A lagoon between two sandstone Heads, oysters and the forests of the Garden Route.
Port Elizabeth: the Friendly City of beaches and the elephants of Addo park, the end of the Garden Route.
Cape Dutch gables under oak trees and the oldest wine estates in the country.
The source of the Nile, grade-five rafting and bungee jumping over the river.
Coffee farms at the foot of Kilimanjaro, the town every climb starts and ends in.
The safari capital under Mount Meru, where the Serengeti and Ngorongoro trips begin.
The port on Lake Victoria, tilapia by the water and the Kit Mikayi rock.
Vasco da Gama's pillar, the Gedi ruins in the forest and the Italian-flavoured beach town.
The lake of flamingos and rhinos on the doorstep, in the Rift Valley two hours from Nairobi.
A Swahili stone town with no cars, only donkeys and dhows, unchanged for seven centuries.
Palm-lined Lake Tana, its island monasteries and the Blue Nile falls.
The 27-metre mud minaret of the 16th-century mosque and the Tuareg gateway to the Sahara.
The royal palaces of the Dahomey kings, their bas-reliefs and the story of the Amazon warriors.
The Python Temple and the Route des Esclaves to the beach, the birthplace of voodoo.
The castle and the Door of No Return of the Atlantic slave trade, and Kakum's canopy walkway inland.
The Andalusian capital of the Maghreb: the Great Mosque, the Mansourah ruins and the El Mechouar palace.
Five fortified Mozabite towns in the M’zab valley, a thousand years of cubist architecture in the Sahara.
A Roman amphitheatre for 35,000 rising out of a small town, better preserved than the Colosseum.
Djerba's main town: whitewashed souks, the El Ghriba synagogue and Star Wars sets across the island.
The fourth holiest city of Islam: the Great Mosque of 670 and the carpet souks.
A UNESCO medina by the beach, the Ribat fortress and Roman mosaics in the museum.
The oasis where Alexander consulted the oracle, salt lakes to float in and the mud-brick Shali fortress.
A ten-kilometre beach on the Atlantic, rebuilt modern after the 1960 earthquake, and the Paradise Valley behind.
The door of the desert and the film studios of Gladiator and Game of Thrones, next to the Ait Benhaddou kasbah.
Moulay Ismail's imperial city: the Bab Mansour gate, the royal granaries and the Roman ruins of Volubilis nearby.
A windswept Atlantic port with 18th-century ramparts, a fish market and kitesurfing on the beach.
A colonial town on the Orinoco narrows, the departure point for flights over Angel Falls.
The highest and longest cable car in the world, up to 4,765 metres in the Andes.
A cloud-forest village of hummingbirds, butterfly farms and chocolate, two hours from Quito.
The main town of the Galapagos, the Darwin research station and giant tortoises in the highlands.
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