Melbourne: City Tour ● Canberra & Sydney: City Tours ● Cairns: Great Barrier Reef Cruise ● Darwin & Kakadu National Park ● The 'Red Centre'

Six days across Trinidad and Tobago ● Asa Wright's legendary verandah ● Pitch Lake and the oldest protected rainforest in the western hemisphere ● Kaieteur Falls, the world's highest single-drop waterfall ● three nights deep in Amazonian Suriname at Kabalebo Nature Resort, accessible only by air ● Paramaribo's UNESCO inner city ● the Iles du Salut — France's most notorious penal colony ● border crossing into French Guiana that is also a crossing into the European Union, on the shoulder of South America.

Cruise Lan Ha Bay overnight past limestone karsts, then explore Hanoi's Old Quarter and a water puppet show ● Wander lantern-lit Hoi An and cruise Hue's Perfume River past the 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 ● Confront Cambodia's history at Phnom Penh's Tuol Sleng Museum and the Killing Fields memorial ● Walk among the towers of Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom's Bayon, then journey on to Banteay Srei's carved pink sandstone

'Experiential' Tokyo sightseeing ● Bullet Train to Hakone ● Hakone Outdoor Museum ● Historic Takayama ● Kyoto: Temples & shrines ● Hiroshima: Peace Memorial Park ● Nagasaki: feudal castles, samurai houses, Meiji-era villas

Cruise Sun Moon Lake, then ride the ropeway above it ● Tainan's Confucius Temple, Chihkan Tower and the Dutch-built Fort Zeelandia at Anping ● A Tokyo fish market at full tilt, then a sushi and miso class you eat for lunch ● Lake Ashi beneath Mt Fuji and a kaiseki dinner in yukata at a Hakone ryokan ● Kyoto's Golden Pavilion, Ryoan-ji rock garden and the Philosopher's Path at cherry blossom peak ● Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park and Itsukushima Shrine standing in the sea at Miyajima.

Seoul: city tour & the DMZ ● Welcome dinner at top of Namsan Seoul Tower ● Unique & beautiful Jeju Island Immersion in Korean culture, ancient & modern ● Hakone Outdoor Museum ● Kyoto: Temples & shrines ● Hiroshima: Peace Memorial Park

Apricot dunes at sunrise ● Kaleidoscope of cultures ● Rugged Skeleton Coast ● Etosha: Africa's undiscovered wildlife gem ● The Okavango inland delta ● Thundering Victoria Falls

Great Pyramids of Giza and Grand Egyptian Museum's treasures ● Valley of the Kings' hidden royal tombs ● camel trek to St. Simeon's desert monastery ● rose-red Petra through the dramatic Siq gorge ● Roman splendour at Jerash and Edfu ● floating effortlessly in the mineral-rich Dead Sea

Climb the pre-Angkorian ruins of Vat Phou, older than Angkor Wat ● Cruise Si Phan Don's Four Thousand Islands ● Cross the Mekong to Kuang Si's turquoise waterfall ● Wander Luang Prabang's gilded temples ● Cruise Lan Ha Bay overnight past limestone karsts ● Explore Hanoi's Old Quarter and a water puppet show ● Wander lantern-lit Hoi An and cruise Hue's Perfume River ● 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