A Portuguese colonial capital on the equator, pastel and peeling, with cocoa plantations in the hills behind it.
A Georgian port town around the Berkeley Memorial clock, rebuilt after fire and hurricane, with Brimstone Hill fortress along the coast.
A cruise harbour under Morne Fortune, a covered market selling cocoa sticks and bay rum, and the Pitons an hour down the coast.
Tanzania's official capital since 1974, in the middle of the country and the middle of its wine region; parliament sits here, the embassies stayed in Dar es Salaam.
The capital Myanmar built from farmland in 2005 and moved to overnight: twenty-lane highways with almost nothing on them, and an Uppatasanti Pagoda one foot shorter than Shwedagon.
The least populated capital in the world - a domed capitol on a hill in Melekeok, built in 2006 for a few hundred people.
The de facto capital of the smallest republic on Earth: an airstrip, a parliament and the moonscape left by a century of phosphate mining.
A capital of a few government buildings in the Pohnpei jungle, twenty minutes from the basalt city of Nan Madol.
Kiribati's capital is a chain of islets joined by causeways, three metres above a rising ocean and one of the densest places in the Pacific.
Perth's port town of a convict prison, a weekend market and the ferry to Rottnest's quokkas.
The gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree, the oldest rainforest on Earth.
The lake of flamingos and rhinos on the doorstep, in the Rift Valley two hours from Nairobi.
Colonial churches, a long beach and the observatories of the Elqui valley behind.
The sunniest city, craft beer and the gateway to the golden beaches of Abel Tasman.
The 27-metre mud minaret of the 16th-century mosque and the Tuareg gateway to the Sahara.
Tasmania's second city: the Cataract Gorge in the middle of town and the Tamar valley wineries.
The royal palaces of the Dahomey kings, their bas-reliefs and the story of the Amazon warriors.
The main town of the Galapagos, the Darwin research station and giant tortoises in the highlands.
The resort bay of the north: catamarans to the islands, snorkelling and the nightlife of the island.
The town for the Perito Moreno glacier, where ice walls collapse into the lake all day.
A sleepy Portuguese town, and Tofo beach with whale sharks and manta rays all year.
The Big Hole, dug by hand in the diamond rush, and the mining town preserved around it.
The Argentine side of Iguazu Falls, walkways to the Devil's Throat and toucans in the forest.
One of the biggest cobbled squares in the Americas, whitewashed and unchanged since the 1570s.
The trekking capital of the Cordillera Blanca: Laguna 69, the Santa Cruz trek and Huascaran.
Dhow trips to the Bazaruto archipelago, dugongs and dune islands in turquoise water.
The Andalusian capital of the Maghreb: the Great Mosque, the Mansourah ruins and the El Mechouar palace.
A Swahili stone town with no cars, only donkeys and dhows, unchanged for seven centuries.
The port on Lake Titicaca, the floating Uros islands and a homestay on Amantani.
The Red Centre town: the MacDonnell ranges, Aboriginal art galleries and the road to Uluru.
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