As a quick stopover between other destinations in the Yucatan, Campeche feels like a quiet, safe provincial city but as a WHS destination, Campeche is relatively uninspiring. As previously mentioned, …
Ammon Watkins
Member since November 2018
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Air traffic controller from Canada. Spent the better part of my 20's traveling around the world after finishing my bachelor degree. Made a friend on the road that suggested I look into the WH list if I didnt know what to visit somewhere. Excellent advice! Unfortunately got into the WHS thing a little too late to maximize my potential visits. I wont make that mistake again! Now my goal is to visit every country and as many WHS as i reasonably can and I'm rarely disappointed.
My travel experience is varied but has mostly ranged in the budget to extreme budget category which has made things very interesting at times. With a limited time and budget and to balance other interests I am more prone to skipping out on the less known natural WHS.
I still try to take holidays and visit new sites a few times a year, with an itinerary and prioritization that befuddles all, including the mrs.
Fun trivia: I proposed to my wife in the Rock Islands WHS in Palau. I married her in the Waterton/Glacier NP WHS in Canada :)
My most impressive site: So many to choose
Recent Visits
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30May 12, 2025Kernavė, Modernist Kaunas, Struve Geodetic Arc
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30May 11, 2025Białowieża Forest, Mir Castle, Nesvizh
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20May 6, 2025Leptis Magna, Sabratha
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About Ammon Watkins
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World Heritage Sites
- Palenque 5.0
- Tikal National Park 5.0
- Victoria Falls 5.0
- Bagan 5.0
- Preah Vihear Temple 5.0
- Galapagos Islands 5.0
- Olympia 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Iguacu 5.0
- Sagarmatha National Park 4.5
- Machu Picchu 4.5
- Rhodes 4.5
- Masjed-e Jâme' 4.5
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 4.5
- Calakmul 4.5
- Leptis Magna 4.5
- Mystras 4.5
- Lalibela 4.5
- Brugge 4.5
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.5
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan 4.5
- Villa Romana del Casale 4.5
- Canaima National Park 4.5
- Persepolis 4.5
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.0
- Bukhara 4.0
- Ellora Caves 4.0
- Armenian Monastic Ensembles 4.0
- Ouro Preto 4.0
- Yungang Grottoes 4.0
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4.0
- Meroe 4.0
- Pantanal 4.0
- Crac des Chevaliers 4.0
- Huascaran National Park 4.0
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 4.0
- Byblos 4.0
- Damascus 4.0
- Rock Islands 4.0
- Mycenae and Tiryns 4.0
- Los Glaciares 4.0
- Potala Palace 4.0
- Quebrada de Humahuaca 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Rio de Janeiro 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Asmara 4.0
- Hegra 4.0
- Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos 4.0
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 4.0
- Copán 4.0
- Antigua Guatemala 4.0
- Yazd 4.0
- Sabratha 3.5
- El Fuerte de Samaipata 3.5
- Salvador de Bahia 3.5
- Diamantina 3.5
- Harar Jugol 3.5
- Shibam 3.5
- Sucre 3.5
- Gebel Barkal 3.5
- Ancient Ksour 3.5
- Timbuktu 3.5
- St. Petersburg 3.5
- Sana'a 3.5
- Lima 3.5
- Cuzco 3.5
- Djenné 3.5
- Chavin 3.5
- Caral-Supe 3.5
- Palmyra 3.5
- Sun Temple, Konarak 3.5
- Komodo National Park 3.5
- Chitwan National Park 3.5
- Orkhon Valley 3.5
- Old Town of Lijiang 3.5
- Ajanta Caves 3.5
- Tierradentro 3.5
- Hampi 3.5
- Samarkand 3.5
- Itchan Kala 3.5
- Joya de Ceren 3.5
- Uxmal 3.5
- Rock Art in the Hail Region 3.5
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3.5
- Old Town Lunenburg 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Potosi 3.0
- Cartagena 3.0
- Santa Cruz de Mompox 3.0
- Fray Bentos 3.0
- Sewell Mining Town 3.0
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya 3.0
- Bosra 3.0
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.0
- Bisotun 3.0
- Valparaiso 3.0
- Persian Garden 3.0
- Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works 3.0
- Soltaniyeh 3.0
- Fasil Ghebbi 3.0
- Tyre 3.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.0
- Bam Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Novgorod 3.0
- Baalbek 3.0
- Mammoth Cave 3.0
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.0
- Aleppo 3.0
- Paramaribo 3.0
- Kakadu National Park 3.0
- Lake Baikal 3.0
- Congonhas 3.0
- The Sundarbans 3.0
- Viñales Valley 3.0
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 3.0
- Churches of Chiloé 3.0
- Camagüey 3.0
- Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur 3.0
- Stone Town of Zanzibar 3.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 3.0
- Mahabodhi Temple Complex 3.0
- Rabat 2.5
- Tabriz Bazaar 2.5
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus 2.5
- Shushtar 2.5
- Vigan 2.5
- Nasca Lines 2.5
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 2.5
- Brimstone Hill Fortress 2.5
- San Agustín 2.5
- Coffee Cultural Landscape 2.5
- Bagerhat 2.5
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 2.5
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 2.5
- Gobustan Rock Art 2.5
- Urbino 2.5
- Panamá 2.5
- León Cathedral 2.5
- Ruins of León Viejo 2.5
- Koguryo Kingdom 2.5
- Fort and Shalamar Gardens 2.5
- Olinda 2.5
- Erbil Citadel 2.5
- Al Ain 2.5
- Levuka 2.5
- Tiwanaku 2.5
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 2.5
- Kunya-Urgench 2.5
- Chan Chan 2.5
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo 2.0
- Paraty and Ilha Grande 2.0
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 2.0
- Campeche 2.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.0
- Zabid 2.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 2.0
- Pampulha 2.0
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba 2.0
- Cienfuegos 2.0
- Brasilia 2.0
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 2.0
- Goias 2.0
- Grand Pré 2.0
- Kaesong 2.0
- Le Morne 1.5
- Valongo Wharf 1.5
- Castel del Monte 1.5
- Aapravasi Ghat 1.5
- The trulli of Alberobello 1.5
- São Francisco Square 1.5
- Bridgetown 1.5
- Colonia del Sacramento 1.0
Tentative Sites
- The Historic Centre of Cajamarca
- Lake Titicaca
- Svalbard Archipelago
- Archaeological site of Ancient Messene
- Minoan Palatial Centres
- Sudd wetland
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese
- The Marble Basin of Carrara
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Shwedagon Pagoda
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II
- Vardzia-Khertvisi
- Etosha Pan
- Cretaceous Dinosaur Fossil Sites in the Mongolian
- Noréas de Hama
- Apamee
- Maaloula
- Abydos
- Catholic Doctrine Temples
- City of Granada and its natural environment
- Chalchuapa
- Mamayev Kurgan
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- Sigatoka Sand Dunes
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Reviews by Ammon Watkins


