Hello and Welcome!
I am Chrissie and in this blog, I write about my travels to UNESCO World Heritage Sites. As of August 2024, there are 1,223 properties on the list. So, sadly, I probably won’t manage to visit them all. Unless I win the lottery, of course, and start travelling full-time. A girl can dream, right?
Why write about UNESCO World Heritage sites?
The places and sights listed by UNESCO as World Heritage are just amazing and all kinds of wonderful; they are extremely diverse and everyone will be able to find a site (or a hundred) that interests them and which they like. There are breathtaking natural habitats, beautiful artefacts, amazing architecture, early human settlements, whole town centres that are not only lovely but also of historical and cultural importance, industrial heritage, themes and related sites which span various countries, you name it. Believe me, there is a World Heritage site for everyone.
Why should you read my blog?
It is my aim to add a personal perspective. I very much hope this blog provides added value to just gathering information by doing a quick web search on the history and location of a site.
How is the blog structured?
The actual Blog page lists all posts, irrespective of category or tags, chronologically.
You can also filter your search by selecting the categories via the main menu or the category widgets in the blog sidebar and footer area.
Categories comprise the following major topics: Europe, Asia & Australasia, Africa & Middle East, Americas, Travel Literature. For better overview, I have also added the countries as categories rather than just tags. Furthermore, to help you find sites by type, there are the categories Cultural Heritage, Natural Heritage and Industrial Heritage.
To showcase places near World Heritage Sites that I also consider worth a trip, I added the category Detour. Coming soon is a new category containing heritage sites on the so-called Tentative List (which is a kind of incubator for World Heritage Sites – unless a site was listed there first, it cannot be nominated).
Last, but not least, I added a category for my favourite sites. I feel a little bad admitting that I do have favourites, as all World Heritage Sites are amazing.
Drop me a comment to let me know which WHS is your favourite!
Plans for the future?
Apart from the existing categories, I am also thinking of something along the lines of Eat, Sleep, Move, to provide information on good places to eat and drink, amazing accommodation and travel options I enjoyed.
Living in Europe and with travelling generally being rather expensive, the blog will be a little Euro-centric at first. Hopefully I’ll be able to travel further afield sometime soon, as well. Another plan is to make the site bilingual, if I can ever find the time to translate everything into German.
Get in touch
In case you have any questions or suggestions for World Heritage Sites I should visit, please email me blog(at)worldheritage-blog.com or leave comment. I look forward to hearing from you!
PS: Please note that this is a personal travel blog. My objective is to inspire you to visit World Heritage Sites, but I am not a traveller’s agent and cannot book your trip for you.