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In Japan Dan admires the Katana samurai sword in Tokyo, Himeji Castle and Ryan-ji Zen Buddhist Garden at Kyoto before traveling to China where he visits the Forbidden City and Summer palace park in Beijing, the Great Wall, the terracotta army in the imperial tomb at Xi'an and Ming Dynasty porcelain in Shanghai.

First Dan Cruickshank visits India: durga at Kolkata, the traded spices of the port-city Cochin, the Meenakshi temple at Madurai, the Jantar Mantar astronomical observatory in Jaipur and the Taj Mahal mausoleum at Agra, a Mughal era capital. Then he crosses to the island of Sri Lanka (the former Ceylon) for visits to Sigiriya, the giant Buddha statue at Polonnaruwa and Buddha's Tooth reliquary in the old royal capital Kandy.

In the Central-Asian (former Soviet) republic of Uzbekistan, Dan Cruickshank admires tiles of Samarkand and trading domes in Bukhara, then travels trough Azerbaijan, visiting the Fire Temple and Monastery at Surkhany, in Baku. In Iran (alias Persia), we marvel at the Imam mosque in Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, a Persian rug in Shiraz, the Behistun Inscription in Kermanshah and the Ancient Achaemenid empire's capital Persepolis. Finally to Syria, visiting the Al-Hamidiyah Souk in the capital Damascus.

In Jordan, Dan visits the rock-carved Nabataean capital Petra and the Madaba Map, then travels via the Jerusalem Temple Mount to Ethiopia, to visit imperial Abessynia's Coptic monuments: the Axum Stelae, 'The miracles of Mary' manuscript kept in the church of Debre Damo and the Lalibela churches complex and - cross, which are carved out of massive rock.

In The West-African land-locked Sahel country Mali, Dan visits the Great Mosque of Djenna and at Sanga the Dogon tribe's rock paintings and a ceremonial dance mask. The journey continues North trough desert-state Libya, visiting the Roman site of Leptis Magna at Tripolis and the Berber granary at Gasr Al-Hajj. Finally East to Egypt, gift of the Nile, where he admires the Great Pyramid of Giza, the burial mask of Pharaoh Tuthankamun in the Cairo museum, queen Nefertari's tomb in amazing Luxor and the Edfu temple of Horus.

In Turkey Dan visits the Derinkuyu underground city carved into the rocks in Cappadocia and the Hagia Sophia (former Byzantine monster cathedral, now a mosque) in Istanbul. In Russia the Moscow metro, Solovetsky Monastery at Solovki and Peter the Great's cabin at St. Petersburg star, in Poland salt mine carvings at Wieliczka, finally in Germany the Volkswagen Beatle in Berlin and the Brno Chair at the Bauhaus in Dessau.

In this final episode, Dan returns home via Bosnia, where he visit the Ottoman (Turkish empire days) Stari most- bridge in Mostar, then Greece -the Parthenon in Athens-, Italy where he admires the Pantheon in Rome, the Medici chapel in Firenze and the Gran Canale in Venice, followed by Spain -Picasso's Guernica painting in Madrid and the Moorish Alhambra palace in Granada- and lastly France, making an ultimate stop in Chartres for the cathedral before crossing the English channel.