World Heritage Week

In honor of visiting my 50th World Heritage Site, I will be posting several articles in the coming days listing my favorite and least favorite sites visited on my trip.

Starting today I will also be featuring the World Heritage sites which I’ve visited as my next 50 daily photos. (Actually, by the time I’m done, there will probably be around 53).

Here is the complete list for those of you keeping score:

1. Town of Luang Prabang
2. Ha Long Bay
3. Complex of Hué Monuments
4. Hoi An Ancient City
5. My Son Sanctuary
6. Temple of Preah Vihear
7. Angkor
8. Historic Cities of the Straight of Malacca
9. Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
10. Shark Bay, Western Australia
11. Purnululu National Park
12. Kakadu National Park
13. Wet Tropics of Queensland
14. Great Barrier Reef
15. Fraser Island
16. Gondwana Rainforests
17. Tasmanian Wilderness
18. Sydney Opera House
19. Blue Mountains Area
20. Willandra Lakes Region
21. Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens
22. Sangiran Early Man Site
23. Prambanan Temple Compound
24. Borobudur Temple Compound
25. Kinabalu National Park
26. Gunung Mulu National Park

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UNESCO World Heritage Sites 2007

27. Historic Center of Macau
28. Hwaseong Fortress
29. Jongmyo Shrine
30. Changdeokgung Palace Complex
31. Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
32. Gyeongju Historic Area
33. Shrines and Temples of Nikko
34. Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
35. Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area
36. Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
37. Himeji-Jo
38. Itsukushima Shrine
39. Hiroshima Peace Garden
40. Yakushima
41. Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu
42. Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park
43. Historic Town of Vigan
44. Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
45. Baroque Churches of the Philippines
46. East Rennell
47. Te Wahipounamu
48. Tongariro National Park
49. Rapa Nui National Park
50. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park