Calakmul (Inscribed)
Calakmul
For such a remote site, Calakmul was surprisingly easy to get to. I had considered leaving it off our itinerary at one point thinking that it would be too time …

Palenque (Inscribed)
Palenque
Maybe it was the perfect weather or the howler monkeys or the thousands of butterflies, but Palenque ended up unexpectedly being our favourite Mayan site on this trip and second …

Antigua Guatemala (Inscribed)
Antigua Guatemala
Compared to other colonial towns in Central America (and quite possibly the whole new world) Antigua has no equal. We arrived at night and the first impression was of how …

Copán (Inscribed)
Copán
Honduras has a reputation that is enough to scare off most visitors from making a lengthy visit. Fortunately Copan Ruinas is very close to the Guatemalan border and is easily …

Chalchuapa (On tentative list)
Chalchuapa
We visited part of this TWHS in the afternoon after visiting Joya de Ceren before returning back to Santa Ana. There are 3 separate zones in town of differing historical …

Joya de Ceren (Inscribed)
Joya de Ceren
After some problems and delays in Nicaragua we found ourselves having to scale back our plans through El Salvador. Fortunately there is only one WHS to visit and it remained …

Panamá (Inscribed)
Panamá
Of the 2 parts of this WHS I enjoyed the ruins of Panama Viejo more than the neighbourhood of Casco Viejo. We easily covered both sites in a day. The …

Portobelo-San Lorenzo (Inscribed)
Portobelo-San Lorenzo
We visited Portobelo July 2019 as an easy day trip from Panama City on public transit. There is actually very little to add to the previous reviews as it is …

Cartagena (Inscribed)
Cartagena
After reading many travel reviews on Cartagena suggesting that less time is better (cost, crowds and hassle were frequently mentioned) we only gave ourselves one full day to see the …

Santa Cruz de Mompox (Inscribed)
Santa Cruz de Mompox
Although Mompox was an important and prosperous port upriver from Cartagena, it was never very large. It hasn't really grown and has a very relaxed and lethargic atmosphere. It's no …

Lower Basin of the Chicamocha… (Removed from tentat…)
Lower Basin of the Chicamocha River
Continuing north, it took us half a day to get to San Gil from Villa de Leyva. San Gil, is the most touristic town in the area and makes the …

South of Ricaurte Province (On tentative list)
South of Ricaurte Province
A pretty broad name but perhaps the only one that makes sense for a TWHS whose only real unifying feature is the location. Reading up on the description it sounds …

University City of Bogotá (On tentative list)
University City of Bogotá
This site is only about a 20 minute walk away from Bogota's other TWHS, the Virgilio Barco library so in less than half an hour we stood at the gates …

The architectural legacy of R… (On tentative list)
The architectural legacy of Rogelio Salmona
Unfortunately our only chance to visit this library was on a rainy holiday and it was not open. Maybe a better appreciation of the architectural achievements can be gained from …

Coffee Cultural Landscape (Inscribed)
Coffee Cultural Landscape
We finally made it to a WHS my wife was more excited about than I was. I knew we would pass through this WHS somewhere along the road between Armenia …

Tierradentro (Inscribed)
Tierradentro
2 days after visiting San Agustin we found ourselves hiking along the much quieter and muddier trails between the sites in Tierradentro. We didn't mind though as Tierradentro is much …

Catholic Doctrine Temples (On tentative list)
Catholic Doctrine Temples
With a similar colonial history to the rest of Latin America (Spanish/Portuguese conquest and almost immediate establishment of Catholic missions to "convert the heathens") it seems natural that Colombia would …

Puente de Occidente (Western … (On tentative list)
Puente de Occidente (Western Bridge)
For a site that isn't particularly hard to visit, it is surprising how few foreign tourists make it out to see this bridge. The bridge itself is about 5km outside …

San Agustín (Inscribed)
San Agustín
We were happy to reach San Agustin at the end of our bumpy 5 hr ride from Popayan. The town of San Agustin itself is nothing to get too excited …