Privately chartered vessel with expert guides and executive Belgian chef ● Bonobo tracking in the DRC's primary forests ● Western Lowland Gorilla encounters in Dzanga Sangha National Park ● Authentic village visits with Pygmy tribes, Teke Kingdom, and Sangha-Sangha peoples ● Navigate over 700 km along the Congo, Alima, and Sangha Rivers ● Cathedral forests, swamp ecosystems, and exceptional birdwatching with hundreds of species

Exploring three Galápagos islands — San Cristóbal, Isabela, and Santa Cruz — by land and sea ● Snorkelling with penguins, sea turtles, and white-tip reef sharks ● Walking lava trails among marine iguanas, blue-footed boobies, and giant tortoises in their natural habitat ● Immersion in Mindo's cloud forest, one of the world's great birding destinations ● Artisan chocolate and hummingbird gardens before ascending to a century-old working hacienda in the northern Andes ● The legendary Saturday market at Otavalo, where a weaving tradition older than the Spanish conquest is very much alive.

George Town's UNESCO-listed multicultural streetscapes, where Chinese clan houses, Hindu temples and colonial landmarks share the same block ● Cameron Highlands tea estates and mossy montane forest on the roof of the peninsula ● Singapore's Marina Bay and the story of a city-state that reinvented itself in a generation ● Kuala Lumpur's Merdeka Square and the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia ● Ipoh's colonial railway station, limestone cave temples and celebrated local cuisine ● Langkawi mangrove and wildlife cruise through ancient karst formations on the Andaman Sea

Chinguetti — UNESCO World Heritage caravan town and ancient trading centre ● The wild Atlantic coastline between desert and ocean ● Ouadane — remote UNESCO-protected ksar of mosques, houses and private libraries on the Adrar plateau ● The Western Sahara — dunes, rocky plateaus, mountains and ravines ● Mauritania's Adrar region — sand seas, sculpted rock, scorched plains and deep green oases ● Port de Pêche, Nouakchott — one of West Africa's busiest fish markets ● Terjit — the Adrar's only oasis with natural flowing water ● Tea under the stars in the remote Sahara

The Victorian Gothic extravagance of Cardiff Castle ● underground descent into Big Pit guided by former miners ● Walking behind the cascading curtain of Sgwd yr Eira in Waterfall Country ● St Govan's Chapel wedged into the sea cliffs, followed by a boat to Ramsey Island's seabird colonies ● The summit of Snowdon by Britain's only rack-and-pinion railway ● Tynwald Hill and the summit of Snaefell on the Isle of Man

The Victorian Gothic extravagance of Cardiff Castle's Arab Room and Banqueting Hall ● an underground descent into Big Pit guided by former miners ● walking behind the cascading curtain of Sgwd yr Eira in Waterfall Country ● St Govan's Chapel wedged into the sea cliffs, followed by a boat to Ramsey Island's seabird colonies from St Davids ● the summit of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) by Britain's only rack-and-pinion railway ● the battlements of Conwy Castle, where Edward I's medieval fortress still commands the estuary it was built to control

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

Six days across Trinidad and Tobago ● Asa Wright's legendary verandah ● Pitch Lake and the oldest protected rainforest in the western hemisphere ● Kaieteur Falls, the world's highest single-drop waterfall ● three nights deep in Amazonian Suriname at Kabalebo Nature Resort, accessible only by air ● Paramaribo's UNESCO inner city ● the Iles du Salut — France's most notorious penal colony ● border crossing into French Guiana that is also a crossing into the European Union, on the shoulder of South America.