The Yellow Crane Tower on the Yangtze, hot dry noodles for breakfast and the Hubei bronze bells.
A cool hill city of painted kampung villages and the closest base for the Bromo sunrise.
The Longmen Grottoes with 100,000 carved Buddhas, the first Buddhist temple in China and the April peony festival.
The dzong at the meeting of two rivers, the old winter capital, with jacaranda in spring.
Tea gardens, the toy train and Kangchenjunga at sunrise from Tiger Hill.
Nine Arch Bridge, the train through the tea country and the hike up Little Adamโs Peak.
Onion domes over meadows: five monasteries and thirty churches in a town with no buildings taller than two storeys.
The port for Ha Long Bay: 1,600 limestone islands and an overnight on a junk boat.
One of the deepest natural harbours in the world, Nilaveli beach and blue whales offshore.
Riverside colonial town famous for its pepper, with the abandoned hill station of Bokor above.
The food capital of the Philippines, the Dinagyang festival and a river esplanade, opposite Guimaras island.
The base for K2 and the Baltoro expeditions, cold desert dunes and Shangrila lake.
The Tamil north, a Dutch fort, the Nallur Kandaswamy temple and the crab curry.
The Ice and Snow Festival, whole palaces built of river ice, and Russian onion domes on the main street.
A fire-breathing Dragon Bridge, My Khe beach and the Golden Bridge held up by giant hands in the Ba Na hills.
The white Lake Palace floating on Pichola, the City Palace and rooftop dinners over the water.
The gateway to Taroko Gorge's marble cliffs and the Pacific coast road.
The Potala Palace at 3,650 metres, pilgrims prostrating around the Jokhang and the Barkhor market.
The Qissa Khwani storytellers bazaar, Gandhara art in the museum and the road to the Khyber Pass.
India's first UNESCO city: Gandhi's Sabarmati ashram, stepwells, pols and the textile museum.
The yoga capital of the world on the Ganges, evening aarti and whitewater rafting below the Himalayas.
Sumatra's capital, the Maimun Palace and the gateway to Lake Toba and the Bukit Lawang orangutans.
The Maratha capital and student city, Shaniwar Wada and the Osho ashram, two hours from Mumbai.
Russia's oldest city, the 11th-century St Sophia and the birch-bark letters of a medieval republic.
A Kremlin on the bluff where the Oka meets the Volga, and the longest cable car across a river in Europe.
The Church on the Blood where the Romanovs died, on the border of Europe and Asia in the Urals.
The 'city of eternal spring' in Yunnan, the Stone Forest and the gateway to the ethnic south-west.
A complete Ming-dynasty walled city where China's first banks were founded.
The causeway city facing Singapore, Legoland Malaysia and an old town being rediscovered.
Tsingtao beer in plastic bags, German colonial villas and beaches on the Yellow Sea.
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