Visit the Ezulwini Valley

Twice-weekly highland market of textiles and masks, with Maya rituals on the smoke-wreathed steps of Santo Tomas church.

Knotted by hand at a rate of centimetres a week; the art Persia is still measured by.

The world's largest car-free old city.

Start and grow a personal collection of antiques, focusing on items that hold historical or sentimental value

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

Kassena village where the women repaint the mud houses every year with black, white and red geometric patterns.

Amazonian ceremonial headdresses woven from human hair and macaw feathers, in the Mato Grosso museums.

Folded steel worked over three days by a licensed swordsmith; Japan still allows only a handful.