From Niamey, it was a few hour drive through pastoral countryside to Parc National du W. Unlike parks in East and Southern Africa, wildlife was widely scattered and difficult to …
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5620April 3, 2014Aachen Cathedral, Aapravasi Ghat, Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch, Abbey of St Gall, Acropolis ...
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5620April 3, 2014
- Aachen Cathedral
- Aapravasi Ghat
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Abbey of St Gall
- Acropolis
- Agra Fort
- Agrigento
- Ajanta Caves
- Aksum
- Al Ain
- Alcala de Henares
- Aleppo
- Altamira Cave
- Alto Douro
- Al Zubarah
- Ambohimanga
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amphitheater of El Jem
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Ksour
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Merv
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Thebes
- Ancient villages of Northern Syria
- Angkor
- Angra do Heroismo
- Anjar
- Antigua Guatemala
- Antigua Naval Dockyard
- Anuradhapura
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Aranjuez
- Arles
- Asante Traditional Buildings
- Assisi
- Asturian Monuments
- Atapuerca
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Australian Convict Sites
- Avila
- Ayutthaya
- Baalbek
- Bagan
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Bali Subak system
- Banska Stiavnica
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Baroque Churches
- Battir
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Bethlehem
- Biblical Tells
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Blenheim Palace
- Bolgar
- Bom Jesus do Monte
- Borobudur
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Brasilia
- Brazilian Atlantic Islands
- Bridgetown
- Brimstone Hill Fortress
- Brugge
- Budapest
- Bukhara
- Burgos Cathedral
- Bursa and Cumalikizik
- Butrint
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Byblos
- Caceres
- Cahokia Mounds
- Calakmul
- Camino Real
- Campeche
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Canterbury
- Cape Floral Region
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Cartagena
- Carthage
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla
- Central Highlands
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chaco Culture
- Champagne
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
- Chichen-Itza
- Chitwan National Park
- Choirokoitia
- Churches of Chiloé
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
- Cidade Velha
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Classical Weimar
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Copán
- Cordoba
- Corfu
- Crac des Chevaliers
- Cuenca
- Curonian Spit
- Cuzco
- Damascus
- Dazu Rock Carvings
- Dengfeng
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Djémila
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Dougga/Thugga
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
- Edinburgh
- Elephanta Caves
- El Escurial
- Ellora Caves
- El Tajin
- Ephesus
- Epidaurus
- Erbil Citadel
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Everglades
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Fasil Ghebbi
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Fort and Shalamar Gardens
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fort Jesus
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast
- Fossil Hominid Sites
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Fujisan
- Galapagos Islands
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Gebel Barkal
- Gelati Monastery
- Genbaku Dome
- Genoa
- Glacier parks
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia
- Granada
- Grand-Bassam
- Grand Canal
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Grand Pré
- Graz
- Great Barrier Reef
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Great Wall
- Gros Morne National Park
- Guanajuato
- Guimarães
- Gulf of California
- Gusuku of Ryukyu
- Gyeongju
- Hahoe and Yangdong
- Harar Jugol
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Himeji-jo
- Hiraizumi
- Historic Cairo
- Historic Jeddah
- Holasovice
- Holy Trinity Column
- Hospicio Cabañas
- Humayun's Tomb
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Imperial Palace
- Imperial Tombs
- Incense Route of the Negev
- Independence Hall
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park
- Island of Gorée
- Istanbul
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan
- Jantar Mantar
- Jeju
- Jelling
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Joya de Ceren
- Kaiping Diaolou
- Kakadu National Park
- Kandy
- Kasbah of Algiers
- Kathmandu Valley
- Kazan Kremlin
- Kenya Lake System
- Kew Gardens
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Kinderdijk
- Komodo National Park
- Kotor
- Kraków
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kronborg Castle
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Kuk
- Kulangsu
- Kunta Kinteh Island
- Kutna Hora
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- La Fortaleza and San Juan
- Lagoons of New Caledonia
- Lake Baikal
- Lake District
- Lalibela
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Lamu Old Town
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Laurisilva of Madeira
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Le Morne
- León Cathedral
- Leptis Magna
- Levuka
- Lima
- Litomysl Castle
- Loire Valley
- Longmen Grottoes
- Lopé-Okanda
- Lord Howe Island
- Los Glaciares
- Lower Valley of the Omo
- Luang Prabang
- Lübeck
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Luther Memorials
- L'viv
- Lyon
- Macao
- Machu Picchu
- Mafra
- Mahabalipuram
- Major Town Houses
- Makli, Thatta
- Malbork Castle
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park
- Mammoth Cave
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masada
- Matera
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Mazagan
