The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu: Four Days in the Andes

Every traveller in Cappadocia books the balloon flight. The question is whether it lives up to the hype. The answer, emphatically, is yes — it is among the most genuinely spectacular experiences available anywhere.

The Belmond Monasterio occupies a 16th-century Jesuit seminary in the heart of Cusco's historic centre. At 3,400 metres above sea level, it is one of the world's most atmospheric — and most physiologically challenging — hotels.

Explora Patagonia sits at the edge of Torres del Paine National Park, designed by the Chilean architect Germán del Sol to make the landscape the total experience. It is, without reservation, the finest wilderness lodge I have visited.

The W Trek through Torres del Paine National Park — Blue Lake, the French Valley, the Towers themselves at dawn. We document the full circuit across five days of genuinely extraordinary landscape.

Everything Queenstown is famous for, packed into a single day — the Kawarau bungy at dawn, jet boating through Shotover Canyon, and paragliding from Bob's Peak at sunset.