What better way to plan your next trip than getting some inspiration from someone who lives, breathes and works in travel? We caught up with our CEO Ulla Hefel Böhler to find out what’s on her bucket list this year:

Ulla: I’m very lucky to have traveled extensively both personally and professionally but it seems that my bucket list never gets shorter! I’m very proud to be able to share with you my Insight Vacations and Luxury Gold 2018 Bucket List. These trips are stylish, tailored and exceptional. I hope they inspire your wanderlust!

Huế, pronounced “h-way” and located on the Perfume River, is still lapped by memories of a much older world: one of huge stelae, dragon-bearing coins, moon-shaped lutes and other items that must have made the evocative capital of the Nguyen emperors an extremely romantic place to stroll around. Central to protecting the glories of this imperial Vietnam were the traditional martial arts. Derived from the exercises of soldiers at the local citadel, they combined the wisdom of Eastern medicine, Buddhist piety, Confucianism and other Asian philosophies, in a fascinating and eclectic manner. Here, we look at the martial arts in Vietnam and how they developed throughout history.

Reputations have a habit of preceding the greatest sites in the world, and so it is with Cambodia’s Angkor, the 150-square-mile Mt Olympus of the Hindu faith. This was once the center of the medieval Khmer kingdom, a place of great cultural and spiritual importance. Over a thousand years later, visitors are still awestruck by the scores of temples, dykes, canals, roads and monuments that burst out of the abundant jungle. With so many incredible sights to take in, here’s what you must see when visiting the stunning temples of Angkor.