Possibly because I was primed for an underwhelming experience for my first 'early hominid' fossil site WHS, I actually quite enjoyed my daytrip from Yogyakarta to Sangiran. The museum exhibits …
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World Heritage Sites
- Hawaii Volcanoes 5.0
- Aachen Cathedral 5.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 5.0
- Great Wall 5.0
- Imperial Palace 5.0
- Ningaloo Coast 5.0
- Fraser Island 5.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- Luang Prabang 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Bagan 5.0
- Preah Vihear Temple 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Versailles 5.0
- Granada 5.0
- Wadi Rum 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Edinburgh 5.0
- Historic Cairo 5.0
- Segovia 5.0
- Ujung Kulon National Park 5.0
- Taj Mahal 5.0
- Nubian Monuments 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- Komodo National Park 5.0
- Meteora 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan 5.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 5.0
- Kathmandu Valley 5.0
- Cuzco 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Uluru 5.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 5.0
- Assisi 5.0
- Prague 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Tasmanian Wilderness 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4.0
- Agra Fort 4.0
- Humayun's Tomb 4.0
- Old Havana 4.0
- Summer Palace 4.0
- Ping Yao 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Pompei 4.0
- Florence 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Pont du Gard 4.0
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4.0
- Genbaku Dome 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Ancient Kyoto 4.0
- Persepolis 4.0
- Tchogha Zanbil 4.0
- Aphrodisias 4.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 4.0
- Kotor 4.0
- Mount Athos 4.0
- Borobudur 4.0
- Prambanan 4.0
- Vat Phou 4.0
- Avila 4.0
- Kew Gardens 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Plain of Jars 4.0
- Shark Bay 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Valletta 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Split 4.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Gaya Tumuli 4.0
- Gyeongju 4.0
- Jeju 4.0
- Albi 3.0
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3.0
- Australian Convict Sites 3.0
- Bellinzone 3.0
- Cienfuegos 3.0
- Ancient Nara 3.0
- Acropolis 3.0
- Gondwana Rainforests 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Brugge 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Hué 3.0
- Bethlehem 3.0
- Kii Mountain Range 3.0
- Old City of Acre 3.0
- Um er-Rasas 3.0
- Imperial Tombs 3.0
- Namhansanseong 3.0
- Masada 3.0
- My Son 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 3.0
- Hoi An 3.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 3.0
- Al Ain 3.0
- Golestan Palace 3.0
- Persian Garden 3.0
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios 3.0
- Masjed-e Jâme' 3.0
- Bam Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Valparaiso 3.0
- Pasargadae 3.0
- Yogyakarta 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Shushtar 3.0
- Willandra Lakes 3.0
- Bisotun 3.0
- Soltaniyeh 3.0
- Takht-e Soleyman 3.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.0
- Armenian Monastic Ensembles 3.0
- The Persian Qanat 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Lut Desert 3.0
- Yazd 3.0
- Royal Joseon Tombs 3.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.0
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.0
- Selimiye Mosque 3.0
- Mostar 3.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.0
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.0
- Pyu Ancient Cities 3.0
- Potosi 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.0
- Butrint 3.0
- Chitwan National Park 3.0
- Thessalonika 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.0
- Qutb Minar 3.0
- Oporto 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Fatehpur Sikri 3.0
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 3.0
- Tomioka Silk Mill 3.0
- Alto Douro 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Salamanca 3.0
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 3.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.0
- Monastery of Batalha 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Ephesus 3.0
- Nikko 3.0
- Avignon 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Jantar Mantar 3.0
- Cuenca 3.0
- Alcala de Henares 3.0
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 3.0
- Haeinsa Temple 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.0
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.0
- Sangiran Early Man Site 2.5
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2.0
- Royal Exhibition Building 2.0
- Melaka and George Town 2.0
- Sucre 2.0
- Lumbini 2.0
- Fujisan 2.0
- Ancient Jericho 2.0
- Horyu-ji Area 2.0
- Persian Caravanserai 2.0
- Susa 2.0
- Tabriz Bazaar 2.0
- Trogir 2.0
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 2.0
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 2.0
- Durmitor National Park 2.0
- Red Fort 2.0
- Guimarães 2.0
- Aranjuez 2.0
- El Escurial 2.0
- Baekje Historic Areas 2.0
- Sintra 2.0
- Hahoe and Yangdong 2.0
- Te Wahipounamu 2.0
- Quseir Amra 2.0
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.0
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 2.0
- Delos 2.0
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 2.0
- Semmering Railway 2.0
- Kutna Hora 2.0
- Kraków 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 2.0
- Major Town Houses 2.0
- Flemish Béguinages 2.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.0
- Jongmyo Shrine 1.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 1.0
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town 1.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 1.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 1.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 1.0
- Canal du Midi 1.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.0
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 1.0
- Al Zubarah 1.0
- Stoclet House 0.5
- Sydney Opera House 0.5
- Trans-Iranian Railway 0.5
- Maymand 0.5
- Bahá’i Holy Places 0.5
- Battir 0.5
- Le Havre 0.5
- As-Salt 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Tashkent Modernist Architecture
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Flinders Ranges
- El-Bariyah: wilderness with monasteries
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Dahshour
- Hisham's Palace/ Khirbet al-Mafjar
- Petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream
- Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm
- Tashkent makhallas
- Álvaro Siza’s Architecture
- Khor Dubai
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II
- Andijon
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Coastal Cliffs
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States
- Pella
- 244 19
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Reviews by Alexander Parsons


