The Silk Road: Route Stages from Xi’an to Chuy Valley
How to travel the Chang’an-Tianshan Corridor — the 33-site UNESCO network that traces the Silk Road across China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Falconry: Living Human Heritage and Hunting Art
Falconry—the hunting of wild game with trained birds of prey—binds handler and raptor in an ancient Arabian tradition now practiced across 23 countries…
How to Plan a Heritage Photography Trip: Guide
A successful heritage photography trip balances technical site selection—choosing locations with strong architectural light, season, and time of day—against…
Turning Fieldwork into Public Heritage Resources
You have spent months—perhaps years—studying a site. You know its stratigraphy, its building phases, the conflicting interpretations in the literature.…
La Amistad Reserves: Talamanca Cordillera Wilderness
A park named friendship, run by two countries as one: Talamanca’s cloud forests and Chirripó’s páramo summit, the binational wilderness UNESCO has listed since 1983.
Maloti-Drakensberg: San Rock Art and High Peaks
A 3,000-metre basalt wall with southern Africa’s greatest rock-art gallery at its feet: the Maloti-Drakensberg in four stops, from the Amphitheatre to Lesotho’s high plateau.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Pacific Islands
The Pacific Islands is home to 38 UNESCO World Heritage Sites across 14 countries, stretching from the ancient rock art of Australia’s Murujuga to the stone…
Phong Nha and Hin Nam No: Karst Caves of Indochina
The mountains are hollow: Phong Nha’s river caves, Paradise Cave’s boardwalked halls and Sơn Đoòng — the world’s largest cave passage — in the karst Vietnam now shares with Laos on one UNESCO listing.
Białowieża Forest: Primeval Woodland and European Bison
Europe’s last lowland primeval forest and the bison that came back from extinction: Białowieża, listed since 1979, one green block across the Polish–Belarusian border.
Heritage Impact Assessment: Principles and Process
A heritage impact assessment (HIA) is a systematic process for evaluating how a development project will affect a heritage asset, ranging from listed…