This review will be one of disappointments and cautionary tales. I (almost) visited Ischigualasto and Talampaya parks in March 2023. I have been there and seen some elements of it, …
Frédéric M
Canada \ Member since December 2018
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Biologist, entomologist, outdoor enthusiast, scuba-diver, birder and traveler from Québec interested in discovering the world and its wonders! I did my first oversea backpacking trip in 2018 following my master and I don't want to stop any time soon. I am mostly interested in ecology, national parks and thus natural WHS, but being a WHS hunter opens my mind to architecture, history of art, urban planning, industrial heritage and the epic history of the World!
My most impressive site: Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Göreme, Gunung Mulu, Los Glaciares, Machu Picchu, Rome, Tikal
Recent Visits
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103July 1, 2025Japan 2025: Ancient Kamakura, Ancient Kyoto, Ancient Nara ...
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160March 17, 2025Abu Mena, Ancient Thebes, As-Salt, Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan", Historic Cairo ...
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200Nov. 18, 2024Botanical Garden, Padua, Etruscan Necropolises, Ferrara, Florence, Medici Villas and Gardens ...
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About Frédéric M
- Member since
- December 2018
- Country of Origin
- Canada
Visits
- Rank
- #249
- WHS
- 210
- Tentative Sites
- 80
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 70
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Gros Morne National Park 5.0
- Chichen-Itza 5.0
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 5.0
- Los Glaciares 5.0
- Plitvice Lakes 5.0
- Palenque 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Iguazu National Park 5.0
- Galapagos Islands 5.0
- Huascaran National Park 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Skocjan Caves 5.0
- Olympic National Park 5.0
- Gunung Mulu 5.0
- Iguacu 5.0
- Komodo National Park 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 5.0
- Teotihuacan 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Tikal National Park 5.0
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5.0
- Mammoth Cave 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- Laurisilva of Madeira 4.0
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Paraty and Ilha Grande 4.0
- Belize Barrier Reef 4.0
- Borobudur 4.0
- Kinabalu Park 4.0
- Cartagena 4.0
- Kii Mountain Range 4.0
- Prambanan 4.0
- Uxmal 4.0
- Ephesus 4.0
- San Gimignano 4.0
- Calakmul 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Cuzco 4.0
- Nasca Lines 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Vatican City 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.0
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 4.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Copán 4.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 4.0
- Ancient Kyoto 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Riga 4.0
- Cueva de las Manos 4.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.0
- Los Alerces National Park 4.0
- Wadi Rum 4.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.0
- Guanajuato 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Peninsula Valdes 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Puebla 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 4.0
- Kew Gardens 4.0
- Historic Cairo 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Nikko 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Rio de Janeiro 4.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Antigua Guatemala 3.0
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.0
- Mostar 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Hospicio Cabañas 3.0
- Morelia 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Xochicalco 3.0
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 3.0
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 3.0
- Sian Ka'an 3.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.0
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3.0
- Old Town Lunenburg 3.0
- Chavin 3.0
- Caral-Supe 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 3.0
- Quito 3.0
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3.0
- Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex 3.0
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 3.0
- Quirigua 3.0
- Panamá 3.0
- Fray Bentos 3.0
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus 3.0
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba 3.0
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.0
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya 3.0
- Quebrada de Humahuaca 3.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 3.0
- Blenheim Palace 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Stonehenge 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Westminster 3.0
- Alto Douro 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.0
- Evora 3.0
- Guimarães 3.0
- Mafra 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.0
