Africa

An arched gateway, with many white-painted houses arrayed up a hill behind it.

Medina of Tétouan

A well-preserved and lively historical quarter that shows the influences of both Arab and Andalusian culture on its art and architecture.

A path with steps in a very green lush forest.

Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve

A primordial forest of unique endemic palm trees and other endemic species.

Looking up at a section of the exterior: 3 stories, each with arched windows with columns between them.

Amphitheatre of El Jem

A huge Roman-era arena built for entertainment in a colony of the Roman Empire.

A black and white colobus monkey standing on a fallen tree trunk.

Nyungwe National Park

A large and biodiverse nature preserve with many species, most notably primates like chimpanzees, colobus monkeys and golden monkeys.

A female gorilla with a baby gorilla on her back.

Kahuzi-Biega National Park

A vast nature park with a range of habitats, home to a huge diversity of flora and fauna, including the endangered eastern lowland gorilla.

A view of a broad stretch of Victoria Falls at is tumbles over a steep cliff.

Mosi-oa-Tunya/Victoria Falls

A huge and exceedingly beautiful waterfall on the Zambezi River.

Wildlife walking left to right on a grassy plain: a hyena, several zebras and lots of wildebeest.

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

A biodiverse ecosystem with massive annual wildlife migrations, a huge intact caldera, and important hominid fossil finds.

An gorilla sits in the green undergrowth, only visible from the chest up.

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

An area of astounding biodiversity, best known for its mountain gorilla population.

Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve

A stunning landscape of granite pinnacles in a nature reserve protecting endemic species.

Four huge sitting statues, with a doorway - about 3x higher than a person and reaching to knee height on the statues - in the center. At Ramses Temple, Nubian Monuments

Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae

Magnificent temples demonstrating the power of Ancient Egyptian civilization.

The wall of the Medina of Essaouira's fortification: an opening shows a cannon pointed outward, and a guard post rises next to it. In front of the wall on the water's edge are blue-painted fishing boats.

Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)

An 18th-century fortified city incorporating both African and European architectural forms.

Lamu Old Town

A 700-year-old former trading port that demonstrates the cultural blending of Swahili, European, Arab and Indian influences.

Looking through prison bars into a cell: a mat on the floor, a small table, and a round can with a lid.

Robben Island

A former prison; now a symbol of resistance to and, ultimately, triumph over South Africa’s apartheid system.

Kilimanjaro National Park

A spectacular nature preserve centered around Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa.

A cluster of red earth buildings with few windows, on the side of a hill. Decorative features carved around the tops of the buildings. Above them, on top of the hill, stone walls of a fortress.

Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou

A largely intact earthen fortified village that lends insight into traditional Moroccan life.

A large flat-sided rock outcropping with a clearly visible drawing of an antelope of some sort on the left - it must be quite big given the distance to the stone - and a somewhat less clear image on the right, also of an antelope. At Tsodilo Hills in Botswana.

Tsodilo

Rock formations bearing a huge collection of petroglyphs spanning thousands of years.

A white mosque with gray domes and very tall slender minarets. Beside it is a structure that looks like a castle's keep, round with crenellations around the top.

Historic Cairo

A collection of more than 800(!) structures – a fortress, religious sites, houses, cemeteries and many more – dating from about 100 AD until the 18th century.

Mount Kenya: A mountain peak, rocky and steep, with clouds around its top.

Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest

A mountain and two nature preserves, home to a wide diversity of landscapes and species.

A row of four enormous statues, seen from the side, guard the entranceways to the temple. Each has its arms crossed across its chest and each has a long straight beard.

Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis

Extensive temples and tombs that illuminate the history of ancient Egyptian civilization in architecture, art and text.

In a shaded grove, a large abstract artwork that has rather organic shapes with an arch extending over them.

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

An ancient forest where Yoruba gods reside and ancient religious practices continue.

A view of a lake with very dry-looking hills around it. The water is greenish and a flock of flamingos makes a pink spot in it.

Lake Turkana National Parks

A huge nature reserve, home to many threatened species and important fossil remains.

A row of columns, all broken at the top. The nearest is square while the ones beyond it are cylindrical.

Archaeological Site of Carthage

Ruins of the heart of a great trading empire and cultural hub.

Two elephants walking from left to right of the picture. The nearer one has white tusks.

Serengeti National Park

A huge richly-diverse wildlife reserve where the world’s largest animal migration takes place.

A very narrow street, only wide enough for 2 people, with whitewashed houses on either side. The houses are painted blue up to about halfway up, and white above that.

Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage

A city that combines old and new: modern town planning that incorporates traditional cultural values.

Sunset over buildings (and one taller tower).

Stone Town of Zanzibar

An historic port city of multiple cultural and architectural influences as a result of its importance in the slave trade.