The volcanic Auckland Islands lie close to each other, separated by narrow channels, and the coastline is rugged, with numerous deep inlets. Traces of Polynesian settlement, possibly dating to the …
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Since 1997, I have traveled extensively, focusing on World Heritage Sites, while working in ICT management. I quit my job in 2022, and since then, have been dedicating all my time to World Heritage Travel and running this website.
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World Heritage Sites
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Ennedi Massif 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Kathmandu Valley 5.0
- Taj Mahal 5.0
- Hampi 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 4.5
- Sagarmatha National Park 4.5
- Virunga National Park 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Willandra Lakes 4.5
- Uluru 4.5
- Petra 4.5
- Grand Canyon 4.5
- Ngorongoro 4.5
- Meroe 4.5
- Bukhara 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Bali Subak system 4.5
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.5
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.5
- Caral-Supe 4.5
- Manu National Park 4.5
- Sigiriya 4.5
- Nasca Lines 4.5
- Istanbul 4.5
- Mountain Railways of India 4.5
- Ilulissat Icefjord 4.5
- Calakmul 4.5
- Palenque 4.0
- Western Tien-Shan 4.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.0
- Tikal National Park 4.0
- Rila Monastery 4.0
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana 4.0
- St. Petersburg 4.0
- Altamira Cave 4.0
- Samarkand 4.0
- Brazilian Atlantic Islands 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Serra da Capivara 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Baalbek 4.0
- Ahwar of Southern Iraq 4.0
- Ancient Thebes 4.0
- Lake Baikal 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Prague 4.0
- Galapagos Islands 4.0
- The trulli of Alberobello 4.0
- Los Glaciares 4.0
- Val di Noto 4.0
- Chan Chan 4.0
- São Luis 4.0
- Ancient Kyoto 4.0
- Upper Svaneti 4.0
- Ancient Merv 4.0
- Kunya-Urgench 4.0
- Iguazu National Park 4.0
- Beijing Central Axis 4.0
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Hani Rice Terraces 4.0
- Meteora 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Epidaurus 4.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 4.0
- Fujian Tulou 4.0
- Mesa Verde 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 4.0
- Ajanta Caves 4.0
- Takht-e Soleyman 4.0
- Peninsula Valdes 4.0
- Sun Temple, Konarak 4.0
- Mahabalipuram 4.0
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 4.0
- Chola Temples 4.0
- Kaziranga National Park 4.0
- Serengeti 4.0
- Chavin 4.0
- Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 4.0
- Ogasawara Islands 4.0
- Nubian Monuments 4.0
- Surtsey 4.0
- Taxila 4.0
- Mostar 4.0
- Sceilg Mhichíl 4.0
- Haghpat and Sanahin 4.0
- Medina of Fez 4.0
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 4.0
- Namib Sand Sea 4.0
- Gebel Barkal 4.0
- Puebla 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Chichen-Itza 4.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4.0
- Djenné 4.0
- Sangha Trinational 4.0
- Lakes of Ounianga 4.0
- Elvas 4.0
- Churches of Chiloé 4.0
- Ouro Preto 4.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 4.0
- Cliff of Bandiagara 4.0
- Stone Town of Zanzibar 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Dougga/Thugga 4.0
- Pompei 4.0
- Loire Valley 4.0
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.0
- Churches of Moldavia 4.0
- Rock Islands 4.0
- Chaco Culture 4.0
- Orkhon Valley 4.0
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.0
- Chitwan National Park 4.0
- Medina of Marrakesh 4.0
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Gulf of California 4.0
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 4.0
- Borobudur 4.0
- Selimiye Mosque 4.0
- Gros Morne National Park 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Arequipa 4.0
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.0
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex 4.0
- Djoudj 4.0
- Viñales Valley 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Mana Pools 4.0
- Great Zimbabwe 4.0
- Yakushima 4.0
- Victoria Falls 4.0
- Okavango Delta 4.0
- Pantanal 4.0
- Sukhothai 4.0
- Wadi Rum 4.0
- Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing 4.0
- Mogao Caves 4.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.0
- Nemrut Dag 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Vilnius 4.0
- Aksum 4.0
- Wulingyuan 4.0
- Lalibela 4.0
- Bagan 4.0
- Potala Palace 4.0
- Hattusha 4.0
- Ping Yao 4.0
- Gunung Mulu 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Ambohimanga 4.0
- Dazu Rock Carvings 4.0
- Kandy 4.0
- Hué 4.0
- Pattadakal 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Churches of Peace 4.0
- Teide National Park 4.0
- Damascus 4.0
- Haeinsa Temple 4.0
- Wadi Al-Hitan 4.0
- Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos 4.0
- Göbekli Tepe 3.5
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5
- Ani 3.5
- Mistaken Point 3.5
- Fasil Ghebbi 3.5
- Nessebar 3.5
- Ephesus 3.5
- Segovia 3.5
- Great Barrier Reef 3.5
- Studenica Monastery 3.5
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Butrint 3.5
- Tower of London 3.5
- Stone Spheres of the Diquís 3.5
- Edinburgh 3.5
- Bolgar 3.5
- Copán 3.5
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 3.5
- Rwenzori Mountains 3.5
- Trang An 3.5
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.5
- Simien National Park 3.5
- Rani-ki-Vav 3.5
- Mtskheta 3.5
- Gelati Monastery 3.5
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.5
- Golestan Palace 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.5
- Cueva de las Manos 3.5
- Rhodes 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Delos 3.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.5
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5
- El Pinacate 3.5
- Island of Patmos 3.5
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya 3.5
- Mount Etna 3.5
- L'viv 3.5
- Ancient Ksour 3.5
- Huascaran National Park 3.5
- Lima 3.5
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo 3.5
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá 3.5
- Moenjodaro 3.5
- Takht-i-Bahi 3.5
- Makli, Thatta 3.5
- Volubilis 3.5
- Medina of Tétouan 3.5
- Guanajuato 3.5
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino 3.5
- Paquimé 3.5
- Monastery of Geghard 3.5
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 3.5
- Uxmal 3.5
- Heritage of Mercury 3.5
- Pearling 3.5
- Xochicalco 3.5
- Bassari Country 3.5
- Carthage 3.5
- Amphitheater of El Jem 3.5
- Kairouan 3.5
- Kilimanjaro National Park 3.5
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3.5
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 3.5
- Dacian Fortresses 3.5
- Angra do Heroismo 3.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5
- Causses and Cévennes 3.5
- Anjar 3.5
- Byblos 3.5
- Tyre 3.5
- Qadisha Valley 3.5
- Prambanan 3.5
- Monastery of Batalha 3.5
- Brugge 3.5
- Old Havana 3.5
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Plitvice Lakes 3.5
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.5
- Longobards in Italy 3.5
- Auschwitz Birkenau 3.5
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5
- Fagus Factory 3.5
- Malbork Castle 3.5
- Torun 3.5
- Bosra 3.5
- Hiraizumi 3.5
- Saloum Delta 3.5
- Historic Cairo 3.5
- Ancient villages of Northern Syria 3.5
- Santa Cruz de Mompox 3.5
- Tierradentro 3.5
- San Agustín 3.5
- Baroque Churches 3.5
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 3.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5
- Aleppo 3.5
- Vézère Valley 3.5
- Fontainebleau 3.5
- Pitons of Reunion 3.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5
- Safi al-Din Ensemble in Ardabil 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- The Sundarbans 3.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.5
- Potosi 3.5
- Royal Joseon Tombs 3.5
- Matera 3.5
- Ayutthaya 3.5
- Siena 3.5
- Tiwanaku 3.5
- Fuerte de Samaipata 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5
- Agrigento 3.5
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.5
- Salvador de Bahia 3.5
- Bom Jesus do Congonhas 3.5
- Preah Vihear Temple 3.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5
- Gulf of Porto 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- Bourges Cathedral 3.5
- Hegra 3.5
- Lyon 3.5
- Saint-Emilion 3.5
- Cesky Krumlov 3.5
- Kutna Hora 3.5
- Armenian Monastic Ensembles 3.5
- Samarra 3.5
- Diamantina 3.5
- Teotihuacan 3.5
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 3.5
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3.5
- Québec 3.5
- Vienna 3.5
- Tsodilo 3.5
- Yungang Grottoes 3.5
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana 3.5
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.5
- Iguacu 3.5
- Lamu Old Town 3.5
- Vat Phou 3.5
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.5
- Aranjuez 3.5
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.5
- Willemstad 3.5
- Mystras 3.5
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 3.5
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 3.5
- South China Karst 3.5
- Vigan 3.5
- Sewell Mining Town 3.5
- Yin Xu 3.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.5
- Paramaribo 3.5
- Quebrada de Humahuaca 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Soltaniyeh 3.5
- Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka 3.5
- Everglades 3.5
- Sangay National Park 3.5
- Mapungubwe 3.5
- Cape Floral Region 3.5
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5
- Um er-Rasas 3.5
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3.5