- Monastery of Batalha 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Bali Subak system 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 3.0
- Ujung Kulon National Park 3.0
- Mistaken Point 3.0
- Campeche 3.0
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex 3.0
- San Agustín 3.0
- Tierradentro 3.0
- Niah Caves 3.0
- Kuldiga 3.0
- Tallinn 3.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 3.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 3.0
- Nubian Monuments 3.0
- Quseir Amra 3.0
- Um er-Rasas 3.0
- Umm Al-Jimāl 3.0
- Wadi Al-Hitan 3.0
- Horyu-ji Area 3.0
- Saint Catherine Area 2.0
- Lenggong Valley 2.0
- Australian Convict Sites 2.0
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 2.0
- Miguasha National Park 2.0
- Santa Cruz de Mompox 2.0
- Sítio Roberto Burle Marx 2.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- Via Appia 2.0
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2.0
- Independence Hall 2.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 2.0
- Villa d'Este 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Pienza 2.0
- Church of Atlántida 2.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.0
- The Prosecco Hills 2.0
- Val d'Orcia 2.0
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Chan Chan 2.0
- Fujisan 2.0
- Grand Pré 2.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.0
- Troy 2.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 2.0
- Camino Real 2.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.0
- Abu Mena 2.0
- Tequila 2.0
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.0
- Querétaro 2.0
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.0
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.0
- Yogyakarta 2.0
- ESMA Site Museum 2.0
- Tak'alik Ab'aj 2.0
- Cahokia Mounds 2.0
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 2.0
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.0
- L'Anse aux Meadows 2.0
- Sangiran Early Man Site 2.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.0
- Trogir 1.0
- Colonia del Sacramento 1.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.0
- Valongo Wharf 1.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 1.0
- Coffee Cultural Landscape 1.0
- As-Salt 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Ancient City of Kaunos
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Central Park
- Classical Karst
- Fuzina Hills in Bohinj
- Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo
- Kekova
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain
- Sarajevo
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
- Church of Santa Prisca and its Surroundings
- Region Lacan-Tún - Usumacinta
- Chachapoyas sites of the Utcubamba Valley
- Wineries and Vineyards for traditional Pisco Produ
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve
- The Coastal Lomas System of Peru
- Kornati National Park and Telašćica Nature Park
- The Mayan-Olmecan Encounter
- Town of Chichicastenango
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- National Theater of Guatemala
- Kebun Raya Bogor
- Transatlantic Cable Ensemble
- Los Petenes-Ría Celestún
- Puente de Occidente (Western Bridge)
- Amazonia Theaters
- The architectural legacy of Rogelio Salmona
- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
- Seaflower Marine Protected Area
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Villas of the Papal Nobility
- The Marble Basin of Carrara
- The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio
- Dahshour
- Abydos
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Egyptian Museum
- Alexandria
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Aqaba Marine Reserve
- Ancient Kamakura
- Hikone-Jo
- City of Tigre and its rowing clubs
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Álvaro Siza's Architecture
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Bird Migration Routes
- Baltic Klint
- Old Town of Jakarta
- China-Egypt hydrological sites
- Dardanelles and Gallipoli Battle Zones
- The Padang Civic Ensemble
- The monasteries of the Arab Desert and Wadi Natrun
- Ellis Island
- Azraq
- Palais de la Culture, Rio de Janeiro
- Canal del Dique - Dike Canal
- University City of Bogotá
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Catholic Doctrine Temples
- South of Ricaurte Province
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum
- Oasis of Fayoum
- Via Francigena
- City of Trujillo
- The Historic Centre of Cajamarca
- Nasca Aqueducts
- Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble
- El Fayoum
- Peruvian Central Railway
- Gebel Qatrani Area, Lake Qaroun
- Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento
- Anavilhanas Ecological Station
- Dahab
- Route of the Franciscan Evangelisation
- Route of the to Dominique Evangelisation
- Route of the Peace and National Identity
- Castle of San Felipe de Lara
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Lake Atitlán
- Panamá City
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá
- Sistema Ferrocarril Pte. Carlos Antonio Lopez
- La Rambla de la Cité de Montevideo
- Modern Architecture of Montevideo
- Quartier de Peñarol
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Reviews by Frédéric M


