Valparaiso, the seaport of Chile near the capital, Santiago, is a place that really hard to explain as the city is beautiful but at the same time very ugly. When …
Frederik Dawson
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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
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World Heritage Sites
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Te Wahipounamu 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Teotihuacan 5.0
- Gunung Mulu 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.5
- Rock Islands 4.5
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.5
- Uxmal 4.5
- Dolomites 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Nasca Lines 4.5
- Chichen-Itza 4.5
- Ellora Caves 4.5
- Borobudur 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Ajanta Caves 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Mesa Verde 4.5
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 4.5
- Redwood 4.5
- Siena 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Bukhara 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Samarkand 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Imperial Palace 4.5
- Machu Picchu 4.5
- Sukhothai 4.5
- Grand Canyon 4.5
- Wulingyuan 4.5
- Prambanan 4.5
- Glacier parks 4.5
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Cordoba 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Vézère Valley 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Major Town Houses 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Sigiriya 4.0
- Polonnaruva 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Historic Cairo 4.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Bauhaus Sites 4.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.0
- Dazu Rock Carvings 4.0
- Hué 4.0
- Grand Canal 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Great Wall 4.0
- Itchan Kala 4.0
- Ayutthaya 4.0
- Churches of Peace 4.0
- Ujung Kulon National Park 4.0
- Tugendhat Villa 4.0
- Kinabalu Park 4.0
- Bali Subak system 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Taj Mahal 4.0
- Longmen Grottoes 4.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 4.0
- Cesky Krumlov 4.0
- Chan Chan 4.0
- Cuzco 4.0
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4.0
- Fatehpur Sikri 4.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.0
- Chaco Culture 4.0
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4.0
- Taos Pueblo 4.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Old Town of Lijiang 4.0
- Ping Yao 4.0
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 4.0
- Koh Ker 4.0
- South China Karst 4.0
- Summer Palace 4.0
- Temple of Heaven 4.0
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Lake District 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Sambor Prei Kuk 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Lyon 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Plain of Jars 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4.0
- Valletta 3.5
- Sydney Opera House 3.5
- Salzburg 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Preah Vihear Temple 3.5
- China Danxia 3.5
- Mount Wutai 3.5
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.5
- West Lake 3.5
- Yungang Grottoes 3.5
- Albi 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- Bourges Cathedral 3.5
- Causses and Cévennes 3.5
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3.5
- Fontainebleau 3.5
- Nancy 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5
- Fujisan 3.5
- Genbaku Dome 3.5
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5
- Himeji-jo 3.5
- Kii Mountain Range 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 3.5
- Hoi An 3.5
- My Son 3.5
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang 3.5
- Trang An 3.5
- Western Tien-Shan 3.5
- Dong Phayayen 3.5
- Quito 3.5
- Valparaiso 3.5
- Arequipa 3.5
- Manu National Park 3.5
- Mammoth Cave 3.5
- Statue of Liberty 3.5
- Genoa 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Agra Fort 3.5
- Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Western Ghats 3.5
- City of Luxembourg 3.5
- Kinderdijk 3.5
- Van Nellefabriek 3.5
- Bahla Fort 3.5
- Tubbataha Reefs 3.5
- Belem 3.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5
- Monastery of Batalha 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Aachen Cathedral 3.5
- Bamberg 3.5
- Lübeck 3.5
- Luther Memorials 3.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Trier 3.5
- Wartburg Castle 3.5
- Puebla 3.5
- Tongariro National Park 3.5
- Visby 3.5
- Anuradhapura 3.5
- Bellinzone 3.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.5
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- Stonehenge 3.5
- Avila 3.5
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Salamanca 3.5
- Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5
- Everglades 3.5
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.5
- Yogyakarta 3.5
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 3.5
- Olympic National Park 3.5
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.5
- Alto Douro 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Mystras 3.5
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5
- Corfu 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra 3.5
- Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto 3.5
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.5
- Yakushima 3.5
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 3.5
- Urnes Stave Church 3.5
- Nan Madol 3.5
- Haeinsa Temple 3.0
- Pimachiowin Aki 3.0
- Cuenca 3.0
- Huascaran National Park 3.0
- Gyeongju 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.0
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3.0
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Elephanta Caves 3.0
- Joya de Ceren 3.0
