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Visit Ahu Tahai & Ahu Ko Te Riku, Easter Island, Chile
Ahu Tahai ceremonial complex in Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui (Easter Island). it has great sunsets. -
Visit Ahu Te Peu, Easter Island, Chile
Ahu Te Peu is an important site located on the northwest coast of the island. There used to be a village where you can see the biggest boathouse in the island. You will also see few ahus or ceremonial platforms with 4 knocked moai down. -
See Moais at Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island (UNESCO site)
Ahu Tongariki is the largest ahu on Rapa Nui/Easter Island (a Chilean island in the Pacific). Its moai were toppled during the island's civil wars and in the twentieth century the ahu was swept inland by a tsunami. It has since been restored and has fifteen moai including an 86 tonne moai that was the heaviest ever erected on the island. Ahu Tongariki is one kilometer... -
Visit Ahu Vinapu, Easter Island, Chile
Ahu Vinapu is an archaeological site on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Eastern Polynesia. The ceremonial center of Vinapu includes one of the larger ahu on Rapa Nui. The ahu exhibits extraordinary stonemasonry consisting of large, carefully fitted slabs of basalt. The American archaeologist, William Mulloy investigated the site in 1958. Heyerdahl believed that the accura... -
Visit Aigai (Vergina), Greece (UNESCO site)
Archaeologists were interested in the hills around Vergina as early as the 1850s, supposing that the site of Aigai was in the vicinity and knowing that the hills were burial mounds. Excavations began in 1861 under the French archaeologist Leon Heuzey, sponsored by the Emperor Napoleon III. Parts of a large building that was considered to be one of the palaces of Antig... -
Visit Airavatesvara Temple, India (UNESCO site)
Airavatesvara Temple is a Hindu temple of Dravidian architecture located in the town of Darasuram, near Kumbakonam in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This temple, built by Rajaraja Chola II in the 12th century CE is a UNESCO World Heritage Site ,along with the Brihadeeswara Temple at Thanjavur, the Gangaikondacholisvaram Temple at Gangaikonda Cholapuram that are... -
Explore Aïr Mountains, Niger (UNESCO site)
The Aïr Mountains (also known as the Aïr Massif or Air of Niger; the name is Ayăr in Tuareg and Azbin /Abzin in eastern / western Hausa) is a triangular massif, located in northern Niger, within the Sahara desert. Part of the West Saharan montane xeric woodlands ecoregion, they rise to more than 6,000 ft (1 830 m) and extend over 84 000 km². Lying in th... -
Visit Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial, France
The Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial is a 42-acre (17 ha) World War I cemetery in Belleau, Northern France. It is at the foot of the hill where the Battle of Belleau Wood was fought, with many American fatalities. The cemetery also contains burials from the Battle of Château-Thierry, later that summer. The site is maintained by the American Battle Monu... -
Visit Ait-Benhaddou, Morocco (UNESCO site)
Aït Benhaddou is a 'fortified city', or ksar, along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech in present-day Morocco. It is situated in Souss-Massa-Draâ on a hill along the Ounila River and has some beautiful examples of kasbahs, which unfortunately sustain damage during each rainstorm. Most of the town's inhabitants now live in a more moder... -
See Ajanta Caves, India (UNESCO site)
The Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India are 31 rock-cut cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE. The caves include paintings and sculptures considered to be masterpieces of both Buddhist religious art (which depict the Jataka tales) as well as frescos which are reminiscent of the Sigiriya paintings in Sri Lanka. The caves were built in two phases starting ar... -
Visit Ajina Tepe, Bokhtar, Tajikistan (UNESCO site)
Ajina Tepe is a Buddhist monastery cluster located 12 kilometers east of the city of Bokhtar, Tajikistan. Buddhism in Tokharistan is said to have enjoyed a revival under the Western Turks. Several monasteries dated to the 7th-8th centuries display beautiful Buddhist works of art, such as Kalai Kafirnigan, Ajina Tepe, Khisht Tepe or Kafyr Kala, around which Turkic nobi... -
Visit Akbarieh Garden, Iran (UNESCO Site)
Akbarieh Garden is located in South Khorasan Province in Iran. -
Visit Aksum (Axum), Ethiopia (UNESCO site)
Axum or Aksum is a city in northern Ethiopia which was the original capital of the eponymous kingdom of Axum. Axum was a naval and trading power that ruled the region from ca. 400 BC into the 10th century. The kingdom was also arbitrarily identified as Abyssinia, Ethiopia, and India in medieval writings. In 1980, UNESCO added Axum's archaeological sites to its list of... -
Visit Alba Iulia Fortress (Cetatea Alba Carolina), Alba Iulia, Romania
The Alba Carolina Citadel is a star-shaped fortress located in Alba Iulia, Romania. Its construction commenced on November 4, 1715, during the Habsburg rule in Transylvania, and was completed in 1738. 20,000 serfs were involved in its construction, which is estimated to have cost around 3 million florins. The citadel was built on the site of two other fortifications: ... -
Visit Al-Balid (Al-Baleed) Archaeological Park, Ṣalālah, Oman (UNESCO site)
Al-Baleed Archaeological Park is located in Ṣalālah, Oman. You can either walk around them or take the golf cart shuttle. The signs are in Arabic and English. The Frankincense Trail is a site in Oman on the Incense Road. The site includes frankincense trees and the remains of a caravan oasis, which were crucial to the medieval incense trade. The Frankincense Trail h...