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
- Medina of Essaouira
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Sousse
- Medina of Tunis
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Meknes
- Melaka and George Town
- Mérida
- Meroe
- Mesa Verde
- Messel Pit
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Mijikenda Kaya Forests
- Mir Castle
- Mogao Caves
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monastery of Geghard
- Monticello
- Morelia
- Morne Trois Pitons
- Mostar
- Mount Carmel Caves
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Mount Etna
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan
- Mtskheta
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Namhansanseong
- Namib Sand Sea
- Nan Madol
- Naples
- Nasca Lines
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim
- Neolithic Orkney
- Nesvizh
- Ngorongoro
- Nice
- Nikko
- Nisa
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Novgorod
- Novodevichy Convent
- Nubian Monuments
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Ohrid Region
- Okavango Delta
- Old City of Acre
- Old City of Berne
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Havana
- Old Rauma
- Old Town Lunenburg
- Old Town of Galle
- Olinda
- Olympic National Park
- Oporto
- Ouro Preto
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palenque
- Palmeral of Elche
- Palmyra
- Pampulha
- Panamá
- Paphos
- Paramaribo
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Peninsula Valdes
- Petra
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pitons Management Area
- Pitons of Reunion
- Plain of Jars
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Plečnik's Ljubljana
- Poblet Monastery
- Polonnaruva
- Pompei
- Pont du Gard
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Potala Palace
- Potosi
- Potsdam
- Poverty Point
- Prague
- Prambanan
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Provins
- Puebla
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Qal'at al-Bahrain
- Québec
- Quebrada de Humahuaca
- Querétaro
- Quirigua
- Quito
- Quseir Amra
- Qutb Minar
- Rabat
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Rapa Nui
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
- Redwood
- Reims
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhodes
- Rideau Canal
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rila Monastery
- Rio de Janeiro
- Robben Island
- Rock Islands
- Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
- Rohtas Fort
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Rome
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Royal Joseon Tombs
- Royal Palaces of Abomey
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Ruins of León Viejo
- Sabratha
- Saint Catherine Area
- Salamanca
- Salvador de Bahia
- Salzburg
- Samarkand
- Sammallahdenmäki
- San Antonio Missions
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- San Miguel de Allende
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Santo Domingo
- São Francisco Square
- São Luis
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Selimiye Mosque
- Semmering Railway
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Serengeti
- Seville
- Sewell Mining Town
- Sian Ka'an
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
- Sigiriya
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Simien National Park
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Sintra
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Skocjan Caves
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Socotra Archipelago
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Statue of Liberty
- St. George, Bermuda
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- St. Petersburg
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Studenica Monastery
- Sucre
- Summer Palace
- Sundarbans National Park
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Sydney Opera House
- Syracuse
- Taj Mahal
- Takht-i-Bahi
- Tallinn
- Taos Pueblo
- Tarraco
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Tauric Chersonese
- Taxila
- Teide National Park
- Telc
- Temple of Heaven
- Teotihuacan
- Tequila
- Te Wahipounamu
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thingvellir
- Tikal National Park
- Timgad
- Tipasa
- Tiwanaku
- Tiya
- Tlacotalpan
- Toledo
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Tower of Hercules
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Tugendhat Villa
- Turaif Quarter
- Uluru
- Um er-Rasas
- University of Coimbra
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Uxmal
- Val di Noto
- Vallée de Mai
- Valletta
- Valongo Wharf
- Valparaiso
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Vatnajökull National Park
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Victoria Falls
- Vienna
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Vilnius
- Virunga National Park
- Visby
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Volubilis
- Vredefort Dome
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadi Al-Hitan
- Wadi Rum
- Walled City of Baku
- W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
- Warsaw
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- West Lake
- Westminster
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Willemstad
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Xochicalco
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite National Park
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Zacatecas
- ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape
Top 10 Missing
- Persepolis 4.37
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka 4.31
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.21
- Meteora 4.20
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.17
- Ravenna 4.15
- Nemrut Dag 4.14
- Plitvice Lakes 4.12
- Gunung Mulu 4.11
- Jiuzhaigou Valley 4.10
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Reviews by Michael Novins


