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What is your favorite UNESCO World Heritage Site?

A-R-T-H-U-R
A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
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Numbers continue to rise from the original 12 in the 1970s to almost 1100 today... Which impressed you and why?

I still love Greenwich.
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  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Liked Malacca in Malaysia, cool town to walk around with a vibrant market. Macchu Picchu was pretty impressive as well. Took the train there, none of this walking shit.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    Sydney Opera House and Tower of London have to be two of my favourites that Ive been to on the list

    Yosemite would have to win as my favourite of the UNESCO National Parks
  • sterlingaddick
    sterlingaddick Posts: 158
    Yellowstone National Park.

    I just think that it is one of the most incredible landscapes on the planet, always find myself watching the nature docs on Yellowstone.

    and the concept of it being a 'super-volcano' and if it erupts it could bring about a mass extinction just intrigues me, considering it is still active and scientists believe it is long overdue an eruption.
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,820
    Yellowstone of the natural wonders, and the Ankor Wat complex of the man-made. Also really like Penang, Malaysia.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Not sure I can explain why but I quite enjoyed the city of Gjirokastër in Albania. It's a very weird place.
  • Missed It
    Missed It Posts: 2,733
    The Hiroshima Peace Memorial. It's extremely sobering to stand on the spot where an atomic bomb exploded.

    Hiroshima is a surprisingly nice city for somewhere that was nothing but a flattened pile of burning rubble in living memory. Miyajima just across the bay is a world heritage site too that's worth a visit.
  • PeteF
    PeteF Posts: 1,698
    Anghor Wat, in Cambodia... just amazing watching the sunrise.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    The Woolwich Ferry is a marvel, the way a light drizzle glances off the mud banks and old concrete...
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,958
    Stonehenge, alway something mystical about the place
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,961
    Pont du Gard.
    Impressive anyway, then when you consider its 2000 years old...
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  • theeenorth
    theeenorth Posts: 2,277
    New Lanark for Robert Owen and Torres Del Paine.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    The Galapagos Islands are amazing, the remoteness, the unique wildlife.

    In terms of cities, Venice takes a lot of beating

    In the UK I visited Avebury recently, part of the "Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites" grouping. Well worth a visit, it's much quieter than Stonehenge and you can approach the stones too
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Hashima island - an abandoned island 9 miles from the city of Nagasaki. Commonly known as Gunkanjima ,meaning Battleship island, this was used in the James Bond Skyfall film.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    Macchu Picchu

    Maritime Greenwich

    Great Barrier Reef

    Vatican City

    Historic Centre of Rome



  • CharltonMadrid
    CharltonMadrid Posts: 5,091
    Antigua Guatemala (my profile picture)

    The Mezquita in Cordoba
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    McBobbin said:

    Liked Malacca in Malaysia, cool town to walk around with a vibrant market. Macchu Picchu was pretty impressive as well. Took the train there, none of this walking shit.

    You done the right thing, trek there was crap.
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    Hastings Old Town.
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    IdleHans said:

    Pont du Gard.
    Impressive anyway, then when you consider its 2000 years old...

    Magical place...camped there in 2014.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    CharltonMadrid said:

    Antigua Guatemala (my profile picture)

    The Mezquita in Cordoba

    Love the Mezquita, and the Alhambra etc in Granada

    Antigua is a stunning place too, really enjoyed the cathedral ruins, quite spooky in there
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    CharltonMadrid said:

    Antigua Guatemala (my profile picture)

    The Mezquita in Cordoba

    Very impressed with Cordoba last year when we were there....even had a micro-pub.
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  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    Pedro45 said:

    Yellowstone of the natural wonders, and the Ankor Wat complex of the man-made. Also really like Penang, Malaysia.

    George Town.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,116
    Angkor Wat, with Ha Long Bay as a close 2nd.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited August 2018
    Alhambra in Granada, out of season, until a few years ago when tourist numbers finally took away from the sense of peace and calm that filled the place.
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    Taj Mahal; Grand Canyon; Lahore Fort; Tower of London; Westminster Abbey; Lake District; Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    bazjonster said:

    Taj Mahal; Grand Canyon; Lahore Fort; Tower of London; Westminster Abbey; Lake District; Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.

    Good one, I should have included that.
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia.
  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,986
    Gunung Leuser National Park in Sumatra.

    Mountains, thick jungle and some of the best wildlife in the world.
  • PeterGage
    PeterGage Posts: 1,793
    Another vote for Yellowstone Park. Approaching from the NE, travel over the Beartooth Mountains and then drop into Yellowstone. Saw antelopes of all kinds, 100s of Bison and two wolfpacks. The geological marvels add to the beauty.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Liverpool stripped of Unesco World Heritage status - BBC News
  • Pavoren007
    Pavoren007 Posts: 2,518
    Addickted said:
    Liverpool stripped of Unesco World Heritage status - BBC News
    Looks like the wheels have come off there…quelle surprise

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