Watch dawn turn the Taj Mahal's marble from soft pink to brilliant white ● cross the Thar Desert by jeep to a Rajasthani campfire of music and dance ● wander Amber Fort's Sheesh Mahal, a mirror palace built to glow by a single candle ● marvel at Khajuraho's thousand-year-old sandstone towers, carved top to bottom with celestial dancers ● ride a boat past Varanasi's ghats at dawn as the Ganga Aarti lights the Ganges ● see Gwalior's Jai Vilas Palace chandeliers, once tested for strength with ten elephants

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

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

Thundering Iguazu Falls ● Opulent Buenos Aires: "Paris of the South" ● Beagle Channel Cruise ● Perito Moreno & Uppsala Glaciers ● Exploring Torres del Paine National Park

Rwanda gorilla and chimpanzee trekking ● Kenya Maasai Mara wildlife safaris ● Kenya Amboseli elephant viewing ● Kenya Lake Nakuru flamingo sightings ● Tanzania Ngorongoro Crater exploration ● Tanzania Serengeti National Park game drives.

Kruger Park safari ● Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland): Switzerland of Africa ● Table Mountain Cable Way ● Robben Island Museum ● The Namib, world's oldest desert ● Rugged Skeleton Coast ● Etosha: Africa's undiscovered wildlife gem

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 ● Exotic Zanzibar

Thundering Victoria Falls ● Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland): Switzerland of Africa ● Table Mountain Cable Way ● Robben Island Museum ● Maasai Mara's endless plains ● Meeting local tribal groups ● Karen Blixen "Out of Africa" Museum