UNESCO World Heritage Sites -New inscriptions in 2010

I have never been disappointed with any of the World Heritage sites I have visited.   The Wall Street Journal this morning has listed some of the new additions.  Most recently, I visited a biosphere reserve in Tanzania, in addition to a couple of the more well known Tanzanian UNESCO sites, such as the newly added, beautiful (Death Valley reminiscent) Ngorongoro crater.  Properties in Mexico, Spain, Brasil, and Portugal are among the newly listed locations

Sociedad Hispana Doylestown book club members who read the House of the Spirits,  Isabel Allende book will recall that Esteban Trueba worked in the mines of northern Chile.  One of the World Heritage sites I have not visited is number 1178, linked below.  It is the preserved site of one of the northern Chilean mines similar to the ones referred to by Allende, the Humberstone site.  I hope one of the new Chilean resident blog followers will comment on the site.

This World Heritage site program is one of the UN successes which even critics of the international body should applaud.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/newproperties

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1178