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World Heritage Site of the Week: Get an El Salvador Visa To See Joya del Cerén
January 2nd, 2010
This week's featured UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in El Salvador, in the shadow of volcanoes. Thousands of years ago, Joya del Cerén was a small Mayan farming community that was ruled by the larger nearby city of San Andrés.
The volcanoes periodically caused problems for Joya del Cerén-the entire area was abandoned once in 250 AD when the nearby Ilopango volcano erupted. Eventually, though, people moved back, built houses and began to farm again.
Then, around 590 AD, the Loma Caldera volcano erupted and covered the town in ashes. Joya del Cerén is often called the "Pompeii of the Americas" because of the similarity between the fates of the two towns.
If you visit Joya del Ceren, you won't see any of the haunting plaster images of dead victims of the volcano, as you
World Heritage Site of the Week: Get a Tanzanian Visa to Visit the Stone Town of Zanzibar
December 26th, 2009
This week's featured UNESCO World Heritage site lies on an island off the coast of Tanzania. The Stone Town of Zanzibar is the old heart of Zanzibar, built when it was an ancient trading town.
Zanzibar is located on the island of Unguja. According to Wikipedia, people have been living here for almost three centuries, but the stone buildings that make the old town so distinctive today date back to the 1830s.
The old town consists of large stone houses, mosques and bazaars, all connected by a maze of narrow alleys. Walking is essential here, as most of the alleyways are too skinny to take a car down. One of the most interesting architectural features of the city is the elaborate doors on many of the houses. The wealthy Arab traders and businessmen who originally owned the houses comp
World Heritage Site of the Week: Get a Kyrgyzstan Visa to See the Sulamain-Too Sacred Mountain
December 13th, 2009
UNESCO's World Heritage Sites are a collection of intriguing destinations from around the world. According to the UNESCO website, the sites are selected to "to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity."
Once a week, as part of our new "World Heritage Site of the Week" series, we will profile one of these sites and look at what you would need to travel there. The first World Heritage site in the series is also one of the newest to be added to the list: Sulamain-Too Sacred Mountain in Kyrgyzstan.
What makes Sulamain Too sacred? The mountain is believed to be the final resting place of the Islamic prophet Sulamain. There is a shrine that marks what is believed to be
