Australia’s collection of 20 UNESCO World Heritage sites are some of the most extraordinary natural and cultural treasures on the planet – after all, a place has to be truly remarkable to make it onto UNESCO’s list. Our World Heritage wonders range from prehistoricrainforest wildernessand anc...
Total number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: 20 Natural: 12, Cultural: 4, Mixed: 4 Great Barrier Reef (natural) Kakadu National Park (mixed) Willandra Lakes Region (mixed) Lord Howe Island Group (natural) Tasmanian Wilderness (mixed) Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (natural) Uluru-Kata Tjuta...
Looming tall in Australia’s arid heart, Uluru is one of the most famous UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Australia. The massive sandstone formation towers 350 metres into the sky, one of the oldest known rocks on the planet at over 550 million years old. Seeing it change from fiery red at...
The sites listed here are in the order that I visited them. In the case where a site I visited becomes a world heritage site after the fact, its place on the list is determined by when it was made a world heritage site, not when I visited. This is so I don’t have to constantly...
Top UNESCO World Heritage Sites List Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park(Uganda) Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (Canada) Central Amazon Conservation Complex (Brazil) Darién National Park (Panama) Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) Great Barrier Reef (Australia) ...
CLICK: See my tips for visiting Australia's World Heritage Sites 67% Austria Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape Semmering Railway City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg Wachau Cultural Landsc...
The Australian Convict Sites is one of the few World Heritage Sites to have multiple locations across an entire country. There are 11 sites in total in New SouthWales, Western Australia, Tasmania and Norfolk Island. I visited the 3 sites located in the Sydney area: Cockatoo Island (pictured)...
UNESCO World Heritage sites / biospheres Intro UNESCO World Heritage sites are witnesses to the history of earth and mankind. They tell the story of the country’s formation and are part of the Swiss identity. Each one of these places stands for authenticity, quality and diversity across genera...
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee is naming cultural and natural treasures to the organization’s prestigious World Heritage List
UNESCO'S World Heritage Committee has added 61 places of value to its roll-call of protected cultural and natural sites. At its recent meeting in Cairns, Australia, it was decided to pass this record number of sites - five of them in Spain, including the Palm Grove of Elche in front of...