Worldhop Places I

Our Miles:

Air: 28,056 (20,322 round-the-world tickets)
Auto: 9,486 Train: 3,658 Bus: 1,604 Boat: 681
+ elephant trek (elephants and hiking) = 30
+ camel trek (camels)= 45
+ horses on the Sahara = 40
TOTAL: 43,600 (+ more miles on foot than we can estimate)

Worldhop Historic Monuments w/Museums

These monuments have either significant interpretive material or an especially created (if not built) museum with it.


St. Paul's Church (ruins), Macao
Sun Yat Sen Monument and Memorial Hall, Guanzhou, China
Ching Family House, Guanzhou China
Jim Thompson House, Bangkok, Thailand
Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand
Alwar Fort/Palace, India
Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur
The Palace, Amsterdam
Exhibit of Catherine the Great at Nieu Kirk, Amsterdam
Anne Frank House and Museum, Amsterdam
Acropolis and Museum, Athens, Greece
Palacio Real, Madrid
Palace of Versailles, France
Eyam (the "plague village"), England
Castle Howard, England
Old Royal Observatory, Greenwich (International Dateline), England
Cutty Sark, Greenwich, England
Castell Henllys (a reconstructed stone age village with stone age activities and talks), Wales
Wm. Wallace Monument, Stirling, Scotland
Edinburgh Castle
Robert Burns Cottage and Museum

Worldhop Monuments


Macao
Fortaleza (Portuguese Fortress) in Pousada de Sao Tiago, Macao
Leal Senado, Macao


India
Taj Mahal, Agra, India
Fatepur Sikri
Akbar's Tomb
Red Fort
Sariska Palace
Lake Silsir Royal Hunting Lodge
Umai Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur
Jaiselmer Fort
Royal Cenotaphs, near Jaiselmer

Netherlands
Tschinsky Theater, Amsterdam
Historic "Queens Stables," Amsterdam

Greece
Hadrian's Arch
Theater of Herodes Atticus
Theater of Dionysos
Monument of Filopappos
Ancient Agora
Temple of Olympian Zeus
Roman Stadium
Temple of Athena Nike
Parthenon
Venetian Fortress at Rethymno
Ruins at Gortys
Socrates Jail
Phaestos (Festos) Ruins
Knossos Ruins
Kazanzakis Grave,
in the city wall of Iraklion
Minoan Tomb, Kamilari, Crete
WWII War Monument, Crete

Egypt
Pyramids at Giza
Step Pyramids

Spain
Walled City, Avila, Spain (one of the world's best preserved-11th and 12th C.)
Passeig de Grácia-Mallorca (apt. house), Barcelona (Gaudi)
Olympic Port, Barcelona
Plaza de la Villa (w/ Casa Cisneros & Torre e los Lujanes), Madrid
La Rambla-Barri Gótic, Barcelona

Switzerland
Palais des Nations, Geneva
Ile Rousseau (old town Geneva)

France
The Catacombs, Paris
Pere Lachaisse Cemetery (the graves of Jim Morrison, Heloise & Abelard, Balzac, Rodin), Paris
Paris Opera House
Eiffel Tower

England
Avebury
Stonehenge
Silbury Hill
West Kennett Long Barrow
(prehistoric burial place)
The Ridgeway,
Britain's Oldest Road
Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Ludlow Castle
Uffington (chalk) Horse/site of Uffington Castle
Chalk Horses:
Alton Barnes, Pewsey and Cherhill White Horses
Chiddingstone Village, stone, & castle
The Wizard's Well near Elderly Edge
Buckingham Palace
Number 10 Downing Street
Trafalgar Square
Westminster (Houses of Parliament)
Big Ben
Personal Costwold Tour:
Stanway House; Sudely Castle, Wichcombe, William Morris House, Brockhampton

Wales
Roman Ruins at Caerlon (amphitheater)
Ruins of Tinturn Abbey
(of Wordsworth and Turner)

Ireland
Charles (star) Fort, Kinsale, Ireland
Newgrange
Carrowmore,
County Sligo (largest cemetery of megalithic tombs)
Ross Castle (Killarney)
Inisfallen Island
(St. Finian the Leper, improvements from 12th C)
St. Brendan's Creek/Memorial
High Crosses of Kilfenora
(Doorty Cross, etc.)
Michael Collins Ambush Site
Blarney Castle
Poulnabrone Dolmen
Ring Forts
(everywhere!)
Gleninsheen Wedge Tomb
Murrisk Friary, Clew Bay,
County Mayo
Ballymote Castle
Dungarvan Castle
Glendalough Monastic Site,
Ireland

Scotland
Findhorn Foundation
Hadrian's Wall
Historic Nairn
Sueno's Stone (Pict),
Forres
Robert Burns: Brig o' Doon, Alloway Kirk
Ruthven Barracks, Kingussie
Inveraray Castle
Greenock Cemetery
(reported to be the largest in Europe)

USA
John Wayne's Birthplace, Winterset, Iowa
The Amish town of Kaloa, Iowa

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