Six hundred traditional hanok houses on a hill between two palaces, still lived in, with Seoul’s towers behind the tiled roofs.
Crater lake ringed by three volcanoes and Maya villages — Aldous Huxley called it the most beautiful lake in the world.
Drift the palm-lined waterways by houseboat.
Unspoilt island of boatbuilders.
Desert town and old religious centre.
One of the region’s biggest livestock markets, camels haggled over by the hundred.
Traditional island life on a quiet atoll.
The world's largest saltwater lagoon.
Land of fortified tower-houses, UNESCO-listed.
Remote valley facing the Hindu Kush.
Hausa palace of banco walls and painted geometry in Zinder’s old quarter.
Buzzing night market and street food.
Classic Pacific atoll near Majuro.
Highland market town of Ottoman flavour.
Reconstructed thatched palace of the Rwandan kings, complete with the long-horned Inyambo cattle kept for ceremony.
Sleep in a nomad family’s felt tent on the steppe, with fermented mare’s milk and horses at the door.
Kassena village where the women repaint the mud houses every year with black, white and red geometric patterns.
High pasture lake with yurt stays.
Historic market in old Kuwait City.
Glide downriver on a 30-foot bamboo raft poled by a local captain.
Whitewashed covered alleys of a Saharan oasis town, the "pearl of the desert".
Twice-weekly highland market of textiles and masks, with Maya rituals on the smoke-wreathed steps of Santo Tomas church.
The "gateway to the Sahara": camel treks into the dunes and the December festival of horse races and Bedouin poetry.
Guna-run islands of white sand.
Restored market of spices and falcons.
"Venice of Africa" — a whole town on stilts in Lake Nokoue.
Swahili island town of donkeys, dhows and carved doorways.
Cliff villages of the Bandiagara Escarpment.
Gold, spices, pearls and Bahraini sweets in the lanes behind Bab Al Bahrain — the old heart of Manama.
Earthen palaces of the kings of Dahomey, a UNESCO site.
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