The southern trading city, a Silk Road bazaar and the base for Aksu-Zhabagly nature reserve.
A round fort of 1668, the Friday goat market and the date-palm oasis at the foot of Jebel Akhdar.
Alexander the Great's easternmost city, the Panjshanbe bazaar and the Syr Darya river.
The Basilica of the Annunciation, the largest church in the Middle East, and an Arab old-town market.
The summer capital in the pine-covered Cordillera, a night market and strawberry farms.
The floating markets of the Mekong Delta at dawn, boats selling fruit under a pole that shows what they sell.
The Sunday livestock market and the Id Kah mosque, the Silk Road oasis where China meets Central Asia.
The Qissa Khwani storytellers bazaar, Gandhara art in the museum and the road to the Khyber Pass.
A baroque city built of black lava at the foot of Etna, with the loudest fish market in Sicily.
Cezanne's town of fountains and plane trees, with Mont Sainte-Victoire on the horizon he painted sixty times.
Flemish gables, the Grand Place and the Braderie, Europe's biggest flea market, every first weekend of September.
Samoaโs waterfront capital: the fish market, the Immaculate Conception cathedral and Sunday church singing.
Cobbled capital of stone arches, the botanical gardens where Blighโs breadfruit was planted, and Fort Charlotte above.
Wooden colonial capital and markets.
One of the regionโs biggest livestock markets, camels haggled over by the hundred.
Highland market town of Ottoman flavour.
The "valley of heaven", craft and culture.
Buzzing night market and street food.
Historic market in old Kuwait City.
Living Silk Road museum-city.
Seven hundred monuments in a maze of covered souks around the Zitouna mosque, largely unchanged since the Middle Ages.
A 17th-century round tower fort with murder holes and honey traps, beside Nizwaโs Friday goat market.
Twice-weekly highland market of textiles and masks, with Maya rituals on the smoke-wreathed steps of Santo Tomas church.
Restored market of spices and falcons.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities: the Umayyad Mosque, Straight Street and the Souq al-Hamidiyah.
Sarajevo's Ottoman old bazaar.
Great Mud Mosque town, UNESCO-listed.
Gold, spices, pearls and Bahraini sweets in the lanes behind Bab Al Bahrain โ the old heart of Manama.
Wind-tower houses, the Dubai Museum and an abra boat across the Creek to the gold and spice souks โ Dubai before the towers.
Labyrinthine Swahili trading town of carved doors and spice bazaars.
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