Visit Souq Al-Mubarakiya

Restored market of spices and falcons.

Three 1979 spheres-on-spires on the seafront, with a revolving viewing deck 120 m above the Gulf.

Kuwait’s largest mosque, with a 26-metre dome, Andalusian-style tiling and space for 10,000 worshippers.

Buzzing night market and street food.

Thirty-six guild streets of scooters, street kitchens and colonial shophouses around Hoan Kiem Lake.

Taipei’s biggest night market — stinky tofu, giant fried chicken, bubble tea.

Gold, spices, pearls and Bahraini sweets in the lanes behind Bab Al Bahrain — the old heart of Manama.

One of the region’s biggest livestock markets, camels haggled over by the hundred.