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.

Port of Spain's Magnificent Seven colonial mansions and Queen's Park Savannah ● scarlet ibis spectacle at the Caroni Bird Sanctuary ● guided nature walks at the Asa Wright Nature Centre in Trinidad's Northern Range ● the world's largest natural asphalt deposit at Pitch Lake, La Brea ● Tobago island circuit including the oldest protected rainforest in the western hemisphere

Rhodes' UNESCO-protected medieval city ● Symi's neoclassical harbour & monastery of Panormitis ● Nisyros volcano & hydrothermal crater you can walk into ● Kalymnos: sponge diving heritage & coastal walks ● Leros' Italian rationalist architecture & Byzantine castle ● Tour Leader-led optional walks on three islands ● Local tavernas, island specialties & a Leros winery visit

Rhodes' UNESCO-protected medieval city ● ● Symi's neoclassical harbour & monastery of Panormitis ● Nisyros volcano & hydrothermal crater you can walk into Kalymnos: sponge diving heritage & coastal walks ● Leros' Italian rationalist architecture & Byzantine castle ● Tour Leader-led optional walks on three islands ● Local tavernas, island specialties & a Leros winery visit

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

Two days at Pitcairn Island—one of Earth's most remote inhabited places, home to fewer than 50 descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers ● 11 nights on board the custom-built expedition vessel MV Aranoa—an all-inclusive expedition cruising experience ● Explore Pitcairn's Adamstown, the Bounty Museum, and Fletcher Christian's tomb ● Discover the stunning Gambier Islands and navigate the vast Tuamotu Archipelago, the world's largest chain of atolls ● Bora Bora's legendary lagoon—swim with rays and reef sharks and explore WWII relics ● Moorea 4x4 touring and afternoon dolphin expedition

Ladakh's Buddhist monasteries including Hemis and Thiksey ● traditional village cultural immersion ● Darjeeling's UNESCO Toy Train journey ● tea estate tours with tastings ● four-night Brahmaputra River cruise ● Assamese silk-weaving workshops ● Kamakhya tantric temple ● Kaziranga safaris for one-horned rhinos and tigers.

'Imperial cities', Meknes, Fes, Marrakech ● Volubilis, Morocco's only Roman site ● Atlas Mountain vistas and charming villages ● Merzouga dunes - Sahara experience ● Dramatic Todra Gorge ● Relaxed seaside town of Essaouira