Ben travels to a remote stretch of the Peruvian coastline to meet a British couple, Scott and Casey, who left their wet and grey lives in England to pursue travel. They gambled their life savings on running a kite-surfing school in Peru.

Ben meets former Melbourne-based festival director Karen, who set up a three-acre artists' retreat in the heart of the Sahara. During the course of his stay, Ben helps Karen with her latest building project and finds time to explore Morocco.

The explorer travels to highlands of Panama to meet a couple who turned their backs on a comfortable lifestyle in the US to try their hand at coffee-producing. He also learns the finer details of how to craft his favorite drink.

On Sri Lanka's southern coastline, Ben meets Janey, a 30-year-old British vet who swapped her job in Newcastle to provide medical care to some of the island's three million street dogs. Ben joins Janey as she helps a dog in need of urgent treatment.

Ben travels to Sweden to meet Annalisa, the Italian chose a life on the streets of Europe as a teenager, and now is developing a forest hideaway on the fringes of Swedish society for her and her toddler.

Benn meets Native Glaswegian Susan, who rejected retirement for a life in a remote region of Africa, where she has set up both a school and a mountain-top restaurant.

Ben meets Jaimie, an eccentric inventor originally from Vermont who lives with his family on a group of islands he has bought off the coast of Panama.

Ben journeys to the freezing coastal waters of Iceland to live with Hakon, a former carpenter who overcame alcohol and embraced a clean, solo life in the wilderness on an private island.

Maverick scientist Nikita was a former math student living in the city, when his father asked for his help with an extraordinary experiment in one of the most remote places on the planet.

Ben joins fellow Brit Lucy, husband Tim and their two daughters, a family who swapped their London home for a yurt on a woodland river on New Zealand's North Island. Ben samples their alternative lifestyle on their 25-acre forest farm.

Ben discovers why one of the world's most in-demand sporting coaches gave up everything to live like a hermit in a wooden cabin without electricity, water or heating in the forests of eastern Croatia.

Ben visits Dan, an ex-photographer who lives an isolated life in the wilds of Oregon, harvesting weeds for nutrition. There, Ben experiences a Native American-inspired sweat lodge.