Visit Gorée Island UNESCO World Heritage Site and explore Dakar's vibrant markets ● discover the rare salt-water hippos in Guinea-Bissau's Bijagós Archipelago ● experience traditional Bijagó island villages and witness unique matriarchal cultures ● explore Cape Coast Castle and confront the history of the transatlantic slave trade ● walk the canopy bridges above Kakum National Park's pristine rainforest ● visit Bunce Island slave castle and trace the footsteps of freed slaves who founded Freetown

Damascus and Aleppo's vibrant souks ● Palmyra and Babylon's majestic ruins ● Euphrates River's scenic beauty ● Kurdistan's rugged mountains ● Mosul's majestic mosques ● Local warm hospitality and shared stories

Climb the pre-Angkorian ruins of Vat Phou, centuries older than the Angkor temples still to come ● 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 ● Wander the lantern-lit lanes of Hoi An ● Descend into the Cu Chi tunnels, then drift through the Mekong Delta's floating markets by boat ● 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

Borobudur: the world's largest stupa-style Buddhist monument ● Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary and a night at a Kinabatangan rainforest lodge ● Balinese Hindu culture — temples, dance and living tradition ● Samosir Island and the ancient animist world of the Batak people ● Brunei's golden mosques and the waterborne city of Kampung Ayer ● Sarawak Cultural Village and a traditional Iban longhouse in Borneo

Bustling Kuala Lumpur - city tour ● Historic Malacca tour ● Kuching: City Tour & Sarawak Cultural Village ● Kinabatangan River nature cruise ● Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary ● Brunei Darussalam area tour ● Borobudur: largest stupa-style Buddhist monument in the world ● Prambanan: most extensive Hindu temple site in Indonesia ● Bali - island paradise ● Lake Toba & Samosir island

Sun Moon Lake by boat and ropeway, then Tainan's temples and the Dutch-built Fort Zeelandia ● A Tokyo fish market and sushi class, then Lake Ashi beneath Mt Fuji and a kaiseki night 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 ● Sakurajima volcano by boat, Chiran's samurai lane and a volcanic sand bath at Ibusuki ● Across the Ariake Sea to Unzen's steaming hells

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 ● Aso-Kuju National Park: five cone volcano ● Nagasaki: feudal castles, samurai houses, Meiji-era villas, smoking volcanoes

Vibrant Taipei ● Historical Tainan ● Seoul: city tour & the DMZ ● Welcome dinner at top of Namsan Seoul Tower ● Busan city tour ● Unique & beautiful Jeju Island Immersion in Korean culture, ancient & modern ● Kamakura: Great Buddha ● Bullet Train to Hakone ● Hakone Outdoor Museum ● Kyoto: Temples & shrines ● Hiroshima: Peace Memorial Park

Vibrant Taipei ● Historical Tainan ● 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 ● Aso-Kuju National Park: five cone volcano ● Nagasaki: feudal castles, samurai houses, Meiji-era villas, smoking volcanoes