thit_cho

AUSTRALIA
1987 Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

AUSTRIA
1996 Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
1996 Palace and Gardens of Schonbrunn
2001 Historic Center of Vienna

BAHRAIN
2005 Qal'at al-Bahrain Archaeological Site

BELGIUM
1998 La Grand-Place, Brussels
2000 Historic Centre of Brugge

BELIZE
1996 Belize Barrier-Reef Reserve System

BENIN
1985 Royal Palaces of Abomey

BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA
2005 Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar

BULGARIA
1983 Rila Monastery

CAMBODIA
1992 Angkor

CHINA (PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF)
1987 The Great Wall
1987 Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
1987 The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emporer
1998 Summer Palace in Beijing
1998 Temple of Heaven, Beijing
2000 Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

COLOMBIA
1984 Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena

CROATIA
1979 Old City of Dubrovnik

CUBA
1982 Old Havana and its Fortifications

CYPRUS
1980 Paphos
1985 The Painted Churches in the Troodos Region
1998 The Neolithic settlement of Choirokhoitia

CZECH REPUBLIC
1992 Historic Centre of Prague

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1990 Colonial City of Santo Domingo

ECUADOR
1978 Galapagos National Park, including the Galapagos Islands
1978 Old City of Quito

EGYPT
1979 Ancient Thebes, including its Necropolis
1979 Islamic Cairo
1979 Memphis and its Necropolis-the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur

ESTONIA
1997 Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn

FINLAND
1991 Fortress of Suomenlinna

FRANCE
1979 Palace and Park of Versailles
1981 Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles
1985 Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)
1991 Paris, Banks of the Seine
1998 Historic Site of Lyons

GERMANY
1987 Hanseatic City of Lübeck
1999 Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin

GHANA
1979 Forts and Castles in Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions

GREECE
1987 The Acropolis, Athens
1988 Medieval City of Rhodes

GUATEMALA
1979 Antigua Guatemala
1979 Tikal National Park
1981 Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua

HOLY SEE
1984 Vatican City
1980, 1990 Historic Centre of Rome, the properties of the Holy See in that city enjoyning extraterritorial rights, and San Paolo Fuori le Mura

HONDURAS
1980 Maya Site of Copan

HUNGARY
1987 Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube with the district of Buda Castle

INDIA
1983 Ajanta Caves
1983 Ellora Caves
1983 Agra Fort
1983 Taj Mahal
1986 Group of Monuments at Khajuraho
1986 Fatehpur Sikri
1987 Elephanta Caves
1993 Humayun's Tomb, Delhi
1993 Qutab Minar and associated monuments, Delhi
2004 Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

INDONESIA
1991 Komodo National Park
1991 Borobudur Temple compound
1991 Prambanan Temple compound

ITALY
1980 Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci
1982 Historic Centre of Florence
1987 Venice and its Lagoon
1987 Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
1980, 1990 Historic Centre of Rome, the properties of the Holy See in that city enjoyning extraterritorial rights, and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
1995 Historic Center of Naples
1997 Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum, and Torre Annunziata
1997 Villa Romana del Casale
1997 Archaeological Area of Agrigento
2002 Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto
2005 Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalic

JAPAN
1993 Himeji-jo (Himeji Castle)
1994 Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
1998 Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara

JERUSALEM
1981 The Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls

REPUBLIC OF KOREA
1995 Chongmyo Shrine
1997 The Ch'angdokkung Palace Complex

LATVIA
1997 Historic Centre of Riga

LITHUANIA
1994 The Old Town of Vilnius

MADAGASCAR
2001 Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

MALAWI
1984 Lake Malawi National Park

MALTA
1980 City of Valletta
1980 Megalithic Temples

MEXICO
1987 Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco
1987 Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque
1987 Historic Centre of Puebla
1987 Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacán
1988 Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
1991 Historic Centre of Morelia

MONTENEGRO
1979 Natural and Culturo-Historic Region of Kotor

NEPAL
1979 Kathmandu Valley
1984 Royal Chitwan National Park

NEW ZEALAND
1990 Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand

PANAMA
1997 Historic District of Panama, with the Salon Bolivar

PERU
1983 City of Cuzco
1983 Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
1991 Historic Centre of Lima

POLAND
1978 Historic Centre of Cracow
1978 Wieliczka Salt Mine
1979 Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1980 Historic Centre of Warsaw

PORTUGAL
1983 Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belem, Lisbon
1996 Historic Centre of Oporto

RUSSIAN FEDERATION
1990 Historic Centre of St. Petersburg and related groups of monuments
1990 Kremlin and the Red Square in Moscow

SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
1999 Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park

