Join a kava ceremony in Fiji

Sleep in a nomad family’s felt tent on the steppe, with fermented mare’s milk and horses at the door.

Highland Sulawesi region of boat-shaped tongkonan houses and cliff graves, where funerals last for days and draw the whole village.

Cliff villages of the Bandiagara Escarpment.

Lean backwards over a drop from the castle battlements to kiss the stone that grants the gift of the gab.

Drink amber wine fermented in buried clay vessels, the 8,000-year-old Georgian way.

Drink unfiltered Pilsner Urquell straight from the oak barrel in the cellars where pale lager was invented in 1842.

Cemetery of brightly painted crosses telling each villager’s life in verse.

Twenty-five thatched farmhouses and a kabuki stage moved from across Japan into a wooded park — the old countryside in one walk.