La Mer, Dubai’s newest beachfront neighbourhood, offers hip restaurants, water sports and fun parks

In the latest episode of Postcards, we visit Cuba's southeastern Santiago de Cuba Province to celebrate its distinctive and diverse cultural history.

A length of land of sublime beauty that extends along 22 kilometres in the Peninsula of Hicacos, in the province of Matanzas lies Varadero.

Visit the cosmopolitan and cultural city of Havana through its Cuban music and National Ballet productions

Authentic historical artefacts, including traditional clothes, baskets and entire houses, were brought from different regions that now make up Belarus. The village consists of a church, a school, a barn, a blacksmith shop, a windmill, farmsteads and a tavern.

This feature of Postcards brings us to Nesvizh castle near Minsk, in Belarus. The site is on the UNESCO World Heritage list and attracts thousands of visitors every year.

The once immense primeval forest is home to the European bison, the heaviest surviving wild land animal in Europe.

It took Oktyabrskaya Street five years to go from being an industrial area on the outskirts of Minsk to getting its own tourist map, thanks to its impressive pieces of street art by both Brazilian and Belarusian urban artists.

In the heart of Belarus, there lies a castle of truly unique architectural design.

If you love cutting-edge art there's really only one place to go in the Chinese capital - the #798 Art Zone.

Chinese medicine is one of the Middle Kingdom's great treasures, and Baduanjin is one of its cornerstones.

Postcards visits a venerable cobblers keeping an ancient shoemaking tradition alive in the Chinese capital.

Postcards piles on the pounds with glee as it visits THE place to eat crispy duck in Beijing.

No visit to the Chinese capital is truly complete without a visit to one of the nation's most sacred sites.

Piti is a traditional and delicious dish from the town of Sheki, in Azerbaijan. It's a mix of lamb meat, cooked with chick peas, chestnuts and fat. Everything is cooked in a ceramic pot. Lamb meat is the base of many meals, in Azerbaijani cuisine. It can be cooked in a variety of ways and every pro

The Naftalan bath oil is rich with Naftene carbohydrates, which produces a painkiller, an anti-inflammatory and also treats musculoskeletal and skin diseases.

Visiting and shopping in the Yashil Bazaar is one of the most pleasant ways to discover the hidden treasures of a country such as Azerbaijan