- Thingvellir 3.5
- Pico Island 3.5
- Divrigi 3.5
- Itchan Kala 3.5
- Khami Ruins 3.5
- Ohrid Region 3.5
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 3.5
- Anuradhapura 3.5
- Luang Prabang 3.5
- Curonian Spit 3.5
- Andrefana Dry Forests 3.5
- Polonnaruva 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Ellora Caves 3.5
- Tallinn 3.5
- Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 3.5
- Crac des Chevaliers 3.5
- Old Town of Lijiang 3.5
- Discovery Coast 3.5
- Plain of Jars 3.5
- Palmyra 3.5
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3.5
- Te Wahipounamu 3.5
- Vatican City 3.5
- Bauhaus Sites 3.5
- Białowieża Forest 3.5
- Classical Weimar 3.5
- Tasmanian Wilderness 3.5
- Vall de Boi 3.5
- Fatehpur Sikri 3.5
- Kinderdijk 3.5
- Villa Romana del Casale 3.5
- Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli 3.5
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Yogyakarta 3.5
- Lençóis Maranhenses National Park 3.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.5
- Zagori Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Gordion 3.5
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Qutb Minar 3.5
- Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5
- Elephanta Caves 3.5
- Tak'alik Ab'aj 3.5
- Sundarbans National Park 3.5
- Sanchi 3.5
- Hatra 3.5
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.5
- Quseir Amra 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus 3.5
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 3.5
- Timbuktu 3.5
- Urnes Stave Church 3.5
- Rock Art of Alta 3.5
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park 3.5
- Quanzhou 3.5
- St. George, Bermuda 3.5
- Land of Frankincense 3.5
- Visby 3.5
- Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple 3.5
- Longmen Grottoes 3.5
- Laponian Area 3.5
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.5
- Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5
- Tongariro National Park 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.5
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.5
- Quito 3.5
- Amami-Oshima Island 3.5
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.5
- Shirakami-Sanchi 3.5
- Robben Island 3.5
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5
- Mount Taishan 3.5
- Great Wall 3.5
- Sheki 3.5
- Jiuzhaigou Valley 3.5
- Huanglong 3.5
- Quirigua 3.5
- Los Alerces National Park 3.5
- León Cathedral 3.5
- Summer Palace 3.5
- Temple of Heaven 3.5
- Mount Wuyi 3.5
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 3.5
- Hoi An 3.5
- My Son 3.5
- Aphrodisias 3.5
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.5
- Sucre 3.0
- Xanthos-Letoon 3.0
- Safranbolu 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Major Town Houses 3.0
- Oporto 3.0
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Antigua Guatemala 3.0
- Himeji-jo 3.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 3.0
- Gammelstad 3.0
- Southern Öland 3.0
- Salamanca 3.0
- Agra Fort 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Asturian Monuments 3.0
- Salzburg 3.0
- Semmering Railway 3.0
- Schönbrunn 3.0
- Graz 3.0
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Walled City of Baku 3.0
- Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur 3.0
- Mir Castle 3.0
- Belize Barrier Reef 3.0
- 17th Century Port Royal 3.0
- Olinda 3.0
- Brasilia 3.0
- Atlantic Forest South-East 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Monticello 3.0
- Taos Pueblo 3.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 3.0
- Shakhrisyabz 3.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 3.0
- Engelsberg Ironworks 3.0
- Kinabalu Park 3.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.0
- Santo Domingo 3.0
- Trier 3.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 3.0
- Potsdam 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 3.0
- Messel Pit 3.0
- Reichenau 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Santiago de Compostela 3.0
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.0
- Garajonay 3.0
- Mérida 3.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 3.0
- San Cristobal de La Laguna 3.0
- Manas Wildlife Sanctuary 3.0
- Brú na Bóinne 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Ruins of León Viejo 3.0
- Colonia del Sacramento 3.0
- Røros 3.0
- Bryggen 3.0
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 3.0
- Gyeongju 3.0
- Isole Eolie 3.0
- Imperial Tombs 3.0
- Holy Trinity Column 3.0
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.0
- Bardejov Town 3.0
- Xidi and Hongcun 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP 3.0
- Fossil Hominid Sites 3.0
- Paphos 3.0
- Huangshan 3.0
- Mountain Resort, Chengde 3.0
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 3.0
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3.0
- Mount Kenya 3.0
