Wow, what can I say about Fez? This has got to be one of the most vibrant and hectic World Heritage Sites there is. It is crazy, it is smelly, …
Michael Turtle
Member since May 2015
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My most impressive site: Iguazu
My proposal for a new site: Bagan, Myanmar
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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
- Fraser Island
- 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
- 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
- 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 4.62
- Rapa Nui 4.49
- Yellowstone 4.48
- Victoria Falls 4.47
- Serengeti 4.41
- Grand Canyon 4.40
- Granada 4.39
- Persepolis 4.37
- Old City of Jerusalem 4.37
- Ngorongoro 4.35
Completed Countries
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About Michael Turtle
- First name
- Michael
- Member since
- May 2015
- Country of Origin
- None
Visits
- Rank
- #103
- WHS
- 366
- Tentative Sites
- 31
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 136
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Mont-Saint-Michel 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 5.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 5.0
- Cesky Krumlov 5.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- San Gimignano 4.0
- Willandra Lakes 4.0
- Chichen-Itza 3.5
- Flemish Béguinages 3.5
- Jongmyo Shrine 3.5
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.5
- Kutna Hora 3.5
- Epidaurus 3.5
- Hué 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Volubilis 3.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 3.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.0
- Modena 3.0
- Stari Grad Plain 3.0
- Sian Ka'an 3.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.0
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.0
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Reviews by Michael Turtle


Mazagan (Inscribed)
Mazagan
This old Portuguese fortified town is quite small and it doesn't take too long to walk through it and get a sense of the place. It's quite interesting in the …

Meknes (Inscribed)
Meknes
I hadn't heard much about Meknes before I got there but I was really impressed with all the things there were to see. This was once an imperial city and …

Rabat (Inscribed)
Rabat
I don't think Rabat is one the usual tourist trail but it is worth a day or two. There's a good mix of places here that are part of the …

Aachen Cathedral (Inscribed)
Aachen Cathedral
This is a really special WHS - for so many reasons.
I love that it is tiny but still has so much to see inside. There are different parts to …

Le Havre (Inscribed)
Le Havre
You would think that a city made of concrete might be quite brutalistic or ugly - but Le Havre is absolutely stunning. There is something about the way the architects …

Town Hall and Roland, Bremen (Inscribed)
Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
I'm so glad that I organised a tour to go inside and see the Town Hall - you really can't appreciate this WHS if you only look at it from …

Schokland (Inscribed)
Schokland
If you've got a car, it's easy enough to get here, but it's a little out of the way by public transport and took me a far while to arrive …

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal (Inscribed)
Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
This is a fantastic little site - well away from the main cities of the Netherlands so I'm sure the average tourist doesn't come here or even know about it.
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Tallinn (Inscribed)
Tallinn
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Old Town of Tallinn was not as touristy as I thought it might me. Certainly, around the main town hall square, there …

Thang Long (Inscribed)
Thang Long
To be honest, I’m not really sure why this site has been added to the World Heritage List. I read one suggestion that it was a ‘gift’ from UNESCO for …

Routes of Santiago de Compost… (Inscribed)
Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
I have a plan to one day walk some of these routes properly and see a large range of the sites along the way. In the meantime, I am ticking …

Robben Island (Inscribed)
Robben Island
What a disappointing experience. I was really looking forward to visiting Robben Island because of the important part in history it plays - not just in South Africa but across …

Brú na Bóinne (Inscribed)
Brú na Bóinne
There are a few places that make up the site but I decided to see it by visiting Newgrange - which is the easiest to get to, the most popular …

Angkor (Inscribed)
Angkor
An incredible site - one of the best in the world. To really appreciate it, you need several days. If you go flat out for one day then you'll be …

Trang An (Inscribed)
Trang An
I visited the Trang An Landscape in April of 2015 and really enjoyed the experience. It is a beautiful area that you can spend quite a lot of time exploring.
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