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 …
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About Little Lauren Travels
- First name
- Little Lauren
- Member since
- March 2019
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- WHS
- 227
- Tentative Sites
- 31
Website Participation
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World Heritage Sites
- Manu National Park 5.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 5.0
- Fraser Island 5.0
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 5.0
- Huascaran National Park 5.0
- Qadisha Valley 5.0
- Paraty and Ilha Grande 5.0
- Baalbek 5.0
- Tasmanian Wilderness 5.0
- Saint Catherine Area 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Kilimanjaro National Park 5.0
- Coffee Cultural Landscape 5.0
- Ngorongoro 5.0
- Selous Game Reserve 5.0
- Serengeti 5.0
- Ouro Preto 4.5
- Ohrid Region 4.5
- Puebla 4.5
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4.5
- Pampulha 4.5
- Burgos Cathedral 4.5
- Matera 4.5
- Tlacotalpan 4.0
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 4.0
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast 4.0
- Las Medulas 4.0
- Arequipa 4.0
- Cartagena 4.0
- Cape Floral Region 4.0
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 4.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 4.0
- Mesa Verde 4.0
- Kondoa 4.0
- Stone Town of Zanzibar 4.0
- Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara 4.0
- Berat and Gjirokastra 4.0
- Monticello 4.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 4.0
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 3.5
- El Tajin 3.5
- Caceres 3.5
- Mérida 3.5
- Olympic National Park 3.5
- Diamantina 3.5
- Antigua Naval Dockyard 3.5
- Morelia 3.5
- Quirigua 3.5
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 3.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 3.0
- Castel del Monte 3.0
- Chan Chan 3.0
- Grand-Bassam 3.0
- Byblos 3.0
- Australian Convict Sites 3.0
- Medina of Essaouira 3.0
- Copán 3.0
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 3.0
- Sítio Roberto Burle Marx 3.0
- Asante Traditional Buildings 3.0
- Mammoth Cave 3.0
- Heritage of Mercury 3.0
- Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites 3.0
- The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa 3.0
- Chavin 2.5
- Wadi Al-Hitan 2.5
- Roman Walls of Lugo 2.5
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries 2.5
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 2.5
- Aphrodisias 2.5
- Anjar 2.5
- Pirin National Park 2.5
- Nasca Lines 2.5
- Guanacaste 2.5
- Butrint 2.5
- Caral-Supe 2.5
- Congonhas 2.5
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Surtsey 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Vjetrenica Cave 2.0
- Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex 2.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 2.0
- Keoladeo National Park 2.0
- Uluru 2.0
- Old Rauma 2.0
- Robben Island 2.0
- Atapuerca 1.5
- Poverty Point 1.5
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 1.5
- Stećci 1.5
- Corvey 1.5
- Valongo Wharf 1.0
- Choirokoitia 1.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 1.0
- Santa Cruz de Mompox 1.0
- Cahokia Mounds 0.5
- Abu Mena 0.5
- Cuenca 0.5
Tentative Sites
- San Juan de Ulua
- Gebel Qatrani Area, Lake Qaroun
- Kakum National Park
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III
- Siwa archaeological area
- La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine Cultural
- The monasteries of the Arab Desert and Wadi Natrun
- Abydos
- Egyptian Museum
- Ras Mohammed
- Historical-town planning ensemble of Ston
- Great Desert Landscapes
- Dahshour
- Cuetzalan and its Historical, Cultural and Natural
- City of Trujillo
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese
- Cattolica Monastery in Stilo and Basilian-Byzantin
- The Turf House Tradition
- Casablanca
- Metz Royale et Impériale
- Parc National de la Serra da Bocaina
- Pre-Hispanic City of Cantona
- Lake Titicaca
- Delhi - A Heritage City
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Thingvellir National Park
- Alexandria
- Ancienne chocolaterie Menier à Noisiel
- Dahab
- Pharaon Island
- L'amphitheatre de Durres
- Desert National Park
- Al-Gundi and Phataoh's island
- Rutho Monastery
- Wadi Feiran
- Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi
- Les tombes de la Basse Selca
- Hala Sultan Tekke and the Larnaka Salt Lake Comple
- The Murge of Altamura
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National
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Reviews by Little Lauren Travels

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 (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 (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 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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 …
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 …
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 (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… (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 (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 …