Kenya
Mara River Crossing
Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”
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Kenya
Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”
Marafa, Kenya
Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."
Kenya
A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.
Nairobi, Kenya
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.
Nairobi, Kenya
Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.
Diani Beach, Kenya
Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.
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.
Malindi, Kenya
Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.
Tanzania
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.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.
Liwale, Tanzania
The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.
Kusini, Tanzania
This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.
Tanzania
Stay in your own little bubble.
Michamvi, Tanzania
Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.
Kilwa Masoko, Tanzania
Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.
Monduli, Tanzania
A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.
London, England
The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.