- Drottningholm 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- León Cathedral 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.0
- Guanacaste 3.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Willemstad 3.0
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Cold winter deserts of Turan 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Hawaii Volcanoes 3.0
- Darien National Park 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 3.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 3.0
- Semmering Railway 3.0
- Amami-Oshima Island 3.0
- Phu Phrabat 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Kaeng Krachan Forest 3.0
- Vézelay 3.0
- Epidaurus 3.0
- Burgundy 3.0
- Pearling 3.0
- Wadden Sea 3.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Camino Real 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Saint-Emilion 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 3.0
- Stralsund and Wismar 3.0
- Si Thep 3.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.0
- Studley Royal Park 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Southern Öland 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.0
- Niah Caves 3.0
- Gaya Tumuli 3.0
- Sian Ka'an 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Champagne 3.0
- Ban Chiang 3.0
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Novgorod 3.0
- Novodevichy Convent 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Beijing Central Axis 3.0
- Central Highlands 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.0
- Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 3.0
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3.0
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 3.0
- Horyu-ji Area 3.0
- Sangay National Park 3.0
- Luang Prabang 3.0
- Jeju 3.0
- Pannonhalma 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Old Town of Galle 3.0
- Shiretoko 3.0
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.0
- Sinharaja Forest 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Røros 3.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Qutb Minar 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Kaiping Diaolou 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Jantar Mantar 3.0
- Litomysl Castle 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Paphos 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Old City of Berne 3.0
- Imperial Tombs 3.0
- Hahoe and Yangdong 3.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3.0
- Bryggen 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 2.5
- Zollverein 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
- Mafra 2.5
- Hiraizumi 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Royal Joseon Tombs 2.5
- Kandy 2.5
- Jongmyo Shrine 2.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.5
- Evora 2.5
- Ivrea 2.5
- Namhansanseong 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Butrint 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.5
- Yaroslavl 2.5
- Kronborg Castle 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 2.5
- Longobards in Italy 2.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5
- Via Appia 2.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5
- Kutna Hora 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Völklingen Ironworks 2.5
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.5
- The Four Lifts 2.5
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 2.5
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 2.5
- Telc 2.5
- Baekje Historic Areas 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves 2.5
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.5
- Aranjuez 2.5
- Papahanaumokuakea 2.5
- Thingvellir 2.5
- Surtsey 2.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5
- Panamá 2.5
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- San Antonio Missions 2.5
- Stone Spheres of the Diquís 2.5
- Ruins of León Viejo 2.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.5
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5
- Cahokia Mounds 2.5
- Rjukan / Notodden 2.5
- Keoladeo National Park 2.5
- Red Fort 2.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
- Vat Phou 2.5
- Shakhrisyabz 2.5
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 2.5
- Thang Long 2.5
- Aflaj irrigation system 2.5
- Baroque Churches 2.5
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 2.5
- Guimarães 2.5
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Classical Weimar 2.5
- Cologne Cathedral 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5
- Choirokoitia 2.5
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 2.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 2.0
- Holy Trinity Column 2.0
- Rhaetian Railway 2.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.0
- Corvey 2.0
- Heritage of Mercury 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 2.0
- Trebic 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- Poverty Point 2.0
- Holasovice 2.0
- Tusi Sites 2.0
- Lenggong Valley 2.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 2.0
- Karlskrona 2.0
- Par force hunting landscape 2.0
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2.0
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 2.0
- Stevns Klint 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Danube Limes 2.0
- Lower German Limes 2.0
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.0
- Shirakami-Sanchi 2.0
- The Prosecco Hills 2.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Okinoshima Island 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 2.0
- Dilmun Burial Mounds 2.0
- New Lanark 2.0
- Australian Convict Sites 2.0
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 1.5
- Royal Exhibition Building 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5
- Schokland 1.0
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Reviews by Frederik Dawson


