Victorian splendour at Osborne House, Queen Victoria's intimate Isle of Wight retreat with Indian-inspired Durbar Room ● dramatic car-free Sark featuring horse-drawn carriage rides through cliff-top lanes and breathtaking coastal panoramas ● Guernsey's cobblestone St. Peter Port where Victor Hugo's exile house showcases his imaginative interior design ● Jersey's ancient La Hougue Bie passage grave, one of Europe's finest Neolithic monuments dating to 3800 BC ● the historic Snaefell Mountain Railway ascending to summit views of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales ● Tynwald Hill on the Isle of Man, site of the world's oldest continuous parliament.

Two full days among the temples of Angkor, including Banteay Srei's extraordinary rose-pink carvings ● an overnight cruise on the karst-studded waters of Lan Ha Bay ● three evenings in Hoi An's UNESCO-listed Ancient Town ● the Cham Dynasty's remote spiritual centre at My Son ● Cambodia's history confronted honestly at Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek ● a Thai cooking class in Chiang Mai, from market to table.

Churches of Lalibela ● Colourful Timkat festival ● Spectacular Simien Mountain scenery ● Tribal south, kaleidoscope of cultures ● Christian churches, gilded monasteries ● Traditional villages, Omo Valley

Seoul: city tour & the DMZ ● Welcome dinner at top of Namsan Seoul Tower ● Unique & beautiful Jeju Island Immersion in Korean culture, ancient & modern ● Hakone Outdoor Museum ● Kyoto: Temples & shrines ● Hiroshima: Peace Memorial Park

Guided game drives through Africa's best game parks ● Maasai Mara/Serengeti: endless plains ● Snows of Kilimanjaro from Kenya's Amboseli Park ● Ngorongoro Crater: natural wonder ● Great Rift Valley ● Exotic spice island of Zanzibar

Hitting the Microstates of Europe in one fascinating trip ● San Marino, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Andorra, Vatican City & Luxembourg. Additional city stops in Barcelona, Rome, Bruges, Antwerp, Carcassonne etc ● Huge variety of landscapes, histories, cultures, languages, cuisines ● Unique itinerary, expertly designed and led

Dian Fossey's Parc National des Volcans ● Maasai Mara's endless plains ● Karen Blixen "Out of Africa" Museum ● Snows of Kilimanjaro from Kenya's Amboseli Park ● Ngorongoro Crater: natural wonder

Apricot dunes at sunrise ● Kaleidoscope of cultures ● Rugged Skeleton Coast ● Etosha: Africa's undiscovered wildlife gem ● The Okavango inland delta ● Thundering Victoria Falls

Tashkent Old City tour ● Khiva: World Heritage Site ● Ashgabat: City Tour ● Visiting all '5 Stans' ● Scenic Lake Issyk-Kul