Jerash, huge Roman site ● Famous mosaics of Madaba ● Two full days at ancient 'Rose Red City' of Petra ● Crusader Castles ● Relaxing at Dead Sea resort

Daily guided game drives through Africa's best game parks Lake Nakuru: ornithologist's paradise Maasai Mara's endless plains Meeting local tribal groups Karen Blixen "Out of Africa" Museum

Charming, historic Cartagena ● Lively Bogota ● Verdant Hills ● coffee plantations Unspoiled villages, friendly locals Cathedral of Salt ● Colonial treasures

Akagera National Park wildlife viewing ● Nyungwe Forest chimpanzee trekking and birdwatching ● Virunga Mountains gorilla trekking experience ● Warm Rwandan hospitality ● Stunning Rwandan landscapes ● Once-in-a-lifetime African expedition.

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

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

The Great Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza ● the spectacular Grand Egyptian Museum with Tutankhamun's treasures ● pre-dawn excursion to Abu Simbel's colossal rock-cut temples ● three-night Nile cruise from Aswan to Luxor sailing past Kom Ombo and Edfu ● Luxor's magnificent Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings explored with private guides ● camel trek to St. Simeon Monastery and felucca sail on the Nile

Dian Fossey's Parc National des Volcans ● Maasai Mara's endless plains ● Meeting local tribal groups ● Karen Blixen "Out of Africa" Museum

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 ● explore Ranakpur's Jain temple and its 1,444 uniquely carved pillars ● stand before Mehrangarh Fort's seven unconquered gates above Jodhpur ● walk the abandoned red sandstone streets of Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar's capital for just fourteen years