Ujung Kulon National Park (Inscribed)
Ujung Kulon National Park
Determining how to visit Ujung Kulon was the most complex part of planning my trip to Indonesia in February 2023. In the weeks leading up to my departure, I contacted …

Church of Atlántida (Inscribed)
Church of Atlántida
I visited the Iglesia Parroquia de Cristo Obrero y Nuestra Señora de Lourdes in Atlántida in March 2022. As described by previous reviewers, I took a bus from Montevideo going …

Fray Bentos (Inscribed)
Fray Bentos
I visited Fray Bentos in March 2022. It is a unique site among the world heritage properties. Indeed, it is a slaughterhouse and an industrial complex derived from the processing …

Quebrada de Humahuaca (Inscribed)
Quebrada de Humahuaca
I visited Quebrada de Humahuaca in March 2022 after almost seven weeks in Argentina. Already in 2008, Els was surprised to write the very first review of this site, which …

Los Alerces National Park (Inscribed)
Los Alerces National Park
I visited the Parque Nacional Los Alerces during my trip to Argentina in February-March 2022. Unlike Nan, since I was visiting in high season, access to the park was relatively …

Quirigua (Inscribed)
Quirigua
I visited Quirigua during my trip to Guatemala in November and December 2021. I visited the site on my way from the town of Chiquimula (base for visiting Copán) …

Copán (Inscribed)
Copán
I visited Copán during my trip to Guatemala in November and December 2021. I had opted for the town of Chiquimula as my base for visiting the site. Buses serve …

Chankillo Archaeoastronomical… (Inscribed)
Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex
I visited Chankillo in February 2020. Although my visit was very similar to Lauren's, I believe this site deserves more than a single review. Like Lauren, I visited the site …

Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi (Inscribed)
Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
I visited Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park on a roadtrip through southern Alberta in August 2021. In our itinerary, it was sandwiched between Dinosaur Provincial Park and Waterton Lakes National Park. …

Caral-Supe (Inscribed)
Caral-Supe
I visited the archaeological site of Caral-Supe in March 2020 during my trip to Peru. I left the town of Huaraz (hotspot for the Huascaran and Chavin WHS) in the …

Castle of San Felipe de Lara (On tentative list)
Castle of San Felipe de Lara
I visited El Castillo de San Felipe in December 2021 during my trip to Central America. I spent three nights in Rio Dulce, rather than the two I had originally …

Villa d'Este (Inscribed)
Villa d'Este
In June 2018, after visiting Villa Adriana and Villa Gregoriana and enjoying pasta on a terrace in the centre of Tivoli, I now had to explore the gardens of Villa …

The Aniene valley and Villa G… (On tentative list)
The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
After surveying the remains of Villa Adriana on a Monday morning in 2018, I took the bus to the centre of Tivoli. From there I walked to the entrance of …

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) (Inscribed)
Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
I visited the three villas in Tivoli on a Monday in June 2018. The planning for this day was done the day before with the help of my hostel receptionist. …

Cathedral of St. James in Sib… (Inscribed)
Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
I spent three days in Šibenik in June 2018, in between my jaunts to Zadar in Split. I took the opportunity to wander through the winding streets of the town, …

Nasca Lines (Inscribed)
Nasca Lines
In mid-March 2020, a few days before the world imploded, we spent two days in Nazca. This town was squeezed between Ica and Cusco (long night bus) in my Peruvian …

Galapagos Islands (Inscribed)
Galapagos Islands
Disclaimer: this review will be very long. However, the Galápagos Islands largely deserve it. The first site inscribed on the list is an exceptional one. My expectations were immeasurable (after …

Guanajuato (Inscribed)
Guanajuato
Guanajuato is a fascinating city. I stopped there for three days during my Mexican trip in 2019. I was charmed by its eclectic architecture, narrow, steeply sloping streets and breathtaking …

Luis Barragán House and Studio (Inscribed)
Luis Barragán House and Studio
I visited Casa Luis Barragán during my stay in Mexico City in March 2019. Since my day-to-day itinerary was not planned long in advance, I only tried to buy my …