Stefan van de Wetering, Author at World Heritage Sites

A view along a row of buildings in Hoi An, all one or two stories tall, with a flat-topped facade. They're painted in shades of light orange and are very colorful with chains of mostly red paper lanterns hanging down their facades and draped across and above the street as well.

Hoi An Ancient Town

An ancient and well-preserved trading port with traditional wooden buildings that show the traces of indigenous, Chinese, Japanese and European influences.

A large building with typical curved roof and festooned with colorful banners.

Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara

A collection of ancient Buddhist and Shinto shrines in the old capital of the Japanese empire.

A number of stupas scattered across a flat landscape.

Bagan

An archeological zone of thousands of Buddhist structures dating to the 11th-13th centuries.