Tutume, Botswana
Makgadikgadi Salt Pans
Spanning over 10,000 square miles, this ancient salt pan is one of the largest on the planet.
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Tutume, Botswana
Spanning over 10,000 square miles, this ancient salt pan is one of the largest on the planet.
Mmatshumo, Botswana
An enchanting rocky island of scraggly baobabs surrounded by an ancient sea and sprawling salt pans.
Chobe, Botswana
There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.
Botswana
Wondrous stalactites house thousands of bats in these African caves.
Nairobi, Kenya
This local art collective supports contemporary artists through a coveted residency program.
Kenya
The world’s largest permanent desert lake is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Mombasa, Kenya
This colonial fort is an intriguing example of Renaissance military architecture.
Lamu, Kenya
Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.
Nairobi, Kenya
This tourist village in Nairobi celebrates the traditional lifestyles and customs of Kenyan tribes.
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.
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.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.
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.
Kilwa Masoko, Tanzania
Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.
Monduli, Tanzania
A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.
Akchour, Morocco
Reaching this rock formation involves a hike through rocky rapids and springs where wild turtles reproduce.
Salé, Morocco
The city walls of Salé lead to the ruins of this seaside "bastion of tears."
Meknes, Morocco
The ruins of an early-18th-century complex that could once house up to 12,000 horses.