Daily guided game drives through Africa's best game parks ● Meeting local tribal groups ● Maasai Mara/Serengeti: endless plains ● Karen Blixen "Out of Africa" Museum ● Snows of Kilimanjaro from Kenya's Amboseli Park ● Ngorongoro Crater: natural wonder ● Great Rift Valley

El Salvador - Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site ● Guatemala - Antigua City ● Honduras - Maya Site of Copan ● Nicaragua - Ruins of Leon Viejo ● Birds, volcanoes, indigenous cultures

Ancient cities of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa & Sigiriya ● Dambulla's luminous cave temple & Kandy's Temple of the Tooth Relic ● Scenic train ride through Sri Lanka's tea highlands ● Wildlife safaris at Wilpattu & Yala National Parks ● Historic fort city of Galle ● Pristine beaches and coral reefs of Maafushi, Maldives

Rwanda's Nyungwe Forest chimpanzee tracking ● Parc National Volcans gorilla trekking ● Kenya's Masai Mara Great Migration viewing ● Lake Nakuru flamingo spectacle

El Salvador - Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site ● Guatemala - Antigua City & Tikal ● Honduras - Maya Site of Copan ● Nicaragua - Ruins of Leon Viejo ● Birds, volcanoes, indigenous cultures

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 ● marvel at Khajuraho's thousand-year-old sandstone towers, carved top to bottom with celestial dancers ● ride a boat past Varanasi's ghats at dawn as the Ganga Aarti lights the Ganges ● see Gwalior's Jai Vilas Palace chandeliers, once tested for strength with ten elephants

Two full days among the temples of Angkor, including Banteay Srei's extraordinary rose-pink carvings ● an overnight cruise on the karst-studded waters of Lan Ha Bay ● three evenings in Hoi An's UNESCO-listed Ancient Town ● the Cham Dynasty's remote spiritual centre at My Son ● Cambodia's history confronted honestly at Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek ● a Thai cooking class in Chiang Mai, from market to table.

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

Guided game drives through Africa's best game parks ● Maasai Mara/Serengeti: endless plains ● Snows of Kilimanjaro from Kenya's Amboseli Park ● Ngorongoro Crater: natural wonder ● Great Rift Valley ● Exotic spice island of Zanzibar