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

L'Anse aux Meadows Viking settlement ● scenic Gros Morne fjord cruise and ancient Tablelands ● Red Bay's UNESCO Basque whaling station ● three nights on French Saint-Pierre and Miquelon islands ● Cape Bonavista and historic Trinity outport ● St. John's Signal Hill and Point Amour Lighthouse.

Thundering Iguazu Falls ● Opulent Buenos Aires: "Paris of the South" ● Ushuaia-world's southernmost city ● Beagle Channel Cruise ● Perito Moreno & Uppsala Glaciers ● Ruggedly beautiful Torres del Paine, Chile

Istanbul's Byzantine and Ottoman masterpieces including Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque ● legendary ruins of Ephesus and the marble-paved Arcadian Way ● Cappadocia's otherworldly landscapes with underground cities and rock churches ● traditional gulet cruise along the pristine Turquoise Coast ● ancient Troy and Gallipoli's historic battlefields ● Konya's spiritual heritage and whirling dervish traditions

Slovenia's Lake Bled and Julian Alps ● Plitvice Lakes' cascading terraces ● Diocletian's Palace in ancient Split ● Mostar's reconstructed Ottoman bridge ● Dubrovnik's medieval walls and maritime legacy ● Habsburg Riviera promenade at Opatija

Ancient cities of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa & Sigiriya ● Dambulla's luminous cave temple & Kandy's Temple of the Tooth Relic ● Scenic train ride through Sri Lanka's tea highlands ● Wildlife safaris at Wilpattu & Yala National Parks ● Historic fort city of Galle ● Pristine beaches and coral reefs of Maafushi, Maldives

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.

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