Visit 50 of the world heritage sites

39. Acropolis, Athens (May 2009)

Just one more World Heritage site from a 3 days trip to Rome, essentially the whole of Rome especially including the Vatican city counts as one World Heritage site, if by contrast I had a 2 week trip with a car and visited lots of towns and cities I could amass around sites. Still one more means the total is 41-43, getting close.

Historic areas of Istanbul
Hierapolis – Pamukkale

The Hagia Sophia was pretty amazing inside although it didn’t look like much outside and the limestone slopes and pools of Pamukkale were special as well, both worth seeing.

that make my total 40-42, only ten more to go.

Visited the old city of Regensburg with Marta and Gustav, on the way down from Chemnitz to the Black Forest. Had nice lunch at a Greek restaurant and found 2 geocaches too.

The Unesco list includes some of the places that we already visited together (roughly in chronological order):

1. Tallinn, Estonia.
2. Sanssouci palace in Potsdam, with Zina and Julius.
3. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.
4. Budapest, Hungary, visiting big Marta.
5. Stralsund, with Andrea, see picture (by Marta).
6. Olympic National Park, Washington.
7. Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
8. Redwood National Park, California.
9. Yosemite National Park, Califarnia.
10. Historical Fortified City of Carcassonne, France.
11. Hanseatic City of Lübeck, with Zina & Peter.

So that’s 11 down, 39 to go. And I just found a list of heritage sites in Germany that Marta wrote on a postcard. So maybe we can tackle these when she’s back in Europe.

• Speyer Dom
• Aachen Dom
• Bamberg
• Weimar
• Wartburg Castle
• Quedlinburg
• Hildesheim
• Bremen
• Regensburg

Here’s a good map of the Unesco World Heritage sites:
http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/whgmap.html

Medina of Marrakech
Paris, Banks of the Seine
36 to go.

on a one week tour, sadly didn’t get to go everywhere but 4 of the world heritage sites below:

1. Archaeological Site of Volubilis (1997)
2. Historic City of Meknes (1996)
3. Medina of Fez (1981)
4. Medina of Marrakesh (1985)

which means my total is now 39-41.

Cuba:
Viñales Valley
Old Havana and its Fortifications

Still haven’t been to my local WHS i need to get off my ass and get to them.

AUSTRALIA
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
Sydney Opera House

CHINA
Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing (1998)
Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang (1987, 2004)

ITALY
Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura (1980, 1990) * 13

RUSSIA
Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow (1990)
Lake Baikal (1996)

34. Argentina: Iguazu National Park (Oct 2007)
35. Austria: Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape (May 2007)
36. Austria: Historic Centre of Vienna (May 2007)
37. Belgium: Historic Centre of Brugge (March 2008)
38. Uruguay: Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento (Oct 2007)