Departures

For you if: Wild orangutans in actual jungle, building homes alongside locals, and reaching islands nobody you know has been to—that's the draw.

For you if: Trains leaving on the second, staying somewhere until you know your ramen shop, and monks at 6am prayers—Japan rewards the patient.

For you if: Reef snorkeling, alpine peaks, harbour cities, wine valleys, and rainforest canopy—the kind of range that needs three months, not three weeks.

For you if: Extremes are the point—hottest desert, thickest jungle, loudest glaciers, cities at altitude that shouldn't work but do.

For you if: Hiking volcanoes that could go off tomorrow, staying on islands where cars never arrived, and disappearing into cloud forest mist all sound right.

For you if: Slow boats feel right, monks collecting alms at dawn is something you want to see, and Southeast Asian heat beats the British Winter every single time.