On my first visit to Portugal two decades ago, Bom Jesus do Monte was one of the destinations I planned to see, but I had to cut Bragas from the …
Frederik Dawson
Netherlands \ Member since June 2006
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My most impressive site: Rapa Nui, Yellowstone
My proposal for a new site: Royal palaces and temples in Bangkok / Engineering Feats of Niagara Falls / Panama Canal / Haussmann's Paris
Recent Visits
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10May 19, 2025Nan Madol
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10April 21, 2025Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
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50March 7, 2025Bryggen, Rjukan / Notodden, Røros, Urnes Stave Church, West Norwegian Fjords
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About Frederik Dawson
- Member since
- June 2006
- Country of Origin
- Netherlands
Visits
- Rank
- #60
- WHS
- 491
- Tentative Sites
- 107
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 250
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Gunung Mulu 5.0
- Teotihuacan 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Te Wahipounamu 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Ellora Caves 4.5
- Imperial Palace 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Grand Canyon 4.5
- Rock Islands 4.5
- Glacier parks 4.5
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.5
- Dolomites 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Machu Picchu 4.5
- Borobudur 4.5
- Prambanan 4.5
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.5
- Uxmal 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Nasca Lines 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Bukhara 4.5
- Samarkand 4.5
- Siena 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.5
- Sukhothai 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Wulingyuan 4.5
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Mesa Verde 4.5
- Chichen-Itza 4.5
- Redwood 4.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.5
- Ajanta Caves 4.5
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Old Town of Lijiang 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Ping Yao 4.0
- Polonnaruva 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Bauhaus Sites 4.0
- Historic Cairo 4.0
- Churches of Peace 4.0
- Tugendhat Villa 4.0
- Cesky Krumlov 4.0
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 4.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Sigiriya 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.0
- South China Karst 4.0
- Summer Palace 4.0
- Hué 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Temple of Heaven 4.0
- Lake District 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4.0
- Itchan Kala 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Ayutthaya 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Koh Ker 4.0
- Kinabalu Park 4.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.0
- Grand Canal 4.0
- Lyon 4.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Chan Chan 4.0
- Cuzco 4.0
- Great Wall 4.0
- Sambor Prei Kuk 4.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.0
- Chaco Culture 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Taos Pueblo 4.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 4.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 4.0
- Major Town Houses 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Longmen Grottoes 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Vézère Valley 4.0
- Plain of Jars 4.0
- Fatehpur Sikri 4.0
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.0
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.0
- Taj Mahal 4.0
- Dazu Rock Carvings 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Bali Subak system 4.0
- Ujung Kulon National Park 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.5
- Puebla 3.5
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra 3.5
- Tongariro National Park 3.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5
- West Lake 3.5
- Visby 3.5
- Anuradhapura 3.5
- Yungang Grottoes 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Albi 3.5
- Bellinzone 3.5
- Nan Madol 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.5
- Bourges Cathedral 3.5
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Causses and Cévennes 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Urnes Stave Church 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Salamanca 3.5
- Stonehenge 3.5
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3.5
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Avila 3.5
- Fontainebleau 3.5
- Corfu 3.5
- Nancy 3.5
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5
- Mystras 3.5
- Yakushima 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5
- Forest Research Institute Malaysia 3.5
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 3.5
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.5
- Salzburg 3.5
- Alto Douro 3.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.5
- Fujisan 3.5
- Genbaku Dome 3.5
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5
- Himeji-jo 3.5
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5
- Kii Mountain Range 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Olympic National Park 3.5
- Preah Vihear Temple 3.5
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 3.5
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 3.5
- Hoi An 3.5
- My Son 3.5
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang 3.5
- Yogyakarta 3.5
- Trang An 3.5
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.5
- Western Tien-Shan 3.5
- Dong Phayayen - Khao Yai 3.5
- China Danxia 3.5
- Quito 3.5
- Everglades 3.5
- Valparaiso 3.5
- Arequipa 3.5
- Manu National Park 3.5
- Mammoth Cave 3.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5
- Statue of Liberty 3.5
- Genoa 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Sydney Opera House 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5
- Agra Fort 3.5
- Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Western Ghats 3.5
- Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto 3.5
- City of Luxembourg 3.5
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5
- Mount Wutai 3.5
- Kinderdijk 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Van Nellefabriek 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Bahla Fort 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Tubbataha Reefs 3.5
