Jill Worrall gives in to her nagileh weakness in Istanbul.

Bhutan's fertile landscape provides a seasonally-shifting array of botanical wonders... many of which offer picturesque grazing opportunities for the local herds of yak.

The Bhutanese tradition of blessing people with large wooden phalluses has apparently proved remarkably successful in promoting fertility.

Turkmenistan is nearly 90 per cent desert but in the capital the waterfalls almost never seem to stop flowing. They do so at the expense of the fast-shrinking Aral Sea, one of Central Asia's greatest environmental disaster zones.