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Azerbaijan Visa Requirements To See the Rock Art at Gobustan
June 12th, 2010
Azerbaijan is one of those countries that's off the beaten path but full of wonderful surprises, like this week's featured UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape. Added to the World Heritage List in 2007, Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape is an amazing collection of ancient rock art created over a period of 40,000 years.
There are over 6,000 engravings at the site, depicting a wide range of subjects, including people, rituals,battles, bullfights, the sun and stars, boats, and more. In addition to the engravings, the site is full of other archaeological evidence of ancient human settlement, such as burial sites and preserved cave dwellings.
Today, Gobustan is rather dry and arid, and is sparsely populated as a result. However, in the past, the region
Ethiopian Visa Requirements To Visit Fasil Ghebbi
April 11th, 2010
Can you imagine touring fairy-tale castles in the heart of Africa? This week's featured UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in the Gondar region of Ethiopia. The fortresses of Fasil Ghebbi date to the 16th and 17th centuries, after the Ethiopians made contact with the Portuguese.
The Ethiopians may have rejected the Roman Catholic faith introduced by the Portuguese in favor of their own traditional version of Christianity, but they were apparently more impressed by Portuguese architecture. The castles of Fasil Ghebbi really do look like something out of the Brothers Grimm, leading Gadling to refer to Fasil Ghebbi as "Ethiopia's Camelot."
The castles aren't strictly European, of course-they were also influenced by Hindu and Arab architecture as well as Ethiopia's own native buildi
Get a Brazil Visa To Visit Jaú National Park
March 30th, 2010
To get to this week's featured UNESCO World Heritage Site, you must travel into the beating heart of the Amazon. Jaú National Park is part of the Central Amazon Conservation Complex, the largest stretch of protected forest in the Amazon Basin.
The park is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it shelters a unique variety of flora and fauna, both on land and in the rivers that wind through it. For example, the tropical rainforest ecosystem is home to jaguars, sloths, armadillos and uncountable numbers of birds. In the rivers, you'll find manatee, pink river dolphin, black caiman alligators, and the "living fossil" giant arapaima fish.
Watch out, though- Jaú National Park is also home to the widest variety of electric fish in world.
Currently, you need permissio
Vietnam Visa Requirements to Visit Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park
March 28th, 2010
This week's featured UNESCO World Heritage Site is in Vietnam, 500 kilometers south of Hanoi. Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park is located on the site of one of the world's largest karst systems. Karst is a type of terrain that is distinguished by limestone rock formations and caves. Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park contains 65-70 kilometers worth of caves and underwater rivers.
Of the 300 caves and grottoes located in the park, only 20 have been studied and mapped. The most spectacular of these caves is Phong Nha Cave, which is 7729 meters long. Although tourists are only allowed to see the first 1,500 meters of the cave, it is a popular destination due to its numerous grottoes and 13,969 meter-long underground river.
Phong Na cave is also filled with fascinating rock f
Bolivian Visa Requirements to Visit The Ancient City of Tiwanaku
March 21st, 2010
This week's UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in Bolivia. Once upon a time (more precisely, from between 300 to 1000 AD), the city of Tiwanaku was the center of a great empire. According to Wikipedia, the people that lived there used an ingenious form of agriculture called "suka kollus," growing crops in raised fields separated by flooded canals. The canals kept the crops irrigated during the hot days and protected them against freezing during the cold nights.
Supported by these agricultural techniques, the city grew to 6.5 square kilometers, and had between 15,000 - 30,000 inhabitants when it was at its largest point.
Tiwanaku also brought other cities under its leadership, sometimes through trade and treaties, sometimes by force. The city expanded its territory to include parts
