale (Dardanelles) and Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Battles Zones in the First World War (T)
- Canyon du Rio Peruaçu, Minas Gerais (T)
- Carmona’s cultural landscape (T)
- Casablanca, Ville du XXème siécle, carrefour d'influences (T)
- Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
- Cavernas do Peruaçu Federal Environmental Protection Area (APA) / Veredas Do Peruaçu State Park (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre ancien de Sarlat (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- Church of Panagia Aggeloktisti (T)
- City Hall, Georgetown (T)
- City of Tigre and its rowing clubs (T)
- City of York: historic urban core (T)
- Civil Rights Movement Sites (T)
- Dahshour archaeological area (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Djerdap National Park (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Eastern Arc Mountains Forests of Tanzania (T)
- Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento, Rio de Janeiro (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
- Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (former S-21)/ Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (former Execution Site of S-21) (T)
- Fortress of Spinalonga (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes in Bulgaria (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Serbia) (T)
- Georgetown's Plantation Structure and Historic Buildings (T)
- Gorge of Samaria National Park (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Hala Sultan Tekke and the Larnaka Salt Lake Complex (T)
- Harran and Sanliurfa (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Hell’s Gate National Park (T)
- Historic Center of the City of Trujillo (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Hoge Kempen Rural - Industrial Transition Landscape (T)
- Inle Lake (T)
- Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento (T)
- Kakamega Forest (T)
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
- Kebun Raya Bogor (T)
- L'oeuvre architecturale d'Henry van de Velde (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- La Rambla (promenade maritime) de la Cité de Montevideo (T)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom (T)
- Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia (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 palais de Princes Eveques de Liège (T)
- Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
- Le plateau des Hautes-Fagnes (T)
- Le tronçon Bavay-Tongres de la chaussée romaine Boulogne-Cologne situe sur le territoire de la Région wallonne (T)
- Les « coules » de Petite Valachie (T)
- Les citadelles mosanes (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
- Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (S) (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas du nord-ouest de l'Europe (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- Massif du Mont-Blanc (T)
- Médina de Sfax (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
- Møns Klint (T)
- Mývatn and Laxá (T)
- Nasca Aqueducts (T)
- National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Old Town of Bar (T)
- Orheiul Vechi Archaeological Landscape (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Palais de la Culture, ancien siège du Ministere de l'Education et de la Santé, Rio de Janeiro (T)
- Parc National de la Serra da Bocaina (Sao Paulo - Rio de Janeiro) (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Pietrosul Rodnei (sommet de montagne) (T)
- Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo : Paysage méditerranéen (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Ras al Had Turtle Reserve and the Heritage Site of Ras al Jinz (T)
- Rocks of Belogradchik (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád (T)
- Rundāle Palace Ensemble with a Garden and Forest Park (T)
- Rural Temples of Cusco (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Salt Mines of Maras (T)
- San Pedro de Atacama (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Seruwila to Sri Pada (Sacred Foot Print Shrine), Ancient pilgrim route along the Mahaweli river in Sri Lanka (T)
- Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
- Sites of Globalization (T)
- Smederevo Fortress (T)
- Southwest Coast (T)
- St.Georges Anglican Cathedral (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III (T)
- That Luang de Vientiane (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The architectural legacy of Rogelio Salmona: an ethical, political, social and poetic manifesto (T)
- The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
- The Bachkovo Monastery (T)
- The Central Slave and Ivory Trade Route (T)
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá (Ruta Colonial Transístmica de Panamá) (T)
- The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The historic urban site of Počitelj (T)
- The Karlstejn Castle (T)
- The Lofoten islands (T)
- The Magoura cave with drawings from the bronze age. (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Blagaj (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Jajce (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Stolac (T)
- The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
- The Ribeira Sacra, Lugo and Orense (T)
- The Rise of Systematic Biology (T)
- The Roussensky Lom National Park (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 Tara National Park with the Drina River Canyon (T)
- The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery (T)
- The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track (T)
- The Turf House Tradition (T)
- The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic – Heritage of the First World War (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Triolet French Drugstore (Pharmacy Museum) (T)
- Turó de la Seu Vella de Lleida (T)
- Ver-o-Peso (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Vila Viçosa (T)
- Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
Reviewed TWHS