Visit six sovereign or quasi-sovereign nations in one trip, several small enough to cross on foot in a day ● Tour the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St Peter's Basilica in the world's smallest state ● Climb San Marino's three medieval fortress towers, still guarding the world's oldest surviving republic ● Explore Monaco's Prince's Palace and Casino Square, born from a casino built to pay off the state's 19th-century debts ● Visit Andorra, jointly ruled to this day by the President of France and a Spanish bishop ● Private wine tasting at the Prince of Liechtenstein's own vineyards in Vaduz ● Walk the ramparts of Luxembourg City, a onetime fortress now a founding EU capital

Dian Fossey's Parc National des Volcans ● Maasai Mara's endless plains ● Karen Blixen "Out of Africa" Museum ● Snows of Kilimanjaro from Kenya's Amboseli Park ● Ngorongoro Crater: natural wonder

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

Cross by ferry from Turkiye's Aegean coast to the medieval walled city of Rhodes ● Descend into Cappadocia's underground cities ● Walk the Sacred Way at Delphi ● Stand before the Lion Gate at Mycenae, entrance to a civilization Homer himself ● Explore Istanbul across two continents ● Climb to the Acropolis, the summit that defined what a civilization could build

Tashkent Old City tour ● Khiva: World Heritage Site ● Ashgabat: City Tour ● Visiting all '5 Stans' ● Scenic Lake Issyk-Kul

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

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

Charming, historic Cartagena ● Lively Bogota ● Verdant Hills ● coffee plantations Unspoiled villages, friendly locals Cathedral of Salt ● Colonial treasures ● Partial Canal transit ● Parque Metropolitano & Amerindian Village ● Inter-oceanic Train journey ● Chiriqui Highlands & La Amistad Park ● Bocas del Toro: White sands & coral reefs

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