Japanese guns on the island's high point.
Tunnels carved for 18th-century defence.
A 70-metre crater of natural gas that has burned since 1971 โ camp beside the "Door to Hell" at night.
The original vine-bungee land diving.
Kiribati is the only country in all four hemispheres โ stand on the equator on Kiritimati, the first place on Earth to see the new day.
About 300 tailless macaques live on the Upper Rock โ Europeโs only wild monkeys, and famously light-fingered.
Incongruously modern football complex of the breakaway republicโs champion club.
Sacred pool of tame crocodiles.
The largest church in the world, a marble replica of St Peterโs standing in the African bush.
Vast synchronised stadium spectacle.
Dunes of seven natural colours.
Where hippos surf and elephants roam beaches.
The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.
Futurist petrol station shaped like an aeroplane โ icon of Asmaraโs modernism.
A salt lake turned pink by algae, where salt-gatherers wade waist-deep and the water floats you.
The only hippos on Earth that swim in the sea, wallowing in lagoons and grazing the beaches of Orango Island.
Walled city and ghostly Varosha.
Southern Africa's only ski resort.
Ride one of the world's longest trains.
Kusturica's hilltop wooden village.
Plankton light the surf electric blue on Vaadhoo and other islands on dark nights.
The "Eye of the Sahara" from the ground.
Eerie "Devil's Town" rock spires.
Sandboard down an active volcano.
Swim at the very edge of Victoria Falls.
Forest of razor-sharp limestone, UNESCO-listed.
Whimsical Italianate seaside village.
Underground necropolis carved 5,000 years ago โ book far ahead.
Hill covered in thousands of crosses.
Striped, dome-shaped rock formations.
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