I spent some time exploring the German part of this WHS, particularly around the coastal town of Norden, which has good access to mudflats which you can go out and …
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Acropolis
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Thebes
- Angkor
- Antigua Naval Dockyard
- Anuradhapura
- Aphrodisias
- Aquileia
- Aranjuez
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Arequipa
- Assisi
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Australian Convict Sites
- Ayutthaya
- Baekje Historic Areas
- Bagan
- Bali Subak system
- Bamberg
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Baroque Churches
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Blenheim Palace
- Bordeaux
- Borobudur
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Brugge
- Brú na Bóinne
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
- Calakmul
- Campeche
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Canterbury
- Cape Floral Region
- Caral-Supe
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Centennial Hall
- Central Highlands
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chan Chan
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chavin
- Chichen-Itza
- Chitwan National Park
- Choirokoitia
- Churches of Chiloé
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Weimar
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d'Adda
- Cueva de las Manos
- Cuzco
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Delos
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Durmitor National Park
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Edinburgh
- Ephesus
- Epidaurus
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Fagus Factory
- Ferrara
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Fujisan
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Gaya Tumuli
- Genbaku Dome
- Genoa
- Giant's Causeway
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Gorham's Cave Complex
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Great Barrier Reef
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Great Wall
- Gwynedd Castles
- Gyeongju
- Haeinsa Temple
- Hahoe and Yangdong
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Historic Cairo
- Hoi An
- Holasovice
- Hollókö
- Holy Trinity Column
- Horyu-ji Area
- Huascaran National Park
- Hué
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
- Imperial Palace
- Independence Hall
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya
- Istanbul
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Kakadu National Park
- Kandy
- Kathmandu Valley
- Kernavė
- Kew Gardens
- K’gari (formerly Fraser Island)
- Kii Mountain Range
- Kinderdijk
- Komodo National Park
- Kotor
- Kraków
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Kutna Hora
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Laurisilva of Madeira
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Le Havre
- Lenggong Valley
- Lima
- Litomysl Castle
- Lord Howe Island
- Los Glaciares
- Luang Prabang
- Lübeck
- Lumbini
- Luther Memorials
- Machu Picchu
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes
- Major Town Houses
- Margravial Opera House
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Mazagan
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Medina of Essaouira
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Tétouan
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Meknes
- Melaka and George Town
- Messel Pit
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Mir Castle
- Modena
- Monticello
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- My Son
- Mystras
- Namhansanseong
- Namib Sand Sea
- Naples
- Nasca Lines
- Nesvizh
- Nice
- Nikko
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Nubian Monuments
- Old Town of Galle
- Olympia
- Oporto
- Palenque
- Pannonhalma
- Paphos
- Paraty and Ilha Grande
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Peninsula Valdes
- Petra
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pienza
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Ping Yao
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Polonnaruva
- Pompei
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Pont du Gard
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potsdam
- Prague
- Prambanan
- Preah Vihear Temple
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Pyu Ancient Cities
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Québec
- Quedlinburg
- Quseir Amra
- Rabat
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Ravenna
- Regensburg
- Reichenau
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhodes
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rio de Janeiro
- Robben Island
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
- Rome
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Royal Joseon Tombs
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- Saint-Emilion
- Salzburg
- Samarkand
- Sanchi
- San Gimignano
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Sarazm
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies
- Seville
- Sewell Mining Town
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Sian Ka'an
- Siena
- Sigiriya
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Sintra
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Split
- Stari Grad Plain
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Statue of Liberty
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge and Avebury
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Studenica Monastery
- Sukhothai
- Sulaiman-Too
- Sydney Opera House
- Taj Mahal
- Talayotic Menorca
- Tallinn
- Tarraco
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Telc
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- Temple of Heaven
- Te Wahipounamu
- Thang Long
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Four Lifts
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- Thessalonika
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Tikal National Park
- Toledo
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trang An
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trogir
- Tugendhat Villa
- Uluru
- Um er-Rasas
