101 Off Beat-Reisen

Midnight candles, red eggs, wooden churches

A thermal lake you swim in through the frost

A procession that lasts twenty-four hours

Empty plains, walled hill towns, cheap good wine

Rail from Red Square to Lake Baikal

Volcano trails and wreck dives on two Dutch islands

Down the Danube arms to the Black Sea

River city, flooded reserve and mission town

Asunción to the Jesuit-Guaraní mission ruins

Gran Sasso peaks to the Adriatic shore

Wooden capitals, Kaieteur Falls and Essequibo rivers

Colonial Cuenca, Inca stone, Andean valleys

Ruta 7 from Puerto Montt to road's end

Salt flats, altiplano lagoons and desert night skies

Rainforest city, river archipelago and waterfall country

Ardennes citadels, river towns and wartime history

Graz's old town, Styrian vineyards and a volcano-rock castle

Baroque city into sandstone cliffs along the Elbe

Wooden churches and painted monasteries

Barolo cellars, Alba truffles and Turin's cafes

Gritstone edges and limestone dales of the White Peak

Norse history and wild northern isles

Byzantine monasteries and wild mountain villages

Ottoman cities, ancient lakes, alpine peaks

Underground wine cellars and cave monasteries

Sailing lakes and fortress towns in Poland's lake district

Baroque capital, island castle, Baltic dunes

Baltic beaches, castle ruins and river-carved valley

Balaton's shores and Hungary's volcanic wine hills

Remote fjords, thunderous falls, and volcanic craters

Steam trains, timbered towns and witches' peaks

Qvevri wine country and the Caucasus peaks

Surf, Basque villages and Pyrenean foothills

Saimaa lakes, lakeside saunas and a medieval island castle

Conquistador towns and Roman ruins

Medieval capital, windmill islands, and a Baltic beach resort

Windmills, tulip fields and a car-free canal village

University city to Portugal's highest mountains

Corsair ramparts, oysters and granite coastline

Castles, cathedrals, and Small Carpathian wine country

Ottoman bridges, dervish tekkes and turquoise Herzegovina rivers

Castles, cliffs and coastline from Cardiff to Conwy

Tea, cliffs, and highlands off the usual Turkey route

Qvevri wine, sulphur baths, techno until Sunday

Alpine trails, Gothic altars and a giant ruined castle

Nabataean tombs, desert dunes and a Red Sea old town

The world's highest paved border crossing

Northern lights in winter, granite peaks in summer

Pilgrim temples, art islands and Japan's oldest hot spring

Blue-tiled mosques, desert wind-catchers and ancient Persepolis

Sea cliffs, turf roofs and villages shaped by fjords

Pilsner roots to Moravian squares

Cliffside monasteries, cave wineries and a highland lake

Thundering falls, wild herds, ancient stone ruins

Walking safari, freshwater snorkelling, and an island cathedral

Karst passes, hill-tribe markets and the Ha Giang loop

Orangutans, volcanoes, Lake Toba and Minangkabau highlands

Colonial river ports, mangroves and kora music across two nations

Volcanic islands, royal Tonga and swimming whales

Desert pyramids, royal tombs and a cloud-forest fortress.

Toy trains, tea gardens, monasteries and a rhino grassland

Lagoon culture, then an active volcano rim

Colonial capital to dune islands and reefs

El Chepe rail journey through Copper Canyon's Sierra Tarahumara

RN7 from highland lemurs to southern beaches

Mountain lakes, yurt camps and ancient bazaars

Komodo dragons, coral reefs, and the Trans-Flores crater-lake road

Lakes, fells, dales and a walled city

Turquoise lagoons, then the world's largest raised atoll

Terracotta Army to Kashgar's bazaars across the Silk Road

Karst rivers, rice terraces, and minority drum-tower villages

Aurora skies, gold rush history, and Yukon wilderness road trip

Fishing villages, the Cabot Trail and record tides

Tasting Burgundy's grand crus, hillside by hillside

Cliff-hanging monasteries across the Himalayan valleys

Stilt villages, royal palaces and the roots of Vodun

Rivers, tea gardens and mangrove tigers

Caspian modernism, ancient rock art and silk-road caravanserais

Buenos Aires to the falls along the Paraná

Roman ruins, the M'zab valley, and deep Sahara

Mountains to Ottoman towns to turquoise coves

Turquoise domes along the old Silk Road

Medinas, Sahara dunes and Mediterranean beaches

Temples, hills and night markets across the Thai north

Eight stages of the French Way to Santiago

Pizza, cave towns and trulli through Italy's deep south

Temples, tombs and coastlines beyond the capital

Dravidian temple towers to India's southern tip

Saxon citadels, castles and Carpathian scenery

Ger camps, ancient ruins and Gobi dunes

Oaxacan mole, Chiapas highlands and Maya ruins at Palenque

Monastery towns and Angkor's temples along the Mekong

Ramen, onsens and volcanoes across Kyushu

Colonial towns, Mayan ruins and a Caribbean reef island

Slave-castle history and Ashanti craft towns

Castles, monasteries and rock-hewn churches of the north

Tea-horse road towns and Himalayan foothills

Three countries between two seas

Salt flats, altiplano lakes and a desert border crossing

Nine cities, six countries, one bus route

Opal towns, Uluru and the legendary Ghan railway