World Heritage Sites
GeoWorld Travel geology tours often visit World Heritage Sites especially geological ones. Tours that visit World Heritage Sites include: the England & Wales, Canary Islands, Italy, Germany, Morocco, Oman, Scotland, South Africa, Switzerland, USA and the Wales Day Tour. Notable geological World Heritage Sites include: Teide Volcano in the Canary Islands, Tectonic Arena Sardona in Switzerland, Pompeii & Herculaneum and Mount Etna in Italy; the Messel Pit in Germany; Cradle of Humankind and Vredefort Dome in South Africa; the Jurassic Coast in England; Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon in the USA and Blaenavon Industrial Landscape in Wales.
The following trips visit World Heritage Sites:
England & Wales
Jurassic Coast & the Complete Geological Timescale - visits Stonehenge, the Jurassic Coast, the City of Bath, Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd, North West Wales Slate Landscape, and Ironbridge Gorge. London has an additional four World Heritage Sites that can be visited in your own time before or after the tour, these are: the Tower of London, the Palace of Westminster, Kew Gardens and Maritime Greenwich.
Canary Islands
Volcanic Island Hopping - visits Teide National Park on Tenerife and Garajonay National Park on La Gomera, both are World Heritage Sites.
Italy
The Classic Volcanoes - visits Historic Centre of Naples; Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziatach; Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands); and Mount Etna
Germany
Volcanoes & Famous Fossil Sites - visits the Messel Pit Fossil Site, and Speyer Cathedral
Morocco
The Trilobite's Sahara Kingdom - visits the Medina of Marrakesh and the Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou.
NAMIBIA
A Geological Safari - we visit Namib Sand Sea the only coastal desert in the world that includes extensive dune fields influenced by fog. We also visit Twyfelfontien which has the largest concentration of rock engravings in Africa. The engravings are between 6000 and 2000 years old.
OMAN
Ocean Crust and Mountains of Mantle - visit the Al Ayn Bronze Age tombs and the Falaj Daris 2000 year old irrigation system.
Scotland
The Birth of Geology - visits Old & New Towns of Edinburgh and the Forth Bridge
South Africa
From Table Mountain to the City of Gold - visits the Cradle of Humankind, the Cape Floral Kingdom and the Vredefort Dome
USA
Yellowstone, Dinosaurs and Grand Canyon - visits the Grand Canyon National Park, and Yellowstone National Park
Wales
Fforest Fawr Geopark & Blaenavon WHS Day Tour - our GeoWorld Travel office is less than one mile outside the boundary of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site, which we visit as part of this day tour.
The ironworks in the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site, Wales
The Sossusvlei Pan in the Namib Sand Sea World Heritage Site, Namibia
The Historic Centre of Naples World Heritage Site with Vesuvius volcano and the World Heritage Sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the background
Looking for fossils on England's Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, the beach between Charmouth and Lyme Regis is perhaps the world's most famous fossil hunting beach
The Messel Pit World Heritage Site in Germany, is the one of the world's most important Eocene fossil sites
Grand Canyon National Park World Heritage Site in Arizona, USA where it is possible to see 1.2 billion years of Earth history in a single view
Teide Volcano World Heritage Site on Tenerife, Canary Islands, the volcano was once believed to be the highest mountain on earth
