
UNESCO 2014 World Heritage Inscriptions
There are 26 more places which the group at UNESCO thinks are worth protecting for their contributions to World Heritage. The new inscriptions range from...
There are 26 more places which the group at UNESCO thinks are worth protecting for their contributions to World Heritage. The new inscriptions range from...
I didn’t get on a plane in July. That was hard for me. The good news, however, is that the next couple months should more...
A couple weeks ago UNESCO announced that 19 new sites were being added to the World Heritage List in 2013. The sites are: Al Zubarah...
For the first time in more than a decade I get to celebrate Spring Break. I managed to finagle the time away from my work...
Every now and then a travel moment just "clicks" and everything seems right. They aren’t all that common but when it happens there is a...
I chose Bern (a/k/a Berne) as my first stop on a whirl through Switzerland based on the description provided by UNESCO regarding its old city....
The Pechersk Lavra, a monastic site on the southern edge of Kiev’s city center, has a history going back to the 11th century. The monastery...
I actually generally enjoy touring cemeteries. They offer a great view of history and also are generally quite peaceful places to visit. A short ride...
The top of Sigiriya is not the high point of Sri Lanka, far from it, really, but when you’re standing on top, a few hundred...
It was just over 1,000 years ago that the city of Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka peaked in its role as the capital of the island country....