The dossier for Sidi Bou Said speaks glowingly of an important Mediterranean hilltop town, with palaces and big houses and important religious shrines and so on. The reality (at least …
Joel On The Road
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One of the few token Australians. Back to work after six years of full-time travelling, eagerly anticipating the day we can continue the journey!
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Abbey of St Gall
- Acropolis
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Agra Fort
- Agrigento
- Ahmadabad
- Ajanta Caves
- Albi
- Alcala de Henares
- Altamira Cave
- Alto Douro
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Thebes
- Angkor
- Antequera Dolmens Site
- Anuradhapura
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
- Aquileia
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Aranjuez
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Archaeological site of Philippi
- Arequipa
- Arles
- Assisi
- Asturian Monuments
- Atapuerca
- Atlantic Forest South-East
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Australian Convict Sites
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites
- Avignon
- Avila
- Ayutthaya
- Baekje Historic Areas
- Bagan
- Bali Subak system
- Bamberg
- Ban Chiang
- Banska Stiavnica
- Bardejov Town
- Baroque Churches
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Benedictine Convent of St. John
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Białowieża Forest
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Blenheim Palace
- Bordeaux
- Borobudur
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Bourges Cathedral
- Boyana Church
- Brasilia
- Brugge
- Brú na Bóinne
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
- Burgos Cathedral
- Burgundy
- Caceres
- Calakmul
- Camino Real
- Campeche
- Canal du Midi
- Canterbury
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Castel del Monte
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Causses and Cévennes
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla
- Centennial Hall
- Central Highlands
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Cerrado Protected Areas
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chaco Culture
- Champagne
- Champaner-Pavagadh
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
- Chichen-Itza
- Chola Temples
- Churches of Moldavia
- Churches of Peace
- Church of Atlántida
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Classical Weimar
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Congonhas
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Cordoba
- Corfu
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d'Adda
- Cuenca
- Curonian Spit
- Cuzco
- Dacian Fortresses
- Danube Delta
- Danube Limes
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Dazu Rock Carvings
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
- Delos
- Derwent Valley Mills
- Diamantina
- Dolomites
- Donana National Park
- Dong Phayayen
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Edinburgh
- Elephanta Caves
- El Escurial
- El Fuerte de Samaipata
- Ellora Caves
- El Tajin
- Elvas
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Epidaurus
- ESMA Site Museum
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Everglades
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Fanjingshan
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Ferrara
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Forth Bridge
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Fraser Island
- Fray Bentos
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Fujisan
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Galapagos Islands
- Gammelstad
- Garajonay
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Gaya Tumuli
- Genbaku Dome
- Genoa
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats
- Giant's Causeway
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
- Goias
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Gorham's Cave Complex
- Granada
- Grand Canal
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Great Barrier Reef
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Great Wall
- Grimeton Radio Station
- Guanajuato
- Guimarães
- Gunung Mulu
- Gwynedd Castles
- Gyeongju
- Haeinsa Temple
- Hahoe and Yangdong
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Heritage of Mercury
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Himeji-jo
- Hiraizumi
- Historic Cairo
- Hoi An
- Holasovice
- Hollókö
- Holy Trinity Column
- Hortobágy
- Horyu-ji Area
- Hospicio Cabañas
- Huangshan
- Hué
- Humayun's Tomb
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Ibiza
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
- Imperial Palace
- Imperial Tombs
- Independence Hall
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Isole Eolie
- Istanbul
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Ivrea
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan
- Jantar Mantar
- Jelling
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
- Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Kakadu National Park
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Kandy
- Karlskrona
- Keoladeo National Park
- Kernavė
- Kew Gardens
- Kii Mountain Range
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Kinabalu Park
- Kinderdijk
- Kraków
- Kronborg Castle
- Kutna Hora
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- Lagoons of New Caledonia
- Lake District
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Laponian Area
- Las Medulas
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Le Havre
- Lenggong Valley
- Liangzhu Archaeological Site
- Lima
- Litomysl Castle
- Loire Valley
- Longobards in Italy
- Lord Howe Island
- Luang Prabang
- Lübeck
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Lushan National Park
- Luther Memorials
- Lyon
- Machu Picchu
- Madara Rider
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
- Mahabalipuram
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes
- Major Town Houses
- Malbork Castle
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Margravial Opera House
- Maritime Greenwich
- Matera
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Melaka and George Town
- Mérida
- Mesa Verde
- Messel Pit
- Meteora
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Modena
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monastery of Horezu
- Monte San Giorgio
- Monticello
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Moravian Church Settlements
- Morelia
- Mountain Railways of India
- Mount Athos
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Mount Etna
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- My Son
- Mystras
- Namhansanseong
- Nancy
- Naples
- Nasca Lines
- Naumburg Cathedral
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- Neolithic Orkney
