World Heritage Photo Gallery by Philip Game at pbase.com

World Heritage

Everyone recognises a World Heritage site or two, and many pass one every day, like the thousands of Sydney commuters who steam past that thing with the sails every time they embark from Circular Quay: the Sydney Opera House was inscribed on the World Heritage List in June 2007.

Many are the obvious icons (Taj Mahal, Tower of London, Uluru), a few are regrettably lost to us already (the Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan), others must be little-known gems (pick a ranforest reserve somewhere in central Africa) and a handful appear to be politically inspired (the monuments of Kosovo?). Closer examination might even turn up a few surprising omissions, like the cultural monuments of Burma.

Images available either as hi-res. digital (originally in RAW format) or hi-res. scans from original transparencies. Please visit www.travelgame.org.

Sydney Opera House	Queensland Tropics	The Great Barrier Reef	Lake Mackenzie, Fraser Island, Queensland	Lord Howe Island, NSW
Kakadu National Park, NT	Rock art at Kakadu National Park, NT	Kakadu National Park, NT	Domes of Kata Tjuta (the Olgas)	Dawn strikes Uluru (Ayers Rock)
High noon, Uluru (Ayers Rock)	Dusk at Uluru (Ayers Rock)	In or out? Tasmania's Tarkine wilderness	Komodo dragons, Komodo National Park, Indonesia	Borobodur, Central Java, Indonesia
Halong Bay, Vietnam	Angkor Wat, Cambodia	Angkor Wat, Cambodia	Luang Prabang, Laos: Royal Palace	Lijiang, Yunnan, China
Lijiang, Yunnan, China	Huangshan Mountains, China	Taj Mahal, India	Qutab Minar, Delhi, India	Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 1974
Petra, Jordan	Essaouira, Morocco	Colosseum of El Jem, Tunisia, North Africa	Marrakech, Morocco	Roman mosaic at Volubilis, Morocco
Pompeii, Italy (Stabiana Baths)	Pompeii, Italy	Pont du Gard, France	Canal du Midi, France	Canal du Midi, France
Tower of London	Beefeater, Tower of London	Caernarfon Castle, where Princes of Wales are inaugurated	Welsh flag flies over Harlech Castle	Cathedral of St James, Santiago de Compostella, Spain
Santiago de Compostella, Spain	The medieval university city of Salamanca, Spain (Plaza Mayor)	University city of Salamanca, Spain	Novodevichy, 18th C. convent of the 'New Maidens' in Moscow	Domes of Ivan the Great Belltower, the Kremlin
St Basil's Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow	St Petersburg, Russia: The Hermitage	Twelfth-century Vladimir cathedral, Russia	Medieval capital of Suzdal, Russia	Suzdal, Russia
Rila Monastery, Bulgaria	Old City of Tallinn, Estonia	Old city of Vilnius, Lithuania	African fish eagle takes a bait on Lake Malawi	Bored.... Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania	Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, USA	Mesa Verde National Park, USA	Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA	Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

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chuck noras		05-Nov-2009 22:12
these are the coolest pictures ever who ever took the must be a heck of a photographer!!!!!!