Svein Elias Profile
I never travelled - until i was in my forties. Then I met Randi who had a wide experience with travelling. Since 2006 we have been travelling together, and since 2010 we have been "hunting" WHS'.
Through the last decade I've learnt to really appreciate the feeling of visiting new places, the curiosity and the excitement seeing different habits and cultures. Seeing nature's grand places with its unique animal life gives me great satisfaction. Historic places is another great experience, it makes you learn history along the way.
Seeing odd places which few people have visited before, preferably combined with the above, is the top of my list. Maybe it's kind of naive, but anyway...
Recent Reviews Svein Elias
Turaif Quarter
Svein Elias Norway - 30-Oct-24
We, Philipp and his son plus Randi and me, visited this site october. We had a rental and intended to see all the Saudia Arabia WHS’ plus most of the TWHS’ in an extended week. We met up late night in Riyadh airport, picked up the car and stayed overnight in a nearby hotel. The following morning, we headed for At-Turaif.
The parking is inconvenient a bit off the entrance. We parked in a parking garage which was convenient to avoid an overheated car, but we still had to walk to the site in the burning sun. I don’t remember exactly the temperature at that moment, but coming from norther Europe hitting 35-40 degrees Celsius is tough.
Read OnNorthern Martinique
Svein Elias Norway - 22-Oct-24
During our easter holiday this year we visited some islands in the Lesser Antilles. The French Island of Martinique was one of them and naturally we visited this new WHS. We arrived at Fort-de-France, the islands main city, by ferry from Castries St Lucia, a ferry trip of 1 ½ hour. After a bus ride to the airport for picking up the rental car we were on our way to our next WHS.
The buffer zone of this site covers a major part of the northern part of the island, but the core zone is divided into two smaller areas
Read OnTomioka Silk Mill
Svein Elias Norway - 18-Jun-24
It’s satisfying being positively surprised by a site, like we did on one of this lesser-known sub site of Tomioka Silk Mill!
According to our Japan quest of July 2023 we were going to visit Tomioka round halfway in our Honshu train crossing from northeast to southwest. But as the weather forecast didn’t agree, we skipped the site and went for nicer weather further southwest. Thus, this site was visited on our last full day in Japan as a day trip from Tokio. Our Japan Rail Pass took us easily to Takasaki. We considered using the non-JRP railway to Tomioka, but since we were two and we wanted to visit all the four sites we chose a rental car. We were certain that six hours with a car would be sufficient for the task, but … we were so wrong.
Read OnShiretoko
Svein Elias Norway - 09-Mar-24
Shiretoko National Park is the northeastern most WHS in Japan. It’s a bit off the beaten track, but a few visitors from this community have managed to tick it off. We managed to visit in late June ‘23.
The nature in the park is wild and unspoilt and animal encounters are common. Somehow, we could connect to this Nordic environment, but then again – it’s far from the nature of northern Europe. On our two-nights visit we had encounters with bears, deer, and foxes. Meeting wild animals in their natural habitat is magnificent.
Read OnMana Pools
Svein Elias Norway - 04-Feb-24
Zimbabwe has been on our radar since we started visiting sub-Sahara Africa some years ago. Late September '23 we realized the trip.
Our trip was a road trip starting in Lusaka Zambia southbound and our first goal was (except secondary goal of Chirundu twhs in Zambia) Mana Pools National Park. It’s the site that really drives the cost on this trip. The park is a valley hosting the Zambezi River on the northern border to Zambia and is famous for its dry season wildlife gatherings. The WHS consists of three areas (Mana Pools, Sapi and Chewore), but we were told that Mana is by far the best area - for wildlife encounters.