- Jongmyo Shrine 3.0
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3.0
- Pirin National Park 3.0
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 3.0
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3.0
- Stari Ras and Sopocani 3.0
- Durmitor National Park 3.0
- Kotor 3.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 3.0
- Stonehenge and Avebury 3.0
- Gwynedd Castles 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Island of Gorée 3.0
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast 3.0
- Asante Traditional Buildings 3.0
- Thessalonika 3.0
- Banska Stiavnica 3.0
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.0
- Banc d'Arguin 3.0
- Rohtas Fort 3.0
- Morelia 3.0
- El Tajin 3.0
- Hospicio Cabañas 3.0
- Kerkuane 3.0
- Medina of Sousse 3.0
- Monastery of Horezu 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.0
- Castel del Monte 3.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.0
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 3.0
- Cartagena 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Arles 3.0
- Strasbourg 3.0
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 3.0
- Petäjävesi Old Church 3.0
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3.0
- Crespi d'Adda 3.0
- San Gimignano 3.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3.0
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.0
- Avignon 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Canal du Midi 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Litomysl Castle 3.0
- L'Anse aux Meadows 3.0
- Miguasha National Park 3.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 3.0
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- Guimarães 3.0
- Tombs of Buganda Kings 3.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Mahabodhi Temple Complex 3.0
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 3.0
- Kunta Kinteh Island 3.0
- Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda 3.0
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 3.0
- Matobo Hills 3.0
- Mazagan 3.0
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 3.0
- Champaner-Pavagadh 3.0
- Tanbaly 3.0
- Novodevichy Convent 3.0
- Kernavė 3.0
- Shiretoko 3.0
- Vredefort Dome 3.0
- Nesvizh 3.0
- Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works 3.0
- Le Havre 3.0
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 3.0
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 3.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.0
- Stone Circles of Senegambia 3.0
- Tequila 3.0
- Genoa 3.0
- Aflaj irrigation system 3.0
- Jeju 3.0
- Sydney Opera House 3.0
- Kaiping Diaolou 3.0
- Bordeaux 3.0
- Corfu 3.0
- Red Fort 3.0
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 3.0
- Twyfelfontein 3.0
- Nisa 3.0
- Gobustan Rock Art 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 3.0
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3.0
- Saryarka 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Rhaetian Railway 3.0
- Wadden Sea 3.0
- Dolomites 3.0
- Sulaiman-Too 3.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 3.0
- Australian Convict Sites 3.0
- Jantar Mantar 3.0
- Hahoe and Yangdong 3.0
- Albi 3.0
- Thang Long 3.0
- Kenya Lake System 3.0
- West Lake 3.0
- Coffee Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Al Ain 3.0
- Serra de Tramuntana 3.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 3.0
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 3.0
- Rio de Janeiro 3.0
- Western Ghats 3.0
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.0
- Fujisan 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Corvey 3.0
- Namhansanseong 3.0
- Grand Canal 3.0
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.0
- Pyu Ancient Cities 3.0
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3.0
- Pergamon 3.0
- Poverty Point 3.0
- Stevns Klint 3.0
- Blue and John Crow Mountains 3.0
- Burgundy 3.0
- Fray Bentos 3.0
- Tusi Sites 3.0
- Baekje Historic Areas 3.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Rjukan / Notodden 3.0
- Kaeng Krachan Forest 3.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.0
- Stecci 3.0
- Archaeological site of Philippi 3.0
- Nalanda 3.0
- Umm Al-Jimāl 3.0
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley 3.0
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 3.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 3.0
- Pampulha 3.0
- Kulangsu 3.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 3.0
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.0
- Babylon 3.0
- Sviyazhsk 3.0
- Talayotic Menorca 3.0
- Ivrea 3.0
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3.0
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes 3.0
- Medina Azahara 3.0
- Roșia Montană 3.0
- Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Memorial Sites of Genocide 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.0
