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This Week in Nature
Defensive Structures
European City Breaks
Religious Buildings
Iron Wheels
Inspirations
Most of the posts in this section are part of series. In the following bullet list, the links are to the first post in each series:
- This Week in Nature: The basic four elements of nature
- Defensive Structures: Fortresses and the like
- European City Breaks: 32 cities
- Religious Buildings: Religions all over the world
- Iron Wheels: Trains and other vehicles on rails
If you are looking for regular travelogues, head for the Destinations page. If you want to learn more about the world around us, and how Sandalsand deals with it, look into the other pages in the Specials menu: Writing and publishing and Travelling. Did you know that Sandalsand is on YouTube?
The illustration above is from a flight along the Himalayas.
The Growing Puzzle of World Heritage “Locations”
UNESCO says there are 1,248 World Heritage properties. But look closer, and you’ll find they’re spread across at least 5,506 separate locations….
The New World Heritage Sites of 2025
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee announced 26 new World Heritage Sites in 2025. The List now includes 1248 sites of a cultural, natural or mixed…
Geological Heritage Sites
Geological Heritage Sites are key places with extraordinary geological elements or processes of the highest scientific relevance. They are used as a…
The New World Heritage Sites of 2024
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee announced 24 new World Heritage Sites in 2024. The List now includes 1223 sites of a cultural, natural or mixed…
The New World Heritage Sites of 2022 and 2023
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee announced 42 new World Heritage Sites in 2022 and 2023. The List now includes 1199 sites of a cultural, natural or…
The New World Heritage Sites of 2021
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee announced 34 new World Heritage Sites in 2021. The List now includes 1154 sites of a cultural, natural or mixed…
The New World Heritage Sites of 2019
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee held its 2019 annual meeting in Baku. It promoted 29 sites to the rank of World Heritage. The List now includes…
Horizontal lines on world maps – the special ones
Maps of the Earth include many latitudes. They are the lines which divide the globe horizontally. Five of them have names. Sandalsand has crossed…
The New World Heritage Sites of 2018
In 2018 we welcomed 19 new World Heritage Sites. UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has held its annual meeting, this time in Bahrain. The new…
If Facebook was to shape our image of the world
The Facebook image of the world is not real. The physical world with continents, coastlines, islands and rivers has been with us for longer than we…
Another 10 European city breaks
Here are another 10 European city breaks. This is the third article in my series of European city breaks, the places you can fly or drive to in a…
World Heritage Day 18 April
Today is the World Heritage Day. 18th of April is the “International Day for Monuments and Sites”. In 1982 the International Council for…
Travel quotes
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