Komodo National Park (Inscribed)
Komodo National Park
Rather than as a day trip from Labuanbajo, I visited Komodo National Park over the third and fourth days of a four-day boat trip from Lombok to Flores. While I …

Venetian Works of Defence (Inscribed)
Venetian Works of Defence
The Fortress of St Nicholas outside Sibenik in Croatia is probably the most decrepit WHS I have visited. Not in the sense of simply being a ruin, but in that …

Mount Athos (Inscribed)
Mount Athos
I visited Mount Athos in November 2017, staying three nights. While I certainly enjoyed my visit, it is also something of a cautionary tale, as I definitely did not get …

Tchogha Zanbil (Inscribed)
Tchogha Zanbil
I visited Tchogha Zanbil (as well as the other nearby WHS) on a long day trip from Ahwaz, between two overnight bus trips. This is not a recommended way to …

Maymand (Inscribed)
Maymand
My visit to Maymand was a bizarre experience that is unlikely to be replicated by others, so my review should not be taken to be especially representative of the typical …

Bam Cultural Landscape (Inscribed)
Bam Cultural Landscape
The curious thing with the Arg-e Bam is that I feel it was inscribed precisely in response to the loss of any potential Outstanding Universal Value it may have had. …

Masjed-e Jâme' (Inscribed)
Masjed-e Jâme'
On first viewing as I approached, the mosque was honestly underwhelming. I had read about the wondrous nature of its dome, and so was naively expecting a dazzling tiled beauty. …

Meidan Emam, Esfahan (Inscribed)
Meidan Emam, Esfahan
The fact that the Meidan Emam was inscribed so early in the life of World Heritage is hardly a surprise; this square is the darling of the Iranian tourism industry, …

Golestan Palace (Inscribed)
Golestan Palace
My visit to the Golestan Palace got off to a bit of a rocky start. It was 15 minutes after 'opening' time, and while there was already a line of …

The Architectural Work of Le … (Inscribed)
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
I wasn't going to review this tentative site, because I find modern buildings like this tedious (which doesn't especially make for a worthwhile review), until I read the review by …

Sites of Japan's Meiji Indust… (Inscribed)
Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
I had intended on ticking off this site by visiting Hashima Island, as it seemed by far the most unique and interesting component. However, I discovered about a month before …

Pyu Ancient Cities (Inscribed)
Pyu Ancient Cities
While in Mandalay in December 2013, I felt compelled to visit the remote archaeological site of Halin, as it seems likely to be Myanmar's first inscribed site during the convention …