- Nessebar
- New Lanark
- Ngorongoro
- Nice
- Nikko
- Ningaloo Coast
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Nubian Monuments
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Okinoshima Island
- Old City of Berne
- Old Rauma
- Old Town of Galle
- Olympia
- Oporto
- Orange
- Ouro Preto
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palenque
- Palmeral of Elche
- Pampulha
- Panamá
- Pannonhalma
- Paraty and Ilha Grande
- Par force hunting landscape
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Peking Man Site
- Petäjävesi Old Church
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pienza
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Pirin National Park
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Plečnik's Ljubljana
- Poblet Monastery
- Polonnaruva
- Pompei
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Pont du Gard
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potosi
- Potsdam
- Prague
- Prambanan
- Preah Vihear Temple
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Provins
- Puebla
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
- Purnululu National Park
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Quebrada de Humahuaca
- Quedlinburg
- Querétaro
- Quito
- Qutb Minar
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Rani-ki-Vav
- Ravenna
- Red Fort
- Redwood
- Regensburg
- Reichenau
- Reims
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhaetian Railway
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rila Monastery
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rjukan / Notodden
- Rock Art of Alta
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
- Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Rome
- Røros
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Royal Joseon Tombs
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Saint-Emilion
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Salamanca
- Saltaire
- Salzburg
- Sambor Prei Kuk
- Sammallahdenmäki
- Sanchi
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- San Gimignano
- Sangiran Early Man Site
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- San Miguel de Allende
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Semmering Railway
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies
- Serengeti
- Seville
- Shark Bay
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Sian Ka'an
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
- Siena
- Sighisoara
- Sigiriya
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Sinharaja Forest
- Sintra
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Sítio Roberto Burle Marx
- Skocjan Caves
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Southern Öland
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Split
- Srebarna Nature Reserve
- Statue of Liberty
- Stevns Klint
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Strasbourg
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Studley Royal Park
- Sucre
- Sukhothai
- Summer Palace
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
- Sydney Opera House
- Syracuse
- Taj Mahal
- Tallinn
- Taos Pueblo
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine
- Tarraco
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley
- Teide National Park
- Telc
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- Temple of Heaven
- Teotihuacan
- Tequila
- Te Wahipounamu
- Thang Long
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Four Lifts
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- Thessalonika
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari
- Tiwanaku
- Tlacotalpan
- Tokaji Wine Region
- Toledo
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Tongariro National Park
- Torun
- Tower of Hercules
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trang An
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trogir
- Tugendhat Villa
- Tusi Sites
- Úbeda and Baeza
- Ujung Kulon National Park
- Uluru
- University of Coimbra
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Urbino
- Urnes Stave Church
- Uxmal
- Val di Noto
- Val d'Orcia
- Vall de Boi
- Valletta
- Valongo Wharf
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Vat Phou
- Vegaøyan
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vézelay
- Vézère Valley
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai
- Vienna
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Vilnius
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Vlkolinec
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadden Sea
- Warsaw
- Wartburg Castle
- Western Ghats
- West Lake
- Westminster
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Willandra Lakes
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Wulingyuan
- Würzburg Residence
- Xidi and Hongcun
- Xochicalco
- Yogyakarta
- Yosemite National Park
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Zacatecas
- Zamość
- Zollverein
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Top 10 Missing
- Andrefana Dry Forests 3.84
- Antigua Guatemala 3.71
- Archipiélago de Revillagigedo 3.66
- Aphrodisias 3.65
- Aleppo 3.55
- Ani 3.48
- Armenian Monastic Ensembles 3.28
- Aksum 3.22
- Aldabra Atoll 3.21
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park 3.16
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About Joel On The Road
- First name
- Joel on the
- Member since
- August 2017
- Country of Origin
- None
Visits
- Rank
- #35
- WHS
- 629
- Tentative Sites
- 49
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 52
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Purnululu National Park 5.0
- Lord Howe Island 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 5.0
- Serengeti 5.0
- Kilimanjaro National Park 5.0
- Ningaloo Coast 4.5
- Ngorongoro 4.5
- Rani-ki-Vav 4.5
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Rock Art of Alta 4.0
- Mount Etna 4.0
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 4.0
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4.0
- Ujung Kulon National Park 4.0
- Willandra Lakes 4.0
- Lagoons of New Caledonia 4.0
- Ping Yao 4.0
- Monastery of Horezu 3.5
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 3.5
- Longmen Grottoes 3.5
- Petäjävesi Old Church 3.5
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 3.0
- Central Highlands 3.0
- Stone Town of Zanzibar 3.0
- Royal Palace at Caserta 3.0
- Phu Phrabat 3.0
- Beijing Central Axis 3.0
- San Cristobal de La Laguna 3.0
- Levuka 3.0
- Røros 2.5
- Archaeological site of Philippi 2.5
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 2.5
- Yin Xu 2.5
- ESMA Site Museum 2.0
- Tower of Hercules 2.0
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 2.0
- Vegaøyan 2.0
- Ahmadabad 1.5
- Rjukan / Notodden 1.5
- Djerba 1.0
- Sammallahdenmäki 1.0
Tentative Sites
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Reviews by Joel on the Road