- Paraty and Ilha Grande 3.0
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 3.0
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites 3.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.0
- Cordouan Lighthouse 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Koh Ker 3.0
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 3.0
- Via Appia 3.0
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 3.0
- Gedi 3.0
- Khinalig 3.0
- Old Town of Galle 3.0
- Horyu-ji Area 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Cahokia Mounds 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Joya de Ceren 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Donana National Park 3.0
- Fort and Shalamar Gardens 3.0
- Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco 3.0
- Hortobágy 3.0
- Versailles 3.0
- Old Town Lunenburg 3.0
- Zollverein 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- Kii Mountain Range 3.0
- Cidade Velha 3.0
- Tabriz Bazaar 3.0
- Rabat 3.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.0
- Niah Caves 3.0
- Ban Chiang 3.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 3.0
- K’gari (formerly Fraser Island) 3.0
- Tower of Hercules 3.0
- Mount Athos 2.5
- Wartburg Castle 2.5
- Luther Memorials 2.5
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.5
- Historic Jeddah 2.5
- Cologne Cathedral 2.5
- Würzburg Residence 2.5
- San Antonio Missions 2.5
- Morne Trois Pitons 2.5
- Guanacaste 2.5
- Valletta 2.5
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 2.5
- Niokolo-Koba National Park 2.5
- Kazan Kremlin 2.5
- Maritime Greenwich 2.5
- Mammoth Cave 2.5
- Independence Hall 2.5
- Champagne 2.5
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 2.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.5
- Canterbury 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 2.5
- Bagerhat 2.5
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 2.5
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 2.5
- Boyana Church 2.5
- Hwaseong Fortress 2.5
- Lushan National Park 2.5
- Pienza 2.5
- Lake District 2.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 2.5
- Church of Atlántida 2.5
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 2.5
- Qalhat 2.5
- Liangzhu Archaeological Site 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2.5
- Lübeck 2.5
- Migratory Bird Sanctuaries China 2.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- Thimlich Ohinga 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 2.5
- Macao 2.5
- Cienfuegos 2.5
- Trebic 2.5
- Valparaiso 2.5
- Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands 2.5
- Arslantepe Mound 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- Erbil Citadel 2.5
- Bellinzone 2.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 2.5
- Nice 2.5
- Si Thep 2.5
- Kuldiga 2.5
- Keoladeo National Park 2.5
- Medina of Essaouira 2.5
- Skocjan Caves 2.5
- Tugendhat Villa 2.5
- Nancy 2.5
- Camagüey 2.5
- Tarraco 2.5
- Mijikenda Kaya Forests 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Cuenca 2.5
- Reims 2.5
- Phu Phrabat 2.5
- Vézelay 2.5
- Pannonhalma 2.5
- Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia 2.5
- Zamość 2.5
- Warsaw 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- Poblet Monastery 2.5
- Ibiza 2.5
- Medina of Tunis 2.5
- Tlacotalpan 2.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.5
- Çatalhöyük 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Zacatecas 2.5
- Meknes 2.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 2.5
- Avila 2.5
- Madara Rider 2.0
- Mafra 2.0
- Faya Palaeolandscape 2.0
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- Choirokoitia 2.0
- Ichkeul National Park 2.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.0
- ESMA Site Museum 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.0
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 2.0
- Fort Jesus 2.0
- Par force hunting landscape 2.0
- Mount Sanqingshan 2.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- Blenheim Palace 2.0
- Evora 2.0
- Sighisoara 2.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.0
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 2.0
- Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens 2.0
- Cuzco 2.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 2.0
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 2.0
- Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art 2.0
- Palmeral of Elche 2.0
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba 2.0
- Cold winter deserts of Turan 2.0
- Danube Delta 2.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 2.0
- Drottningholm 2.0
- Caceres 2.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 2.0
- Gorham's Cave Complex 2.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.0
- Bahla Fort 2.0
