Cruise the Wachau Valley

Storybook lakeside village in the Alps.

Port-wine country of terraced vineyards along the river, tasted at the quintas and seen best from a rabelo boat.

Riverside town squeezed between the Meuse and a citadel-topped cliff.

Apricot orchards and forts beneath 7,000-metre Karakoram peaks.

Fairy-tale town wrapped in a bend of the Vltava, with a painted castle tower and a baroque theatre that still works.

Hike between medieval tower villages under the highest peaks of the Caucasus.

Rainbow-striped Andean valley of adobe villages in Argentina’s far northwest.

Two-thousand-year-old terraces stepping up the Cordillera like a green amphitheatre — the "eighth wonder of the world".