After soliciting nominations across a range of new and newly relevant destinations from dozens of industry experts, magazine editors and correspondents around the world, TIME magazine recently published their inaugural World’s Greatest Places list.

TIME evaluated each nomination based on quality, originality, sustainability, innovation and influence. Their 2018 World’s Greatest Places features places to visit, stay, eat and drink that are diverse and unusual.

Here are the Asian places that made the list that we think will be of most interest to older travellers: