Kinabalu Park

This was one of the first national parks of Malaysia and the first Malaysia's world heritage site designated by UNESCO

Kinabalu Park

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Kinabalu Park, in the State of Sabah on the northern end of the island of Borneo, is dominated by Mount Kinabalu (4,095 m), the highest mountain between the Himalayas and New Guinea. It has a very wide range of habitats, from rich tropical lowland and hill rainforest to tropical mountain forest, sub-alpine forest and scrub on the higher elevations. It has been designated as a Centre of Plant Diversity for Southeast Asia and is exceptionally rich in species with examples of flora from the Himalayas, China, Australia, Malaysia, as well as pan-tropical flora. - in: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1012

Mount Kinabalu

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Mount Kinabalu (Malay: Gunung Kinabalu) is a mountain in Sabah, Malaysia. It is protected as Kinabalu Park, a World Heritage Site. Kinabalu is the highest peak in Borneo's Crocker Range and is the highest mountain in the Malay Archipelago as well as the highest mountain in Malaysia. - in: wikipedia

Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

The "Camino Real de Tierra Adentro", also known as the Silver Route, consists of 55 sites and five existing World Heritage sites  and includes historic cities, towns, bridges, haciendas and other monuments along the 1,400km route between the Historic Center of Mexico City and the town of Valle de Allende, Chihuahua. I have four of the five existing World Heritage sites and only one of the other 55.

Historic Center of Mexico City

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The Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México (English: Historic Centre of Mexico City) is the central neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, focused on Zócalo or main plaza. - in: wikipedia

Querétaro

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Querétaro City is the capital and largest city of the state of Querétaro, located in central Mexico. - in: wikipedia

San Miguel de Allende

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San Miguel de Allende is a city and municipality located in the far eastern part of the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico.

The main attraction of the town is its well-preserved historic center, filled with buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries. - in: wikipedia

Guanajuato

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Guanajuato is a city and municipality in central Mexico and the capital of the state of the same name. It is in a narrow valley, which makes its streets narrow and winding. - in: wikipedia

Historic Center of Lagos de Moreno and Bridge

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Lagos de Moreno is a city and its surrounding municipal area of the same name, located in the extreme northeastern part of the state of Jalisco in Mexico.

The city's modern history started on 31 March 1563, when it was founded as Villa de Santa María de los Lagos, by Captain Don Hernando Martel and around 100 colonist families. - in: wikipedia

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal

This aqueduct is a masterpiece of engineering and inspired many projects all over the world. In this postcard is not possible to have a clear notion of how high it is, but it is very high.

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

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The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal across the River Dee in north east Wales. The 18-arched stone and cast iron structure, which took ten years to design and build, was completed in 1805. It is now the oldest and longest navigable aqueduct on Great Britain and the highest in the world.

The aqueduct was built by Thomas Telford and William Jessop near the 18th-century road crossing, Pont Cysylltau. - in: wikipedia

The English Lake District

The mountains, forests and lakes in this area provide amazing landscapes that served as inspiration to poets and artists 

Lake District

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Located in northwest England, the English Lake District is a mountainous area, whose valleys have been modelled by glaciers in the Ice Age and subsequently shaped by an agro-pastoral land-use system characterized by fields enclosed by walls. The combined work of nature and human activity has produced a harmonious landscape in which the mountains are mirrored in the lakes. Grand houses, gardens and parks have been purposely created to enhance the landscape’s beauty. This landscape was greatly appreciated from the 18th century onwards by the Picturesque and later Romantic movements, which celebrated it in paintings, drawings and words. It also inspired an awareness of the importance of beautiful landscapes and triggered early efforts to preserve them. - in: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/422

University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares

Alcalá de Henares is the hometown of Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote 

University of Alcalá

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The University of Alcalá (Spanish: Universidad de Alcalá) is a public university located in Alcalá de Henares, a city 35 km (22 miles) northeast of Madrid in Spain and also the third-largest city of the region. It was founded in 1293 as a Studium Generale for the public, and was refounded in 1977.

By a royal order of 29 October 1836, Queen Regent Maria Christina ordered The University to move to Madrid, where they took the name of Literary University and, in 1851, the Central University of Madrid.

In 1975, after years of the buildings passing between various businesses, Complutense University opened its Alcalá branch as a means to decongest its growing student population. In 1977, the university was re-founded as "the University of Alcalá de Henares," which later was shortened to "the University of Alcalá" in 1996. - in: wikipedia

Aranjuez Cultural Landscape

Aranjuez has amazing gardens and beautiful architecture, like the Royal Palace

Royal Palace of Aranjuez

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The Royal Palace of Aranjuez (Spanish: Palacio Real de Aranjuez) is a former royal residence of Spanish royalty. Located in the town of Aranjuez, it is open to the public as one of several Spanish royal sites in the Community of Madrid, Spain. It was established around the time Philip II of Spain moved the capital from Toledo to Madrid. Aranjuez became one of four seasonal seats of government, occupied during springtime (from about holy week). Thereafter, the court moved successively to Rascafría, El Escorial, wintering in Madrid.

In 1931, during the Second Spanish Republic the area was declared an Artistic Historical Monument and opened to the public. - in: wikipedia

Chief Roi Mata’s Domain

Three islands are inscribed as part of the Roi Mata's domain: Efate, Lelepa and Eretoka. 

Eretoka Island

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The continuing cultural landscape of Chief Roi Mata’s domain, Vanuatu, has Outstanding Universal Value as an outstanding example of a landscape representative of Pacific chiefly systems. This is reflected in the interaction of people with their environment over time in respecting the tangible remains associated with Roi Mata and being guided by the spiritual and moral legacy of his social reforms. The landscape reflects continuing Pacific chiefly systems and respect for this authority through tabu prohibitions on use of Roi Mata’s residence and burial that have been observed for over 400 years and structured the local landscape and social practices. The landscape memorialises the deeds of Roi Mata who still lives for many people in contemporary Vanuatu as a source of power and inspiration. - in: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1280