Seoul: city tour & the DMZ ● Welcome dinner at top of Namsan Seoul Tower ● Unique & beautiful Jeju Island Immersion in Korean culture, ancient & modern

Snows of Kilimanjaro ● Ngorongoro Crater: natural wonder ● Endless Serengeti plain ● Great Rift Valley

Explore Pak Ou's caves, filled with thousands of centuries-old Buddha images ● Cross the Mekong to Kuang Si's turquoise waterfall and its rescued moon bears ● Climb Vat Phou, a Khmer mountain temple older than Angkor Wat ● Cruise Si Phan Don's Four Thousand Islands, watching for rare Irrawaddy dolphins ● Stand before Khone Phapheng, the widest waterfall in Southeast Asia ● Sip fresh Bolaven coffee before a final evening at Vientiane's Pha That Luang

Prague: one of the world's most magical cites ● Renaissance chateau of Konopiste ● Karlovy Vary-elegant spa town ● Exquisite gothic and baroque Cesky Krumlov

Fabled Damascus, one of world’s oldest cities ● Water wheels of Hama ● The fluted columns of Apamea ● Ancient Palmyra, home of Queen Zenoubia ● The lively souqs of Aleppo ● Group dinner at Syrian family home featuring local specialities

Budapest walking tour ● Byzantine, Moorish, Romanesque and Hungarian legacies ● Holloko, Hungary's most beautiful town ● Eger: narrow streets, arcaded buildings, wrought-iron gates ● Southern Transdanubia - region of undulating hills, forest clad ridges and rural ambience

UNESCO World Heritage Casbah of Algiers ● Roman cities of Timgad & Djemila in mountain settings ● Dramatic Constantine "City of Bridges" spanning spectacular gorges ● Ancient Phoenician & Roman coastal sites at Tipaza & Cherchell ● Traditional M'Zab Valley oasis towns & Sahara edge ● Mysterious pre-Roman Numidian royal tombs

Acropolis and Ancient Agora with expert Athens city tour ● Mycenae's Lion Gate and Epidaurus Theatre in the Argolis ● Byzantine frescoes and fortifications at hilltop Mystra ● Temple of Zeus and Olympic Stadium at ancient Olympia ● Apollo's sanctuary and Pythian oracle at spectacular Delphi ● gravity-defying monasteries perched atop Meteora's stone pillars

Daily guided game drives through Africa's best game parks Lake Nakuru: ornithologist's paradise Maasai Mara's endless plains Meeting local tribal groups Karen Blixen "Out of Africa" Museum