Most Remote Cultural WHS

Connected Sites: 17

Cultural WHS that can only be reached on a very long day trip (3.5-4h or more one way without stops, or even needing an overnight) from a hub. A hub is a city with decent hotels and daily commercial flights/buses to a city with an international airport. See also this blog post for background.

Connected Sites

  • Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.62
    10
    2
    hub Hyderabad, 4h by car
  • Bikini Atoll
    Bikini Atoll
    Marshall Islands
    Inscribed: 2010
    0
    0
    hub Majuro, 3 days sailing from there
  • Inscribed: 2011
    2.06
    7
    0
    The hub seems to be Ölgi (with a domestic airport and 35,000 inhabitants). You’d have to stay overnight camping somewhere closer to the petroglyphs
  • Sukur
    Nigeria
    Inscribed: 1999
    0
    1
    Abuja airport is 14 hours away
  • Khinalig
    Khinalig
    Azerbaijan
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.76
    23
    2
    About 4 hours from Baku City Center (taking the many speed traps and difficult terrain into account)
  • Paquimé
    Paquimé
    Mexico
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.68
    16
    5
    The closest hub in Mexico is Chihuahua, about 4h by bus. From the US, you can drive in from El Paso or Las Cruces (3.5-4h drive, excluding the time spent at the border post).
  • Inscribed: 2017
    3.48
    1
    0
    6 hours by car from Luanda
  • Twyfelfontein
    Inscribed: 2007
    3.35
    74
    5
    About 6h drive from Windhoek
  • Tsodilo
    Tsodilo
    Botswana
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.08
    20
    11
    There's a minor hub at Shakawe, 40km away. But Shakawe itself requires a 6h ride on a basic bus to get to Maun.
  • The Royal Court of Tiébélé
    Inscribed: 2024
    3.32
    7
    2
    hub Ouagadougou, full day trip (~4 hours each way)
  • SGang Gwaay
    Inscribed: 1981
    2.90
    8
    4
    hub Vancouver, requires a flight to Sandspit and at least taking part in a 2-day boat tour to get to the right island
  • Serra da Capivara
    Inscribed: 1991
    3.11
    12
    6
    There's a minor hub at Sao Raimundo Nonato with hotels, but its airport is not in operation and a real city is a 5h drive away
  • hub Petrozavodsk, “then 370 km by rented car via surprisingly good road to Belomorsk.”
  • Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.48
    11
    1
    hub Ulaan Bator, needs spending the night at a ger camp nearby
  • Dholavira: A Harappan City
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.85
    13
    2
    hub Bhuj, about 4h by car
  • Inscribed: 2024
    2.90
    5
    2
    hub Arkhangelsk and still a 470 km ride by rail/car
  • Minaret of Jam
    Minaret of Jam
    Afghanistan
    Inscribed: 2002
    3.91
    7
    1
    hub Herat or Bamyan, both taking some 13 hours to reach