The Litomysl Castle is on my penultimate day of Czechia WHS circuit. I am not going to add much to the comments already posted except for my experience, or lack …
Ludvan
United States of America \ Member since August 2018
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I am a serial WHS hunter, and targeting another 85 WHS to reach 500 traveled. At each site, I will do my best to 1) Study the history and significance of the site before I go, 2) Join a guide tour and/or visit the museum, 3) take photos, including if possible, the shot on the UNESCO website, and the UNESCO designation plaque or sign.
I try to balance between WHS-rich areas such as Western Europe where i can cover 10-15 on a trip, and the remote, eg, Easter Island where travel cost and time are quite significant for a single site.
My most impressive site: Gobekil Tepe
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Acropolis
- Agra Fort
- Agrigento
- Ajanta Caves
- Alto Douro
- Amphitheater of El Jem
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Merv
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Thebes
- Angkor
- Antigua Guatemala
- Aphrodisias
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Arequipa
- Arles
- As-Salt
- Assisi
- Avignon
- Avila
- Ayutthaya
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Bali Subak system
- Bamberg
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Battir
- Bauhaus Sites
- Belem
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Bethlehem
- Blenheim Palace
- Bom Jesus do Monte
- Bordeaux
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Boyana Church
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Bukhara
- Bursa and Cumalikizik
- Campeche
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Canal du Midi
- Canterbury
- Cape Floral Region
- Caral-Supe
- Carthage
- Castel del Monte
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Çatalhöyük
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chaco Culture
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
- Chichen-Itza
- China Danxia
- Choirokoitia
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
- Cienfuegos
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Classical Weimar
- Cologne Cathedral
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Copán
- Corfu
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Cuzco
- Danube Limes
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Dazu Rock Carvings
- Dengfeng
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Divrigi
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
- Elephanta Caves
- El Escurial
- Ellora Caves
- Elvas
- Ephesus
- Epidaurus
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Everglades
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Ferrara
- Florence
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Fossil Hominid Sites
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Fujian Tulou
- Galapagos Islands
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gelati Monastery
- Göbekli Tepe
- Gobustan Rock Art
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia
- Granada
- Grand Canal
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Grand Pré
- Graz
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Great Wall
- Gros Morne National Park
- Guimarães
- Haghpat and Sanahin
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Hattusha
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Historic Cairo
- Historic Jeddah
- Hoi An
- Huanglong
- Hué
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
- Imperial Palace
- Imperial Tombs
- Independence Hall
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Istanbul
- Itchan Kala
- Jantar Mantar
- Jiuzhaigou Valley
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs
- Kaiping Diaolou
- Kairouan
- Kandy
- Kenya Lake System
- Kerkuane
- Kew Gardens
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Kinabalu Park
- Kinderdijk
- Kotor
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Kulangsu
- Kunya-Urgench
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Las Medulas
- Levuka
- Lima
- Loire Valley
- Longmen Grottoes
- Los Glaciares
- Luang Prabang
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Luther Memorials
- Macao
- Machu Picchu
- Mafra
- Mammoth Cave
- Margravial Opera House
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masada
- Matera
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Medina of Essaouira
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Sousse
- Medina of Tunis
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Melaka and George Town
- Mesa Verde
- Messel Pit
- Meteora
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Mistaken Point
- Modena
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monastery of Geghard
- Monticello
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Mostar
- Mountain Resort, Chengde
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Mount Etna
- Mount Kenya
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan
- Mount Wuyi
- Mtskheta
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- My Son
- Mystras
- Namib Sand Sea
- Naples
- Nasca Lines
- Nemrut Dag
- Ngorongoro
- Nice
- Nisa
- Novgorod
- Novodevichy Convent
- Nubian Monuments
- Ohrid Region
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Havana
- Old Town Lunenburg
- Old Town of Lijiang
- Olympia
- Oporto
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palenque
- Paphos
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Peking Man Site
- Pergamon
- Petra
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Ping Yao
- Plain of Jars
- Plitvice Lakes
- Pompei
- Pont du Gard
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potala Palace
- Potsdam
- Prague
- Puebla
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Quanzhou
- Québec
- Quedlinburg
- Quito
- Rabat
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Rapa Nui
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
- Red Fort
- Regensburg
- Reichenau
- Rila Monastery
- Robben Island
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Rome
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- Safranbolu
- Saint-Emilion
- Salamanca
- Salzburg
- Samarkand
- San Antonio Missions
- Sangay National Park
- San Gimignano
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Selimiye Mosque
- Semmering Railway
- Serengeti
- Seville
- Shakhrisyabz
- Sheki
- Siena
- Sigiriya
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Sintra
- Skogskyrkogarden
- South China Karst
- Speyer Cathedral
- Split
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Statue of Liberty
- Stonehenge
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- St. Petersburg
- Sukhothai
- Summer Palace
- Sydney Opera House
- Syracuse
- Taj Mahal
- Taos Pueblo
- Temple of Heaven
- Teotihuacan
- Thang Long
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- Thessalonika
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thingvellir
- Toledo
- Tower of Hercules
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trang An
- Trier
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Troy
- Twyfelfontein
- Um er-Rasas
- University of Coimbra
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Uxmal
- Val di Noto
- Valletta
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Vatnajökull National Park
- Vat Phou
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Victoria Falls
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai
- Vienna
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Viñales Valley
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Volubilis
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadi Rum
- Walled City of Baku
- Wartburg Castle
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- Western Tien-Shan
- West Lake
- Westminster
- West Norwegian Fjords
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
- Wulingyuan
- Würzburg Residence
- Xanthos-Letoon
- Xochicalco
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite National Park
- Yungang Grottoes
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- Great Barrier Reef 4.21
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- Ravenna 4.15
- Okavango Delta 4.15
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About Ludvan
- Member since
- August 2018
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
Visits
- Rank
- #79
- WHS
- 441
- Tentative Sites
- 83
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 8
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Sanchi 5.0
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments 5.0
- Mafra 5.0
- Monastery of Batalha 5.0
- Keoladeo National Park 5.0
- Plain of Jars 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 5.0
- Avila 5.0
- Kenya Lake System 5.0
- Santiago de Compostela 5.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 5.0
- Potala Palace 5.0
- Ellora Caves 5.0
- Wulingyuan 5.0
- Victoria Falls 5.0
- Chaco Culture 4.5
- Göbekli Tepe 4.5
- Segovia 4.5
- Salamanca 4.5
- Namib Sand Sea 4.0
- Mount Kenya 4.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 4.0
- Evora 4.0
- Las Medulas 4.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- University of Coimbra 4.0
- Ancient Merv 4.0
- As-Salt 4.0
- Hattusha 4.0
- Troy 4.0
- Çatalhöyük 4.0
- Dazu Rock Carvings 4.0
- Caral-Supe 4.0
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 4.0
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 4.0
- Fatehpur Sikri 4.0
- Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka 4.0
- Kaiping Diaolou 4.0
- Ajanta Caves 4.0
- Huanglong 4.0
- Teotihuacan 4.0
- Fontainebleau 4.0
- Morelia 4.0
- Shakhrisyabz 3.5
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.5
- Gros Morne National Park 3.5
- L'Anse aux Meadows 3.5
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo 3.5
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 3.5
- Levuka 3.5
- Qutb Minar 3.5
- Thessalonika 3.5
- Kerkuane 3.5
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios 3.5
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 3.5
- Viñales Valley 3.5
- Quanzhou 3.5
- Mistaken Point 3.5
- Elvas 3.5
- Mountain Resort, Chengde 3.5
- Old Havana 3.5
- Warsaw 3.0
- Divrigi 3.0
- Fujian Tulou 3.0
- Pergamon 3.0
- Xanthos-Letoon 3.0
- Mount Wuyi 3.0
- Nisa 3.0
- Vat Phou 3.0
- China Danxia 3.0
- Chiribiquete National Park 3.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 3.0
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.0
- Novgorod 3.0
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Kulangsu 3.0
- Robben Island 3.0
- Tower of Hercules 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Kunya-Urgench 3.0
- Jiuzhaigou Valley 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 3.0
- Cienfuegos 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 2.5
- Sheki 2.5
- Guimarães 2.5
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 2.5
- Alto Douro 2.5
- Taos Pueblo 2.5
- Humayun's Tomb 2.5
- Temple of Heaven 2.5
- Twyfelfontein 2.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5
- Safranbolu 2.5
- Fossil Hominid Sites 2.0
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley 2.0
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 2.0
- Western Tien-Shan 2.0
- Historic Jeddah 2.0
- Holasovice 2.0
- Peking Man Site 1.5
- Kuldiga 1.5
- Litomysl Castle 1.0
- West Lake 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Sarajevo
- The Maasai Mara
- Thingvellir National Park
- Tbilisi Historic District
- Sanxingdui
- Plovdiv
- Etosha Pan
- Le complexe hydraulique romain de Zaghouan-Carthag
- Harran and Sanliurfa
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Rural Temples of Cusco
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
- Chinese Section of the Silk Road
- Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization
- Satpura Tiger Reserve
- 111 15
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Reviews by Ludvan


Teotihuacan (Inscribed)
Teotihuacan
I went there today for the third time, and finally was able to see the Temple of the Feathered Serpent. You have to go through Gate 1, instead of 4 …

Warsaw (Inscribed)
Warsaw
Warsaw Old Town was razed by the Nazis in 1944, so the WHS designation was awarded for the restoration effort that is still ongoing. As such, we had to view …

Taos Pueblo (Inscribed)
Taos Pueblo
We just did a trip visiting all three Pueblo WHS in the Four-Corners area: Mesa Verde, Chaco Culture and lastly Taos Pueblo as a theme. The first two are managed …

Hallstatt-Dachstein (Inscribed)
Hallstatt-Dachstein
Hallstatt is a beautiful little town, and attracts lots and lots of tourists. We drove in from Salzburg through vary mountainous roads and some mistakes of the GPS. Once in …

Fujian Tulou (Inscribed)
Fujian Tulou
I visited Fujian Tulou in 2005, when there was only limited road access for tourists. It is important to note that these villages are defensive in nature for the Hakka …

West Lake (Inscribed)
West Lake
I have been to West Lake several times, both before and after major clean-up and reconstruction. As one of the famous sites in China's history, it is incredibly crowded year …

Huanglong (Inscribed)
Huanglong
This beautiful site is a must if you visit Jiuzhaigou, a more famous site nearby in the Himalaya foothills in Sichuan Province, China. It is quite a climb, from about …