A detox at the Health Oasis Resort in Samui, Thailand involves no food, no coffee and a packed schedule of things to do.
She looms gorgeously over our Bo-Kaap guesthouse, daring us to conquer her precarious trails and rocky peaks.
Forty kilometres off the coast of Malaysian Borneo, in the middle of the Sulu Sea, there's a turtle hatchery for endangered green and hawksbill turtles.
I've managed to swallow the moose they served for dinner, without too much trouble, but I know that I absolutely cannot stomach the dried reindeer heart.
Fifteen kilometres south of Cape Town, there's a dazzling road, hacked perilously out of the side of a mountain.