A calving glacier front you watch from a lodge deck — house-sized blocks crashing into the fjord every few minutes.
Hike a palm-lined canyon to turquoise pools, then swim through a crack in the rock into a hidden cave waterfall.
The best place on Earth to see a leopard, with elephants, sloth bears and a coastline of dunes and lagoons.
Big cats and the Great Migration.
Ancient grove of biblical cedars.
Cameroon's premier savanna wildlife park.
Djibouti’s only forest, a relic juniper woodland on the Goda mountains with the endemic Djibouti francolin.
Travel the Niger by pirogue.
One of the few waterfalls on Earth that pours straight into the ocean.
Young fissure volcano between spreading tectonic rifts.
Swim with the wild pigs of Big Major Cay.
Waterfall dropping through three natural bridges into a cave shaft.
A 120-metre-wide arc of cascades into an emerald pool where locals swim and picnic all summer.
West Africa’s best big-game park — lions, elephants and cheetahs.
Reed-island marshes, UNESCO-listed.
Twin 80-metre falls in the rainforest, a film-famous curtain of water.
Rainforest canopy rope walkway.
Ghana's biggest park, elephants on foot.
Tis Issat, the "smoking water" — the Blue Nile plunges 45 metres over a basalt lip below Lake Tana.
Neon sulphur pools, salt flats 125 m below sea level and the Erta Ale lava lake — the hottest inhabited place on Earth.
South Africa's flagship Big Five park.
Jordan’s largest reserve drops 1,600 m from highland village to desert, with ibex, Bedouin camps and the Feynan eco-lodge.
Bubbling grey cones on the Caspian steppe — half the world’s mud volcanoes are here.
Saharan plateau of prehistoric rock art.
Elephant herds among giant baobabs along the Tarangire river.
Vast mangrove delta, home of the Bengal tiger.
Coastal park with elephants near Luanda.
A million wildebeest and zebra on the move — Africa’s greatest spectacle.
One of Africa's largest waterfalls by volume.
Sail past icebergs, glaciers and penguin colonies.
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