First published: Sun 28 Jul 2024.
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10 Bits Of Trivia About The Whs Of 2024
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Kyle Magnuson
11 months, 1 week ago (Jul 28, 2024)
While researching connections, I found the Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake (Russia) to be the most interesting and worthy cultural nomination. Other sites that stood out were Gedi (Kenya) and Umm Al-Jimāl (Jordan). Of the 3 sites, I will most likely visit the later in Jordan sooner or later.
I also plan to visit the Shanghai component of the Migratory Birds Sites as soon as next Summer. The Flow Country is definitely on my itinerary for my next return to Scotland.
Now that the Moravian Church Settlements includes 4 countries, I imagine the rating will go up (currently less than 2.0). Moravian Bethlehem is the 1st Historic District inscribed in the United States!
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MoPython
11 months, 1 week ago (Jul 28, 2024)
I didn't watch the live stream, but I read all the comments in the forum. That was very informative and gave me a good picture, many thanks to everyone! The only thing I was missing was a picture of the clothes of the Zambian guy - now I have that too. :-)
Khuft
11 months, 1 week ago (Jul 29, 2024)
Thank you all for summarising the session in the Forum - sadly, I wasn't able to follow the livestream this year. And thank you Els for this very thoughtful post!
Concerning Germany's efficiency in getting new sites: I think this will continue, as discussed in the Forum over the years. In Germany, this is a matter for the federal states to decide, and it has become somewhat of a competition amongst them on getting more and more sites inscribed. There's nothing the federal government can do about it (just as they couldn't do anything about Dresden refusing to stop the bridge getting built that cost them the WHL inscription) - by law they will have to continue proposing the sites that the federal states deem worthy of proposing. Coupled with the budgets German federal states are willing to spend on these, it seems likely that Germany will continue with its push.
Astraftis
11 months, 1 week ago (Jul 29, 2024)
I could watch very little, but at least I got one of the best moments: the quottion by Belgium of acques Brel in reference to the Marquesas islands! It was this year's Persian poetry, I understood :-)
The group seems rather interesting and I am surprised by how so little sites seem to have been covered by the community already. The "difficulty" looks higher than other years, no? Many sites do give me the impression of being in "marginal positions".
I am happy for the Flow Country, because this category is apparently underrepresented and I can envision more representatives joining it (maybe from the Baltic?). Also the extension of Moravian settlements seems to have made things "right". And good year for Africa, isn't it?
Favoured of the batch: Marquesas Islands
Near miss: Schwerin!
Jarek Pokrzywnicki
11 months, 1 week ago (Aug 1, 2024)
You can find some videos from Al Faw on official google map. https://www.google.com/maps/place/%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%88+%7C+Alfaw%E2%80%AD/@19.7821949,45.1484066,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x3e1df1fd72f0d823:0xad76770b8c77de04!8m2!3d19.7821949!4d45.1484066!16s%2Fg%2F11bw3cb14z?hl=pl&entry=ttu
It does not look so impressive from certain distance but if someone made those videos it means that it is accessible somehow (maybe with the help of drone ?)