Michael Ayers

Member since March 2010

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132 of the sites I have visited I saw during my bicycle tour of the southern continents (02005-02008).

http://www.terminalia.org/tour

A second Grand Tour began in April 2019, though it was disrupted by unanticipated events, a good number of interesting Site visits were made 

http://www.terminalia.org/world2

My most impressive site: Can't decide.

My proposal for a new site: Geological Remnants of Ice Age Floods, USA; Spiny Forest Protected Areas, Madagascar; Antarctica (all of it)

Check out my website: http://www.terminalia.org/world2

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About Michael Ayers

First name
Michael
Member since
March 2010
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#139
WHS
307
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Reviews by Michael Ayers

Orkhon Valley by Michael Ayers

Orkhon Valley (Inscribed)

Orkhon Valley

Visit in March 2022

This was the first Site that I visited during my hastily-arranged trip to Mongolia, just after the country had reopened after being closed for the …

Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain by Michael Ayers

Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain (Inscribed)

Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain

Visit in March 2022. 

When I began my second period of long-term travel in 2019, there were a small number of countries that I wanted to visit more than …

Struve Geodetic Arc by Michael Ayers

Struve Geodetic Arc (Inscribed)

Struve Geodetic Arc

Visit in July 2020

The Pandemic of 2020 completely demolished any hopes I had of ever attempting to visit any of the European Pile Dwellings locations, and it did …

Thimlich Ohinga by Michael Ayers

Thimlich Ohinga (Inscribed)

Thimlich Ohinga

Visit in January 2021

To partially compensate for being forced to cancel plans for visits to many top-level Sites in 2020 I intended to make visits to a few …

Rwenzori Mountains by Michael Ayers

Rwenzori Mountains (Inscribed)

Rwenzori Mountains

Visit in December, 2020

The post made by Els for this Site is informative and comprehensive, but I will add a short review because, though my visit was also …

Brazilian Atlantic Islands by Michael Ayers

Brazilian Atlantic Islands (Inscribed)

Brazilian Atlantic Islands

Visit January 2020

My short visit to Fernado de Noronha was probably one that I should have skipped, but now that it is in the past I am happy …

Serra da Capivara by Michael Ayers

Serra da Capivara (Inscribed)

Serra da Capivara

Visit in November 2019 

Sites that have been inscribed primarily to protect important areas containing ancient Rock Art are among my favorite types of sites to visit and it …

Central Suriname Nature Reserve by Michael Ayers

Central Suriname Nature Reser… (Inscribed)

Central Suriname Nature Reserve

Visit in September 2019

As of this writing, there is still only one realistic way to visit this isolated rainforest site. Organized tours to natural sites are often not …

Aasivissuit - Nipisat by Michael Ayers

Aasivissuit - Nipisat (Inscribed)

Aasivissuit - Nipisat

Visit in July 2019

I have only a small amount to add to the two previous reviews. 

If you should happen to have your own bicycle in Kangerlussuaq, …

Surtsey by Michael Ayers

Surtsey (Inscribed)

Surtsey

Visit in July 2019.

Surtsey is a place that I have been fascinated with for essentially my entire life. In fact, the island and I are almost exactly the …

Anticosti by Michael Ayers

Anticosti (Inscribed)

Anticosti

Visit in May 2019

It is my understanding that the nomination of Île d'Anticosti, a large island in the Gulf of St Lawrence, is primarily supported by its being …

Chaco Culture by Michael Ayers

Chaco Culture (Inscribed)

Chaco Culture

Visit in April 2019.

I will add another review for this WHS because I included a stop at Aztec Ruins National Monument, which has not been covered previously. The …

Coffee Cultural Landscape by Michael Ayers

Coffee Cultural Landscape (Inscribed)

Coffee Cultural Landscape

Visited in February 2019.

Like many members, I am often bewildered when trying to determine exactly what I am supposed to see when visiting a Cultural Landscape site. Colombia's …

Tayrona and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National  by Michael Ayers

Tayrona and Sierra Nevada de … (On tentative list)

Tayrona and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National

Visit in February 2019.

As I understand it, the current iteration of this nomination consists of two National Parks, Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and Parque …

Hawaii Volcanoes by Michael Ayers

Hawaii Volcanoes (Inscribed)

Hawaii Volcanoes

Visit in May 2018.

It had been a surprisingly long, and often frustrating, ten years since I last had the opportunity to visit a new WHS in person. Only a …