41 articles tagged with unesco world heritage
The moment my feet hit Hoi An's ancient streets, I knew I'd stumbled onto something magical. It was late afternoon, that golden hour when the sun paints everything in honey-colored light, and the centuries-old buildings seemed to glow from within....
I'll never forget the moment our small plane began its descent toward Fernando de Noronha. My wife nudged me awake just as the archipelago came into view—21 islands of pure emerald-green perfection rising from the deep blue Atlantic. Let me...
There's something deeply satisfying about visiting a destination where history doesn't simply reside in museums but permeates every cobblestone street and weathered façade. Evora, nestled in Portugal's sun-drenched Alentejo region, is precisely such a place—a living museum where 2,000 years...
The winding mountain road through Bulgaria's Rila National Park feels like a journey back in time. As a sports journalist who's traversed the globe covering cricket matches from Lord's to Eden Gardens, I've developed an appreciation for places where cultural...
The moment I stepped onto Trinidad's cobblestone streets, my surveyor's heart skipped a beat. This perfectly preserved colonial town, nestled between the Escambray Mountains and the Caribbean Sea, represents one of the most extraordinary architectural time capsules I've encountered in...
The first time I glimpsed Palau's Rock Islands from my seaplane window, I experienced what I can only describe as a filmmaker's euphoria—that rare moment when reality surpasses even the most ambitious cinematographer's vision. Emerald mushroom-shaped islets rose from water...
The morning sun casts long shadows across the cobblestones as I trace my fingers along the ancient walls of Rhodes Old Town. There's something magical about being here before the cruise ships arrive, when the medieval streets still belong to...
I'll never forget the moment I first stepped through Evora's medieval walls, the golden Portuguese sunlight illuminating 2,000 years of history before my eyes. This UNESCO World Heritage city might be compact enough to explore on foot, but it packs...
There's something profoundly humbling about standing before art created by human hands thousands of years ago. As the afternoon sun casts long shadows across the quartzite faces of Botswana's Tsodilo Hills, I find myself tracing the outline of a giraffe...
There's something about ancient cities that speaks to the investigative side of my nature. The layered history, the secrets hidden in plain sight, the stories etched into every weathered stone. Kairouan—Tunisia's fourth holiest city in Islam—presents exactly this kind of...
Standing atop the crumbling walls of Kyz Kala fortress as the autumn sun cast long shadows across the ancient city of Merv, I felt that familiar rush of connection to the past that first drew me to architectural preservation. This...