Jeddah is the second largest city in Saudi Arabia with a population of nearly five million. The country's commercial centre and the gateway for pilgrims to Mecca. Jeddah is also …
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- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
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- Baalbek 5.0
- Dolomites 5.0
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- Persepolis 5.0
- St. Petersburg 5.0
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- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- Villa Romana del Casale 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.5
- Lena Pillars 4.5
- Matera 4.5
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.5
- Putorana Plateau 4.5
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.5
- Hampi 4.5
- Sigiriya 4.5
- Virgin Komi Forests 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Westminster 4.5
- Lake District 4.5
- Hegra 4.5
- Royal Palace at Caserta 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Saint-Emilion 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Sun Temple, Konarak 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Rani-ki-Vav 4.0
- Ajanta Caves 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Tajik National Park 4.0
- Ahmadabad 4.0
- Koh Ker 4.0
- Champagne 4.0
- Ayutthaya 4.0
- Ephesus 4.0
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Blenheim Palace 4.0
- City of Bath 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Neolithic Orkney 4.0
- Western Caucasus 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Upper Svaneti 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Bukhara 4.0
- Itchan Kala 4.0
- Rock Art in the Hail Region 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Hué 4.0
- Fontainebleau 4.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 4.0
- Quedlinburg 4.0
- Naples 4.0
- Ravenna 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Giant's Causeway 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 4.0
- Masjed-e Jâme' 4.0
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan 4.0
- Trang An 4.0
- Tchogha Zanbil 4.0
- Takht-e Soleyman 4.0
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 4.0
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 4.0
- Pergamon 4.0
- Agrigento 4.0
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 4.0
- Aphrodisias 4.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- Florence 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Luang Prabang 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Hoi An 4.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 4.0
- Plitvice Lakes 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Syracuse 4.0
- Val di Noto 4.0
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.0
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 4.0
- Guanajuato 4.0
- Old Havana 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.0
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios 4.0
- Paphos 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 4.0
- Valletta 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- Jantar Mantar 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Auschwitz Birkenau 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 4.0
- Malbork Castle 4.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.0
- Belem 4.0
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 4.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 4.0
- Visby 4.0
- Tugendhat Villa 4.0
- Monastery of Batalha 4.0
- Oporto 4.0
- Nubian Monuments 4.0
- Tallinn 4.0
- Derbent 4.0
- Golden Mountains of Altai 4.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.0
- Kizhi Pogost 4.0
- Amiens Cathedral 4.0
- Loire Valley 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Vat Phou 3.5
- Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake 3.5
- Kutna Hora 3.5
- Kerkuane 3.5
- Western Ghats 3.5
- Tabriz Bazaar 3.5
- Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5
- Persian Garden 3.5
- Bauhaus Sites 3.5
- Vall de Boi 3.5
- Solovetsky Islands 3.5
- Torun 3.5
- Masada 3.5
- Preah Vihear Temple 3.5
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang 3.5
- Old City of Acre 3.5
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3.5
- Ironbridge Gorge 3.5
- Teide National Park 3.5
- Warsaw 3.5
- Anuradhapura 3.5
- Assisi 3.5
- Qutb Minar 3.5
- Kronborg Castle 3.5
- Sinharaja Forest 3.5
- Etruscan Necropolises 3.5
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.5
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Garajonay 3.5
- Isole Eolie 3.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3.5
- Białowieża Forest 3.5
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- Qadisha Valley 3.5
- Xanthos-Letoon 3.5
- Ban Chiang 3.5
- Nice 3.5
- Ellora Caves 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Dougga/Thugga 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Chartres Cathedral 3.5
- Pattadakal 3.5
- Troy 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Trogir 3.5
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.5
- Selimiye Mosque 3.5
- Çatalhöyük 3.5
- Dong Phayayen 3.5
- Bamberg 3.5
- Riga 3.5
- Sassanid Archaeological Landscape 3.5
- Vilnius 3.5
- City of Luxembourg 3.5
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park 3.5
- Churches of Moldavia 3.5
- Medina Azahara 3.5
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 3.5
- The Porticoes of Bologna 3.5
- El Tajin 3.5
- Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda 3.5
- Sighisoara 3.5
- Anjar 3.5
- Pont du Gard 3.5
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 3.5
- Wadi Al-Hitan 3.5
- Medina of Tunis 3.5
- Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Puebla 3.5
- Gordion 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- Querétaro 3.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 3.5
