Frederik Dawson

Member since June 2006

#60 489 82

My most impressive site: Rapa Nui, Yellowstone

My proposal for a new site: Royal palaces and temples in Bangkok / Engineering Feats of Niagara Falls / Panama Canal / Haussmann's Paris

Recent Visits
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    May 19, 2025
    Nan Madol
  • 1
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    April 21, 2025
    Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
  • 5
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    March 7, 2025
    Bryggen, Rjukan / Notodden, Røros, Urnes Stave Church, West Norwegian Fjords
Top 10 Missing
  1. Galapagos Islands 4.62
  2. Petra 4.61
  3. Victoria Falls 4.47
  4. Tikal National Park 4.46
  5. Bagan 4.44
  6. Serengeti 4.41
  7. Uluru 4.40
  8. Ancient Thebes 4.39
  9. Pompei 4.38
  10. Istanbul 4.38
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About Frederik Dawson

First name
Frederik
Member since
June 2006
Country of Origin
None
Visits
Rank
#60
WHS
489
Tentative Sites
82
Website Participation
Reviews
243
Ratings

Ratings

World Heritage Sites
Tentative Sites
489 2
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Reviews by Frederik Dawson

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Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz by Frederik Dawson

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz (Inscribed)

Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz

After Lednice and Valtice, the second World Heritage Site royal castle of Czechia I visited was Kromeriz, ironically this castle also owned by Liechtenstein family similar to Lednice and Valtice. …

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape by Frederik Dawson

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Land… (Inscribed)

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape

While I was planning my trip to Eastern Czechia, I was fed up to note that at least three palaces were on World Heritage List, Litomysl, Kromeriz and Lednice-Valtice, and …

Holy Trinity Column by Frederik Dawson

Holy Trinity Column (Inscribed)

Holy Trinity Column

I have to thank Czechia for adding the Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc in the World Heritage List, before the inscription I have seen many similar columns in many places …

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk by Frederik Dawson

Pilgrimage Church of St. John… (Inscribed)

Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk

On my way from Trebic to Brno, I made a detour to visit the Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk near the city of Zdar nad Sazavou on early …

Tugendhat Villa by Frederik Dawson

Tugendhat Villa (Inscribed)

Tugendhat Villa

One of the things I found during my weeks long trip in Czechia was that it is a country of Baroque, its World Heritage Sites are mainly built or have …

Telc by Frederik Dawson

Telc (Inscribed)

Telc

Most of my photographer friends who visited Czechia during the 90 always came back with sets of photos of the iconic old square of Telc, I even become more intrigued …

Historic Cairo by Frederik Dawson

Historic Cairo (Inscribed)

Historic Cairo

When my boss told me that I have to go to Cairo for short business trip during the Ramadan, while I felt really happy to visit Egypt, I had load …

Kutna Hora by Frederik Dawson

Kutna Hora (Inscribed)

Kutna Hora

Kutna Hora is possibly the third most popular World Heritage Site of Czechia after Prague and Cesky Krumlov, after great peaceful time in Moravia, Kutna Hora welcomed me with the …

Holasovice by Frederik Dawson

Holasovice (Inscribed)

Holasovice

On the way from Prague to Cesky Krumlov, the small World Heritage Site village of Holasovice was an easy stop for a brief visit. I drove pass many nice villages …

Maulbronn Monastery by Frederik Dawson

Maulbronn Monastery (Inscribed)

Maulbronn Monastery

When I reached the small town of Maulbronn around 11 AM, the sky was dark and cloudy with shower rain, and I heard the sound of roaring thunder nearby, a …

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch by Frederik Dawson

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lor… (Inscribed)

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch

In case that you read and looked previous reviews and their attached photos like I did before I went to this World Heritage Site, you would immediately have noticed that …

Val d'Orcia by Frederik Dawson

Val d'Orcia (Inscribed)

Val d'Orcia

The effect from “Beast from the East” made my whole week of Italian trip on the Adriatic side of the Apennine to be miserably cold and wet, but when I …

San Marino and Mount Titano by Frederik Dawson

San Marino and Mount Titano (Inscribed)

San Marino and Mount Titano

Despite warning on the “Beast from the East” in the news, after a lucky day in Urbino, I decided to take a gamble to visit nearby another World Heritage Site, …

Urbino by Frederik Dawson

Urbino (Inscribed)

Urbino

On the first week of March, the “Beast from the East” almost made me to cut Urbino from my plan after I heard that there was a weeklong heavy snow …

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites by Frederik Dawson

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Inscribed)

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites

Similar to most of reviewers, I only visited Naracoorte component of this World Heritage Site as part of my Great Ocean Road trip from Melbourne to Adelaide. I chose Penola, …

Budj Bim Cultural Landscape by Frederik Dawson

Budj Bim Cultural Landscape (Inscribed)

Budj Bim Cultural Landscape

Fortunately, UNESCO added Budj Bim in the tentative list before I finalized the whole itinerary of my Australia trip, so after checking its location, I conveniently put this unknown place …

Royal Exhibition Building by Frederik Dawson

Royal Exhibition Building (Inscribed)

Royal Exhibition Building

Before I visited Melbourne’s World Heritage Site, the Royal Exhibition Building, I had no expectation after reading few negative reviews and I already knew that I had no chance to …

Trang An by Frederik Dawson

Trang An (Inscribed)

Trang An

I remembered the first time I went to Vietnam with my friends in 2008, we had one free day, and our host asked us to choose between Ha Long Bay …

Citadel of the Ho Dynasty by Frederik Dawson

Citadel of the Ho Dynasty (Inscribed)

Citadel of the Ho Dynasty

My third consecutive years visiting Vietnam gave me an opportunity to tick off the last two, Ho Citadel and Trang An, to complete Vietnamese World Heritage Sites. Conveniently both sites …

Bali Subak system by Frederik Dawson

Bali Subak system (Inscribed)

Bali Subak system

Despite having been to Indonesia for quite several times and already visited 3 World Heritage Sites of this country, Bali which is the most famous and popular tourist attraction and …

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