Visit Darjeeling

Nine Arch Bridge, the train through the tea country and the hike up Little Adam’s Peak.

The yoga capital of the world on the Ganges, evening aarti and whitewater rafting below the Himalayas.

A Tibetan Buddhist town at 3,500 metres in Ladakh, monasteries on rocks and the road to Pangong lake.

Kenroku-en, one of the three great gardens, a samurai district and geisha teahouses that escaped the war intact.

The car-free island of Gulangyu with its colonial villas and pianos, and the Fujian tea houses.

Where bubble tea was invented, the Rainbow Village and the National Taichung Theater.

'Little England' at 1,900 metres: tea estates, a golf course and a post office from 1894.

The base for K2 and the Baltoro expeditions, cold desert dunes and Shangrila lake.