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Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Stay in your own little bubble.

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

An exquisite and eclectic selection of African masks stands out within a massive woodcarving marketplace.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

A remote island settlement off the coast of Tanzania is a storied archaeological site with an ancient past.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.

Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.

Tower in the center of town marks the midway point in the 10,000-kilometer Cape-to-Cairo journey.

In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.

This park is home to around 500 bird species.

Where the White Nile River dramatically cascades between Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert in Uganda.

A monument marks the spot where the first Catholic missionaries arrived in Uganda.

Six rock shelters covered in abstract art created by ancient Ugandan tribes.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.