Visit 50 of the world heritage sites

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

Gosh I didn’t think achieving a list would be that easy – but I guess I started visiting these places 17 years ago!!
Great Barrier Reef
Kakadu National Park
Tasmanian Wilderness
Greater Blue Mountains Area
Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens
Sydney Opera House
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
Historic Centre of Vienna
Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang
The Great Wall
Lushan National Park
Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Old City of Dubrovnik
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
Historic Cairo
Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
Palace and Park of Versailles
Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)
Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Palace of Tau, Reims
Paris, Banks of the Seine
Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
Acropolis, Athens
Old Town of Corfu
Historic Centre of Rome
Vatican City
Historic Centre of Florence
Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
Venice and its Lagoon
Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
Lake Malawi National Park
Works of Antoni Gaudí
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Kilimanjaro National Park
Stone Town of Zanzibar
Archaeological Site of Troy
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
City of Bath
Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret’s Church
Tower of London
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Complex of Hué Monuments
Ha Long Bay
Hoi An Ancient Town
My Son Sanctuary
Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls

38 to go.

-Old city of Salamanca

Boy, 43 things is like learning vocabulary. No sooner do I learn about the World Heritage Sites (from someone else’s 43 Thing list) than I read in my morning paper that our very own Pittsburgh tourist destination (Ok, it’s not IN Pittsburgh, but it’s still OUR tourist destination) is being considered for the list. 1 down before it’s even on the list!

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list

I went there this weekend. It was a bit disappointing because there was only one small trail that was open to the public.
The place has a very dramatic feel to it though. Beautiful landscape.

Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves (Australia)

Went to Nightcap reserve which was beautiful and saw a waterfall, the naturalbridge nearby was more spectacular although not part of th heritage site and unfortuately I didn’t get up Mount Warney

Historical city of Ayutthaya in Thailand.

Fabulous temples sadly destroyed by the Burmese during a war which was ongoing for a fair length of time but there are still decent ruins to look at and some of them look better than intact temples which look a bit Gaudy and over coloured.

Fraser island off the coast of Queenslan is the worlds largest san island and houses several groups of tourists who rent out 4 wheel drives and go for a piss up on the island, was good fun, good drinking, shame about the rain which was with us for 2 of the 3 days, lovely lakes there and the sand makes it a different world.