'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: largest stupa-style Buddhist monument in the world ● Prambanan: most extensive Hindu temple site in Indonesia ● Bali - island paradise ● Lake Toba & Samosir island

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.

Exploring the canals of Tortuguero ● Soaking in Baldi Hotsprings ● Monteverde Cloud forest walk ● Boiling mud pots, fumaroles and thermal streams ● Manuel Antonio's spectacular beaches Granada, Nicaragua - One of Central America's most beautiful cities

Bustling Kuala Lumpur - city tour ● Historic Malacca tour ● Kuching: City Tour & Sarawak Cultural Village ● Kinabatangan River nature cruise ● Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary ● Brunei Darussalam area tour

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

The Grand Egyptian Museum's Tutankhamun immersive exhibition with digital projections into the boy king's golden world ● Giza's Great Pyramid built from two million stone blocks by 100,000 labourers ● Abu Simbel's colossal temple where Ramesses II's four 20-metre statues guard Nubia's threshold ● the Valley of the Kings where pharaohs carved elaborate underground palaces into pyramid-shaped cliffs ● Karnak Temple's hypostyle hall with 134 massive columns supporting three-millennia-old stone roofs ● camel trek across desert sands to St. Simeon's 6th-century monastery rising dramatically against limestone escarpments