Jagged coral pinnacles of the interior.
Dunes of seven natural colours.
Eerie "Devil's Town" rock spires.
The "Eye of the Sahara" from the ground.
Hidden desert waterhole in the Ennedi where camel caravans meet Nile crocodiles.
Striped, dome-shaped rock formations.
Saharan lakes that defy the desert, UNESCO-listed.
Red sandstone amphitheatres carved into the coastal plateau north of Pointe-Noire.
Surreal salt pans stretching to the horizon.
Rope bridge swaying 30 m above the sea to a tiny fishing island.
Dead camelthorn trees, 900 years old, black against a white clay pan and the worldโs tallest red dunes.
The "inland sea" where dunes meet water.
Waterfall dropping through three natural bridges into a cave shaft.
Young fissure volcano between spreading tectonic rifts.
Otherworldly landscape of limestone chimneys.
The worldโs highest and longest cable car, up to 4,765 m in the Andes.
Eroded "moon landscape" near the coast.
Neon sulphur pools, salt flats 125 m below sea level and the Erta Ale lava lake โ the hottest inhabited place on Earth.
Switchback railway descending a near-vertical Andean wall at Alausi.
Eroded clay badlands a stoneโs throw from the city.
Wind-carved chalk mushrooms and icebergs of rock glowing at sunset โ camp overnight under the Sahara stars.
Mineral springs that have petrified into white waterfalls of stone above the Oaxaca valleys, with cliff-edge pools you can swim in.
White dune fields that fill with turquoise rain lagoons every wet season.
The "river of five colours", turned red by aquatic plants between June and November.
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