Tag archives for unesco
Event-o-Rama: 12 Must-Dos in February
Posted by Intelligent Travel on January 31, 2013 
There are some amazing events on tap all over the world, all the time. Here’s a taste of what you can see and do in February.
The Radar: Boho Berlin, Traditional Mexican, Kayak Safaris
Posted by Daniel Riesenbach on August 15, 2012 
The Radar: The top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the web. Got Radar? Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTraveler and tag your favorite travel stories from the Web #ngtradar. Check back on the blog for our roundups. Photograph by Matthew Kraus, Flickr.
Sleep in an Italian Cave Hotel
Posted by Intelligent Travel on December 23, 2010 Stephanie Ostroff adds another spot to our unending travel wish list: an Italian cave hotel. Past and present exist in harmony at Sextantio Albergo Diffuso Le Grotte Della Civita, where caves transformed into upscale hotel rooms seem to speak to the peasant enclave that once called them home. Located at i Sassi di Matera, A…
Nominate Your Favorite World Heritage Site
Posted by Carolyn Fox on September 22, 2010 We here at National Geographic Travel & Cultures want to know which UNESCO World Heritage site you want to see featured in a new set of guides on NationalGeographic.com. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) protects and preserves cultural and natural sites around the world. This fall we plan to create coverage…
Everglades Endangered
Posted by jking on August 5, 2010 The UNESCO World Heritage Committee named 21 new World Heritage sites this week, citing their cultural and natural significance, and their universal value to humanity. A total of 911 places, both natural and man-made, have now have been given the designation. But they also named four places that are on their watch list; the Everglades…
“Hey Luis, Don’t Forget Tomatoes,” She Whistled
Posted by Marilyn Terrell on October 1, 2009 Silbo Gomero is a whistling language that developed on the island of La Gomera, one of Spain’s Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa. The island is difficult to traverse due to its very steep hills and deep ravines. La Gomera’s inhabitants, tired of yelling at each other, long ago invented a phonetic language…
St. Petersburg Skyscraper: Appealing or Appalling?
Posted by Marilyn Terrell on September 25, 2009 It’s 1,300 feet high, towering far above the elegant city laid out by Peter the Great, and four times higher than the maximum building limit established by city planners to preserve the architectural integrity of the czarist-era city. Developers of the controversial new Gazprom office building received the green light this week from the governor…
Belize: Trouble in Paradise
Posted by srobichaux on July 29, 2009 The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System is a wonder. Inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1996, it’s home to sea turtles, manatees, and American marine crocodiles. It represents the “evolutionary history of reef development” and includes 450 cayes and three atolls. The reserve is part of the Mesoamerican Reef, which is the second largest…
New Sites Added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Posted by mpetrich on July 7, 2009 The UNESCO World Heritage Committee added 13 new sites to its World Heritage List last week, bringing the total of protected sites to 890 properties. The list, which encourages countries to preserve important cultural locations, now includes two additional Natural Heritage sites and 11 Cultural Heritage sites, including the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales (above).
Kathmandu on the Cheap
Posted by Intelligent Travel on April 14, 2009 IT contributor Cathy Healy is back from her recent trip to Nepal, and offers some inexpensive ways to make the most of the country’s rich cultural offerings. Kathmandu, Nepal — Tala Katner awes me. Her blog about watching Hindu death rites with burning corpses and floating the ashes down the Bagmati River made me glad…
New Zealand’s “Park in the Sky”
Posted by Jeannette Kimmel on February 10, 2009 The Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. Photo: Neil Gardner The diverse New Zealand landscape is among the most beautiful in the world: pristine beaches, rolling green fields, awesome mountains. But residents in Tekapo aren’t so much concerned with what surrounds them on the ground, they’re much more interested in preserving…
Tour Guide: UN Guide to Guides
Posted by Jeannette Kimmel on December 20, 2007 Here’s a useful tool: Friends of World Heritage has a list of community tour operators in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America that have been approved by the UN World Heritage Foundation. Tour operators include the Shampole Community Trust in Kenya (offering eco-friendly, luxury accommodations which we wrote about here), the Talamanca Initiative in…
UNESCO’s Creative Meccas
Posted by Katie Knorovsky on September 3, 2007 Some days, hunkering down with a good book is nothing short of blissful retreat. So when IT heard that just across the pond, wordsmiths like Yann Martel, Ilan Pappe, and Esther Freud recently emerged from their writer caves to rub shoulders with ordinary folks at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, we couldn’t help but get…
