The last stop of our A-ROSA river cruise on the Danube was the stop in Melk,a small, romantic town in the Wachau.
» Read the full blog postTravel Reports » UNESCO Weltnaturerbe
The UNESCO World Heritage List was first opened in 1978 and today includes 1,121 sites in more than 167 countries (as of May 2020), which are world-renowned in their uniqueness, authenticity and integrity. These are currently 869 cultural monuments, 213 natural sites and 39 mixed natural and cultural sites. The exceptional universal value of the site is fundamental to the award and registration as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In other words, a cultural and/or natural meaning that is so extraordinary that it permeates national borders and is important for both present and future generations of all humanity. The natural sites have outstanding natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance, are exceptional examples of the main stages of earth history or important habitats of biodiversity on earth.
These are our travel reports from UNESCO World Heritage Sites:
The Messel Pit Fossil Site – A window into prehistory (Germany)
Today we made a trip to the Messel pit, which is only about 20 minutes by car from our home in Darmstadt.
» Read the full blog postPalau – Scenic Flight over the Rock Islands & Seventy Islands (Palau)
Even before our holiday we had seen the pictures of the Rock Islands in Palau in the diving magazines and on the internet, we knew that we really wanted to make a scenic flight over the Ngerukeuid Islands (better known as The Seventy Islands). We think sightseeing flights are just a great opportunity to marvel at our world from above and get a completely different perspective on our earth. For example, we have already made sightseeing flights over the Blue …
» Read the full blog postThe Rock Islands in Palau & Infos about Jellyfish Lake (Palau)
The beauty of Palau can be found not only underwater while diving, but also above the water there is a lot to admire. Especially the Rock Islands, which have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012, we really liked ❤
» Read the full blog postKomodo National Park – Komodo Dragons on Rinca Island (Indonesia)
The visit of the Komodo Dragons on Rinca Island in the Komodo National Park we had prepared for the last day of our holiday, because we could not dive today anyway. Ideally, there should be 24 hours between the last dive and the flight and we always try to keep that.
» Read the full blog postExmouth – The Cape Range National Park (Australia)
In order to take full advantage of the day, we started again quite early today in Coral Bay and drove to Exmouth, about 150 kilometres away.
» Read the full blog postDanham – World Heritage Drive & the Shark Bay (Australia)
Our goal today was Shark Bay, a protected area of the UNESCO World Heritage Site on the west coast of Australia about 800 kilometres north of Perth.
» Read the full blog postSafari – The northern Serengeti & driving to Arusha (Tanzania)
Today we started again at 6 o’clock in the morning, because we wanted to make a morning game trip through the northern part of the Serengeti before our long return trip to Arusha. At the reception we quickly grabbed our breakfast boxes and drove off.
» Read the full blog postSafari – The Lobo area in Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
After our morning cruise in the Seronera area, we set off for the north of the Serengeti in the Lobo area around noon. Our destination was the Lobo Wildlife Lodge.
» Read the full blog postSafari – A morning cruise in Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
Today we had a full day in the Serengeti and already at 6.30 a.m. we sat for a morning cruise in the jeep.
» Read the full blog postSafari – Serengeti National Park, an UNESCO World Heritage Site (Tanzania)
Today, one of the most famous and largest national parks in the world was on our program: the Serengeti National Park.
» Read the full blog postSafari – Ngorongoro Crater in Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
After breakfast we packed our things together and drove from our camp at Tarangire National Park to Ngorongoro Crater.
» Read the full blog postHalong Bay – Our two day boat ride through Halong Bay (Vietnam)
Halong Bay in Vietnam was one of the fixed points we set ourselves on our world tour from the very beginning. We had already seen so many beautiful pictures of the limestone rocks in the sea that we really wanted to experience it ourselves. And today our little 2-day trip from Hanoi to Halong Baystarted.
» Read the full blog postCairns – Snorkel, Dive & Cruise the Great Barrier (Australia)
Today was the start of our three-day diving cruise to the Great Barrier Reef with Pro Dive Cairns.
» Read the full blog postCairns – Scenic flight over the Great Barrier Reef (Australia)
Our last destination on the east coast of Australia was the city of Cairns in the north of the state of Queensland, from where we had booked a sightseeing flight over the Great Barrier Reef and a three-day diving cruise.
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