Hello! I am the Nerd Traveler! I love to nerd out on history + travel and have a deep appreciation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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What is so special about the intersection of history + travel?
I am fascinated by the intersection of history and travel as the combination allows any trip to be transformed into journeys of discovery, where every site visited and story uncovered deepens our connection to the world and its people.
Travel has allowed me to physically stand in places where history was made and walk the same paths where millennia of people have traveled.
With a focus on UNESCO World Heritage Sites, we get to see the best of our world’s cultural, historical, and natural treasures—places so extraordinary that they are recognized as belonging to all of humanity, going beyond borders and generations.
The past comes alive, whether standing outside of the Roman Colosseum, the Louvre in Paris, the Tower of Belem in Lisbon, or the Acropolis in Athens.
Seeing these UNESCO World Heritage Sites makes history feel more accessible than any textbook or movie.
There is a real and physical connection to the people who built the structures and to all of those who have visited over the eras.
What is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Places receiving the designation of a UNESCO World Heritage Site is like receiving an Olympic gold medal – only for the best of the best!
With the global importance of the site – be it cultural, historical, or natural, efforts are made to ensure that location is preserved for future generations.
The sites are given financial support, conservation efforts, and global awareness to help protect the fragile ecosystems, ancient ruins, or historic towns.
With these symbols of shared human history and culture, we get to be inspired to see and experience these places that help us learn, grow, and connect to our world’s diverse heritage as well as our shared humanity.
And what a better way to learn about each other and ourselves as well as our shared human experience than traveling to places with layers of history and where the past meets the present.
My hope with this blog, the places explored, and the stories of each location helps you feel transported to these places and even inspired by the echoes of the past. The world can feel so vast and far-reaching as well as small and familiar.
Our shared human experience and story is told by experiencing historical places and UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Those sites and places help bind all of us together and can even teach us how connected we all are.
It can remind us that we have much more in common than what separates us.
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