A visit to Ani, capital town of a long-forgotten Empire
We came to the province of Kars in the easternmost part of Anatolia because we wanted to visit Ani, the …
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UNESCO
UNESCO World Heritage sites that we visited:
Visiting the Thingvellir National Park in Iceland
The towering basalt walls of Thingvellir National Park have impressed the early settlers of Iceland as much as the tourists …
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A visit to Mount Nemrut (Nemrut Dagi) in Turkey
Like every year we follow the news when the newly inscribed UNESCO sites are announced. We remember those new sites …
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Modern architecture by Le Corbusier in Switzerland – UNESCO World Heritage
During our recent guidebook research we went to see two buildings by the architect Le Corbusier in Switzerland. Both are …
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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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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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