The eight World Heritage Sites hosted by Kenya include Lake Turkana National Park, Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest, Lamu Old Town, Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests, Fort Jesus, Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley, Thimlich Ohinga Archeological Site in western Kenya, and now the Ge...
8. Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya) Added in 2011, this UNESCO World Heritage Site includes three interlinked lakes– Bogoria, Elementaita, and Nakuru– covering over 79,000 acres in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. It’s one of the world’s true geological wonders, and also...
Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley Thimlich Ohinga Archaeological Site The Historic Town and Archaeological Site of Gedi 0% Kiribati Phoenix Islands Protected Area 0% North Korea Complex of Koguryo Tombs Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong 88% South Korea Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Pan...
The UNESCO World Heritage List is a list of cultural and natural heritage sites which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding value. There are a total of 1007 properties on the list, including 779 Cultural Sites, 197 Natural Sites and 31 Mixed Sites. See also: UNESCO World...
Yihdego Y, Reta G, Becht R (2016) Human impact assessment through a transient numerical modelling on The UNESCO World Heritage Site, Lake Navaisha, Kenya. Environ Earth Sci. doi: 10. 1007/s12665-016-6301-2Yihdego Y, Reta G, Becht R 2017. Human impact assessment through a transient ...
Kenya Lesotho Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius This is a complete list of Africa UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Click on them for a detailed trip report. Not every site is covered yet but this will be somewhere in the future! Note that tentative sites are not included in this ...
The listing was approved after modifications suggested by ICOMOS and committee members from Qatar, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Turkey, Kenya, and Rwanda. The designation was altered from “Historic Center of Hamadan” to “Hegmataneh,” thus including it in the world heritage list. ...
the world's largest inland desert lake and the most saline of Africa's large lakes. Our journey of Lake Turkana National Parks continued by soaring over ancient cycad forests on Kenya's Northern Frontier District and touched down on the lip of the Silale Crater in Kenya's Pokot Land. A ...
Lamu - back to the future: Lamu, on Kenya's northern coastline, is now a tourist idyll and a UNESCO world heritage site, but five centuries ago, it was a crucial international commercial hub before it gradually lost its status. All this could be about to change as the island shakes off...
New UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2013 Mount Fuji, Japan. [Photo: xinhuanet.com] Mount Fuji, Japan. [Photo: xinhuanet.com] Mount Fuji, Japan. [Photo: xinhuanet.com] Mount Kenya-Lewa Wildlife conservancy, Kenya. [Photo: xinhuanet.com]...