Photography destinations

The old imperial capital: thousands of temples, geisha districts and bamboo groves.

Home of the Taj Mahal, the white-marble mausoleum that is India's most iconic monument.

The rose-hued 'Pink City' of Rajasthan, packed with hilltop forts, royal palaces and bustling bazaars.

One of the world's oldest living cities, where riverside ghats and dawn rituals line the sacred Ganges.

A lantern-lit former trading port, its UNESCO old town glowing with silk shops and riverside tailors.

Gateway to Ha Long Bay, where thousands of limestone karsts and sea caves rise from emerald waters.

A misty mountain town of cascading rice terraces, ethnic-minority villages and Vietnam's highest peak.

A surreal landscape of fairy chimneys and cave hotels, where dawn skies fill with hundreds of hot air balloons.

Gleaming white travertine terraces of warm thermal water, crowned by the ruins of the ancient spa city of Hierapolis.

A former gold-mining town of lantern-lit stairways and teahouses clinging to a misty hillside.

Dreamlike karst peaks rise over the Li River, a landscape printed on China's twenty-yuan note.

Towering sandstone pillars pierce the clouds, the otherworldly scenery that inspired the floating mountains of Avatar.

A colossal red monolith rising from the desert heart, a sacred site glowing crimson at sunrise and sunset.

A dreamlike city of canals and gondolas, where palazzos rise straight from the water.

A dizzying ribbon of pastel villages clinging to cliffs above the turquoise Tyrrhenian Sea.

Five candy-coloured fishing villages linked by cliff trails along the rugged Ligurian coast.

The famous blue-washed mountain town of the Rif, where every alley glows in shades of indigo beneath rugged peaks.