Krakow's Wawel Castle and Wieliczka salt mines ● Auschwitz-Birkenau and Warsaw's Museum of Polish Jews ● Gdansk's Solidarity Centre and Malbork fortress ● Vilnius's Old Town and Trakai's island castle ● Hill of Crosses and Rundale Palace ● Riga's Art Nouveau district ● Curonian Spit ● Tallinn's medieval Old Town

Hitting the Microstates of Europe in one fascinating trip ● San Marino, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Andorra, Vatican City & Luxembourg. Additional city stops in Barcelona, Rome, Bruges, Antwerp, Carcassonne etc ● Huge variety of landscapes, histories, cultures, languages, cuisines ● Unique itinerary, expertly designed and led

Bratislava, including the historic Old Town ● Beautiful Pieniny National Park ● Budapest walking tour ● Holloko, Hungary's most beautiful town ● The "painted monasteries" of Bucovina ● Bran Castle, mythical home of Dracula

Prague: one of the world's most magical cites ● Karlovy Vary-elegant spa town ● Exquisite gothic and baroque Cesky Krumlov ● Bratislava, including the historic Old Town ● Budapest walking tour

Vallée de Mai on Praslin, home to the extraordinary Coco-de-Mer palm ● dramatic cirques and Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Reunion ● Madagascar's Nosy Be with endemic lemurs and chameleons ● Nairobi National Park wildlife sanctuary ● remote Moheli island where sea turtles nest nightly ● Grande Comore's ancient baobab trees and volcanic crater lakes

Budapest walking tour ● Holloko, Hungary's most beautiful town ● Eger: narrow streets, arcaded buildings, wrought-iron gates ● Southern Transdanubia - undulating hills, forest clad ridges and rural ambience ● The "painted monasteries" of Bucovina ● Bran Castle, mythical home of Dracula ● Famous Valley of the Roses ● Unsurpassed frescoes of Rila Monastery

Vilnius's Old Town and Trakai castle ● Hill of Crosses and Rundale Palace ● Riga's Art Nouveau district ● Tallinn's medieval quarter ● Helsinki's rock church ● Stockholm's Vasa Museum and Nobel Prize halls ● overnight Baltic ferries ● Copenhagen's royal castles ● Oslo's Viking ships ● Flåm Railway and Nærøyfjord cruise ● Bergen's Hanseatic wharf

Explore the historically rich Peloponnese Peninsula ● visit iconic sites like Mycenae, Epidaurus, and Olympia ● island-hop through the stunning Cyclades Islands ● discover world-famous destinations like Santorini and Mykonos ● explore hidden gems like Paros and Amorgos ● extend your journey to Crete, with its ancient Minoan palaces and stunning natural beauty.

Istanbul's Byzantine and Ottoman architectural masterpieces including Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque ● legendary ruins of Ephesus and the marble-paved Arcadian Way ● haunting medieval Armenian capital of Ani with thousand church spires ● Cappadocia's otherworldly landscapes with underground cities and rock churches ● Göbeklitepe, the world's oldest temple complex predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years ● King Antiochus's audacious mountaintop monument at Nemrut Dag