Djerba (Inscribed)
Djerba
Djerba is a cultural landscape that reflects how local people survived and thrived on a harsh desert island. The dossier and the inscription criteria speak of overcoming the unique challenges …

Yin Xu (Inscribed)
Yin Xu
I’m generally wary of sites in the “something important happened here, but is no longer actually here” category, but Yin Xu was a pleasant surprise. As Els noted in her …

Ping Yao (Inscribed)
Ping Yao
Ping Yao is a beautiful and well-preserved old city, located in China’s Shanxi province. It was an important centre of trade, commerce, and political power for centuries, mainly during the …

Longmen Grottoes (Inscribed)
Longmen Grottoes
Longmen Grottoes is a large collection of Buddhist carvings into caves and grottoes, in a kilometre-long series of cliffs above the Yi River. There are several thousand caves and grottoes …

Murujuga Cultural Landscape (Nominated)
Murujuga Cultural Landscape
I'm going to put it out there right at the start of this review: the Murujuga Cultural Landscape is one of the most impressive collections of petroglyphs (rock carvings) I've …

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx (Inscribed)
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx
As you travel through Brazil's World Heritage sites, the name Roberto Burle Marx keeps on popping up. Almost as much as Oscar Niemeyer! A world-renowned garden designer, landscape architect, botanist, …

ESMA Site Museum (Inscribed)
ESMA Site Museum
ESMA, the ESpacio MemoriA y Derechos Humanos (Human Rights and Memorial Space), belongs to a difficult category of Site. Like Auschwitz, Hiroshima, and the proposed sites of genocide memorial in …

Ujung Kulon National Park (Inscribed)
Ujung Kulon National Park
We visited the Anak Krakatau area in July 2018, and it seems much has changed since Clyde's review below. We accessed the site via the same method: a private 3 …

Phu Phrabat (Inscribed)
Phu Phrabat
We visited Phuphrabat on a day trip from Udon Thani using a driver sourced via our hotel. It can comfortably be visited in a single day trip along with nearby …

Archaeological site of Philip… (Inscribed)
Archaeological site of Philippi
First things first: there is far less to see here than at most other ancient sites in Greece. The ruins are just that: ruins, and aside from the theatre, not …

Kakadu National Park (Inscribed)
Kakadu National Park
In my opinion, Kakadu National Park is one of Australia's most impressive sites. Home to ancient culture, gorgeous natural scenery, and a colossal variety of plants and animals, there's a …

Hill Forts of Rajasthan (Inscribed)
Hill Forts of Rajasthan
Although this site covers six different forts, we were a bit short on time and opted for the easiest one to visit the Amber Fort just outside of Jaipur. It's …

Rani-ki-Vav (Inscribed)
Rani-ki-Vav
This is a fantastic, hidden gem of India. Stepwells are large, flat wells that were once quite common in this part of India, and the Queen's Stepwell here is one …

Ahmadabad (Inscribed)
Ahmadabad
As other reviewers have noted, Ahmedabad is very much not a tourist city. It's hot, dusty and chaotic - even by Indian standards. We spent three days here in February …

Central Highlands (Inscribed)
Central Highlands
As an Australian, I'm completely fine with all manner of poisonous insects, bugs, spiders, and other creepy crawlies. They just don't bother me that much. Leeches, however - they bother …

Monastery of Horezu (Inscribed)
Monastery of Horezu
Horezu was our first visit in Romania, and our first encounter with an Orthodox monastery since focusing full-time on World Heritage sites. It's quite an enjoyable site - the walls …

Verla Groundwood and Board Mi… (Inscribed)
Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
This was the second site we visited on our tour through Finland. Generally speaking I've quite enjoyed industrial Heritage sites like those in Germany and England, and I quite enjoyed …

Petäjävesi Old Church (Inscribed)
Petäjävesi Old Church
We visited Petäjävesi on an overcast day in early July, as part of our tour around southern and central Finland. This really is a very small site, just the church …

Sammallahdenmäki (Inscribed)