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Uxmal
- Val d'Orcia
- Valletta
- Valparaiso
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Vienna
- Vigan
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Vilnius
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Volubilis
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadden Sea
- Wadi Al-Hitan
- Wadi Rum
- Warsaw
- Wartburg Castle
- Western Tien-Shan
- Westminster
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Willandra Lakes
- Würzburg Residence
- Xanthos-Letoon
- Yogyakarta
- Yosemite National Park
- Zollverein
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Top 10 Missing
- Galapagos Islands 4.60
- Yellowstone 4.49
- Rapa Nui 4.49
- Victoria Falls 4.47
- Serengeti 4.41
- Grand Canyon 4.40
- Granada 4.39
- Persepolis 4.37
- Ngorongoro 4.36
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.36
Completed Countries
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Belize
- Holy See
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Luxembourg
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- Paraguay
- San Marino
- Singapore
Country visits
- Albania: Primeval Beech Forests
- Antigua and Barbuda: Antigua Naval Dockyard
- Argentina: Cueva de las Manos Iguazu National Park Ischigualasto / Talampaya Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba Los Glaciares Peninsula Valdes Qhapaq Ñan The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Armenia: Monastery of Geghard
- Australia: Great Barrier Reef Gondwana Rainforests Greater Blue Mountains Kakadu National Park Lord Howe Island Tasmanian Wilderness Willandra Lakes Uluru Wet Tropics of Queensland K’gari (formerly Fraser Island) Royal Exhibition Building Sydney Opera House Australian Convict Sites Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
- Austria: Salzburg Graz Schönbrunn Wachau Cultural Landscape Vienna Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Azerbaijan: Walled City of Baku Gobustan Rock Art Sheki
- Belarus: Mir Castle Nesvizh
- Belgium: Belfries Brugge Flemish Béguinages Grand Place, Brussels Major Town Houses Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai The Four Lifts Plantin-Moretus Museum Primeval Beech Forests Stoclet House Mining Sites of Wallonia The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Great Spa Towns of Europe Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Belize: Belize Barrier Reef
- Bolivia: Qhapaq Ñan
- Bosnia Herzegovina: Primeval Beech Forests
- Brazil: Iguacu Paraty and Ilha Grande Rio de Janeiro
- Bulgaria: Primeval Beech Forests
- Cambodia: Angkor Preah Vihear Temple
- Canada: Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks Québec
- Chile: Churches of Chiloé Valparaiso Sewell Mining Town Qhapaq Ñan
- China: Great Wall Imperial Palace Imperial Tombs Mountain Resort, Chengde Peking Man Site Ping Yao Summer Palace Temple of Heaven Yungang Grottoes Grand Canal Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor Beijing Central Axis
- Colombia: Qhapaq Ñan
- Croatia: Dubrovnik Euphrasian Basilica in Porec Split Trogir Primeval Beech Forests Stari Grad Plain Venetian Works of Defence
- Cyprus: Choirokoitia Paphos
- Czechia: Holy Trinity Column Cesky Krumlov Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz Holasovice Kutna Hora Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape Litomysl Castle Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk Prague Telc Trebic Tugendhat Villa Primeval Beech Forests Great Spa Towns of Europe Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities The Karlstejn Castle
- Denmark: Wadden Sea
- Ecuador: Qhapaq Ñan
- Egypt: Ancient Thebes Historic Cairo Nubian Monuments Pyramids (Memphis) Wadi Al-Hitan Mountain Chains Alexandria
- Estonia: Tallinn
- Finland: High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- France: Belfries Mont-Saint-Michel Paris, Banks of the Seine Versailles Pont du Gard Saint-Emilion Le Havre Bordeaux Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Great Spa Towns of Europe Maison Carrée of Nîmes Nice Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Georgia: Mtskheta
- Germany: Cologne Cathedral Speyer Cathedral Würzburg Residence Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust Hildesheim Cathedral and Church Lübeck Pilgrimage Church of Wies Bamberg Bauhaus Sites Classical Weimar Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz Luther Memorials Maulbronn Monastery Messel Pit Museumsinsel (Museum Island) Potsdam Quedlinburg Rammelsberg and Goslar Reichenau Wartburg Castle Völklingen Ironworks Frontiers of the Roman Empire Stralsund and Wismar Upper Middle Rhine Valley Zollverein Muskauer Park Town Hall and Roland, Bremen Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Primeval Beech Forests Regensburg Wadden Sea Fagus Factory Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Corvey Margravial Opera House Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Great Spa Towns of Europe Aachen Cathedral Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch Trier
- Greece: Archaeological Site of Delphi Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios Delos Epidaurus Mycenae and Tiryns Mystras Olympia Rhodes Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae Thessalonika Acropolis Ancient Greek Theatres Ancient Lavrion
- Guatemala: Tikal National Park
- Holy See: Vatican City Rome
- Hungary: Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs Budapest Hollókö Pannonhalma Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System
- India: Taj Mahal Humayun's Tomb Sanchi Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Jantar Mantar Hill Forts of Rajasthan The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai Jaipur City, Rajasthan Agra Fort
- Indonesia: Borobudur Komodo National Park Prambanan Bali Subak system Old Town of Jakarta Yogyakarta Raja Ampat Islands
- Ireland: Brú na Bóinne
