Leptis Magna: Sightseeing marvels in the desert
Travelling overland from Egypt to Libya on a transit visa, we haven’t managed to get hold of a guidebook for …
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UNESCO
UNESCO World Heritage sites that we visited:
Visiting the gardens of Prince Pückler-Muskau in Germany
Muskau park is the largest and one of the most famous English landscape gardens in Central Europe, stretching along both …
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Discover Risco Caido and Gran Canaria’s holy mountains
In 2019 the fourth site on the Canary Islands was awarded the status of a UNESCO world heritage site: Risco …
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A tour through the Bauhaus Memorial in Bernau
The modernist Workers’ Union school was built into a forest outside of Berlin: The glass front of the Bauhaus-constructed refectory …
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Danish UNESCO site: royal par force hunting landscapes
Red wooden gates mark the entrance to the Jaegersborg Dyrehave, the deer park north of Copenhagen. On this rare warm …
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Stevns Klint (Stevns Cliff) and the Danish Dinosaurs
Why did the dinosaurs have to die? They disappeared a long time ago, so nobody knows for sure and it’s …
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Visit Graz – the most beautiful city in Austria
After two weeks of climbing in the mountains, we switch bare rock and high altitudes for some urban atmosphere to …
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Visit Byblos – 8000 years of civilisation
Byblos is one of the longest continuously inhabited cities of the world. 8000 years ago, the first people build their …
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Cambodia – December 2001
In 2001, we travelled to Cambodia to see Angkor Wat, a huge UNESCO World Heritage site. The country was not …
Roman temples in Baalbek – a visit during the revolution
Close to the Syrian border, the monumental temple complex of Baalbek is one of the largest remaining Roman structures in …
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