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:
- Town of Luang Prabang
- Ha Long Bay
- Complex of Hué Monuments
- Hoi An Ancient City
- My Son Sanctuary
- Temple of Preah Vihear
- Angkor
- Historic Cities of the Straight of Malacca
- Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
- Shark Bay, Western Australia
- Purnululu National Park
- Kakadu National Park
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Great Barrier Reef
- Fraser Island
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Sydney Opera House
- Blue Mountains Area
- Willandra Lakes Region
- Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens
- Sangiran Early Man Site
- Prambanan Temple Compound
- Borobudur Temple Compound
- Kinabalu National Park
- Gunung Mulu National Park
- Historic Center of Macau
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Gyeongju Historic Area
- Shrines and Temples of Nikko
- Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
- Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area
- Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
- Himeji-Jo
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Hiroshima Peace Garden
- Yakushima
- Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park
- Historic Town of Vigan
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Baroque Churches of the Philippines
- East Rennell
- Te Wahipounamu
- Tongariro National Park
- Rapa Nui National Park
- Hawaii Volcanoes National Park