- Petroglyphs of the Lake Onega and the White Sea 3.5
- Landscapes of Dauria 3.5
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.5
- Walled City of Baku 3.5
- Tequila 3.5
- Le Morne 3.5
- Viñales Valley 3.5
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5
- Lübeck 3.5
- Tauric Chersonese 3.5
- Kotor 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- Xochicalco 3.5
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.5
- Thingvellir 3.5
- Petäjävesi Old Church 3.5
- Burgundy 3.5
- Golestan Palace 3.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5
- Zacatecas 3.5
- Lyon 3.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 3.5
- Amphitheater of El Jem 3.5
- Umm Al-Jimāl 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana 3.5
- Cesky Krumlov 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Rhodes 3.5
- Cuenca 3.5
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.5
- Shushtar 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Central Sikhote-Alin 3.5
- Bourges Cathedral 3.5
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.5
- Val d'Orcia 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Trier 3.5
- Bryggen 3.5
- Wartburg Castle 3.5
- Würzburg Residence 3.5
- Volubilis 3.5
- Ferapontov Monastery 3.5
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 3.5
- Delos 3.5
- Phu Phrabat 3.5
- Studley Royal Park 3.5
- Historic Cairo 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Medina of Fez 3.5
- Mostar 3.5
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.5
- Old Town of Galle 3.5
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3.5
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 3.5
- Avila 3.5
- Brú na Bóinne 3.5
- Archaeological site of Philippi 3.5
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5
- Hegmataneh 3.5
- Tokaji Wine Region 3.5
- Armenian Monastic Ensembles 3.5
- Hattusha 3.5
- Bisotun 3.5
- Butrint 3.5
- Tyre 3.0
- Haghpat and Sanahin 3.0
- Major Town Houses 3.0
- The Four Lifts 3.0
- Nessebar 3.0
- Rila Monastery 3.0
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 3.0
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.0
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- San Pedro de la Roca Castle 3.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.0
- Wadden Sea 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Arles 3.0
- Bordeaux 3.0
- Le Havre 3.0
- Vézelay 3.0
- Classical Weimar 3.0
- Corvey 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- Muskauer Park 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Stralsund and Wismar 3.0
- Zollverein 3.0
- Epidaurus 3.0
- Mystras 3.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.0
- Thessalonika 3.0
- Hollókö 3.0
- Pannonhalma 3.0
- Bam Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Lut Desert 3.0
- Yazd 3.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.0
- Aquileia 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Genoa 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 3.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.0
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.0
- Hospicio Cabañas 3.0
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 3.0
- Morelia 3.0
- Popocatepetl monasteries 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Durmitor National Park 3.0
- Medina of Tétouan 3.0
- Bethlehem 3.0
- Van Nellefabriek 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Centennial Hall 3.0
- Churches of Peace 3.0
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 3.0
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 3.0
- Elvas 3.0
- Guimarães 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.0
- Bolgar 3.0
- Curonian Spit 3.0
- Kazan Kremlin 3.0
- Novgorod 3.0
- Sviyazhsk 3.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.0
- Stari Ras and Sopocani 3.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 3.0
- Aranjuez 3.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 3.0
- Skocjan Caves 3.0
- Heritage of Mercury 3.0
- Caceres 3.0
- Mérida 3.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3.0
- Poblet Monastery 3.0
- San Cristobal de La Laguna 3.0
- Tarraco 3.0
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3.0
- Old City of Berne 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 3.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.0
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 3.0
- L'viv 3.0
- Residence of Bukovinian & Dalmatian Metropolitans 3.0
- Shakhrisyabz 3.0
- Banska Stiavnica 3.0
- Bardejov Town 3.0
- Gobustan Rock Art 3.0
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Telc 3.0
- Ohrid Region 3.0
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 3.0
- Old Rauma 3.0
- Nancy 3.0
- Provins 3.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Safi al-Din Ensemble in Ardabil 3.0
- Soltaniyeh 3.0
- Biblical Tells 3.0
- Longobards in Italy 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Bellinzone 3.0
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Gelati Monastery 3.0
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 3.0
- Mtskheta 3.0
- Novodevichy Convent 3.0
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 3.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 3.0
- Serra de Tramuntana 3.0
- Studenica Monastery 3.0
- Zamość 3.0
- Yaroslavl 3.0
- Vallée de Mai 3.0
- Polonnaruva 3.0
- Pearling 3.0
- Byblos 3.0
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.0
- Champaner-Pavagadh 3.0
- Churches and Convents of Goa 3.0
- Qalhat 3.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 3.0
- Rjukan / Notodden 3.0
- Røros 3.0
- Elephanta Caves 3.0
- Urnes Stave Church 3.0
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.0
- Plain of Jars 3.0
- Kladruby nad Labem 3.0
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 3.0
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 3.0
- The trulli of Alberobello 3.0
