Asia

Victoria Burrows is a Welsh food and travel writer who grew up in South Africa, studied in England, and worked as a journalist in Hong Kong for almost a decade. She lived in Delhi for a few years before escaping to the Himalayan foothills to run a boutique hotel on a tea estate near Darjeeling. She now lives in London – but is hardly ever home.

• Contents include:IntroductionWestern Asia Caucasus Upper Svaneti, Georgia Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex, Turkey Petra, Jordan Western Wall, Jerusalem Done of the Rock, Jerusalem Mecca Medina Wadi Shab Euphrates River Babylon, Iraq Samarra, Iraq Dubai Socotra Archipelago, Yemen Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil, Iran MuscatCentral Asia Mountains of Heaven, Kyrgyzstan Song Kul, Kyrgyzstan Issyk kul lake – Kyrgyzstan Bukhara, Samarkand and Khiva – Uzbekistan Registan Square, Samarkand Chimgan Mountains, Uzbekistan Tashkent - Samarkand Bullet Train, Uzbekistan Chorsu Bazaar - Tashkent, Uzbekistan Darvaza Gas Crater – Turkmenistan Pamir highway – Tajikistan Charyn cannon, Kazakhstan Big Almaty Lake, Kazakhstan Medeu and Chimbulak Ski Resort Almaty, KazakhstanSouth Asia Taj Mahal Ganges River The Red Fort, India Pink City of Jaipur, India Goa, India Mumbai Kerala backwaters, India Nine Arch Bridge, Sri Lanka Sigiriya (Lion’s Rock), Sri Lanka Himalayas Pashupatinath Temple, Nepal Chitawan National Park, Nepal Mt Everest Tiger’s Nest (Taktsang Monastery), Bhutan Punakha Dzong, BhutanEast Asia Mt Fuji, Japan Bamboo forest in Kyoto, Japan Fushimi-Inari Shrine, Japan eighth-century Todai-ji (Great East Temple), Japan Osaka caste, Japan Gyeongbokgung Palace, Korea Great Wall of China Gobi Desert The Fobidden City Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum – Terra Cotta aermy Yangtse River Pearl River Shanghai – the Bund Tiananmen Square Shaolin temple Huangshan mtns Taklamakan desert K2 mtn Hong KongSoutheast Asia Bagan, Myanmar Inle Lake, Myanmar Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar Angkor Wat, Cambodia Kuang Si Waterfalls, Laos Sapa Rice Fields, Vietnam Phang Nga Bay, Thailand Chiang Mai Maya Bay, Thailand Ayutthaya, Thailand Reclining Buddha, Bangkok Royal Palace, Bangkok Borobudur Temple, Indonesia Gunung Agung/Besakih Temple, Bali Palawan, The Philippines Gili Islands, Indonesia Komodo National Park, Indonesia Gardens by the Bay, Singapore Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Sarawak Dayak longhouses Borneo rainforest Thaipusam festival, Malaysia Pulau Rawa, Malaysia Batu Caves, Malaysia