Posts in Tag: UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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Fes Medina – 9,000 Ways to Get Lost
In the last post from the Adventures Abroad Quintessesntial Tour of Morocco we arrived in the fabled city of Fes, Morocco’s second city and the home of the world’s largest medina. Covering 280 hectares or about 700 football fields, it is home to over 150,000 residents along with hundreds and hundreds of shops and restaurants. […]
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Fes – Morocco’s Most Interesting City
The Quintessential Tour of Morocco with Adventures Abroad is truly underway. In just three days we have visited three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Rabat, Volubilis and Meknes with more to come as we move on to the ancient imperial city of Fes. However, before visiting the world’s largest medina for which the city is famous, […]
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Meknes – Morocco’s Overlooked Imperial City
Morocco is an unusual country in that it has had four different capital cities over the course of its history. We’ve already visited the current capital Rabat on this Adventures Abroad Quintessential Tour of Morocco and found it to be a very quiet, green and clean contrast to the hustle and bustle of Casablanca. In […]
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Volubilis – Morocco’s Roman World Heritage Site
This is my fourth post from the recently completed Quintessential Morocco Tour by Adventures Abroad. The first post was an overview of the entire trip, explaining why Morocco is a great destination and why Adventures Abroad is a great choice to lead the way. The second post featured Casablanca and the last post the capital […]
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Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand
Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand are the Maori and English names for one of the largest and most spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Sites on the planet (for brevity’s sake I’ll just refer to it as Te Wahipounamu hereafter). Covering a full ten percent of the land mass of the country, it contains four […]
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Lake Taupo and Other North Island Wonders
This is the third full day of the March 2025 Adventures Abroad New Zealand tour and if it’s anything as action packed as yesterday’s Maori themed events, it will be something to remember. We will be travelling from Rotorua through the most volcanic area of the country on a portion of the Thermal Explorer Highway […]
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Valparaiso – Chile’s Faded Superstar
This is my third post from Chile and the first one that deals specifically with a day on the Adventures Abroad itinerary. In the first post I described a day in Santiago with local guide Chris Whatmore that I recommended as a warm up for the AA tour. In the second I gave an overview […]
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My Son – Spiritual Capital of the Champa Empire
In the last post from the Adventures Abroad tour of Vietnam we settled in for a three day stay in the wonderful little city of Hoi An. On the second full day there we left the city to visit the archaeological site of My Son which like Hoi An is also a UNESCO World Heritage […]
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Hoi An – Vietnam’s City of Wood
In the last post from the Adventures Abroad Vietnam tour we visited two very different sites in Da Nang, the Museum of Cham Sculpture and the pagodas of Marble Mountain. It was yet another eye opening day in this fascinating country as I had no idea who the Cham people were and their important role […]