Luxury haven in Singapore

A first-person guide to the granitic Inner Seychelles — Mahé, Praslin and La Digue — with North Island, Frégate, giant tortoises, and why summer is the season.

When to visit the Kimberley and how — the July dry-season window, luxury expedition cruises (True North, Ponant, Seabourn) and where to stay.

On the slowest, most beautiful train ride in Asia, a carriage full of strangers, and a grandmother who found her childhood at 6,000 feet.

On swimming with humpbacks in the South Pacific, the fear that comes before wonder, and the day the ocean rearranged what I thought I knew.

A July guide to Essaouira, Morocco: the windswept Atlantic coast where the alizés keep the blue-and-white medina cool while the interior swelters.

The world photographs the Matterhorn in snow and skis past its finest season — green, golden, warm, and half-empty of everyone still dreaming of powder.

In July the crowds are gone from Torres del Paine, the light lies gold all day, and the pumas step out against the snow — and the place is yours.

Korea’s coastal second city has the beaches, the seafood, and the film-festival swagger — and none of Seoul’s restless ambition.

In Oaxaca this July, sixteen cultures climb one sacred hill to dance — and the whole festival turns on what happens at the end of each performance.

Punakha Dzong may be the most beautiful building in the Himalayas — a masterclass in how architecture can hold a whole civilisation together.