Guided Valletta harbour cruise ● Pre-historic temples of Hagar Qim and Ggantija, beautiful Gozo ● colourful fishing village of Marsaxlokk

Port Wine region, the Douro Valley ● Lisbon: Colonial elegance ● Celtic and Roman sites ● Arab, Jewish, Christian, Roman, Visigothic legacies

UNESCO World Heritage Casbah of Algiers ● Roman cities of Timgad & Djemila in mountain settings ● Dramatic Constantine "City of Bridges" spanning spectacular gorges ● Ancient Phoenician & Roman coastal sites at Tipaza & Cherchell ● Traditional M'Zab Valley oasis towns & Sahara edge ● Mysterious pre-Roman Numidian royal tombs

Legendary Carthage ● Mosaics of Bardo Museum ● Roman sites Sufetula, Dougga, Bulla Regia ● Djerba island excursion ● El Djem Museum and Amphitheatre

Lake Titicaca & Isla del Sol, Tiwanaku Ruins, historic towns, the vast Altiplano and Uyuni salt flats

Toledo, Granada, Cordoba - World Heritage cities ● Madrid: City tour & Prado ● Granada & the Alhambra ● Arab, Jewish, Christian, Roman, Visigothic legacies ● Andalucia: Orange groves, flower-filled patios

Barcelona: Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance ● Santiago de Compostela: Place of Pilgrimage ● Bilbao's Guggenheim ● Arab, Jewish, Christian, Roman, Visigothic legacies

'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