Folded steel worked over three days by a licensed swordsmith; Japan still allows only a handful.
Amazonian ceremonial headdresses woven from human hair and macaw feathers, in the Mato Grosso museums.
Hand-beaten silver and gold crosses, each parish with its own design, carried at Timkat.
Knotted by hand at a rate of centimetres a week; the art Persia is still measured by.
Kanaga masks and five-metre sirige poles danced on the cliffs of Bandiagara.
Life-sized wooden effigies of the dead, watching from balconies cut into the cliff graves.
Kolkata's clay-modeller quarter builds ten-armed goddesses all year, then floats them down the Hooghly.
The original vine-bungee land diving.
Cultural village and over-water night show.
Living Swazi village and waterfall.
Sit cross-legged in a village, clap once, and drink the peppery root brew from a coconut shell as a welcome.
Step onto the springy reed ground of the Uros islands, hand-woven villages floating on Lake Titicaca for centuries
Watch Cusco resurrect the Inca Festival of the Sun — a full-day solstice spectacle at Sacsayhuamán
Cross the last Inca rope bridge, hand-woven from grass and rebuilt by four communities every June
Join a real Buenos Aires milonga among the faded ballrooms of San Telmo.
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