Little Lauren Travels

Member since March 2019

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Focusing on WHS travel since 2014.

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About Little Lauren Travels

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Little Lauren
Member since
March 2019
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#223
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Tentative Sites
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Reviews by Little Lauren Travels

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San Juan de Ulua (On tentative list)

San Juan de Ulua

In search of UNESCO sites, I have certainly visited more Spanish and Portuguese forts than any sane person would. And there’s not much unique about this one. However, it is …

Asante Traditional Buildings by Els Slots

Asante Traditional Buildings (Inscribed)

Asante Traditional Buildings

I booked a tour with a local company, Ashanti African Tours, to spend four days in Ghana, visiting the forts and the Asante traditional buildings as well as the Akwasidae …

Guanacaste by Els Slots

Guanacaste (Inscribed)

Guanacaste

Guanacaste is a large area in northwestern Costa Rica that is easily accessible from the Liberia Airport, which has nonstop flights to many U.S. airports. Needing a short break to …

Forts and Castles Gold Coast by Els Slots

Forts and Castles Gold Coast (Inscribed)

Forts and Castles Gold Coast

This is a serial site consisting of 3 castles and over 20 forts along the Ghanaian coast. The castles, especially Cape Coast and Elmina, are huge European fortresses built and …

The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa by Jay T

The Pleistocene Occupation Si… (Inscribed)

The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa

I visited one of the three inscribed sites, Pinnacle Point, near Mossel Bay. It was the only one of the inscribed sites that had readily available online information about how …

Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites by Bernard Joseph Esposo Guerrero

Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (Inscribed)

Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites

I organized a private day tour from Johannesburg to visit eight of the fourteen sites on the final inscription that are in or around Johannesburg: (a) Liliesleaf, (b) Constitution Hill, …

Reichenau by Els Slots

Reichenau (Inscribed)

Reichenau

Reichenau is an island on the Bodensee/Lake Constance where the monastic tradition dates to the 800s. The island has three remaining churches that date to the 11th/12th centuries, and some …

La Fortaleza and San Juan by Els Slots

La Fortaleza and San Juan (Inscribed)

La Fortaleza and San Juan

This is actually a two-part site, consisting of La Fortaleza and other fortifications that make up the San Juan National Historic Site, run by the US National Parks Service. La …

Abydos by Roman Bruehwiler

Abydos (On tentative list)

Abydos

Another of Egypt’s tentative sites that blows many listed sites out of the water. Abydos was a very important city and is ancient even for ancient Egypt. It was buried …

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx by Els Slots

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx (Inscribed)

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx

Isn't it lovely when you visit a tentative site, and it ends up inscribed years later? I visited Sitio Roberto Burle Marx back in 2017 while I was in Rio …

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Wadi Feiran (On tentative list)

Wadi Feiran

Like the other Egyptian tentative sites from this period, the description is not very clear. This makes it difficult to visit, because you aren’t exactly sure what would be the …

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Rutho Monastery (On tentative list)

Rutho Monastery

Rutho, more commonly spelled Raitho, Monastery is a 4th century monastic site in the town of El Tur on the Sinai Peninsula.

Like the other tentative list sites on …

Kilimanjaro National Park by Els Slots

Kilimanjaro National Park (Inscribed)

Kilimanjaro National Park

Kilimanjaro National Park is centered around Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Tanzania and in Africa at 19,341 ft / 5895 m. A dormant volcano (and the world's largest free-standing …

Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex by Frédéric M

Chankillo Archaeoastronomical… (Inscribed)

Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex

I made it a goal to visit all of the UNESCO sites in Peru and as many of the tentative sites as I could during a five-week trip in 2014. …

Grand-Bassam by Little Lauren Travels

Grand-Bassam (Inscribed)

Grand-Bassam

Grand Bassam is a beach town about 45 minutes away from Abidjan. Its UNESCO status comes from the fact that it was a French colonial capital for a few years …