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

'Experiential' Tokyo sightseeing ● Bullet Train to Hakone ● Hakone Outdoor Museum ● Historic Takayama ● Kyoto: Temples & shrines ● Hiroshima: Peace Memorial Park ● Nagasaki: feudal castles, samurai houses, Meiji-era villas

Krakow's Wawel Castle and Wieliczka salt mines ● Auschwitz-Birkenau and Warsaw's Museum of Polish Jews ● Gdansk's Solidarity Centre and Malbork fortress ● Vilnius's Old Town and Trakai's island castle ● Hill of Crosses and Rundale Palace ● Riga's Art Nouveau district ● Curonian Spit ● Tallinn's medieval Old Town

Guided tours of all major towns and cities visited ● Ancient Greek Temples at Agrigento and Paestum ● Compelling Pompeii ● Rome - The Vatican & the Sistine Chapel ● The Accademia & Michelangelo's David

Cruise Sun Moon Lake, then ride the ropeway above it ● Tainan's Confucius Temple, Chihkan Tower and the Dutch-built Fort Zeelandia at Anping ● A Tokyo fish market at full tilt, then a sushi and miso class you eat for lunch ● Lake Ashi beneath Mt Fuji and a kaiseki dinner in yukata at a Hakone ryokan ● Kyoto's Golden Pavilion, Ryoan-ji rock garden and the Philosopher's Path at cherry blossom peak ● Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park and Itsukushima Shrine standing in the sea at Miyajima.

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

Visit six sovereign or quasi-sovereign nations in one trip, several small enough to cross on foot in a day ● Tour the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St Peter's Basilica in the world's smallest state ● Climb San Marino's three medieval fortress towers, still guarding the world's oldest surviving republic ● Explore Monaco's Prince's Palace and Casino Square, born from a casino built to pay off the state's 19th-century debts ● Visit Andorra, jointly ruled to this day by the President of France and a Spanish bishop ● Private wine tasting at the Prince of Liechtenstein's own vineyards in Vaduz ● Walk the ramparts of Luxembourg City, a onetime fortress now a founding EU capital

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

Prague: one of the world's most magical cites ● Karlovy Vary-elegant spa town ● Exquisite gothic and baroque Cesky Krumlov ● Bratislava, including the historic Old Town ● Budapest walking tour