Vibrant Addis Ababa ● Churches of Lalibela ● Colourful Timkat festival ● Spectacular Simien Mountain scenery ● Christian churches, gilded monasteries

'Experiential' Tokyo sightseeing ● Bullet Train to Hakone ● Hakone Outdoor Museum ● Historic Takayama ● Kyoto: Temples & shrines ● Hiroshima: Peace Memorial Park

Hattusas UNESCO site and Hittite Empire capital ● haunting medieval ruins of Ani with thousand church spires ● cliff-hanging Sumela Monastery in Pontic Mountains ● Lake Van boat excursion to Akdamar Island's Armenian church ● King Antiochus's audacious mountaintop monument at Nemrut Dag ● Göbeklitepe, the world's oldest temple complex predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years

Borobudur: the world's largest stupa-style Buddhist monument ● Samosir Island and the ancient animist world of the Batak people ● Balinese Hindu culture at its most concentrated ● Prambanan: the great 9th-century Hindu temple complex dedicated to the Trimurti ● A Balinese cooking class that begins at dawn in Ubud's traditional market ● The volcanic Karo Highlands and the Sipiso-Piso waterfall above Lake Toba

Lan Ha Bay cruise through limestone karsts ● Sapa's rice terraces and vibrant Bac Ha Sunday market ● overnight sleeper train through northern highlands ● Luang Prabang's dawn alms ceremony and gilded temples ● scenic Lao-China Railway through 75 mountain tunnels ● Buddha Park's surreal sculptures and COPE Centre's powerful story.

Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary and a night at a rinforest lodge ● Brunei's golden mosques and the waterborne city of Kampung Ayer ● Sarawak Cultural Village and a traditional Iban longhouse in Borneo ● Mount Kinabalu — Southeast Asia's highest peak — and Borneo's only organic tea estate ● Historic Malacca: five centuries of colonial layering in a single walkable town ● Kuala Lumpur city tour — from the river confluence that built a capital to the towers that briefly touched the sky

Albania: little visited & unknown ● Roman sites of Butrint and Appolonia ● Rugged mountain scenery ● Distinct culture, history ● Ohrid, North Macedonia - World Heritage Site

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

Standing before the Tang Dynasty Three Pagodas of Dali ● Walking the ancient pilgrimage circuit of Barkhor Street in Lhasa ● Descending into Tiger Leaping Gorge — one of the world's deepest canyons ● Exploring the whitewashed lanes and murals of the oldest Naxi settlement at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain ● Standing before the Potala Palace, seat of the Dalai Lamas for three centuries ● Visiting Yungdrung Ling, one of Tibet's great Bon monasteries