Quito (Inscribed)
Quito
Quito, the capital city of Ecuador, is not only my first World Heritage Site in South America but also the first place I have seen in this continent and that …

Phong Nha - Ke Bang (Inscribed)
Phong Nha - Ke Bang
I decided to visit Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park after the hotel receptionist in Hue confirmed to me that the one day trip to visit the cave is …

Hué (Inscribed)
Hué
On my way to Danang Airport, I looked back on the past few days I spent in the former capital of Imperial Viet Nam, Hue, which in my opinion, one …

Phu Phrabat (Inscribed)
Phu Phrabat
Thailand is planning to propose Phu Phrabat as a World Heritage Site in 2016, the news really made me want to write the review of this strange historical park in …

Prambanan (Inscribed)
Prambanan
After an amazing trip to Krakatoa, I decided to choose Indonesia as a destination for Christmas holiday as I wanted to fulfil my dream to explore the Javanese culture and …

Ujung Kulon National Park (Inscribed)
Ujung Kulon National Park
Despite many trips to Indonesia, I only have seen Jakarta and really wanted to visit this country’s World Heritage Sites especially the nearest one from the chaotic capital, the Ujung …

Hoi An (Inscribed)
Hoi An
Maybe I have seen many old port cities in Guangdong and Fujian as well as many old historic small towns in China before, so I did not feel any special …

My Son (Inscribed)
My Son
Hidden away in the tropical forest near the port city of Danang and the very popular World Heritage town of Hoi An is the Champa civilization’s sacred valley of My …

Ayutthaya (Inscribed)
Ayutthaya
The former capital of Thailand for more than 400 years is truly a tragic reminder of war time destruction that changed one of the most luminous cities of Asia to …

Mesa Verde (Inscribed)
Mesa Verde
Before I visited Mesa Verde National Park, I really had no idea what the place will be looked like except the famous image of Cliff Palace, as a result, I …

Redwood (Inscribed)
Redwood
Driving along the Pacific coast from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon is maybe one of most stunning road trip routes in America, and one of the most memorable parts along …

Tusi Sites (Inscribed)
Tusi Sites
Tusi Sites are the very surprising nomination for me and when I heard these sites have been inscribed as World Heritage Site, I was laughing out loud for the memories …

Champagne (Inscribed)
Champagne
The inscription of Champagne did remind me the first time when I visited the city of Reims in 2006. The main reason to visit was to see the famous Cathedral. …

Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings (Inscribed)
Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
It seems very strange to me that many reviewers have been to the famous Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York but did not write any review on this stunning …

Statue of Liberty (Inscribed)
Statue of Liberty
Maybe because this is one of the most iconic sites of the world and probably one of the most recognizable images of USA, its pictures and stories are almost compulsory …

Taos Pueblo (Inscribed)
Taos Pueblo
When I reached Taos during the Memorial Day weekend, I was extremely shocked to see congested traffic in the town because of many tourists; I was really worried that my …

San Antonio Missions (Inscribed)
San Antonio Missions
Remember the Alamo and don’t forget other four missions are maybe the words that will be in every tourist magazine of the lovely city of San Antonio especially after June …

Cahokia Mounds (Inscribed)
Cahokia Mounds
On the rainy day of May, after saw the impressive Eero Saarinen’s Gateway Arch and tried toast ravioli in central St Louis, I drove to Collinsville, Illinois to see the …

Hidden Christian Sites in the… (Inscribed)
Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
Understanding the story of Kirishitan or Hidden Christian in Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries is mandatory to fully appreciate this nomination, strangely that in 1999 I have learnt …