Experience London's oldest food market
One of the worldโs largest squares, framed by the tiled masterpieces of Safavid Isfahan.
Inca terraces and villages along the Urubamba between Cusco and Machu Picchu โ Ollantaytambo, Pisac market and the Moray circles.
The world's largest car-free old city.
A vaulted iron-roofed bazaar running to the Umayyad Mosque, its ceiling pierced by French bullet holes.
Pepper, cardamom and ginger warehouses on the backwater that made Kerala worth fighting over.
Perth's port town of a convict prison, a weekend market and the ferry to Rottnest's quokkas.
Alexander the Great's easternmost city, the Panjshanbe bazaar and the Syr Darya river.
The Qissa Khwani storytellers bazaar, Gandhara art in the museum and the road to the Khyber Pass.
Highland market town of Ottoman flavour.
Living Silk Road museum-city.
A 17th-century round tower fort with murder holes and honey traps, beside Nizwaโs Friday goat market.
Seven hundred monuments in a maze of covered souks around the Zitouna mosque, largely unchanged since the Middle Ages.
Sarajevo's Ottoman old bazaar.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities: the Umayyad Mosque, Straight Street and the Souq al-Hamidiyah.
Labyrinthine Swahili trading town of carved doors and spice bazaars.
Wind-tower houses, the Dubai Museum and an abra boat across the Creek to the gold and spice souks โ Dubai before the towers.
Medieval quarter of a thousand minarets: the Khan el-Khalili bazaar, Al-Azhar mosque and the Sultan Hassan madrasa.
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