I visited As-Salt in February 2025 from Amman. By asking some very helpful men, I managed to find the very cheap minibus to As-Salt from the North bus terminal in …
Frédéric M
Canada \ Member since December 2018
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Biologist, entomologist, outdoor enthusiast, scuba-diver, birder and traveler from Québec interested in discovering the world and its wonders! I did my first oversea backpacking trip in 2018 following my master and I don't want to stop any time soon. I am mostly interested in ecology, national parks and thus natural WHS, but being a WHS hunter opens my mind to architecture, history of art, urban planning, industrial heritage and the epic history of the World!
My most impressive site: Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Göreme, Gunung Mulu, Los Glaciares, Machu Picchu, Rome, Tikal
Recent Visits
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113July 1, 2025Japan 2025: Ancient Kamakura, Ancient Kyoto, Ancient Nara ...
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1616March 17, 2025Jordan and Egypt 2025: Abu Mena, Abydos, Alexandria ...
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234Nov. 18, 2024Italy 2024: Botanical Garden, Padua, Etruscan Necropolises, Ferrara ...
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About Frédéric M
- Member since
- December 2018
- Country of Origin
- Canada
Visits
- Rank
- #251
- WHS
- 210
- Tentative Sites
- 90
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 70
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Galapagos Islands 5.0
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5.0
- Los Glaciares 5.0
- Huascaran National Park 5.0
- Iguazu National Park 5.0
- Palenque 5.0
- Tikal National Park 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Skocjan Caves 5.0
- Pompei 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Iguacu 5.0
- Gunung Mulu 5.0
- Mammoth Cave 5.0
- Olympic National Park 5.0
- Gros Morne National Park 5.0
- Teotihuacan 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Plitvice Lakes 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 5.0
- Komodo National Park 5.0
- Chichen-Itza 5.0
- Laurisilva of Madeira 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- Vatican City 4.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Ancient Kyoto 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Nikko 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Cueva de las Manos 4.0
- Peninsula Valdes 4.0
- Belize Barrier Reef 4.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 4.0
- Kinabalu Park 4.0
- Riga 4.0
- Verona 4.0
- Copán 4.0
- Cuzco 4.0
- Nasca Lines 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Puebla 4.0
- Guanajuato 4.0
- Uxmal 4.0
- Borobudur 4.0
- Prambanan 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.0
- Historic Cairo 4.0
- Cartagena 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- San Gimignano 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 4.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 4.0
- Calakmul 4.0
- Kew Gardens 4.0
- Kii Mountain Range 4.0
- Wadi Rum 4.0
- Rio de Janeiro 4.0
- Ephesus 4.0
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley 4.0
- Los Alerces National Park 4.0
- Paraty and Ilha Grande 4.0
- Tierradentro 3.0
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.0
- Horyu-ji Area 3.0
- Antigua Guatemala 3.0
- Old Town Lunenburg 3.0
- Alto Douro 3.0
- Guimarães 3.0
- Quebrada de Humahuaca 3.0
- Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex 3.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 3.0
- Um er-Rasas 3.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 3.0
- Wadi Al-Hitan 3.0
- Mostar 3.0
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3.0
- Quito 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Caral-Supe 3.0
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 3.0
- Kuldiga 3.0
- Bali Subak system 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Tallinn 3.0
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex 3.0
- Quseir Amra 3.0
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus 3.0
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba 3.0
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.0
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 3.0
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3.0
- Stonehenge and Avebury 3.0
- Blenheim Palace 3.0
- Westminster 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 3.0
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya 3.0
- Chavin 3.0
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá 3.0
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 3.0
- Fray Bentos 3.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 3.0
- Quirigua 3.0
- Morelia 3.0
- Hospicio Cabañas 3.0
- Campeche 3.0
