100 city guides ยท 3-day history itineraries
3-day city guides centred on historical sites, monuments, old quarters and untold stories.
Beyond the Taj: tombs, forts, abandoned capitals and the Mughal court's rise and collapse, walked inโฆ
From the Parthian citadels of Nisa and the buried Seljuk capital of Merv-in-miniature to the 1948 eaโฆ
From Bronze Age Begazy-Dandybai burials and the Silk Road town of Bozok to the ALZHIR women's camp, โฆ
From the 15th-century royal tombs of Kota Batu to the 1962 rebellion and the oil-money transformatioโฆ
From 9,500-year-old cave burials on the shore of prehistoric Lake Bandung to the cell where Sukarno โฆ
From Kempegowda's 1537 mud fort and Tipu Sultan's teak palace to the British Cantonment's churches, โฆ
Rattanakosin palaces, the Siamese revolution of 1932, WWII railway relics and the trading quarters tโฆ
From Yuan-dynasty lanes and Ming ritual altars to burned garden palaces, Boxer-siege legation streetโฆ
Pre-Mongol mausoleums, the last emir's palaces and prisons, and the necropolises and shrines beyond โฆ
From Silla-era mountain fortresses and a 15th-century Japanese trading enclave to the wartime capitaโฆ
Pre-colonial gold, Parian ancestral houses, Spanish coral churches and American-era civic monuments โฆ
From 3,000-year-old Jinsha gold masks to Zhuge Liang's shrine, Tang poet cottages and the Qing-era sโฆ
Seventh-century Pallava temples, the East India Company's first fortress, and the Dravidian movementโฆ
Seven centuries of the Kingdom of a Million Rice Fields โ from Mangrai's 1296 foundation stone to thโฆ
From the world's largest Stone Age shell mound to samurai streets in Sakura and the Edo canal warehoโฆ
Mughal fort mosques, the Portuguese river quarter, Commonwealth war graves and the hills where teenaโฆ
Ming porcelain lanes, Qing guild halls and the 1938โ46 capital of China, walked in three days acrossโฆ
Royal ruins, VOC townhouses, granite kovils and the ground where Ceylon became independentโฆ
Cham sandstone, the 1858 citadel that stopped the French, war-era relics and 500-year-old villages bโฆ
From Palgongsan's 1,000-year-old stone Buddha to the Japanese-era streets where Korea's independenceโฆ
Mountain fortresses of the Baekje kingdom, Joseon Confucian academies, Japanese-era warehouse quarteโฆ
From Bronze Age shell mounds and the Ming-era Jinzhou walls to Lรผshun's Russo-Japanese battlefields,โฆ
From the 12th-century Qutb Minar to the Partition archives โ walking the seven (or eight) successiveโฆ
From a 914 AD Sanskrit pillar to the beach where Dutch marines landed in 1906 โ the layered past behโฆ
Beyond the fort and the pink palace: caravanserais, imambaras, Armenian tombstones and the exact spoโฆ
Shah Jahan-era sandstone, 1906 college quadrangles and the Partition muhallas that built a city planโฆ
From the Yayoi-era gold seal of Han and the Dazaifu government seat to the stone wall that stopped Kโฆ
A thousand-year walk from a 964 AD timber hall through China's first naval dockyard to the consulateโฆ
Rock temples older than the fort, VOC wrecks raised from the harbour, and the Moor, Burgher and Britโฆ
From Baekje-era mountain fortresses and Joseon garden pavilions to the bullet-scarred buildings of tโฆ
From 4th-century cliff carvings and an excavated Southern Song palace to Qing banker mansions and thโฆ
From the Lรฝ dynasty's imperial citadel to French prison cells and a downed B-52, Hanoi's eleven centโฆ
From the 1115 Jin dynasty ramparts at Acheng to the Chinese Eastern Railway bridge and the Pingfang โฆ
From Mลri clan castle walls and Edo-period military academies to the hypocenter's surviving stones, โฆ
From 1790 Chinese guild temples in Chแปฃ Lแปn to the Cแปง Chi tunnels and the bunker where the Republic oโฆ
From a 2,000-year-old brick tomb in Sham Shui Po to Tang clan villages, harbour forts and the tenemeโฆ
From the diamond-trading citadel of Golconda to the Asaf Jah palaces and the Indo-Saracenic riverfroโฆ
From Baekje-era mountain fortresses and Ganghwa dolmens to the treaty-port concessions, the Jemulpo โฆ
Buddhist monasteries at Taxila, British-era railway halls in Rawalpindi and the Mughal-era villages โฆ
From the 16th-century Amber capital to Indo-Saracenic museums and the planned walled city Jai Singh โฆ
From the 1522 pepper port and VOC spice godowns to the villa where independence was typed at dawnโฆ
From the Bronze Age Samseonghyeol founding myth to the Joseon governor's compound and the memorials โฆ
Bala Hissar's ramparts, the Sher Darwaza wall, a Kushan-era monastery and the shelled palaces of Darโฆ
From Taiwan's first stone-walled city through Japanese colonial harbour works to the naval villages โฆ
From 2,000-year-old Banbhore ruins to Victorian Saddar and the Parsi, Hindu and Goan quarters that bโฆ
Royal palace squares, 5th-century stone inscriptions, Rana-era neoclassical palaces and the Newari tโฆ
From Empress Jingลซ's 3rd-century shrine to Kiyomori's lost capital, the 1868 foreign settlement and โฆ
From Chandraketugarh terracotta and the Asiatic Society's first Indologists to the Alipore cells thaโฆ
From a 400-million-year-old limestone shrine to the padang where the Union Jack came down in 1957 โ โฆ
