Jay T

Member since August 2017

#119 337 62

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
  • 2
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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
  • 1
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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

First name
Jay
Member since
August 2017
Country of Origin
None
Visits
Rank
#119
WHS
337
Tentative Sites
62
Website Participation
Reviews
179
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Reviews by Jay T

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Greater Blue Mountains by Jay T

Greater Blue Mountains (Inscribed)

Greater Blue Mountains

What can I say about the Greater Blue Mountains? Well, they were there, tantalizingly shrouded in the fog when I visited in June of 2012. Eucalyptus trees lined the bluffs …

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape by Jay T

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Inscribed)

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape

About halfway through my very rainy drive from London to the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape in Wales earlier this month, I had to remind myself BBC weather predicted clearing skies by …

Vicenza and the Palladian Villas by Jay T

Vicenza and the Palladian Vil… (Inscribed)

Vicenza and the Palladian Villas

Palladio's influence on American colonial architecture can be seen in historic homes and structures throughout the East Coast of the United States, including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and the University of …

Skocjan Caves by Jay T

Skocjan Caves (Inscribed)

Skocjan Caves

I love caves, so when a friend of mine suggested visiting Slovenia last fall, I leapt at the opportunity to explore the karst topography of the Škocjan Caves. I had …

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) by Jay T

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) (Inscribed)

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)

The Piazza del Duomo in Pisa is one of the most famous sites in Europe, entirely due to an aesthetically designed tower that was poorly engineered. Thankfully there are hordes …

La Fortaleza and San Juan by Jay T

La Fortaleza and San Juan (Inscribed)

La Fortaleza and San Juan

I'm glad I visited La Fortaleza and San Juan Historic Site in Puerto Rico when I did in the fall of 2016, since I learned how beautiful and atmospheric Old …

Grand Pré by Jay T

Grand Pré (Inscribed)

Grand Pré

They were caught between two great powers in the 18th century, and so the French Acadians of Grand Pré fell on the wrong side of history. The French settlers had …

Botanical Garden, Padua by Jay T

Botanical Garden, Padua (Inscribed)

Botanical Garden, Padua

I enjoy a good botanical garden when traveling, so I looked forward to visiting the Botanical Garden in Padua last year, even though I knew I would be visiting out …

White City of Tel-Aviv by Jay T

White City of Tel-Aviv (Inscribed)

White City of Tel-Aviv

The White City of Tel Aviv is the rather poetic appellation given to one of the Middle East's youngest World Heritage Sites -- a living museum of several thousand buildings …

Tombs of Buganda Kings by Jay T

Tombs of Buganda Kings (Inscribed)

Tombs of Buganda Kings

It was a rainy day when I visited the Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi in Kampala, Uganda, in summer 2014. The grey afternoon served as a fine backdrop to …

San Antonio Missions by Jay T

San Antonio Missions (Inscribed)

San Antonio Missions

It shouldn't have been a World Heritage Site that made me finally get around to visiting San Antonio, but I'm afraid the relatively newly-inscribed San Antonio Missions were the impetus …

Olympia by Jay T

Olympia (Inscribed)

Olympia

I find it fitting to write about Olympia in the days following the extinguishing of the Olympic flame for the 2018 Winter Games since I visited Olympia the day after …

Kotor by Jay T

Kotor (Inscribed)

Kotor

I had great expectations for the Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor when I visited in October 2017, since it would be my first visit to Montenegro. Unfortunately, the city …

Great Smoky Mountains by Jay T

Great Smoky Mountains (Inscribed)

Great Smoky Mountains

Great Smoky Mountains National Park was the first World Heritage Site I visited, part of a family vacation when I was six. I have fond memories of the trip and …

Colonia del Sacramento by Jay T

Colonia del Sacramento (Inscribed)

Colonia del Sacramento

The Historic Center of the City of Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay is a perfectly adequate World Heritage Site, but, as has been intimated by other reviewers here, it would …

Antigua Naval Dockyard by Jay T

Antigua Naval Dockyard (Inscribed)

Antigua Naval Dockyard

The hurricane season in the fall of 2017 was awful in the eastern Caribbean, and unfortunately devastated the island of Barbuda; in better news, however, the neighboring island of Antigua …

Venetian Works of Defence by Jay T

Venetian Works of Defence (Inscribed)

Venetian Works of Defence

One doesn't have to look any farther than the city walls of Kotor in Montenegro to see they are part of the Venetian Works of Defence Between 16th and 17th …

Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca by Jay T

Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuen… (Inscribed)

Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca

Although it was rainy during most of my visit, I found the city of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca to be the most charming of the cities I …

Petra by Jay T

Petra (Inscribed)

Petra

Like many of my age, I suspect, my introduction to Petra was via "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", which used the iconic façade of the Treasury to represent a …

Kinderdijk by Jay T

Kinderdijk (Inscribed)

Kinderdijk

The Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout was the Dutch World Heritage Site I was most excited to visit when I traveled to the Netherlands in the summer of 2014. When I …

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