Jesuit Block and Estancias of… (Inscribed)
Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
In October 2017, I made a day trip by minibus from Córdoba to Alta Gracia, the location of one of the estancias. The minibus stopped in Alta Gracia's center, from …

Valparaiso (Inscribed)
Valparaiso
In October 2017, I made a day trip by bus (which run every few minutes) from Santiago to Valparaíso, the dilapidated port city. The city’s golden age was from the …

Churches of Chiloé (Inscribed)
Churches of Chiloé
In October 2017, I made an easy, but long, day trip by bus from Puerto Montt to Castro, probably the best base from which to visit the wooden churches. One …

Sewell Mining Town (Inscribed)
Sewell Mining Town
In October 2017, I made a long day trip from Santiago to Sewell Mining Town. Weekend trips organized by VTS (http://www.vts.cl) depart at 8:30 am from the international coffee chain …

Ischigualasto / Talampaya (Inscribed)
Ischigualasto / Talampaya
In October 2017 I visited Talampaya National Park by public transport from La Rioja, which is much easier than I was led to believe by the information I read on …

Peninsula Valdes (Inscribed)
Peninsula Valdes
In October 2017, I spent a few days at Península Valdés, probably the best place on the South American mainland to see marine wildlife, where I saw nesting Magellanic penguins …

Sammallahdenmäki (Inscribed)
Sammallahdenmäki
In September 2017, I rented a car in Turku to visit southwest Finland's World Heritage Sites. Early on a Tuesday morning, I found myself traipsing through a moss-covered forest floor …

Kaiping Diaolou (Inscribed)
Kaiping Diaolou
In August 2017, I traveled by bus from Guangzhou to Kaiping, where there were several taxi drivers awaiting to take travelers to visit the local sites. I had used my …

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuari… (Inscribed)
Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
In August 2017, I made a day trip (organized by Sichuan Travel Guide; http://www.sichuantravelguide.com) from Chengdu to Gengda Wolong Panda Center, one of several areas created to protect giant pandas. …

Potala Palace (Inscribed)
Potala Palace
I visited Lhasa and the Potala Palace in August 2017. The Potola Palace was the residence of the Dalai Lama from the 17th century until the current Dalai Lama fled …

Jeju (Inscribed)
Jeju
In June 2017 I spent a couple of days visiting Jeju, where I stayed at Hotel RegentMarine, which is located in Jeju City on the waterfront between Black Pork Street …

Sites of Japan's Meiji Indust… (Inscribed)
Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
In June 2017 I visited Nagasaki, where I stayed at Hotel Monterey Nagasaki, which is located a very short walk from the departure point for the Gunkanjima Concierge Company (https://www.gunkanjima-concierge.com/en/). …

Grand Canal (Inscribed)
Grand Canal
In June 2017 I made a day trip by train from Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station to Suzhou Railway Station and then took Suzhou Rail Transit to Binhe Lu Station since …

Ceremonial Centres of the Ear… (Removed from tentat…)
Ceremonial Centres of the Early Micronesian States
In June 2017, I spent five days visiting Kosrae, one of four states in the Federated States of Micronesia. With my visits to Yap in December 2008 and Pohnpei and …

Noréas de Hama (On tentative list)
Noréas de Hama
In May 2009, the Baron Hotel in Aleppo organized a car and driver to take me and another guest on a day tour to visit Serjilla and Al-Bara, two of …

Fort Jesus (Inscribed)
Fort Jesus
In August 2016, I flew from Zanzibar to Mombasa, where I stayed at the Castle Royal Hotel, which dates from 1909 and is centrally located between the Moi Avenue tusks …

Ancient villages of Northern … (Inscribed)
Ancient villages of Northern Syria
I visited Syria largely by public transportation in May 2009. After taking a bus from Palmyra to Aleppo, with a stop in Homs, I checked into the Baron Hotel, the …

Lamu Old Town (Inscribed)
Lamu Old Town
In August 2016, I flew on Airkenya Express from Nairobi to Lamu. I ignored at my peril the admonishment on Airkenya's ticket to only travel with soft-sided luggage. Airkenya apparently …

Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino (Inscribed)
Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
In February 2011, I took the bus from Loreto to San Ignacio, where I spent two nights at Ignacio Springs (www.ignaciosprings.com) and visited the two nearby UNESCO World Heritage Sites. …