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- Turaif Quarter
- Northern Martinique
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Shiretoko
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Mana Pools
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites
- Amami-Oshima Island
- Richtersveld
- Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains
- Mapungubwe
- Serengeti
- Selous Game Reserve
- Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara
- Djerba
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Sambor Prei Kuk
- Okavango Delta
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Camino Real
- Medina Azahara
- Komodo National Park
Visited TWHS
- Abraj Al-Kuwait (T)
- Aire du Dragonnier Ajgal (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Ancient Cities of Lycian Civilization (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Archaeological Site of Nikopolis (T)
- Art and Architecture in the Prehistory of Sardinia. The domus de janas. (T)
- Asuka-Fujiwara : Archaeological sites of Japan's Ancient Capitals and Related Properties (T)
- Augustow Canal (T)
- Azraq (T)
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi (T)
- Barbar Temple (T)
- Beng Malea Temple (T)
- Bioclimatic Refugia of Western Arabia (T)
- Black River Gorges National Park (T)
- Brandberg National Monument Area (T)
- Cascata delle Marmore and Valnerina: Monastic sites and ancient hydrogeological reclamation works (T)
- Cattolica Monastery in Stilo and Basilian-Byzantine complexes (T)
- Central Kalahari Game Reserve (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre historique de Saida (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Cetinje Historic Core (T)
- Chirundu Fossil Forest (T)
- Chobe Linyanti System (T)
- Chott El Jerid (T)
- Citadel of Alessandria (T)
- Cité de Carcassonne et ses châteaux sentinelles de montagne (T)
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo) (T)
- City of Charlestown (T)
- City of Motovun (T)
- Coastal Cliffs (T)
- Delhi - A Heritage City (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)
- Edifices for Worship of Fortress Type in Belarus, Poland and Lithuania (T)
- Egyptian Hajj Road (T)
- Etosha Pan (T)
- Evolution of Temple Architecture - Aihole-Badami- Pattadakal (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
- Fishriver Canyon (T)
- Fort Shirley (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes in Bulgaria (T)
- Grobiņa archaeological ensemble (T)
- Großglockner High Alpine Road / Großglockner Hochalpenstraße (T)
- Group of Mozarabic buildings on the Iberian Peninsula (T)
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System (T)
- Habitat troglodytique et le monde des ksour du Sud tunisien (T)
- Heiligenkreuz Abbey (T)
- Hejaz Railway (T)
- Hikone-Jo (castle) (T)
- Hire Benkal, Megalithic Site (T)
- Historic Center of the City of Trujillo (T)
- Historic zone of Basseterre (T)
- Historical city of Izamal (Izamal, Mayan continuity in an Historical City) (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Historical-town planning ensemble of Ston (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Jozani - Chwaka Bay Conservation Area (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic Buildings, St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (T)
- L'amphitheatre de Durres (T)
- L'ensemble rupestre de Basarabi (T)
- La Haute Ville d’Antananarivo (T)
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural Landscape (T)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
- Lake Tana Island Monasteries and its Adjacent Wetland Natural and Cultural Heritages (T)
- Lake Titicaca (T)
- Las Pozas, Xilitla (T)
- Le centre historique de la ville de Batroun (T)
- Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom (T)
- Le complexe hydraulique romain de Zaghouan-Carthage (T)
- Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le site archéologique de Sbeïtla (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France) (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy) (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco) (T)
- Les Mausolées Royaux de Numidie, de la Maurétanie et les monuments funéraires pré-islamiques (Tunisia) (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Levadas of Madeira Island (T)
- Makgadikgadi Pans Landscape (T)
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes (T)
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia) (T)
- Médina de Sfax (T)
- Memorials to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War: Brest Fortress and Mamayev Kurgan (Belarus) (T)
- Mining Historical Heritage (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
- Morne Diablotin National Park (T)
- Mosquée de Tinmel (T)
- Mothia and Lilibeo Island: The Phoenician-Punic Civilization in Italy (T)
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun (T)
- Mývatn and Laxá (T)
- Naletale Cluster of Dzimbabwes (T)
- Nasca Aqueducts (T)
- Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Negotinske Pivnice (T)
- Ngwenya Mines (T)
- NOSYnakà (Sahamalaza, Nosy Hara, Nosy Tanikely, Lokobe, Ambodivahibe, Ankarea, Ankivonjy) (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia (T)
- Oasis de Gabes (T)
- Oasis of Fayoum, hydraulic remains and ancient cultural landscapes (T)
- Okavango Delta (T)
- Old Town of Bar (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Patzcuaro, Site of Humanistic Memory and Cultural Confluence (T)
- Petrified Forest National Park (T)
- Plasencia - Monfragüe - Trujillo : Paysage méditerranéen (T)
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Pont sur la gorge du Salgina (T)
- Prehistoric Stone Structures in Saudi Arabia (T)
- Primošten Vineyards (T)
- Qasr Al-Mushatta (T)
- Region Lacan-Tún - Usumacinta (T)
- Rijal Almaa Heritage Village in Assir Region (T)
- Ring of cenotes of Chicxulub Crater, Yucatan (T)
- Rocks of Belogradchik (T)
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire (T)
- Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese (T)
- Salt Mines of Maras (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Saviour Transfiguration Church and St. Sophia Cathedral in the town of Polatsk (T)
- Seruwila to Sri Pada (Sacred Foot Print Shrine), Ancient pilgrim route along the Mahaweli river in Sri Lanka (T)
- Shaubak Castle (Montreal) (T)
- Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jabir Palace (T)
- Sites along the Uttarapath, Badshahi Sadak, Sadak-e-Azam, Grand Trunk Road (T)
- Sites of Globalization (T)
- Sites of Saytagrah (T)
- SS. Boris and Gleb (Kalozha) Church in the city of Hrodna (T)
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex: A Center of Medical Treatment (T)