- Xochicalco 3.0
- Monastery of Batalha 3.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.0
- Evora 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.0
- Ujung Kulon National Park 3.0
- Mistaken Point 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 3.0
- Umm Al-Jimāl 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Sian Ka'an 3.0
- Niah Caves 3.0
- Nubian Monuments 3.0
- Mafra 3.0
- San Agustín 3.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.0
- Villa d'Este 2.0
- Australian Convict Sites 2.0
- Camino Real 2.0
- Sítio Roberto Burle Marx 2.0
- Saint Catherine Area 2.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- L'Anse aux Meadows 2.0
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.0
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 2.0
- Independence Hall 2.0
- Yogyakarta 2.0
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.0
- Miguasha National Park 2.0
- Querétaro 2.0
- Sangiran Early Man Site 2.0
- Chan Chan 2.0
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 2.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.0
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.0
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 2.0
- Lenggong Valley 2.0
- Val d'Orcia 2.0
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.0
- Via Appia 2.0
- Church of Atlántida 2.0
- Troy 2.0
- Grand Pré 2.0
- The Prosecco Hills 2.0
- Abu Mena 2.0
- Santa Cruz de Mompox 2.0
- ESMA Site Museum 2.0
- Tak'alik Ab'aj 2.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.0
- Cahokia Mounds 2.0
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2.0
- Tequila 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Fujisan 2.0
- Pienza 2.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 2.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 2.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 1.0
- As-Salt 1.0
- Valongo Wharf 1.0
- Trogir 1.0
- Colonia del Sacramento 1.0
- Coffee Cultural Landscape 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Kornati National Park and Telašćica Nature Park
- Kebun Raya Bogor
- The Mayan-Olmecan Encounter
- Transatlantic Cable Ensemble (CAN)
- Los Petenes-Ría Celestún
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
- Classical Karst
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Church of Santa Prisca and its Surroundings
- Town of Chichicastenango
- Puente de Occidente (Western Bridge)
- Amazonia Theaters
- Fuzina Hills in Bohinj
- The architectural legacy of Rogelio Salmona
- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
- Region Lacan-Tún - Usumacinta
- Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo
- Seaflower Marine Protected Area
- Kekova
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain
- Villas of the Papal Nobility
- The Marble Basin of Carrara
- The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio
- Central Park
- Dahshour
- Chachapoyas sites of the Utcubamba Valley
- Wineries and Vineyards for traditional Pisco
- Abydos
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Sarajevo
- Ancient City of Kaunos
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve
- Egyptian Museum
- The Coastal Lomas System of Peru
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- Alexandria
- National Theater of Guatemala
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Aqaba Marine Reserve
- Ancient Kamakura
- Hikone-Jo
- Asuka-Fujiwara
- Azraq
- Dahab
- Bird Migration Routes
- Oasis of Fayoum
- The monasteries of the Arab Desert and Wadi Natrun
- Dardanelles and Gallipoli Battle Zones
- Ellis Island
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- Via Francigena
- City of Trujillo
- The Historic Centre of Cajamarca
- Nasca Aqueducts
- Peruvian Central Railway
- Route of the Franciscan Evangelisation
- Route of the to Dominique Evangelisation
- Route of the Peace and National Identity
- Castle of San Felipe de Lara
- Lake Atitlán
- Panamá City
- Sistema Ferrocarril Pte. Carlos Antonio Lopez
- La Rambla de la Cité de Montevideo
- Modern Architecture of Montevideo
- Quartier de Peñarol
- City of Tigre and its rowing clubs
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- Alvaro Siza's Architecture
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Old Town of Jakarta
- The Padang Civic Ensemble
- Palais de la Culture, Rio de Janeiro
- Canal del Dique - Dike Canal
- University City of Bogota
- Catholic Doctrine Temples
- South of Ricaurte Province
- Brazilian Fortresses Ensemble
- Eglise et Monastère de Sao Bento
- Anavilhanas Ecological Station
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Baltic Klint
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III
- El Fayoum
- Gebel Qatrani Area, Lake Qaroun
- China-Egypt hydrological sites
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Reviews by Frédéric M


