Passage from India

Rock-cut temples appear on Elephanta Island just off Mumbai and amid the deserts that ring Aqaba. Verdant Salalah with its palms and souks is filled with fragrant frankincense. Saladin’s castle in Syrian Latakia, and the battlegrounds of Sevastopol and Gallipoli enjoy a hard-earned peace. Discovery combines these with lazy days at sea and longer stays in Egypt and Istanbul as she makes for favourite islands in the Aegean.