Import of the official UNESCO world heritage site. Besides "guess the tcountry from the name", the guess-the-site from its description cards have an easy version that displays the answer for acquainting you with the sites, and a hard version that has (very imperfect) obscurant ion of the title words.
| Name | Ichkeul National Park |
| LazyName | ichkeul |
| Country | Tunisia |
| Description | The Ichkeul lake and wetland are a major stopover point for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds, such as ducks, geese, storks and pink flamingoes, who come to feed and nest there. Ichkeul is the last remaining lake in a chain that once extended across North Africa. |
| Short Name | Ichkeul |
| ISO | tn |
| Year Added | 1980 |
| Area | 12600 |
| Latitude | 37.16 |
| Longitude | 9.67 |
| Danger | P 1996-2006 |
| Countries | Tunisia |
| Region | Arab States |
| Justification | |
| Censored Description | The XXXXXXX lake and wetland are a major stopover point for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds, such as ducks, geese, storks and pink flamingoes, who come to feed and nest there. XXXXXXX is the last remaining lake in a chain that once extended across North Africa. |
| Spoiled Description | The Ichkeul lake and wetland are a major stopover point for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds, such as ducks, geese, storks and pink flamingoes, who come to feed and nest there. Ichkeul is the last remaining lake in a chain that once extended across North Africa. — Ichkeul, Tunisia (Ichkeul National Park) |
| PlainCountry | tunisia |
| Typeable | Ichkeul |
| Sortable | Tunisia - Ichkeul |
| Name | Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town |
| LazyName | hebronalkhal |
| Country | Palestine |
| Description | The use of a local limestone shaped the construction of the old town of Hebron/Al-Khalil during the Mamluk period between 1250 and 1517. The centre of interest of the town was the site of Al-Ibrahimi Mosque/The tomb of the Patriarchs whose buildings are in a compound built in the 1st century AD to protect the tombs of the patriarch Abraham/Ibrahim and his family. This place became a site of pilgrimage for the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The town was sited at the crossroads of trade routes for caravans travelling between southern Palestine, Sinai, Eastern Jordan and the north of the Arabian Peninsula. Although the subsequent Ottoman Period (1517-1917) heralded an extension of the town to the surrounding areas and brought numerous architectural additions, particularly the raising of the roof level of houses to provide more upper stories, the overall Mamluk morphology of the town is seen to have persisted with its hierarchy of areas, quarters based on ethnic, religious or professional groupings, and houses with groups of rooms organized according to a tree-shaped system. |
| Short Name | Hebron/Al-Khalil |
| ISO | ps |
| Year Added | 2017 |
| Area | 21 |
| Latitude | 31.52 |
| Longitude | 35.11 |
| Danger | Y 2017 |
| Countries | State of Palestine |
| Region | Arab States |
| Justification | |
| Censored Description | The use of a local limestone shaped the construction of the old town of XXXXXXX during the Mamluk period between 1250 and 1517. The centre of interest of the town was the site of Al-Ibrahimi Mosque/The tomb of the Patriarchs whose buildings are in a compound built in the 1st century AD to protect the tombs of the patriarch Abraham/Ibrahim and his family. This place became a site of pilgrimage for the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The town was sited at the crossroads of trade routes for caravans travelling between southern Palestine, Sinai, Eastern Jordan and the north of the Arabian Peninsula. Although the subsequent Ottoman Period (1517-1917) heralded an extension of the town to the surrounding areas and brought numerous architectural additions, particularly the raising of the roof level of houses to provide more upper stories, the overall Mamluk morphology of the town is seen to have persisted with its hierarchy of areas, quarters based on ethnic, religious or professional groupings, and houses with groups of rooms organized according to a tree-shaped system. |
| Spoiled Description | The use of a local limestone shaped the construction of the old town of Hebron/Al-Khalil during the Mamluk period between 1250 and 1517. The centre of interest of the town was the site of Al-Ibrahimi Mosque/The tomb of the Patriarchs whose buildings are in a compound built in the 1st century AD to protect the tombs of the patriarch Abraham/Ibrahim and his family. This place became a site of pilgrimage for the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The town was sited at the crossroads of trade routes for caravans travelling between southern Palestine, Sinai, Eastern Jordan and the north of the Arabian Peninsula. Although the subsequent Ottoman Period (1517-1917) heralded an extension of the town to the surrounding areas and brought numerous architectural additions, particularly the raising of the roof level of houses to provide more upper stories, the overall Mamluk morphology of the town is seen to have persisted with its hierarchy of areas, quarters based on ethnic, religious or professional groupings, and houses with groups of rooms organized according to a tree-shaped system. — Hebron/Al-Khalil, State of Palestine (Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town) |
| PlainCountry | palestine |
| Typeable | HebronAl Khalil |
| Sortable | Palestine - Hebron/Al-Khalil |
| Name | Aapravasi Ghat |
| LazyName | aapravasigha |
| Country | Mauritius |
| Description | In the district of Port Louis, lies the 1,640 m2 site where the modern indentured labour diaspora began. In 1834, the British Government selected the island of Mauritius to be the first site for what it called ‘the great experiment’ in the use of ‘free’ labour to replace slaves. Between 1834 and 1920, almost half a million indentured labourers arrived from India at Aapravasi Ghat to work in the sugar plantations of Mauritius, or to be transferred to Reunion Island, Australia, southern and eastern Africa or the Caribbean. The buildings of Aapravasi Ghat are among the earliest explicit manifestations of what was to become a global economic system and one of the greatest migrations in history. |
| Short Name | Aapravasi Ghat |
| ISO | mu |
| Year Added | 2006 |
| Area | 0 |
| Latitude | -20.16 |
| Longitude | 57.50 |
| Danger | |
| Countries | Mauritius |
| Region | Africa |
| Justification | |
| Censored Description | In the district of Port Louis, lies the 1,640 m2 site where the modern indentured labour diaspora began. In 1834, the British Government selected the island of Mauritius to be the first site for what it called ‘the great experiment’ in the use of ‘free’ labour to replace slaves. Between 1834 and 1920, almost half a million indentured labourers arrived from India at XXXXXXX to work in the sugar plantations of Mauritius, or to be transferred to Reunion Island, Australia, southern and eastern Africa or the Caribbean. The buildings of XXXXXXX are among the earliest explicit manifestations of what was to become a global economic system and one of the greatest migrations in history. |
| Spoiled Description | In the district of Port Louis, lies the 1,640 m2 site where the modern indentured labour diaspora began. In 1834, the British Government selected the island of Mauritius to be the first site for what it called ‘the great experiment’ in the use of ‘free’ labour to replace slaves. Between 1834 and 1920, almost half a million indentured labourers arrived from India at Aapravasi Ghat to work in the sugar plantations of Mauritius, or to be transferred to Reunion Island, Australia, southern and eastern Africa or the Caribbean. The buildings of Aapravasi Ghat are among the earliest explicit manifestations of what was to become a global economic system and one of the greatest migrations in history. — Aapravasi Ghat, Mauritius (Aapravasi Ghat) |
| PlainCountry | mauritius |
| Typeable | Aapravasi Ghat |
| Sortable | Mauritius - Aapravasi Ghat |