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UNESCO Sites Near Galle Fort: What to See
Galle Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988, is a 52-hectare fortified peninsula on Sri Lanka's southwest coast where Portuguese, Dutch, and British…
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UNESCO Sites Near Kandy: What to See
Kandy served as the last independent capital of the Sinhalese kings from 1592 to 1815, when the British annexed it not by military conquest…
October 2026
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UNESCO Sites Near Sigiriya: What to See
Sigiriya is a 200-metre granite inselberg in central Sri Lanka where King Kashyapa I built a fortified palace between 477 and 495 CE after…
October 2026
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UNESCO Sites Near Polonnaruwa: What to See
Polonnaruwa, the second capital of Sri Lanka from 1017 to 1215 CE, was the most complete medieval city on the island before its abandonment…
October 2026
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UNESCO Sites Near Anuradhapura: What to See
Anuradhapura, the first capital of Sri Lanka from 380 BCE to 1017 CE, contains ten UNESCO-protected monuments within its sacred precinct, including the 103-metre-diameter…
October 2026
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UNESCO Sites Near Vigan: What to See
Vigan, the only intact pre-20th-century Spanish colonial city in the Philippines (UNESCO 1999), preserves 190 heritage buildings fusing Chinese, Spanish, and Ilocano building traditions…
October 2026
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UNESCO Sites Near Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng: What to See
Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park in central Vietnam holds the world's largest cave — Sơn Đoòng, 5.5 km long and 150 m tall —…
October 2026
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UNESCO Sites Near Hạ Long Bay: What to See
Hạ Long Bay's 1,969 limestone karst islands, listed by UNESCO in 1994 and extended in 2000 to cover 1,553 square kilometres, anchor a southward…
October 2026
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UNESCO Sites Near Luang Prabang: What to See
Luang Prabang, inscribed by UNESCO in 1995, preserves 32 Buddhist temples and French colonial architecture on a Mekong river peninsula that served as the…
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