Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao and hands-on Basque cooking class ● Roncesvalles pilgrim blessing and beech forest walk ● Roman road sections through Navarre and medieval Estella ● Cruz de Ferro stone ceremony in the mountains above Astorga ● Final approach into Santiago's Plaza del Obradoiro on foot ● Celtic Galicia — Roman walls of Lugo and O Cebreiro highlands ● Finisterre lighthouse — the Atlantic edge where the medieval world ended

Spanish colonial Manila and the walled city of Intramuros ● Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island World War II memorials ● Ifugao rice terraces near Banaue, a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of hand-carved mountainsides ● Cebu's Spanish heritage and the Visayan heartland ● marine life encounters around Pamilacan Island ● Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park

Ladakh's high desert monasteries at 3,524 meters ● climb to Khardung La Pass at 5,470 meters ● Bhutan's annual Tsechu festival with masked dances ● Nepal's Kathmandu Valley UNESCO sites ● sunrise over eight Himalayan ranges from Nagarkot ● Tiger's Nest monastery viewpoint at 900 meters above Paro Valley

Amazon adventures ● The Pantanal-South America's wildlife marvel ● Rio de Janeiro-'the marvelous city' ● Colonial elegance ● Baroque churches, sacred art ● Thundering Iguacu Falls

Guided colonial Quito tour ● Four-night luxury Galapagos cruise ● Exciting guided shore excursions ● Condor spotting in Cajas National Park ● Beautiful, colonial Cuenca ● Ingapirca Inca ruins

Auckland: City Tour ● Waitomo Caves ● Rotorua: Whakarewarewa Thermal Reserve ● Wellington: Te Papa Museum ● Doubtful OR Milford Sound cruise ● Mt Cook scenic overflight

Maipo-heart of Chile's wine country ● Exploring Torres del Paine National Park ● Catamaran cruise through the icy waters of the Chilean fjords ● Chilean Lakes District ● Atacama Desert and Valley of the Moon ● Vibrant Santiago

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

Budapest walking tour ● Byzantine, Moorish, Romanesque and Hungarian legacies ● Holloko, Hungary's most beautiful town ● Eger: narrow streets, arcaded buildings, wrought-iron gates ● Southern Transdanubia - region of undulating hills, forest clad ridges and rural ambience ● The "painted monasteries" of Bucovina ● Bran Castle, mythical home of Dracula