- Vlkolinec 2.0
- Colonies of Benevolence 2.0
- Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius 2.0
- Old Rauma 2.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.0
- Laurisilva of Madeira 2.0
- Telc 2.0
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 2.0
- Peking Man Site 2.0
- Royal Palace at Caserta 2.0
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 2.0
- Las Medulas 2.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 2.0
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops 2.0
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.0
- Sammallahdenmäki 2.0
- Grimeton Radio Station 2.0
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 2.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.0
- Central Highlands 2.0
- Hopewell 2.0
- Campeche 2.0
- Island of Saint-Louis 2.0
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 2.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 2.0
- The Four Lifts 2.0
- Gondwana Rainforests 2.0
- Kronborg Castle 2.0
- Risco Caido 2.0
- Moidams 2.0
- Val d'Orcia 2.0
- Orange 2.0
- Vegaøyan 2.0
- Dacian Limes 2.0
- Dong Phayayen - Khao Yai 2.0
- Camino Real 2.0
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 2.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 2.0
- Kew Gardens 2.0
- Úbeda and Baeza 2.0
- São Francisco Square 2.0
- China Danxia 2.0
- Amiens Cathedral 2.0
- Okinoshima Island 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos 2.0
- As-Salt 2.0
- Tokaji Wine Region 2.0
- Aapravasi Ghat 2.0
- Margravial Opera House 2.0
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 2.0
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Hollókö 2.0
- Querétaro 2.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- Chinchorro Culture 2.0
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge 2.0
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Lumbini 2.0
- Modernist Kaunas 2.0
- Burgos Cathedral 2.0
- Al Zubarah 2.0
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 2.0
- Provins 2.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 2.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2.0
- Genbaku Dome 2.0
- Troy 2.0
- Holasovice 2.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 2.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.0
- Le Morne 2.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Sado Island Gold Mines 2.0
- Danube Limes 1.5
- Djerba 1.5
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 1.5
- Bridgetown 1.5
- Srebarna Nature Reserve 1.5
- Kladruby nad Labem 1.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5
- Sítio Roberto Burle Marx 1.5
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 1.5
- Grand Pré 1.5
- Bahá’i Holy Places 1.5
- Neolithic Orkney 1.5
- Valongo Wharf 1.5
- Ahmadabad 1.5
- Old City of Berne 1.5
- Chaîne des Puys 1.5
- Chengjiang Fossil Site 1.5
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves 1.5
- Sangiran Early Man Site 1.5
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 1.5
- Santiniketan 1.5
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 1.5
- Regensburg 1.5
- Gaya Tumuli 1.5
- Centennial Hall 1.5
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 1.5
- Stari Grad Plain 1.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 1.5
- Water Management System of Augsburg 1.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 1.0
- Atapuerca 1.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 1.0
- Karlskrona 1.0
- Schokland 1.0
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 1.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 1.0
- Turaif Quarter 1.0
- Beemster Polder 1.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 1.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.0
- The Prosecco Hills 1.0
- Dilmun Burial Mounds 1.0
- Lower German Limes 1.0
- Sian Ka'an 1.0
- Royal Exhibition Building 1.0
- Lenggong Valley 1.0
- Hyrcanian Forests 1.0
- Alto Douro 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Dzongs
- Sarajevo
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Yapese Disk Money Regional Sites
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
- Benguela Current
- Etosha Pan
- Ram Janaki Temple
- City of Granada and its natural environment
- Svalbard Archipelago
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex
- Aalto Works
- Wooden Monasteries of Konbaung Period
- Ancient City of Kaunos
- La Haute Ville d’Antananarivo
- Ancien site industriel de Mantasoa
- Mughal and Colonial Temples of Bangladesh
- Hejaz Railway
- Port of Banbhore
- Uch Sharif monuments
- Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam
- Grand Trunk Road sites
- Tombs of Jahangir, Asif Khan and Akbari Sarai
- Modern Architecture of Montevideo
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins NPs
- Fell and Pali Aike Caves
- Fishriver Canyon
- Naletale Cluster of Dzimbabwes
