Places educatorclaire Wants to Go

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.

Dating back to 1812, this is the oldest racecourse in the Southern Hemisphere.

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

Ancient Manuscripts showcase the civilization of West Africans during the Middle Ages.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

Muammar Gaddafi's well-intentioned investment in his favorite city turned out to be a nightmare.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.

A deserted Bedouin village lines the shores of this stunning desert oasis.

Early Islamic mosque with several strange conical domes.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

A beautiful oasis town dating back to the Roman period still serves as reprieve from the brutal summer sun in Libya.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

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.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.