Walter

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My proposal for a new site: The cultural landscape (turf houses) of the Feroe Island. The culutral landscape of Aran island (Ireland)

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Reviews by Walter

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Stevns Klint by Walter

Stevns Klint (Inscribed)

Stevns Klint

Stevns Klint lies about 45 minutes drive from Copenhaguen. It is a 15 km long cliff along the coastline in which it is very easy to see different layers of …

Battir by Walter

Battir (Inscribed)

Battir

My visit to Battir took place in June 2013. At that time, the boundaries of site were unclear. (now available at http://www.bic.com.ps/bcc/images/BaNF%20Final.pdf). So I went around a bit by …

Route of Santiago de Compostela by Walter

Route of Santiago de Composte… (Inscribed)

Route of Santiago de Compostela

This site is emblematic of the question of what does it takes to tick off a site (does this one counts ?). It is a route (el camino) about 700 …

El-Bariyah: wilderness with monasteries by Walter

El-Bariyah: wilderness with m… (On tentative list)

El-Bariyah: wilderness with monasteries

This project covers a widespread area south and east of Jerusalem. It is a montaneous desert habitat in a treeless thin-soiled and arid, eroded limestone plateau drained by wadi toward …

Mosquée de Tinmel by Walter

Mosquée de Tinmel (On tentative list)

Mosquée de Tinmel

The Tinmel mosque (indicated as Tin Mal on google earth) is located in a valley about 1 and a half hour from Marrakesh along a magnificiant road in the Atlas …

White City of Tel-Aviv by Walter

White City of Tel-Aviv (Inscribed)

White City of Tel-Aviv

I travel to Tel Aviv more than 10 years ago, before it was inscribed to the WHL. I went back in June 2011 and wanted to have a closer look …

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou by Walter

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou (Inscribed)

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou

I visited this site on a day trip from Marrakesh. I rented a car for the day and went on the Tizi-N-Tichka Atlas pass. It lies at 2260 m, with …

Azraq by Walter

Azraq (On tentative list)

Azraq

Azraq Wetland Reserve is easy to visit. It lies about an hour east of Amman. It is well sign-posted in Azraq town, near where the highway divides into two branches …

Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" by Walter

Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond … (Inscribed)

Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"

I visited this TL site on a rainy morning in November. They is no bus. I had a car, it is well signe-posted on the Amman-Dead Sea highway, about 10 …

Wadi Rum by Walter

Wadi Rum (Inscribed)

Wadi Rum

We visited Wadi-Rum on the way between Aqaba and Petra. We planned a short visit and were not about to go a 4x4 tour. The visitors’ center and the village …

Quseir Amra by Walter

Quseir Amra (Inscribed)

Quseir Amra

I visited Qsar Amra on a half-day trip from Madaba with a rental car. It is located about an hour east of Amman, and well sign-posted from the main road.

Um er-Rasas by Walter

Um er-Rasas (Inscribed)

Um er-Rasas

I visited Un er-Rasas on a short trip from Madaba, with a rental car. The road is more or less signe-posted from either the King's Road or the Desert Highway …

Haeinsa Temple by Walter

Haeinsa Temple (Inscribed)

Haeinsa Temple

Haiensa temple is a very nice place to visit. The limite of the WH site seems to be limited to four wooden building atop the temple complex, which are depositories …

Struve Geodetic Arc by Walter

Struve Geodetic Arc (Inscribed)

Struve Geodetic Arc

Sturve Geodetic Arc is a very stange multi-location site.

Each location is quite small, some corresponding to a 100 meter diametre circle centered on a traingulation point. Those points may …

Laponian Area by Walter

Laponian Area (Inscribed)

Laponian Area

I visited the Laponian area in June 2009. The weather was good, sunny and warn, to the point of being able to bathe in the lakes. The Laponian area consists …

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