- Italy: Venice and its Lagoon Assisi Verona Florence Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) Costiera Amalfitana Crespi d'Adda Aquileia Botanical Garden, Padua Ferrara Modena Naples Pienza Pompei Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands Ravenna Residences of the Royal House of Savoy San Gimignano Siena The trulli of Alberobello Vicenza and the Palladian Villas Villa Adriana (Tivoli) Villa d'Este Etruscan Necropolises Val d'Orcia Genoa Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Medici Villas and Gardens Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont Venetian Works of Defence Great Spa Towns of Europe The Porticoes of Bologna Orvieto Cilento and Vallo di Diano Royal Palace at Caserta Rome Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Japan: Ancient Kyoto Genbaku Dome Horyu-ji Area Itsukushima Shrine Nikko Shirakawa-go and Gokayama Ancient Nara Kii Mountain Range Fujisan Tomioka Silk Mill The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Ancient Kamakura
- Jordan: Petra Quseir Amra Um er-Rasas Wadi Rum Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" Jerash Archaeological City
- Kazakhstan: Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor Western Tien-Shan
- Kyrgyzstan: Sulaiman-Too Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor Western Tien-Shan
- Laos: Luang Prabang Vat Phou Phong Nha - Ke Bang Plain of Jars
- Latvia: Riga
- Lithuania: Vilnius Kernavė Trakai Historical National Park
- Luxembourg: City of Luxembourg
- Malaysia: Melaka and George Town Lenggong Valley
- Malta: Megalithic Temples of Malta Valletta
- Mexico: Palenque Sian Ka'an Chichen-Itza Campeche Uxmal Calakmul Ring of cenotes of Chicxulub Crater, Yucatan
- Montenegro: Durmitor National Park Kotor Venetian Works of Defence Old Town of Bar Biogradska gora National Park
- Morocco: Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou Medina of Fez Medina of Marrakesh Medina of Tétouan Meknes Volubilis Medina of Essaouira Mazagan Rabat Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
- Myanmar: Pyu Ancient Cities Bagan Shwedagon Pagoda Ayeyawady River Corridor Inle Lake Bago Ancient cities of Upper Myanmar
- Namibia: Namib Sand Sea Fishriver Canyon Etosha Pan
- Nepal: Kathmandu Valley Chitwan National Park Lumbini Tilaurakot-Kapilavastu Ramagrama, the relic stupa of Lord Buddha Panauti
- Netherlands: Dutch Water Defence Lines Kinderdijk Schokland Beemster Polder Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal Wadden Sea Van Nellefabriek Amsterdam Canal Ring Rietveld Schröderhuis
- New Zealand: Te Wahipounamu
- North Macedonia: Primeval Beech Forests
- Norway: Bryggen
- Paraguay: Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
- Peru: Arequipa Chan Chan Chavin Cuzco Huascaran National Park Lima Machu Picchu Nasca Lines Caral-Supe Qhapaq Ñan
- Philippines: Baroque Churches Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River Vigan Tabon Cave Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Poland: Kraków Warsaw Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines Muskauer Park Centennial Hall Primeval Beech Forests Auschwitz Birkenau
- Portugal: Oporto Belem Laurisilva of Madeira Sintra
- Republic of Korea: Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen Gyeongju Changdeokgung Palace Complex Hwaseong Fortress Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple Jongmyo Shrine Royal Joseon Tombs Hahoe and Yangdong Namhansanseong Baekje Historic Areas Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies Gaya Tumuli Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries Haeinsa Temple
- Romania: Primeval Beech Forests
- San Marino: San Marino and Mount Titano
- Serbia: Stari Ras and Sopocani Studenica Monastery Gamzigrad-Romuliana Smederevo Fortress
- Singapore: Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Slovakia: Primeval Beech Forests
- Slovenia: Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- South Africa: Robben Island Cape Floral Region
- Spain: Seville La Lonja de la Seda Mudejar Architecture of Aragon Toledo Tarraco Aranjuez Primeval Beech Forests Talayotic Menorca
- Sri Lanka: Kandy Old Town of Galle Polonnaruva Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple Sigiriya Anuradhapura Central Highlands
- Sweden: Drottningholm High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago Skogskyrkogarden Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Switzerland: Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Tajikistan: Sarazm Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor Fann mountains Mausoleum of Mukhammad Bashoro The Site of Ancient Town of Pyanjekent
- Thailand: Ayutthaya Sukhothai
- Turkiye: Istanbul Xanthos-Letoon Hierapolis-Pamukkale Aphrodisias Ephesus The Bodrum Castle
- Turkmenistan: Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor
- Ukraine: Primeval Beech Forests
- United Kingdom: Blenheim Palace Canterbury City of Bath Durham Castle and Cathedral Edinburgh Frontiers of the Roman Empire Giant's Causeway Gwynedd Castles Stonehenge and Avebury Tower of London Westminster Kew Gardens Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal Gorham's Cave Complex Great Spa Towns of Europe
- United States of America: Hawaii Volcanoes Independence Hall Monticello Statue of Liberty Yosemite National Park Central Park Brooklyn Bridge
- Uruguay: Colonia del Sacramento
- Uzbekistan: Samarkand Western Tien-Shan Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor
- Viet Nam: Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago Hoi An Hué My Son Phong Nha - Ke Bang Citadel of the Ho Dynasty Thang Long Trang An
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- Cesky Krumlov 5.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 5.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 5.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Willandra Lakes 4.0
- San Gimignano 4.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Hué 3.5
- Jongmyo Shrine 3.5
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.5
- Epidaurus 3.5
- Chichen-Itza 3.5
- Kutna Hora 3.5
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.0
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.0
- Modena 3.0
- Sian Ka'an 3.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 3.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.0
- Stari Grad Plain 3.0
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Reviews by Michael Turtle


Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Inscribed)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire
There are lots of ways to see this WHS - in two countries. I have been to the UK's Hadrian's Wall site, but for the German bit, I focused on …

Messel Pit (Inscribed)
Messel Pit
Visiting the Messel Fossil Pit is a little bit tricky because, in some ways, there’s not a lot to see. Most of the important stuff – the fossils – has …

Medina of Essaouira (Inscribed)
Medina of Essaouira
Essaouira is a lovely little place and an easy side trip from busy Marrakech. Although it's the medina that is the main focus of the WHS, there are more things …

Medina of Marrakesh (Inscribed)
Medina of Marrakesh
I love this city - although I can't decide whether I prefer Marrakech or Fez. Oh well, no reason why you can't just enjoy both for different reasons!
The constant …

Hildesheim Cathedral and Chur… (Inscribed)
Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
Both buildings are easy walking distance to each other. In fact, most of central Hildesheim is easy to navigate by foot. The church and the cathedral are open to visitors …

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou (Inscribed)
Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
A unique Moroccan WHS - there isn't really anything else like it in the country. It's interesting to observe as you approach it and see how the structures have been …

Fagus Factory (Inscribed)
Fagus Factory
To appreciate the significant architectural details, it’s important to see the building from the outside and the inside. Even though the factory is operational, there are tours through all areas …

Primeval Beech Forests (Inscribed)
Primeval Beech Forests
All five of the protected areas in Germany offer a variety of experiences. From the white cliffs and coastal breeze of Jasmund National Park through to the inland mountain ranges …

Castles of Augustusburg and F… (Inscribed)
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
Although they’re not nearly the most famous castles in Germany, the style of the buildings and, more importantly, the interior designs were to influence the creation of other princely courts …

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe (Inscribed)
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
The best way to see the park is by foot. It is possible to use a bicycle but there’s a lot of uphill which can be slightly unpleasant at times. …

Te Wahipounamu (Inscribed)
Te Wahipounamu
The hardest thing about this WHS is knowing where to start... and where to stop. It's not just enormous in terms of area, it has such an incredible amount of …

Baroque Churches (Inscribed)
Baroque Churches
I visited just one of the churches listed, San Agustin in Manila. It is the oldest of the churches and I thought represented the site quite well.
There are two …

Bryggen (Inscribed)
Bryggen
Very pretty old wharf but, yes, very touristy. It's a bit better out the back. If you just pretend everyone isn't there, though, you can still get good look at …

Anuradhapura (Inscribed)
Anuradhapura
Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to see as much of Anuradhapura as I would've liked. I only had a few hours there as I was passing through and decided …

Old Town of Galle (Inscribed)
Old Town of Galle
There's a really pleasant atmosphere in the streets of the old town of Galle. The architecture has that really interesting mix of European colonialism and South Asia. What I liked …

Sigiriya (Inscribed)
Sigiriya
I really love this site. It's such a unique place and the story behind it is fascinating (a king going into hiding after he kills his father and steals the …

Central Highlands (Inscribed)
Central Highlands
I focused my visit on the Horton Plains National Park and did the early morning trek to 'The World's End'. You need to go really early because the whole view …

Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple (Inscribed)
Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
This site was such a surprise - in a completely positive way. I didn't know too much about it beforehand and didn't expect the caves of statues to be so …

Kandy (Inscribed)
Kandy
The highlight of Kandy is the Temple of the Tooth and I spent most of my time there. What I found most interesting was all the people there. Every generation …