The Galápagos Islands are a nature-lovers dream, home to giant tortoises, iguanas, sea lions, penguins, flamingos, pelicans, Darwin's famed finches, frigates, and, my favorite, the blue-footed booby. And that's just …
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
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20June 15, 2025Fontainebleau, Provins
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40June 4, 2025Antequera Dolmens Site, Garajonay, Grand-Bassam, Island of Gorée
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10April 27, 2025Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
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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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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Istanbul 5.0
- St. Petersburg 5.0
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Uluru 5.0
- Mesa Verde 5.0
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5.0
- Edinburgh 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park 5.0
- Iguazu National Park 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- Yosemite National Park 5.0
- Iguacu 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Yellowstone 4.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.5
- Gros Morne National Park 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Everglades 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Wadi Rum 4.5
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5
- Lake Baikal 4.5
- Nikko 4.5
- Giant's Causeway 4.5
- Galapagos Islands 4.5
- Valletta 4.5
- Redwood 4.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Rhodes 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Huascaran National Park 4.0
- Thingvellir 4.0
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Ephesus 4.0
- Zacatecas 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Olympic National Park 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Independence Hall 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Statue of Liberty 4.0
- Quito 4.0
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 4.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Florence 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Tongariro National Park 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- L'Anse aux Meadows 4.0
- Burgos Cathedral 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Ibiza 3.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5
- Las Medulas 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5
- Historic Cairo 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Santo Domingo 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Brú na Bóinne 3.5
- SGang Gwaay 3.5
- Gulf of Porto 3.5
- Australian Convict Sites 3.5
- Neolithic Orkney 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa 3.0
- Grand Pré 3.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 3.0
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.0
- Morne Trois Pitons 3.0
- San Antonio Missions 3.0
- Monticello 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Al Ain 3.0
- Ayutthaya 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Pitons Management Area 3.0
- Camino Real 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3.0
- Gwynedd Castles 3.0
- Potsdam 3.0
- Santiago de Compostela 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Tower of Hercules 3.0
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- Valparaiso 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.0
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- Kotor 2.5
- Blenheim Palace 2.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 2.5
- Turaif Quarter 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Lima 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Antigua Naval Dockyard 2.5
- Colonia del Sacramento 2.5
- Royal Exhibition Building 2.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Sangay National Park 2.5
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.5
- Quseir Amra 2.5
- Um er-Rasas 2.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5
- Novodevichy Convent 2.5
- Tombs of Buganda Kings 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Old Town Lunenburg 2.5
- Rideau Canal 2.5
- Cahokia Mounds 2.5
- Poverty Point 2.5
- Miguasha National Park 2.0
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 2.0
- Belfries 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Aranjuez 2.0
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 2.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.0
- Evora 2.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Minoan Palatial Centres
- Early Medieval Benedictine settlements in Italy
- Auckland Volcanic Fields
- California Current Conservation Complex
- White Sands National Monument
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Gwaii Haanas
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
- Mt. Elgon
- Rade de Marseille
- 175 13
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Reviews by Jay T


Budapest (Inscribed)
Budapest
Budapest was my first foray into Eastern Europe beyond Russia, and it was an unforgettable city. I traveled to the city by train from Vienna with family and friends in …

Wet Tropics of Queensland (Inscribed)
Wet Tropics of Queensland
Lush, green rainforests carpet the low hills of the Wet Tropics of Queensland, which border the beaches, coastal towns, and agricultural fields of the northeast coast of Australia. When I …

Sangay National Park (Inscribed)
Sangay National Park
The road through Sangay National Park is a fait accompli, providing a quicker route to the Ecuadorian city of Macas, east of the Andes. I can't speak to the ecological …

Paris, Banks of the Seine (Inscribed)
Paris, Banks of the Seine
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the Paris, Banks of the Seine World Heritage Site, one of the most famous and visited sites in the world, is that 16 French …

Kremlin and Red Square (Inscribed)
Kremlin and Red Square
A visit to Moscow's Kremlin and Red Square provides great insight into Russia's past and present. The red brick walls of the Kremlin are familiar worldwide, housing not just the …

Great Barrier Reef (Inscribed)
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is as impressive a natural wonder as its name suggests, a wonderland of marine life stretching almost 1400 miles along the northeast coast of Australia. When …

Brú na Bóinne (Inscribed)
Brú na Bóinne
Within an hour of leaving Dublin's international airport, my friends and I found ourselves within the beautifully bucolic Boyne River valley, home to the neolithic history encapsulated in the Brú …

Westminster (Inscribed)
Westminster
This is iconic London: the Palace of Westminster with its distinctive Tower of Big Ben, set against the River Thames, and the nearby Gothic Westminster Abbey, site of coronations and …

Sintra (Inscribed)
Sintra
I absolutely loved my visit to the town of Sintra in the mountains outside Lisbon, Portugal. Sure, the weather was grey and brisk, and my warm layers were packed away …

Palau de la Musica Catalana &… (Inscribed)
Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
Sometimes when you travel with family or friends, you are limited in the amount of time you can spend visiting World Heritage Sites; accordingly, my visits to the Palau de …

Kew Gardens (Inscribed)
Kew Gardens
I should apologize to Kew Gardens that I ever associated it with The Avengers movie (not that one -- the other one you've tried to forget); apparently filming was done …

Göreme NP and Cappadocia (Inscribed)
Göreme NP and Cappadocia
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia are a geologic wonderland, steeped in the history of the early Christian church. I visited Göreme National Park and the Derinkuyu …

Blenheim Palace (Inscribed)
Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace is a fine example of British architecture and landscaping, and as the ancestral home of the Dukes of Marlborough, is rich in Churchill family history. The Crown bestowed …

Wadi Rum (Inscribed)
Wadi Rum
My cousins highly recommended an overnight visit to Wadi Rum, so when I visited in March 2015, I doubled down and spent two nights in the Jordanian desert. I was …

Singapore Botanic Gardens (Inscribed)
Singapore Botanic Gardens
I had less than 24 hours in Singapore when I visited in September 2012, but there was no way I was going to miss the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Accordingly, early …

Old City of Jerusalem (Inscribed)
Old City of Jerusalem
O Jerusalem -- a city revered and fought over through the centuries by armies from three faiths, and which struggles today to find peace and stability amongst its diverse residents. …

Jesuit Missions of the Guaran… (Inscribed)
Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
One year ago on a snowy night I watched the 1986 movie "The Mission", which covers historical events that affected the Jesuit Missions of the Guaranís in much warmer South …

Giant's Causeway (Inscribed)
Giant's Causeway
Giant's Causeway, in Northern Ireland, exceeds expectations. This geologic formation of hexagonal basalt columns extending into the ocean is a natural playground for visitors, and I had a great time …

Biblical Tells (Inscribed)
Biblical Tells
Tel Megiddo, one of the three Biblical Tells (basically towns built right on top of each other over the span of hundreds to thousands of years, forming a mound) inscribed …