Borobudur: the world's largest stupa-style Buddhist monument ● Samosir Island and the ancient animist world of the Batak people ● Balinese Hindu culture at its most concentrated ● Prambanan: the great 9th-century Hindu temple complex dedicated to the Trimurti ● A Balinese cooking class that begins at dawn in Ubud's traditional market ● The volcanic Karo Highlands and the Sipiso-Piso waterfall above Lake Toba

Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary and a night at a rinforest lodge ● Brunei's golden mosques and the waterborne city of Kampung Ayer ● Sarawak Cultural Village and a traditional Iban longhouse in Borneo ● Mount Kinabalu — Southeast Asia's highest peak — and Borneo's only organic tea estate ● Historic Malacca: five centuries of colonial layering in a single walkable town ● Kuala Lumpur city tour — from the river confluence that built a capital to the towers that briefly touched the sky

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

Vienna bookend experience: ship introduction plus two immersive nights for museums, opera, and coffeehouse culture ● Schonbrunn Palace baroque gardens with time beyond cruise-day visits ● Exclusive Oktoberfest celebration aboard ship with Bavarian music ● UNESCO Wachau Valley scenic cruising past terraced vineyards ● Melk Abbey's baroque masterpiece and medieval manuscripts ● Budapest's Szechenyi thermal baths where locals play chess in steaming pools ● Jewish Quarter including Europe's largest synagogue and ruin-pub architecture ● Belvedere Palace and Klimt's "The Kiss" with unhurried gallery time.

Explore Hanoi's Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Temple of Literature, then climb through Ninh Binh's karst countryside to Hang Mua's panoramic overlook ● Cruise Lan Ha Bay overnight past limestone karsts ● Wander lantern-lit Hoi An and the 1,500-year-old Cham ruins of My Son ● Cruise Hue's Perfume River by sampan to the Imperial City's Forbidden Purple City ● Descend into the Cu Chi tunnels and tour Ho Chi Minh City's Reunification Palace and War Remnants Museum ● Drift through the Mekong Delta's floating markets by boat at dawn

Spanish colonial Manila and the walled city of Intramuros ● Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island World War II memorials ● Ifugao rice terraces near Banaue, a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of hand-carved mountainsides ● Cebu's Spanish heritage and the Visayan heartland ● marine life encounters around Pamilacan Island ● Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park

Vibrant Taipei ● Historical Tainan ● Seoul: city tour & the DMZ ● Welcome dinner at top of Namsan Seoul Tower ● Fast train to Busan - city tour ● Unique & beautiful Jeju Island Immersion in Korean culture, ancient & modern

Jerash, huge Roman site ● Two full days at ancient 'Rose Red City' of Petra ● Relaxing at Dead Sea resort ● Timeless Damascus ● Ancient site of Palmyra ● Vibrant Aleppo & Krak des Chevaliers

Chinguetti — UNESCO World Heritage caravan town and ancient trading centre ● The wild Atlantic coastline between desert and ocean ● Ouadane — remote UNESCO-protected ksar of mosques, houses and private libraries on the Adrar plateau ● The Western Sahara — dunes, rocky plateaus, mountains and ravines ● Mauritania's Adrar region — sand seas, sculpted rock, scorched plains and deep green oases ● Port de Pêche, Nouakchott — one of West Africa's busiest fish markets ● Terjit — the Adrar's only oasis with natural flowing water ● Tea under the stars in the remote Sahara