From the Heian court and Zen abbots to shogunal power plays, Meiji upheaval and the temples that burโฆ
From Shah Jahan's terraced gardens and Jahangir's minarets to the Lahore Resolution, the 1947 refugeโฆ
From the burnt granaries of the 1821 Siamese invasion to Mahsuri's curse, Bronze Age tools and the Bโฆ
From the 7th-century tombs of Songtsen Gampo's dynasty to the Simla-era mansions, monastic colleges โฆ
Awadhi courts, labyrinthine imambaras, the shell-scarred Residency and the last stand of 1857, walkeโฆ
Jesuit ramparts, a 1758 seminary reliquary, mandarin courtyard houses, Sun Yat-sen's clinic and the โฆ
From the 6th-century-BCE brick city at Keeladi to Jain rock beds, a Sultanate tomb and the fort wallโฆ
Sultans' tombs, hand-carved coral mosques and the archipelago's contested pre-Islamic past, all withโฆ
Four vanished royal capitals, teak monasteries that survived the firestorm, and the pagoda where Burโฆ
From Spanish stone fortresses and Rizal's execution ground to the ruins of the 1945 Battle of Manilaโฆ
Deli sultanate palaces, Dutch tobacco-boom architecture and the Chinese, Tamil and Batak quarters thโฆ
From 6th-century Buddhist caves and Portuguese forts to the Raj's Gothic skyline, the mills that buiโฆ
From a 113 CE shrine and Tokugawa power politics to the firebombs, aircraft factories and merchant lโฆ
Five centuries of an independent island kingdom, the 82 days of 1945 that erased it, and the quarterโฆ
Bronze drums, Ming dynasty city gates, wartime aviation bases and the Zhuang bloodlines that made Guโฆ
From the Bagan-era relic chambers of Shwe Kyar Pin to Pyinmana's WWII resistance streets and the graโฆ
Spanish and Dutch forts at the rivermouth, an 1,800-year-old iron-smelting site, the Lin clan's wallโฆ
From fifth-century keyhole tombs and the National Treasure shrines of the Kibi plain to Ikeda-clan cโฆ
From Japan's first Buddhist temple and a 486m emperor's tomb to Hideyoshi's siege lines and the fireโฆ
Bhutan's oldest temple, a fire-gutted invasion-route dzong and Thangtong Gyalpo's forged river crossโฆ
From Chinese sea-goddess shrines and King Taksin's 1767 march to the Vietnam War base that built theโฆ
From Ponhea Yat's 1442 royal monasteries to S-21, Choeung Ek and the Art Deco shophouses of the old โฆ
Tin-mining fortunes, Hokkien migrant architecture, the 1785 Burmese siege and the island's Chinese-Tโฆ
Trace Palawan's past from the 1904 Iwahig penal colony and Spanish-era Plaza Cuartel to the site of โฆ
From Malay Sultanate architecture reborn in pink granite to the Ottoman-inspired mosques, national mโฆ
From 1,600-year-old Koguryo royal tombs and Korea's oldest surviving school to the tunnels, treaty hโฆ
From Manuel Quezon's Art Deco mausoleum to the EDSA Shrine, the Diliman Republic and the mass gravesโฆ
Ash layers of Afrasiab, forty shrine tombs on a stepped lane, colonial Turkestan's grid and a paper โฆ
From Ainu Mosir and Jomon-era artefacts to Kaitakushi pioneer offices, war-scarred monuments and preโฆ
Trace 400 years from Date Masamune's mountaintop fortress and Momoyama-style tombs through the Boshiโฆ
Six centuries of Joseon kingship, colonial occupation, war and democratic uprising, walked in order โฆ
From the walled Ming county town to the Communist Party's founding house, the Jewish ghetto of Hongkโฆ
Walk the palace where the Qing empire was founded, the tombs of its conquering emperors, and the raiโฆ
Ming-dynasty garrison walls, Opium War coastal forts, Hakka fortress-villages and the 1980 Special Eโฆ
Pre-Angkorian brick towers, a Brahmin's pink sandstone masterpiece, war museums told by survivors, aโฆ
From the 14th-century Temasek riverbank to the Ford Factory where Britain lost Singapore in 70 minutโฆ
Fifteenth-century mosques, a 1516 stepped tank, colonial reading rooms and the Hadrami, Parsi and Voโฆ
From the Qing dynasty's aborted walled city through 50 years of Japanese administration to martial-lโฆ
From the 1738 immigrant temples of Bangka to the Martial Law prison island of Jing-Mei, tracing fourโฆ
From Sogdian ossuaries and 15th-century mausoleums to earthquake memorials and the archives of Staliโฆ
Fortress-monasteries, the Wangchuck dynasty's rise, and the vanished village that became Asia's younโฆ
From the 1436 Confucius Temple and the Yuan-dynasty Mazu shrine to Puyi's Japanese-concession exile,โฆ
Tracing 1,300 years from a 730 AD shrine to Edo Castle's burnt keep and the monuments of the Meiji aโฆ
From Bogd Khan's winter palace and Manchu-era temple courtyards to the Soviet purge cellars, Zaisan'โฆ
Lan Xang royal temples, French colonial streets, Siamese sacking sites and the unexploded-ordnance lโฆ
From 2,400-year-old Chu bronzes and Ming city walls to the barracks where the last dynasty fell and โฆ
From Koxinga's Ming resistance base and a thousand-year Buddhist monastery to the consular quarter oโฆ
Tang palace ruins, Ming ramparts, a forest of engraved tablets, and the rooms where Chiang Kai-shek โฆ
From the 2,500-year-old Shwedagon relic chamber to the bullet-marked room where Aung San was assassiโฆ
From 9th-century Hindu candi and a hilltop Buddhist gateway to the Dutch fort, the 1949 general offeโฆ
From the 1859 opening of the treaty port to Bluff mansions, Meiji silk wealth, the Great Kantล Earthโฆ