Sean Adams

Set within the hotel’s flora-lined courtyards, you’ll find 10 private casas designed with a Bahian style that blends beautifully with its tranquil tropical surroundings. Enjoy breakfast overlooking the swimming pool, lined with healing stones sourced from the far reaching Chapada Diamantina.

With an underground speakeasy jazz club, genre-bending live music in the foyer nightly and even its own art-deco inspired cinema, the Roxy creates a quintessentially New York atmos. Rooms include record players with vinyl, vintage radios, and eye-catching artworks. There are few places in the city that embody all the fantasies of Manhattan to a tee – and this is one of them.

A beacon for the prosperity of Georgia’s electrifying capital, Stamba Hotel is one of the most stylish properties in recent memory. Transforming a Soviet-era printworks into a luxury haunt has resulted in an airy space where lofty ideas flourish, such as creative cheffing in Café Stamba, mad-cap mixology infusions at the Pink Bar and a musical odyssey in the lobby’s LP library.

I often find myself drawn back to this city for its intoxicating Carioca spirit. At Ipanema Beach, bossa nova beats boom and rugged rainforests greet the coast's golden sands. Crowds gather around the mystifying Pedra do Arpoador monolith, one of the city’s best sunset spots.

I’ve long dreamt of witnessing the grandeur of ancient Egypt first-hand – cruising down the Nile, exploring Luxor’s relics and travelling down to the elusive Abu Simbel.

This vibrant Southern city never fails to impress me. Live music floats through the French Quarter, where locals incite an infectious joie-de-vivre atmosphere and world-renowned music clubs carry the torch for local exports of jazz and blues.