Moka, Mauritius
Le Pouce (The Thumb)
The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Moka, Mauritius
The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.
Chamarel, Mauritius
This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.
Nouadhibou, Mauritania
The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.
Chinguetti, Mauritania
Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents
Gorongosa, Mozambique
When humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over.
Beira, Mozambique
Once living up to its name as the grandest hotel in all of Africa, the Grande Hotel is now home to a community of squatters.
Blantyre, Malawi
This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.
Liwonde, Malawi
A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.
Nairobi, Kenya
Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'
Nairobi, Kenya
Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.
Nairobi, Kenya
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.
Marafa, Kenya
Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."
Lamu, Kenya
Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.
Malindi, Kenya
Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.
Al-Khums, Libya
Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.
Qasr al Hajj, Libya
A fortress-like granary that has been continually in use for more than nine centuries.
Gadamis, Libya
A beautiful oasis town dating back to the Roman period still serves as reprieve from the brutal summer sun in Libya.
Ajdabiya, Libya
Early Islamic mosque with several strange conical domes.
Libya
A deserted Bedouin village lines the shores of this stunning desert oasis.
Ghat, Libya
Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.
Monrovia, Liberia
Empty since 1989, now falling into ruin.
Aksum, Ethiopia
Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.
Ethiopia
An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.