How many UNESCO World Heritage sites have you visited?
#84
Joined: Aug 2003
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I'm checking this list and counting as we speak:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list
I guess it's not enough: > 49.
Australia: 4-5
Austria: 2
Belgium: 2-3
China: 2-3
Czech Republic: 1
France: 6
Germany: 5
Greece: 1
Holy See: 1
Israel: 0-1
Italy: 7
Norway: 1-2
Portugal: 1
Spain: 5
Sweden: 1
Switzerland: 1
Turkey: 1
UK: 4-6
USA: 3
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list
I guess it's not enough: > 49.
Australia: 4-5
Austria: 2
Belgium: 2-3
China: 2-3
Czech Republic: 1
France: 6
Germany: 5
Greece: 1
Holy See: 1
Israel: 0-1
Italy: 7
Norway: 1-2
Portugal: 1
Spain: 5
Sweden: 1
Switzerland: 1
Turkey: 1
UK: 4-6
USA: 3
#88
Joined: Jun 2008
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OK - I counted a whopping 11! I had better get travelling!
US -
Grand Canyon
Mammoth Caves
Statue of Liberty
(I lived on Oahu for 3 years, but never made to volcanoes NP)
Europe - We did Bavaria in December...can't believe Kathe Wolfarte's is not on the list!!! darn!
Austria -
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
China -
Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
The Great Wall
Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
US -
Grand Canyon
Mammoth Caves
Statue of Liberty
(I lived on Oahu for 3 years, but never made to volcanoes NP)
Europe - We did Bavaria in December...can't believe Kathe Wolfarte's is not on the list!!! darn!
Austria -
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
China -
Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
The Great Wall
Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
#93
Joined: Sep 2005
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Total has risen to 133. 16 more this year with trips to Portugal, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine..of course not counting those I had already visited on prior trips to Russia, SSR days))...at my age ain't never gonna catch the peripatetic THIT-CHO...he's speeding toward 200!!
stu
stu
#96
Joined: Feb 2003
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Able to add several due to two trips I've taken since I posted on this several years ago and one added to the list that I had previously visited...
Original List of 48:
Great Barrier Reef, Queensland Tropics, Uluru-Kata Tjunta, Blue Mountains, Seine-Paris, Acropolis, Rhodes, Olympia, Mycenae, Patmos, Historic Rome, Vatican, Florence, Pisa, Venice, Ravenna, Padua, Verona, Fez, Marrakesh, Meknes, Volubilis, Batalha, Tower of Belem, Sintra, Alto Douro, Alhambra, Avila, Toledo, Seville, Salamanca, Stonehenge, Bath, Westminster, Canterbury, Tower of London, Edinburgh, Greenwich, Liverpool, Mesa Verde, Yellowstone, Everglades, Grand Canyon, Redwoods, Smoky Mountains, Statue of Liberty, Yosemite and Carlsbad Caverns.
Add 6 due to recent trips:
Iguazu/Iguacu (Argentina/Brazil), Berne, Swiss Alps, Swiss Railway, Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland), Colonia (Uruguay)
1 added to UNESCO List:
Sydney Opera House
My total is now 55
Keith
Original List of 48:
Great Barrier Reef, Queensland Tropics, Uluru-Kata Tjunta, Blue Mountains, Seine-Paris, Acropolis, Rhodes, Olympia, Mycenae, Patmos, Historic Rome, Vatican, Florence, Pisa, Venice, Ravenna, Padua, Verona, Fez, Marrakesh, Meknes, Volubilis, Batalha, Tower of Belem, Sintra, Alto Douro, Alhambra, Avila, Toledo, Seville, Salamanca, Stonehenge, Bath, Westminster, Canterbury, Tower of London, Edinburgh, Greenwich, Liverpool, Mesa Verde, Yellowstone, Everglades, Grand Canyon, Redwoods, Smoky Mountains, Statue of Liberty, Yosemite and Carlsbad Caverns.
Add 6 due to recent trips:
Iguazu/Iguacu (Argentina/Brazil), Berne, Swiss Alps, Swiss Railway, Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland), Colonia (Uruguay)
1 added to UNESCO List:
Sydney Opera House
My total is now 55
Keith