Umm Al-Jimāl (Inscribed)
Umm Al-Jimāl
I visited Umm Al-Jimāl during my trip to Jordan and Egypt in the winter of 2025. Since I decided not to rent a car in Jordan, I had to find …

Gebel Qatrani Area, Lake Qaro… (On tentative list)
Gebel Qatrani Area, Lake Qaroun
During my trip to Egypt in February and March 2025, I spent three nights at the Zad El Mosafer guesthouse in Tunis in the Fayoum and Lake Qarun region. I …

Abu Mena (Inscribed)
Abu Mena
During my trip to Egypt in February and March 2025, I spent three nights at the Zad El Mosafer guesthouse in Tunis in the Fayoum and Lake Qarun region. I …

El Fayoum (On tentative list)
El Fayoum
During my trip to Egypt in February and March 2025, I spent three nights at the Zad El Mosafer guesthouse in Tunis in the Fayoum and Lake Qarun region. I …

Wadi Al-Hitan (Inscribed)
Wadi Al-Hitan
During my trip to Egypt in February and March 2025, I spent three nights at the Zad El Mosafer guesthouse in Tunis in the Fayoum and Lake Qarun region. I …

Paraty and Ilha Grande (Inscribed)
Paraty and Ilha Grande
I visited Paraty and Ilha Grande in March 2024, en route between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The Costa Verde bus first took me from Rio to Conceição de …

Lenggong Valley (Inscribed)
Lenggong Valley
I visited Lenggong Valley in March 2023. In planning my trip, I contacted the guides and resources mentioned in previous reviews on this page. However, given the excessively high cost …

Niah Caves (Inscribed)
Niah Caves
In her review, Randi explains that she visited Niah during the same year as Els, so their visits are very similar. In my case, I visited Niah the day after …

Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (On tentative list)
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
On March 21, 2024, while visiting Rio de Janeiro, I received an e-mail from the Canadian Abroad Warning System. It warned me that a major storm would hit Rio the …

Seaflower Marine Protected Ar… (On tentative list)
Seaflower Marine Protected Area
I visited San Andrés Island in February 2024 during my trip to Colombia. I spent four nights there. After the arrival day (from Cartagena), the next three were scheduled for …

Central Amazon Conservation C… (Inscribed)
Central Amazon Conservation Complex
I worked hard to find an affordable way to visit this WHS. First, I contacted various tour operators in Manaus to inquire about a boat trip lasting a few days. …

Los Petenes-Ría Celestún (On tentative list)
Los Petenes-Ría Celestún
I visited Los Petenes-Ría Celestún during a trip to Yucatán in November 2023. The Reserva de la Biosfera Ría Celestún and the Reserva de la Biósfera Los Petenes cover the …

Cueva de las Manos (Inscribed)
Cueva de las Manos
I visited the Cueva de las Manos in February 2022. My base for this visit was the uninteresting little town of Perito Moreno (which, it should be remembered, has nothing …

Yogyakarta (Inscribed)
Yogyakarta
We spent four days and four nights in Yogyakarta in February 2023. We arrived in the evening, having spent the day on trains from Bogor (Kebun Raya Bogor TWHS …

Tak'alik Ab'aj (Inscribed)
Tak'alik Ab'aj
I visited Tak'alik Ab'aj during a trip to Guatemala in November 2021, my first trip abroad after the Covid-19 outbreak. I chose to visit this archaeological site on a day …

ESMA Site Museum (Inscribed)
ESMA Site Museum
Joel's review of this excellent and disturbing museum is itself excellent (but fortunately not very disturbing!). He describes the site itself and its history exceedingly well, and I even share …

Red Bay Basque Whaling Station (Inscribed)
Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
I visited Red Bay in July 2023 on a family camping trip to Newfoundland and Labrador. We began our visit at the interpretive center right on the waterside. The history …

Kinabalu Park (Inscribed)
Kinabalu Park
Kinabalu Park is included on the World Heritage List mainly because of the extraordinary plant diversity resulting from its particular topography. In fact, Mount Kinabalu creates a gradient of climatic …

Bali Subak system (Inscribed)
Bali Subak system
Despite its popularity and fame, the island of Bali is far from being the most pleasant to visit in Indonesia. Indeed, it is overpopulated and lacks any attempt at urban …