Karst caves stuffed with Buddhas amid sugarloaf mountains.
Angkor Thom’s central temple, where 200 giant serene stone faces stare from 54 towers.
Stilt villages, floating gardens and leg-rowing fishermen on a Shan hills lake.
Ruins of one of the great Buddhist monasteries of ancient Bengal.
Gilded boulder balanced on a cliff edge, crowned by a small stupa.
A 46-metre gold-leaf reclining Buddha in Bangkok’s oldest temple, also the birthplace of Thai massage.
Cycle among the lotus-pond temples of Thailand’s first capital, a serene UNESCO site without Ayutthaya’s crowds.
The Temple of Dawn: a porcelain-encrusted riverside tower you can climb for views across the Chao Phraya at sunset.
71-metre Buddha carved into a river cliff in Sichuan — the largest stone Buddha in the world.
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