Pictorial. Asia: a continent of candid contradictions, unmatched mayhem and mystery, where just one experience will never quite articulate the magic of the place. A fisherman?s song at dawn on the banks of the Mekong, a chaos of colour on the ghats of the Ganges, the silence of the vast steppes of Kazakhstan, a marching mile of red hats along the Great Wall road: Asia is all this and more.

From the tropical beaches of Bali to the frozen slopes of Everest, this pictorial draws together a definitive collection of the sights, sounds and tastes of this captivating continent.