The Central Asian state, which is 1620 miles away from the Indian Ocean, the closest sea to its border, is building a new city. The city of Asman is to be built on Lake Issyk Kul, and will cost £15bn.

We are heading to Fairbanks, 400 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle in the Alaska Interior. It's late September, and a few days earlier, nature began a spectacle of bright, luminous colours.We head ...