- Castel del Monte 3.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
- Water Management System of Augsburg 3.0
- Safranbolu 3.0
- Caves and Ice Age Art 3.0
- Mafra 3.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 3.0
- Rock Art of Alta 3.0
- Roșia Montană 3.0
- Aachen Cathedral 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Medina of Essaouira 3.0
- Rabat 3.0
- Himā Cultural area 3.0
- Persian Caravanserai 3.0
- Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia 3.0
- Talayotic Menorca 3.0
- Carthage 3.0
- Medina of Sousse 3.0
- 'Uruq Bani Ma'arid 3.0
- Bahla Fort 2.5
- Jelling 2.5
- Al Ain 2.5
- Boyana Church 2.5
- Choirokoitia 2.5
- Cienfuegos 2.5
- Danube Limes 2.5
- Al-Ahsa Oasis 2.5
- Monastery of Geghard 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Modena 2.5
- Modernist Kaunas 2.5
- Crespi d'Adda 2.5
- Historic Jeddah 2.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2.5
- ShUM Sites 2.5
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.5
- Drottningholm 2.5
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak 2.5
- Pirin National Park 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 2.5
- Nesvizh 2.5
- Central Highlands 2.5
- Stevns Klint 2.5
- Par force hunting landscape 2.5
- First Coffee Plantations 2.5
- Madara Rider 2.5
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 2.5
- Monastery of Horezu 2.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 2.5
- New Lanark 2.5
- Dacian Fortresses 2.5
- Mir Castle 2.5
- Camino Real 2.5
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 2.5
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 2.5
- Gorham's Cave Complex 2.5
- Úbeda and Baeza 2.5
- Ibiza 2.5
- Stećci 2.5
- Kernavė 2.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.5
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 2.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 2.5
- Kandy 2.5
- Tanbaly 2.5
- Vlkolinec 2.5
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 2.5
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.5
- Maritime Greenwich 2.5
- Turaif Quarter 2.5
- Ivrea 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Thang Long 2.5
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 2.5
- Mount Carmel Caves 2.5
- Evora 2.5
- Ancient Merv 2.5
- The Persian Qanat 2.5
- Maymand 2.5
- Statue of Liberty 2.5
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 2.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 2.5
- Meknes 2.5
- Speyer Cathedral 2.5
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 2.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 2.5
- Flemish Béguinages 2.5
- Margravial Opera House 2.5
- My Son 2.5
- Sammallahdenmäki 2.5
- Luther Memorials 2.5
- The Prosecco Hills 2.5
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2.5
- Mazagan 2.5
- Vegaøyan 2.5
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 2.5
- Litomysl Castle 2.5
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 2.5
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 2.5
- Camagüey 2.0
- Sarazm 2.0
- Southern Öland 2.0
- Karlskrona 2.0
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge 2.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 2.0
- Donana National Park 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Alto Douro 2.0
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Dilmun Burial Mounds 2.0
- Palmeral of Elche 2.0
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 2.0
- Sulaiman-Too 2.0
- Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 2.0
- Saryarka 2.0
- Rhaetian Railway 2.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 2.0
- Susa 2.0
- Corfu 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Messel Pit 2.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.0
- Trebic 2.0
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.0
- Holy Trinity Column 2.0
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.0
- Stari Grad Plain 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 2.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.0
- Stonehenge 2.0
- Semmering Railway 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- Nisa 2.0
- Aflaj irrigation system 2.0
- Kunya-Urgench 2.0
- Schokland 1.5
- Kuldiga 1.5
- Al Zubarah 1.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.5
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 1.5
- Monte San Giorgio 1.5
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 1.5
- Aapravasi Ghat 1.5
- Battir 1.5
- Pasargadae 1.5
- Grimeton Radio Station 1.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 1.5
- Ichkeul National Park 1.5
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1.5
- Struve Geodetic Arc 1.5
- Hortobágy 1.5
- Holasovice 1.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Rijal Almaa
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu
- Kyiv: St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches
- Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization
- Sea of Galilee
- Extension of Prague WHS
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malt
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of
- The Memorial of Chatam Sófer
- Kekova
- Zee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region
- Sarajevo
- Caesarea
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Orvieto
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- Orheiul Vechi
- Firuzabad Ensemble
- Jerusalem
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- The network of fortresses of the seneschalty of Ca
- Beng Malea Temple
- L'amphitheatre de Durres
- Cittadella (Victoria - Gozo)
- Kosice
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Fortifications in Komárno - Komárom (Slovak)
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States
- Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape
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Reviews by Martina Rúčková


