“Beauty has an address” is the tourist promotion of Oman, but from my experience when I traveled in beautiful Oman, it was very hard to find address in this country …
Frederik Dawson
Member since June 2006
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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
Recent Visits
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10May 19, 2025Nan Madol
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10April 21, 2025Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
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50March 7, 2025Bryggen, Rjukan / Notodden, Røros, Urnes Stave Church, West Norwegian Fjords
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About Frederik Dawson
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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


Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple (Inscribed)
Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
After reviewed Ellora, Ajanta and Elephanta Caves, I felt oblige to write a review on Dambulla, another World Heritage listed cave temple in South Asia, which maybe the most unique …

Ellora Caves (Inscribed)
Ellora Caves
After a very satisfied tour at Ajanta Caves, I continued my journey to Ellora Caves, another rock craving wonder of India near the city of Aurangabad, to see the famous …

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Inscribed)
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
In one Saturday morning I decided to do a city walk, from the Gateway of India to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, to discover Mumbai's colonial heritages in the historic area as …

Ajanta Caves (Inscribed)
Ajanta Caves
I discovered my love on Buddhist rock craving when I visited Longmen and Yungang Grottoes in China and this love has been cemented when I visited Ajanta Caves. I did …

Elephanta Caves (Inscribed)
Elephanta Caves
After lunchtime from the Gateway of India, a symbolic entrance to subcontinent during the British Empire in Mumbai, I took a boat ride to see the Elephanta Caves on the …

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuari… (Inscribed)
Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
The last World Heritage Site I saw during my one week trip in Chengdu was the famed Sichuan Panda Sanctuaries, home of pandas but also one of the most stunning …

Mount Emei, including Leshan … (Inscribed)
Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
With a chance to stop en-route between India and US in China, I took this opportunity to visit Chengdu for a week to see 3 World Heritage Sites around the …

Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan (Inscribed)
Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan
My first impression while I stepped out from my bus to the gate of Dujiangyan was irritating, it was a very fast 60 kilometers high speed train ride from Chengdu …

Western Ghats (Inscribed)
Western Ghats
As a World Heritage enthusiast, it is a big shame to visit a site that is a World Heritage and does not know it is until a week later! In …

Fortress of Suomenlinna (Inscribed)
Fortress of Suomenlinna
Eight hours transit at Helsinki Airport was a perfect chance for me to discover Finland's capital and the nearby World Heritage Site, Fortress of Soumenlinna. Unknown that today was a …

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (Inscribed)
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
One of my personal goals during my two years term in US is to visit the Canadian Rocky, so I successfully persuaded my friends to make Calgary to be our …

Yellowstone (Inscribed)
Yellowstone
I planned to make a road trip in US for quite a while, after a lot of information gathering, my travel teammates decided to go to Rocky Mountains and one …

Fujisan (Inscribed)
Fujisan
Less than a month after Fujisan has officially been listed as World Heritage Site, my friend in Shizuoka invited me to visit Japan, after reading its nomination document and found …

Shiretoko (Inscribed)
Shiretoko
Eastern Hokkaido is an unusual image of Japan; the area is a large unspoiled rural region with the scenery similar to northern Sweden with Japanese signs! I started my trip …

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Inscribed)
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Really sorry for the people of Blaenavon, but for me Blaenavon is become the synonym of one misfortunate after the other in my life as my visit to this place …

Kew Gardens (Inscribed)
Kew Gardens
I have to say that I am extremely skeptical with historic botanical garden, after I have a very disappointing experience with the UNESCO’s listed Orto Botanico of Padua in Italy; …

Ironbridge Gorge (Inscribed)
Ironbridge Gorge
When my taxi driver pointed me to see the famous Ironbridge, the symbol of the Industrial Revolution, I felt quite underwhelmed with the appearance of the bridge which was very …

Liverpool (Delisted)
Liverpool
I have to say that I really like Liverpool especially at night time, it was one of the best sight I have seen during my England tour, not only the …

Maritime Greenwich (Inscribed)
Maritime Greenwich
Greenwich is the name that commonly appeared since one of the first things that travelers normally do before travelling aboard is checking the differences of local time and the Greenwich …