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Standing before the 8,000-strong funerary army at Xi'an's Terracotta Warriors ● Exploring the ancient bazaar quarter of Kashgar, where Central Asia begins ● Driving the Karakoram Highway to glacial Karakul Lake ● Riding the high-speed rail across the Gobi Desert from Turpan to Dunhuang ● Entering the painted caves of Mogao — the greatest repository of Buddhist art on earth ● Watching the sun descend over the wind-sculpted formations of the Yardang Geopark at dusk

Follow the route of Homer's Odyssey through the islands Odysseus sailed ● Explore Corfu's UNESCO-listed Old Town on foot, where Venetian alleyways open into hidden garden squares ● Glide across Melisani's underground lake where sunlight falls through a collapsed ancient roof ● Spend a day cooking and eating at a local home on Kefalonia, from market to table ● Island-hop by ferry through five distinct Ionian worlds, each shaped by a different history

Four-night agriturismo stay among working vineyards ● Truffle hunting with trained dogs in Alba's oak forests ● Hands-on Piemontese cooking class in a farmhouse kitchen ● Vineyard hikes through UNESCO-listed Langhe and Monferrato ● Castelmagno cheese caves and historic rice mill on the Po plains ● Sub-alpine Valle Grana trails and Ligurian coastal walking ● Sacra di San Michele — medieval abbey on a rocky Alpine spur

Remote, exotic, mystical Gobi Desert ● Annua Naadam Festival ● Ancient capital of Karakorum ● Traditional cooking class and evening concert ● friendly nomadic herds people ● Sleep in a ger!

Medieval towns of Zurich, Bern, and Lucerne ● Engadine Valley trails beneath Piz Bernina ● eight-hour Glacier Express journey through UNESCO Alpine landscapes ● hiking at 3,089 metres below the Matterhorn ● Bachalpsee glacial lake walk in the Jungfrau region ● cog railway to Europe's highest station

Vibrant Addis Ababa ● Churches of Lalibela ● Colourful Timkat festival ● Spectacular Simien Mountain scenery ● Christian churches, gilded monasteries

'Experiential' Tokyo sightseeing ● Bullet Train to Hakone ● Hakone Outdoor Museum ● Historic Takayama ● Kyoto: Temples & shrines ● Hiroshima: Peace Memorial Park

John Rylands Library, Manchester's neo-Gothic masterpiece ● the Roman frontier at Vindolanda and Hadrian's Wall ● Durham Cathedral, the finest Norman interior in England ● crossing the tidal causeway to Holy Island, Lindisfarne ● York's medieval walls, Viking underworld and soaring Minster ● the Mersey waterfront and a farewell ferry crossing at Liverpool

Snows of Kilimanjaro from Kenya's Amboseli Park Ngorongoro Crater: natural wonder Endless Serengeti plain Great Rift Valley Exotic spice island of Zanzibar