- Sun Temple, Modhera and its adjoining monuments (T)
- Sungai Buloh Leprosarium (T)
- Syrian Hajj Road (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slova) (T)
- System of Fortifications at the Confluence of the Rivers Danube and Váh in Komárno - Komárom (Slovak) (T)
- Temple d’Echmoun (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
- The broader region of Mount Olympus (T)
- The Central Slave and Ivory Trade Route (T)
- The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio (T)
- The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
- The Cultural Triangle (T)
- The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
- The Hajj Pilgrimage Routes: The Darb Zubaydah (Saudi)) (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The Industrial Heritage of Barbados: The Story of Sugar and Rum (T)
- The Laponian Area - Tysfjord, the fjord of Hellemobotn and Rago (T)
- The late ancient tomb of Silistra (T)
- The Lofoten islands (T)
- The Murge of Altamura (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Blidinje (T)
- The natural and architectural ensemble of Jajce (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Rise of Systematic Biology (T)
- The Roussensky Lom National Park (T)
- The Rural Cultural Landscapes of Sarawat Mountains (T)
- The Sanctuary of Agios Lot, At Deir 'Ain 'Abata (T)
- The Scotland District of Barbados (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)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Tokaj Wine Region (T)
- Torfajökull Volcanic System / Fjallabak Nature Reserve (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Troodos, Mt.Olympus (T)
- Trowulan (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Vestfold Ship Burials and Hyllestad Quernstone Quarries (T)
- Villas of the Papal Nobility (T)
- Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (T)
- Water Management in Saudi Arabia: The Ancient Dams (T)
- Welwitschia Plains (T)
- White Sands National Monument (T)
- Worship wooden architecture (17th -18th centuries) in Polesye (T)
- Zee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Les Mausolées Royaux de Numidie (Tunisia) (T)
- Sbeïtla (T)
- Habitat troglodytique et le monde des ksour du Sud tunisien (T)
- Karstic caves in prehistoric Apulia (T)
- Tysfjord, the fjord of Hellemobotn and Rago (T)
- The Turf House Tradition (T)
- Worship wooden architecture (17th -18th centuries) in Polesye (T)
- Edifices for Worship of Fortress Type in Belarus, Poland and Lithuania (T)
- Saviour Transfiguration Church and St. Sophia Cathedral (T)
Top 200 WHS
- Isole Eolie
- Le Havre
- Ferrara
- Split
- Graz
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Salzburg
- Warsaw
- Edinburgh
- City of Bath
- Matera
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Rome
- Istanbul
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Polonnaruva
- Anuradhapura
- Angkor
- Rock Art of Alta
- Ohrid Region
- Plitvice Lakes
- Iguazu National Park
- Okavango Delta
- Victoria Falls
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Brú na Bóinne
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Nasca Lines
- Stonehenge
- Chichen-Itza
- Tikal National Park
- Mesa Verde
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Zamość
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Vlkolinec
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Valletta
- Urbino
- Old Rauma
- City of Luxembourg
- Riga
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Val di Noto
- Mostar
- Messel Pit
- Genoa
- Litomysl Castle
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Würzburg Residence
- Wartburg Castle
- Schönbrunn
- Potsdam
- Versailles
- Palmyra
- Petra
- Durmitor National Park
- Dolomites
- Mount Kenya
- Pirin National Park
- Great Himalayan National Park
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Machu Picchu
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Røros
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Tower of London
- Malbork Castle
- Great Wall
- Gwynedd Castles
- Regensburg
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Vilnius
- Kotor
- Sighisoara
- Strasbourg
- Bardejov Town
- Trogir
- Quedlinburg
- Gammelstad
- Torun
- Bamberg
- Telc
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Tallinn
- San Gimignano
- Cesky Krumlov
- Budapest
- Brugge
- Vienna
- Kraków
- Dubrovnik
- Siena
- Valparaiso
- Visby
- Bryggen
- Lübeck
- Maritime Greenwich
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Great Barrier Reef
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Cuzco
- Mammoth Cave
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Skocjan Caves
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Yosemite National Park
- Sinharaja Forest
- Redwood
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Serengeti
- Ngorongoro
- Yellowstone
- Galapagos Islands
- Komodo National Park
- Site of Xanadu
- Van Nellefabriek
- Rjukan / Notodden
- Grand Canyon
- Monticello
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Champagne
- Muskauer Park
- Vegaøyan
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Loire Valley
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Sintra
- Thingvellir
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Old Havana
- Old Town of Galle
- Quito
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
- Madara Rider
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Curonian Spit
- Kinderdijk
- Sydney Opera House
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
- Modena
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Studenica Monastery
- Reichenau
- Pannonhalma
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Boyana Church
- Monastery of Horezu
- Urnes Stave Church
- Churches of Peace
- Rila Monastery
- Cologne Cathedral
- Speyer Cathedral
- Luther Memorials
- Belem
- Westminster
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Vatican City
- Meteora
- Ravenna
- Blue and John Crow Mountains
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Mystras
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Taj Mahal
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Kandy
- Lumbini
- Sigiriya
- Kathmandu Valley
- Samarkand
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Syracuse
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana
- Pompei
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Butrint
- Epidaurus
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- Agrigento
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Acropolis
- Olympia
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Saint-Emilion
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Viñales Valley
- Mount Etna