- China-Egypt hydrological sites
- Region Lacan-Tún - Usumacinta
- Alba Julia
- Triolet French Drugstore
- Sumela Monastery
- Valle Calchaquí
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Hikone-Jo
- Sun Temple, Modhera
- Ekamra Kshetra
- The Qutb Shahi Monuments of Hyderabad
- Tarrafal Concentration Camp
- Wazir Khans Mosque, Lahore
- Gorge of Samaria National Park
- Old City of Mosul
- The mausoleum of Nakhichevan
- Garni and the ‘Basalt Organ’ Columnar Joint
- Tatev Monastery and Vorotan Gorge
- National Museum of Qatar
- Cultural Landscape of Mahasthan and Karatoya River
- Chiang Mai
- Central Park
- Apamee
- Noréas de Hama
- Ugrarit
- Ancient Kamakura
- Amarbayasgalant monastery
- Badshahi Mosque, Lahore
- Chaukhandi Tombs, Karachi
- Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites
- Asuka-Fujiwara
- Centre historique d'Irkoutsk
- Ananuri
- Chor-Bakr
- Bahoutdin Architectural Complex
- Ngwenya Mines
- Baghdad Rusafa
- Anatolian Seljuks Madrasahs
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Egyptian Museum
- Enclos paroissiaux du Finistère
- Maaloula
- Kerikeri Basin historic precinct
- Napier Art Deco historic precinct
- White Sands National Monument
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States
- Harran and Sanliurfa
- Chobe Linyanti System
- Old Dongola
- The Royal Sites of Ireland
- The Medieval Town of Tansen
- Lalish Temple
- Dana Biosphere Reserve
- Torfajökull Volcanic System / Fjallabak Reserve
- Mývatn and Laxá
- The Turf House Tradition
- Archaeological Sites of the Ancient Shu State
- Shwedagon Pagoda
- Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar
- Corcovado and Isla del Cano
- Bishop's Basilica and Mosaics of Philippopolis
- Silk Roads Sites in Kyrgyzstan
- Lake Tana Island Monasteries and Wetland
- Amazonia Theaters
- Ver-o-Peso
- Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento
- The Historical City of Masouleh
- Varanasi
- The Archeological complex of Banteay Chhmar
- Iznik
- Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization
- Ancient Cities of Lycian Civilization
- Khor Dubai
- Sites of the Busan Wartime Capital
- Waitangi Treaty Grounds historic precinct
- Uplistsikhe Cave Town
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia
- Surakhany, Atashgyakh
- The Historical Port City of Izmir
- Les coules de Petite Valachie
- Hôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose - Lessines
- Auckland Volcanic Fields
- L'amphitheatre de Durres
- Centre ancien de Sarlat
- Centre historique de Praia
- Baquedano Street
- Azraq
- Alvaro Siza's Architecture
- Vila Viçosa
- Old Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Derawar and the Desert Forts of Cholistan
- Tet el Bad
- L'Ile d'Arwad
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- Bouches de Bonifacio
- Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jabir Palace
- Plantations in West Curacao
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie
- Saar Heritage Park
- Barbar Temple
- Manama
- Kaboud Mosque
- Paysage culturel d'Azougui
- Tartus
- La Rambla de la Cité de Montevideo
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège
- Batroun
- The Bachkovo Monastery
- Nahr el-Kalb
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
- Cara Sucia / El Imposible
- Chalchuapa
- Ciudad Vieja / La Bermuda
- San Pedro de Atacama
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Civita di Bagnoregio
- Amedy city
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble
- The Ancient City of Nineveh
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Les citadelles mosanes
- Delhi - A Heritage City
- Casablanca
- Kahurangi National Park, Farewell Spit and Canaan
- Canal del Dique - Dike Canal
- Andaman Sea Nature Reserves of Thailand
- Sungai Buloh Leprosarium
- Kokino Archaeo-astronomical Site
- Les passages de Bruxelles
- Medieval Settlement of Kirtipur
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument
- The Danube Limes (Croatia)
- Fortifications at Komárno
- Baltic Klint
- 991 164
- Locations
- 431
- Zones
- 345
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Reviews by Els Slots
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Sub-Antarctic Islands (Inscribed)
The Subs #1: Intro & The Snares
The New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands (shortened to NZSAI by scientists, or The Subs by its admirers) are a seldom-visited collection of five island groups lying between New Zealand’s South Island …
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30/11/25
Te Wahipounamu (Inscribed)
Te Wahipounamu
Te Wahipounamu comprises a range of protected areas in South West New Zealand. Here, tectonic and glacial processes have shaped a mountain landscape dotted with fjords, glacial lakes, glaciers and …
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Els Slots