- Belem 3.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5
- Monastery of Batalha 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Aachen Cathedral 3.5
- Bamberg 3.5
- Lübeck 3.5
- Luther Memorials 3.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- Trier 3.5
- Cambodian Memorial Sites 3.0
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Semmering Railway 3.0
- Pearling 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3.0
- Imperial Tombs 3.0
- Kaiping Diaolou 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Champagne 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Saint-Emilion 3.0
- Gyeongju 3.0
- Haeinsa Temple 3.0
- Hahoe and Yangdong 3.0
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.0
- Horyu-ji Area 3.0
- Shiretoko 3.0
- Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 3.0
- Sangay National Park 3.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 3.0
- Huascaran National Park 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.0
- Elephanta Caves 3.0
- Jantar Mantar 3.0
- Qutb Minar 3.0
- Pannonhalma 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Stralsund and Wismar 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Camino Real 3.0
- Sian Ka'an 3.0
- Drottningholm 3.0
- Southern Öland 3.0
- Central Highlands 3.0
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3.0
- Old Town of Galle 3.0
- Sinharaja Forest 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Old City of Berne 3.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Studley Royal Park 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Ban Chiang 3.0
- Novgorod 3.0
- Novodevichy Convent 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 3.0
- Luang Prabang 3.0
- Jeju 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Litomysl Castle 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Pimachiowin Aki 3.0
- Cuenca 3.0
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3.0
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 3.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Hawaii Volcanoes 3.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 3.0
- Amami-Oshima Island 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Kaeng Krachan Forest 3.0
- Wadden Sea 3.0
- Burgundy 3.0
- Vézelay 3.0
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 3.0
- Darien National Park 3.0
- Willemstad 3.0
- Guanacaste 3.0
- León Cathedral 3.0
- Joya de Ceren 3.0
- Gaya Tumuli 3.0
- Si Thep 3.0
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 3.0
- Cold winter deserts of Turan 3.0
- Paphos 3.0
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.0
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.0
- Niah Caves 3.0
- Beijing Central Axis 3.0
- Phu Phrabat 3.0
- Epidaurus 3.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.0
- Røros 3.0
- Bryggen 3.0
- Evora 2.5
- Surtsey 2.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5
- San Antonio Missions 2.5
- Kronborg Castle 2.5
- Cahokia Mounds 2.5
- Panamá 2.5
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves 2.5
- Stone Spheres of the Diquís 2.5
- Ruins of León Viejo 2.5
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 2.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 2.5
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 2.5
- Vat Phou 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- The Four Lifts 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Shakhrisyabz 2.5
- Thang Long 2.5
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.5
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.5
- Kandy 2.5
- Yaroslavl 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Longobards in Italy 2.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5
- Zollverein 2.5
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5
- Choirokoitia 2.5
- Hiraizumi 2.5
- Mafra 2.5
- Cologne Cathedral 2.5
- Royal Joseon Tombs 2.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5
- Classical Weimar 2.5
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5
- Jongmyo Shrine 2.5
- Kutna Hora 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Völklingen Ironworks 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.5
- Guimarães 2.5
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 2.5
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 2.5
- Telc 2.5
- Monastery of Alcobaça 2.5
- Baekje Historic Areas 2.5
- Ivrea 2.5
- Rjukan / Notodden 2.5
- Baroque Churches 2.5
- Aflaj irrigation system 2.5
- Namhansanseong 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Red Fort 2.5
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.5
- Aranjuez 2.5
- Papahanaumokuakea 2.5
- Butrint 2.5
- Keoladeo National Park 2.5
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Via Appia 2.5
- Thingvellir 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 2.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.0
- Trebic 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.0
- Tusi Sites 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Heritage of Mercury 2.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 2.0
- New Lanark 2.0
- Par force hunting landscape 2.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 2.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 2.0
- Karlskrona 2.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.0
- Rhaetian Railway 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Dilmun Burial Mounds 2.0
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 2.0
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- Okinoshima Island 2.0
- The Prosecco Hills 2.0
- Holy Trinity Column 2.0
- Poverty Point 2.0
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2.0
- Australian Convict Sites 2.0
- Corvey 2.0
- Lenggong Valley 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- Shirakami-Sanchi 2.0
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 2.0
- Holasovice 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Lower German Limes 2.0
- Danube Limes 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Stevns Klint 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.5
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 1.5
- Royal Exhibition Building 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5
- Schokland 1.0
Tentative Sites
- 491 2
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Reviews by Frederik Dawson


