Since the industrial heritage is one of the most underrepresented categories of Asian World Heritage Sites, Japan has started to propose its industrial heritages to fill the gap, Tomioka Silk …
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
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
Tentative Sites
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Reviews by Frederik Dawson


Hikone-Jo (Nominated)
Hikone-Jo
Currently, there are three Japanese castles listed as World Heritage Site, the magnificent Himeji Castle, the lavish Nijo Castle of Kyoto, and the unique Ryukyuan Shuri Castle in Okinawa, Hikone …

Shirakami-Sanchi (Inscribed)
Shirakami-Sanchi
Currently the single natural World Heritage Site in the region of Tohoku or Northern Honshu, Shirakami-Sanchi is the name of the inaccessible beech forest mountain range in western Aomori Prefecture …

Hiraizumi (Inscribed)
Hiraizumi
Located in the Tohoku or Northern Japan that severely suffered from earthquake and tsunami in 2011, Hiraizumi was selected as a World Heritage Site, since then the government used the …

Kremlin and Red Square (Inscribed)
Kremlin and Red Square
The center of Moscow and the symbolic landmark of Russia, Kremlin and Red Square are truly the magnificent places with unbelievable beauty and clearly one of the must-see World Heritage …

Church of the Ascension, Kolo… (Inscribed)
Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
Located in the former riverside royal estate park in the suburb area of Moscow, the complex of Kolomenskoye Church is a lovely place to visit for afternoon walking. After a …

St. Petersburg (Inscribed)
St. Petersburg
Every time I met and talked to Russians, they always praised the beauty of St. Petersburg, and that really made me wanted to see this city which was once the …

Novgorod (Inscribed)
Novgorod
Novgorod or it full official name, Veliky Novgorod which means the Great Novgorod, is an oldest city in Russia and the ancient political center of early Russian state, is well …

Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng (Inscribed)
Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
For the country that tourism industry developed so well, it was quite surprised to discover that visiting Huai Kha Khaeng and Thung Yai were still almost unknown by tourist standard …

Monastery of Alcobaça (Inscribed)
Monastery of Alcobaça
From the lonely train station, I took a taxi to revisit the famous Monastery of Santa Maria of Alcobaça which located almost in the middle of the small town of …

Classical Gardens of Suzhou (Inscribed)
Classical Gardens of Suzhou
During the very short business trip to Suzhou, I had only three hours in the morning for free time to explore the city, and after learned that my hotel was …

Samarkand (Inscribed)
Samarkand
Samarkand is the reason why I decided to visit Uzbekistan, when I booked the ticket at Uzbekistan Airline office; I saw the poster of the very beautiful Registan so I …

Wulingyuan (Inscribed)
Wulingyuan
Wulingyuan, the first national protected forest park of China which most of the Chinese and tourist industry called it after the name of the nearby city, Zhangjiajie, is the …

Kaiping Diaolou (Inscribed)
Kaiping Diaolou
On the way to Guangzhou from Hong Kong, I decided to take a four hour direct bus to the city of Kaiping to see the famous Diaolou, currently a sole …

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa… (Inscribed)
Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
This review is made after my second visit to one of most outstanding temples in South Korea, Bulguksa Temple and its nearby Seokguram Grotto which in my opinion one of …

Hahoe and Yangdong (Inscribed)
Hahoe and Yangdong
During my short trip to South Korea, I have a chance to revisit Gyeongju and its two UNESCO protected sites, Bulguksa Temple and Gyeongju Tumuli Park; however my true highlight …

Royal Joseon Tombs (Inscribed)
Royal Joseon Tombs
During my conference trip to Seoul and Gyeongju, South Korea, I had managed to visit Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty, one of the most complete dynastic tombs in Asia, …

China Danxia (Inscribed)
China Danxia
This place currently maybe one of the least informative world heritage sites in China, but after long internet searching, it is a great surprised to discover that visiting Danxiashan National …

Old Town of Lijiang (Inscribed)
Old Town of Lijiang
Lijiang, a town in northwestern Yunnan with its beautiful culture of Naxi people, unique old wooden houses along the canals, picturesque gardens and breathtaking surroundings, is truly one of a …

West Lake (Inscribed)
West Lake
Jiang Nan, the name Chinese called for the Yangtze River Delta region, is the powerhouse of Chinese intellectual, art and economy since ancient time, and the main cities of Jiang …