SLOVENIA
1988 Skocjan Caves

SOUTH AFRICA
1999 Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park
1999 Robben Island
2000 Ukhahlamba/Drakensberg Park
2004 Cape Floral Region

SPAIN
1984 Alhambra, Generalife, and Albayzin, Granada
1984 Mosque of Cordoba
1984 Monastery and Site of the Escorial, Madrid
1984, 2005 Works of Antoni Gaudi, Barcelona
1985 Old Town of Segovia, including its aqueduct
1986 Historic City of Toledo
1987 Cathedral, the Alcazar and Archivo de Indias, Seville

SURINAME
2002 Historic Inner City of Paramaribo

SWEDEN
1991 Royal Domain of Drottningholm
1994 Skogskyrkogarden

TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF
1979 Ngorongoro Conservation Area, including the Ngorongoro and Empakaai Craters and Olduvai Gorge
1981 Serengeti National Park

TUNISIA
1979 Roman Amphitheater of El Djem
1979 Archaeological Site of Carthage
1979 Medina of Tunis
1988 Medina of Sousse
1997 Dougga/Thugga

TURKEY
1985 Historic Areas of Istanbul

TURKMENISTAN
1999 State Historical and Cultural Park "Ancient Merv"

UGANDA
1994 Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

UKRAINE
1990 St Sophia Cathedral and related monastic buildings, and Lavra of Kiev-Pechersk
1998 L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Center

UNITED KINGDOM
1987 City of Bath
1987 Palace of Westminster, Abbey of Westminster, and St. Margaret's Church
1988 The Tower of London
1997 Maritime Greenwich
2000 The Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1978 Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming/Idaho/Montana
1979 Everglades National Park, Florida
1979 Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
1979 Independence Hall, Pennsylvania
1981 Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
1983 San Juan National Historic Site and La Fortaleza, Puerto Rico
1983 Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina/Tennessee
1984 The Statue of Liberty, New York
1987 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, including Mauna Loa, Hawaii
1992 Pueblo de Taos

URUGUAY
1995 Colonia del Sacramento

UZBEKISTAN
1993 Historic Centre of Bukhara
2001 Samarkand

former YUGOSLAV REPULIC OF MACEDONIA
1979 Ohrid Region

ZAMBIA/ZIMBABWE
1989 Victoria Falls/Mosi-oa-Tunya

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Upcoming trips:

ANDORRA (will visit November 2008)
2004 Madriu-Claror-Perafita Valley

ARMENIA (will visit August 2008)
1996,2000 Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin
2000 The Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley
2000 The Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots

AZERBAIJAN (will visit August 2008)
2000 The Walled City of Baku

CHILE (will visit in three weeks, end of May)
1995 Rapa Nui National Park (Easter Island)

GEORGIA (will visit one or more in August 2008)
1994 The Historical Church Ensemble of Mtskheta
1994 Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery
1996 Upper Svaneti

MEXICO (will visit September 2008)
1997 Hospicio Cabanas, Guadalajara
2006 Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila

thit_cho

Oops, this was meant to be a reply to the UNESCO site thread on another forum, but I screwed up the posting. Sorry.

Denbasking

I enjoyed reading your posting flub! Do you know where you are now or do you get up and look at the telephone book to see what city you are in?

Looks like you have had a lot of fun with much more to come!

sniktawk

Your contribution to global warming and cultural understanding is to be applauded!

pippa13

oops - quite obviously - you must belong of one of the best travel clubs in the world: mybe a priest ;.-)
congrats - very good collection!

@ prior posters
love the english humour

Momliz

WOW - I want your life! (although, actually, I love mine).

How do you decide on where to go? I am always paralyzed by indecision - I want to go back to places that I've been to explore more in depth, but I want to see new things as well.

HariS

Michael,

You'll be delighted to know that the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus has undergone a massive renovation and uplift and is now open - you won't recognize it, actually nice to fly thru that airport!

Hari

thit_cho

Hari, thanks, I'd really like to get back to India and Mumbai -- I'm fiddling around and planning a trip, maybe for 2010, to the Lakshadweeps and the states of southern India (including Andaman). But, that's a long way off -- too many interesting places booked for 2008 and scheduled for 2009 (including first return to Africa at end of 2009 since 2006).

Momliz, an ongoing debate (addressed differently by each of us) is between a new destination and an old favorite. Just to clarify the list, those are the dates the sites were inscribed on the UNESCO list (on the website that I cut-and-pasted them from), not my dates of visit, so I have visited favorite places (especially London, Paris, Rome and Madrid) many times, including at least one yearly trip to one or more of them.

But, its a bit sad to realize that I likely will never return to some of those places.