Jay T

Member since August 2017

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It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

My most impressive site: Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

My proposal for a new site: Badlands National Park: A North American Prairie

Recent Visits
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    June 15, 2025
    Fontainebleau, Provins
  • 4
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    June 4, 2025
    Antequera Dolmens Site, Garajonay, Grand-Bassam, Island of Gorée
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    April 27, 2025
    Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
Top 10 Missing
  1. Angkor 4.71
  2. Victoria Falls 4.47
  3. Tikal National Park 4.46
  4. Ancient Kyoto 4.45
  5. Bagan 4.44
  6. Great Wall 4.44
  7. Serengeti 4.41
  8. Persepolis 4.37
  9. Samarkand 4.36
  10. Los Glaciares 4.35
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About Jay T

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Jay
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Reviews by Jay T

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Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks by Jay T

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (Inscribed)

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

What makes a great World Heritage Site? Is it a sense of wonder, of awe, of joy? Is it basking in the presence of history, or reveling in the grandeur …

Aranjuez by Jay T

Aranjuez (Inscribed)

Aranjuez

I love gardens, so I was rather excited to choose Aranjuez Cultural Landscape as the first central Iberian World Heritage Site to visit after I arrived in Madrid for a …

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) by Jay T

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) (Inscribed)

Villa Adriana (Tivoli)

On paper the Villa Adriana seems a site that I would love -- a collection of architecture from around the known world in the 2nd century A.D. incorporated into a …

Toledo by Jay T

Toledo (Inscribed)

Toledo

Oh Toledo, jewel of a city! This was easily my favorite day trip from Madrid when I visited Spain last May. I was entranced from my first view of the …

Santiago de Compostela by Jay T

Santiago de Compostela (Inscribed)

Santiago de Compostela

Pilgrim, you have reached journey's end. The paths through the old town suddenly open up onto a plaza marked with walkways in the shape of the scalloped symbol of the …

Potsdam by Jay T

Potsdam (Inscribed)

Potsdam

I've always associated Potsdam, Germany, with the Cold War, but outside of knowing some historical context, I was unprepared for how beautiful the palaces and gardens would be when I …

Neolithic Orkney by Jay T

Neolithic Orkney (Inscribed)

Neolithic Orkney

I'll always associate the Orkney Islands with the 2019 World Heritage Site meet-up, since they were the first place I met some of the regulars from this forum, to include …

Lima by Jay T

Lima (Inscribed)

Lima

Lima is a great city to explore -- I must state that up front -- but the central historic district which composes the World Heritage Site was not as impressive …

Gwynedd Castles by Jay T

Gwynedd Castles (Inscribed)

Gwynedd Castles

It seems kind of strange that the first World Heritage Site in Wales should be a symbol of subjugation by the English, but that's what the Castles and Town Walls …

Dorset and East Devon Coast by Jay T

Dorset and East Devon Coast (Inscribed)

Dorset and East Devon Coast

I would love to say it was highbrow literature that made me excited to visit England's Dorset and East Devon Coast in May of 2018, but On Chesil Beach just …

Burgos Cathedral by Jay T

Burgos Cathedral (Inscribed)

Burgos Cathedral

Burgos Cathedral was probably my favorite of the many cathedrals I saw on my trip to Spain this past May. The bright vaulted openness of the interior, and the exquisite …

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque by Jay T

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque (Inscribed)

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque

It's not that aqueducts aren't impressive, but I have much stronger memories of my conversation with my taxi driver on the way to and from the Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque …

Vizcaya Bridge by Jay T

Vizcaya Bridge (Inscribed)

Vizcaya Bridge

Bilbao has much to be proud of with its renovated downtown, full of modern architecture designed by the likes of Frank Gehry, Arata Isozaki, Santiago Calatrava, and Norman Foster; however, …

Statue of Liberty by Jay T

Statue of Liberty (Inscribed)

Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable World Heritage Sites in the world, and the only World Heritage Site I have ever seen someone emulate in costume …

Route of Santiago de Compostela by Jay T

Route of Santiago de Composte… (Inscribed)

Route of Santiago de Compostela

One of my more indelible travel memories is of watching a truckload of pilgrims departing for the Hajj, joyfully singing and cheering as they left Luxor, Egypt, in October 2012. …

Pompei by Jay T

Pompei (Inscribed)

Pompei

Pompei is an awesome site to visit if you want to see a relatively well-preserved Roman city from the 1st century AD. That said, a visit can also be sobering, …

Las Medulas by Jay T

Las Medulas (Inscribed)

Las Medulas

"There's gold in them thar hills", and that's exactly what brought Rome to Las Médulas in northwest Spain. The UNESCO World Heritage Site inscription is what brought me to Las …

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump by Jay T

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (Inscribed)

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a strong contender for the oddest named World Heritage Site I've visited, though its name makes sense after learning its history. On a cliff in western …

Flemish Béguinages by Jay T

Flemish Béguinages (Inscribed)

Flemish Béguinages

One of the things I love about World Heritage Sites is how they can expose you to places, or in the case of the Flemish Béguinages, concepts, that I had …

Camino Real by Jay T

Camino Real (Inscribed)

Camino Real

I first traveled Mexico's Royal Road, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, in 1998 as part of a church mission trip which took me from El Paso by road to …

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