Viking Age Ring Fortresses (Inscribed)
Viking Age Ring Fortresses
I visited two of five inscribed Viking Ring Fortresses, the unknown Borgring and the famous Trelleborg on my short trip to Denmark. On the way from Copenhagen to Stevn Klint, …

Ruins of León Viejo (Inscribed)
Ruins of León Viejo
I had a full day tour from Managua to visit two Nicaraguan World Heritage Sites, the two Leon. After breakfast, a driver picked me up from the hotel to Leon …

Rideau Canal (Inscribed)
Rideau Canal
My original plan on Rideau Canal was just to see its famous locks at Ottawa’s city center but turned out I saw many parts of the canal from Ottawa to …

León Cathedral (Inscribed)
León Cathedral
I had a full day tour from Managua to visit two Nicaraguan World Heritage Sites, the two Leon. After ending the morning tour in Leon Viejo at 10 AM, my …

Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academi… (Inscribed)
Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies
Back in 2018 because of the unbelievable expressway exit payment booth problem, I missed opportunity to visit Donam Seowon in Nonsan, five years later I returned to South Korea and …

Koh Ker (Inscribed)
Koh Ker
Originally not part of Dvaravati and Pre-Angkorian Arts trip arranged by ICOMOS I participated with. On the free day in Siem Reap, the separate excursion to Koh Ker had been …

Phnom Kulen (On tentative list)
Phnom Kulen
One of the things I got from my two weeks trip to explore pre-Angkorian and Dvaravati arts with ICOMOS international experts in Cambodia and Thailand is the problem of drafting …

Si Thep (Inscribed)
Si Thep
I was fortunate to join ICOMOS international experts two weeks field trip to Cambodia and Thailand exploring pre-Angkorian and Dvaravati arts and this trip took me to Dvaravati Si Thep, …

Sambor Prei Kuk (Inscribed)
Sambor Prei Kuk
I was fortunate to join ICOMOS international experts two weeks field trip to Cambodia and Thailand exploring pre-Angkorian and Dvaravati arts and Sambor Prei Kuk was one of the many …

Vézelay (Inscribed)
Vézelay
The first thing we encountered at Vezelay was the long queue at parking meter, foreigners seemed to have problem with it and locals seemed to be happy with the situation. …

Burgundy (Inscribed)
Burgundy
With great amazement, despite many trips to Cote d’Or with my family, I sadly found out that our favorite vineyards are outside UNESCO designated zone, and apart from having lunch …

Jelling (Inscribed)
Jelling
After reading many reviews in this community, we felt less interest to visit and really had no expectation from Jelling Site but to be able to complete all World Heritage …

Skocjan Caves (Inscribed)
Skocjan Caves
I visited Skocjan Cave in 2019, it was my favorite site in Slovenia but decided to wait and not to write a review until the decision of “Classical Karst” by …

Baekje Historic Areas (Inscribed)
Baekje Historic Areas
After four days of great joy in southwestern South Korea seeing many interesting sites, my friends and I drove back from Jeonju to Seoul in early morning with a plan …

Chichen-Itza (Inscribed)
Chichen-Itza
Originally, I planned to visit this world-famous site two times in two days, first day in the evening and next day early morning in order to avoid the hoard of …

Modena (Inscribed)
Modena
To be honest my experience was tainted with my personal negative view toward this World Heritage Site, another Italian Romanesque cathedral in another Italian old beautiful renaissance city, everything seemed …

Dilmun Burial Mounds (Inscribed)
Dilmun Burial Mounds
I visited Dilmun Burial Mounds before UNESCO recognized its status. This World Heritage site was part of my private half day tour around Bahrain. Actually, It was not a part …

Hawaii Volcanoes (Inscribed)
Hawaii Volcanoes
Late Autumn 2019 my friends unexpectedly canceled our group’s anticipated road trip from Halifax to Ottawa, Canada and changed to Hawaii instead with dubious reason that they wanted surf, sun …

Rock Islands (Inscribed)
Rock Islands
I was fortunate to finish my business trip in Taiwan few days before the pandemic reached this nation and the rest of Asia. During my time in Taiwan, I decided …