My UNESCO WHS List

This blog puts together some of my passions: travelling, especially to UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS); philately (collecting stamps); deltiology (collecting postcards); and doing research into TUIs (i.e., totally useless information) of things that interest me. Hence, it catalogues UNESCO WHS that I have been to, stamps showing UNESCO WHS that I have, as well as postcards featuring UNESCO WHS that I have received (i.e., stamped and posted) and maxicards and postal cards (both used or unused).

13 December, 2019

Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang - Plain of Jars

country. Laos

year of inscription. 2019

criteria. Cultural

The Plain of Jars is an archaeological site of megalithic structures located in Xiengkhuang province. Found here are some 2,100 partially-buried stone jars used for funerary practices sometime between 500BCE and 500CE. The fifteen component sites contain large carved stone jars, stone discs, secondary burial sites, tombstones, quarries, and funerary objects. However, little in known of the civilisation that created these objects.

what. WHS visited (December 2019)