Kusturica's hilltop wooden village.
Sleep in a nomad familyโs felt tent on the steppe, with fermented mareโs milk and horses at the door.
Two lazy days drifting from the Thai border to Luang Prabang.
Kassena village where the women repaint the mud houses every year with black, white and red geometric patterns.
Cobbled colonial town above a lake.
Reggae legend's birthplace and shrine.
Flower-lined route of villages and coffee.
Sit cross-legged in a village, clap once, and drink the peppery root brew from a coconut shell as a welcome.
Whitewashed covered alleys of a Saharan oasis town, the "pearl of the desert".
Heart-shaped mountain village on an island in the far northwest.
Twice-weekly highland market of textiles and masks, with Maya rituals on the smoke-wreathed steps of Santo Tomas church.
Colourful town of south Greenland.
Off-grid dune village of sea lions.
Blue-and-white clifftop village.
Painted churches and forest trails.
Green highlands of terraced villages and baboons around Abha.
Reed-island marshes, UNESCO-listed.
Three miles of naturally pink sand and a pastel village of golf carts and loyalist cottages, just off Eleuthera.
Trail beneath cliff-built Dogon villages and ancient Tellem granaries.
Cliff villages of the Bandiagara Escarpment.
Stone tower houses and the Valbona Pass trail through the "Accursed Mountains", one of Europeโs last wild ranges.
"Venice of Africa" โ a whole town on stilts in Lake Nokoue.
Classic Himalayan trekking circuit.
Hike between villages to a crater lake.
Apricot orchards and forts beneath 7,000-metre Karakoram peaks.
Cemetery of brightly painted crosses telling each villagerโs life in verse.
Stilt villages, floating gardens and leg-rowing fishermen on a Shan hills lake.
Stilt and floating villages on Southeast Asiaโs largest lake, which swells five-fold in the monsoon.
Lantern-lit hillside tea-house town.
Red riverside warehouses and wooden lanes in Finlandโs second-oldest town.
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