25/11/25
Tongariro National Park (Inscribed)
Tongariro after the fire
As I am counting down to my 1000th visited WHS, the goal is so near now that I cannot afford to lose a ‘tick’ in these last steps before the …
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Els Slots
21/11/25
Kahurangi National Park, Fare… (On tentative list)
Pupu Springs
On my initial preparations for my New Zealand trip, I discarded the Kahurangi National Park TWHS early on as being “too difficult and too far away”. What made it on …
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20/11/25
Napier Art Deco historic prec… (On tentative list)
A Walk in Napier
Napier is a detour when you’re doing a quick round of the North Island, but it was one of the places I was most eager to see on my New …
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15/11/25
Gondwana Rainforests (Inscribed)
Lamington NP: Binna Burra
This one I bailed out on during my 2011 RTW trip. Just too many forests on the Australian World Heritage List! But I had to finish it now while being …
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Els Slots
10/11/25
K’gari (formerly Fraser Islan… (Inscribed)
K'gari
There doesn’t seem to be much variety in how to do K’gari, the only choice to make is whether to stay overnight or not. As a second day would bring …
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Els Slots
08/11/25
Wet Tropics of Queensland (Inscribed)
Daintree
All reviewers of the Wet Tropics of Queensland so far have covered Barron Gorge National Park, which is an easy train ride from Cairns. The other 40 or so parks …
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Els Slots
08/11/25
Great Barrier Reef (Inscribed)
Great Barrier Reef with dry feet
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) poses the same issue for a “non-waterperson” like me as several other marine sites: how to create a satisfying visit that touches upon the site’s …
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Els Slots
05/11/25
Faya Palaeolandscape (Inscribed)
Faya unraveled
I visited Faya in November 2025 on the UAE road trip with Philipp and Jay, and I am the first to report back on it since its inscription this summer. …
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03/11/25
Lower German Limes (Inscribed)
Berg en Dal Aqueduct
Site visited: May 2021
The Dutch part of the Lower German Limes TWHS comprises 26 locations along the 2nd-century Roman frontier on the River Rhine. Together with a string of …
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Els Slots
30/10/25
Bosra (Inscribed)
Bosra
I was close to Bosra 5 months ago, when I visited Umm Al-Jimal. That Jordanian WHS lies just some 25km away and is said to have been within the …
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Els Slots
27/09/25
Maaloula (On tentative list)
Maaloula - Feast of the Cross
One of the charms of Northern Iraq, Northern Syria and Lebanon is the existence of remote Christian sites. Sometimes these are relict landscapes, but there are also thriving religious communities. …
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27/09/25
L'Ile d'Arwad (On tentative list)
Arwad
Arwad is a small island that was settled in the early 2nd millennium BC by the Phoenicians. The still inhabited island lies across the sea from the Syrian port of …
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19/09/25
Ugrarit (On tentative list)
Ugarit
The Tentative Site of Ugarit (or Ugrarit) lies just outside the Syrian coastal city of Latakia. The archeological site is fenced, staffed, has some information panels in Arabic, English and …
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19/09/25
Apamee (On tentative list)
Apamea
Let's start this sobering review with a Fun Fact: Apamea was named after Apamee, the first wife of Seleucid ruler Seleucus I Nicator (c. 358 BC – 281 BC). His …
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18/09/25
Ancient villages of Northern … (Inscribed)
Serjilla
The Ancient Villages of Northern Syria have been inaccessible during Syria’s Civil War due to their proximity to the front line between the Syrian Army and the “rebel” capital of …
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17/09/25
Aleppo (Inscribed)
Ruined
Along with Palmyra, Aleppo presents the saddest story among Syria’s WHS. Tours in the past would allocate two days to it, spending the night in one of the traditional Syrian …
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Els Slots
16/09/25
Crac des Chevaliers (Inscribed)
Castles of Syria
When I started preparing for a visit to this WHS, I was wondering why this site is not limited to the famous Crac des Chevaliers only, but also includes Saladin …
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14/09/25
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