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The valley of the Urubamba between Cusco and Machu Picchu is where the Inca state grew its food and built some of its finest stonework. It is also lower than Cusco, which makes it the right place to begin.
The valleys around Chincha carry a musical and religious tradition with no monument attached to it. Visiting means going to where it is performed and taught, by the families who hold it.
Teotihuacan was already a ruin when the Aztecs found it and gave it the name we still use. Knowing that, and knowing how the city was laid out, changes a visit from a walk past pyramids into something legible.
Oaxaca and Monte Alban were inscribed together as a single property, which is an unusual thing for UNESCO to do and is the key to visiting them. They are two halves of one story about a valley.
The Costa Chica carries Mexico's Afro-descendant heritage, and it carries no inscription and no monument. It also straddles two states, one of which is under a travel advisory and one of which is not.
Rio is on the World Heritage List for something unusual: not a building, not an old quarter, but the landscape the city grew into, from the Tijuca massif down to the sea. Knowing that changes what you go and look at.
Salvador's historic center has been on the World Heritage List since 1985. The citation records two facts together: extraordinary preserved architecture, and a city that was from 1558 the first slave market in the Americas. Visiting well means holding both.
The Central Amazon Conservation Complex is on the World Heritage List for its flooded forest systems and the species they hold. What the citation describes is not a static wilderness but a landscape that rises and falls by several meters a year, which is why when you go decides what you see.
Switzerland has two genuine high seasons and they want different things from you. Winter is the ski country; July to September is the hiking, pass and lake country. The shoulder weeks between them are cheap for a reason: lifts close, passes may not be open, and mountain routes reopen on the snow…
Switzerland follows Schengen area rules, so the passport tests and the ninety day allowance are the same as its neighbors'. It is not in the European Union, which changes the customs rules entirely. And it is the one country in this program whose entry page asks for proof of accommodation, proof of…