Hegra (Inscribed)
Hegra
Hegra is Saudi Arabia's paramount tourist attraction and one of the few boasting of an excellent infrastructure ready to handle mass tourism. Correction, it's actually the only place in Saudi …

Zee Ain Heritage Village in A… (On tentative list)
Zee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region
Zee (also marked as Thee) Ain Heritage Village is a nice detour on the drive from Jeddah to Abha and we enjoyed our visit, I have to say more than …

Hejaz Railway (On tentative list)
Hejaz Railway
Hejaz Railway is an interesting nomination and I would say my favourite in Saudi out of the four large serial ones (the three others are pilgrimage hajj routes). It's a …

Syrian Hajj Road (On tentative list)
Syrian Hajj Road
Syrian Hajj road is another of the long-winded multi-site serial nomination to be inscribed, along with Dar Zubaydah (Saudi-Iraqi road) and Egyptian road. This pilgrimage route connected Mecca and Medina …

Egyptian Hajj Road (On tentative list)
Egyptian Hajj Road
Another of the serial nominations for three pilgrimage roads to Mecca, and this one actually ends in Mecca, not Medina as Dar Zubaydah and Syrian Hajj road do. Egyptian Hajj …

Rock Art in the Hail Region (Inscribed)
Rock Art in the Hail Region
To see the rock art, we headed north from Buraydah, through the town of Ha'il to the smaller resort of Jubbah. There are two sites for the rock art: Jabal …

The Darb Zubaydah (Saudi) (On tentative list)
The Darb Zubaydah (Saudi)
Heading to the Rock Art in the Ha'il region from Buraydah, we had one of the monuments from this series nomination.These are monuments along the historical route from the Iraqi …

Al-Ahsa Oasis (Inscribed)
Al-Ahsa Oasis
The Al-Ahsa Oasis is listed on the World Cultural Heritage List as a place that has been inhabited for a long time since the Early Stone Age. This was helped …

Turaif Quarter (Inscribed)
Turaif Quarter
Ivan and I visited this WHS on our return trip from Al Ahsa Oasis, heading to Buraydah and Ha'il Rock Art, Riyadh being conveniently on our way. So we made …

Derbent (Inscribed)
Derbent
Derbent was the first and only part of Dagestan Ivan and I have managed to visit in our first year in Russia together. In 2013, Dagestan was still quite a …

Putorana Plateau (Inscribed)
Putorana Plateau
Two unvisited WHSs in Russia remained for us: Wrangel Island and Putorana Plateau. The former is still off as far as what we're willing to spend, the latter was doable, …

Cultural Landscape of Kenozer… (Inscribed)
Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake
Kenozero National Park was the second tentative site we visited on our weekend stint via night train (for logistic details, have a look at my Lake Onega Petroglyphs review). As …

Petroglyphs of the Lake Onega… (Inscribed)
Petroglyphs of the Lake Onega and the White Sea
After ticking off most WHSs in Russia, Ivan and I are trying to visit the most of the tentative sites that seem to be in for a subscription. And especially …

Churches of the Pskov School … (Inscribed)
Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture
Ivan and I have visited Pskov and seen some of its churches many years ago, before it was inscribed - with Ivan's Dad. We made this town on the Estonian …

Landscapes of Dauria (Inscribed)
Landscapes of Dauria
Searching high and low for unvisited WHSs in Russia, we followed a visit to Sikhote-Alin to a visit to Dauria on the Russian side. From what we understood, the most …

Central Sikhote-Alin (Inscribed)
Central Sikhote-Alin
Desperate times call for desperate measures. So when Ivan and I got stuck in Russia for a progressively longer and longer time, we started not only revisiting old Russian WHSs, …

The Memorial of Chatam Sófer (On tentative list)
The Memorial of Chatam Sófer
If there is a tentative site I would recommend Slovakia pushing for nomination, it would be the Chatam Sofer memorial, which for me combines several reasons of outstanding value: not …

Sambor Prei Kuk (Inscribed)
Sambor Prei Kuk
We visited Sambor Prei Kuk on the second out of three days of our Siem Reap Stay. Starting early again it took us about two and half hours to reach …

Preah Vihear Temple (Inscribed)
Preah Vihear Temple
Fortunately, the visit to Preah Vihear nowadays is all a matter of arranging a driver and suffering through a bit of a rickety road from time to time. The worst …