Buzzing night market and street food.
Classic Pacific atoll near Majuro.
Hausa palace of banco walls and painted geometry in Zinder’s old quarter.
Mountain town of falls and liana bridges.
Vast traditional reed dance ceremony.
Huge highland tribal gathering.
Trek the highlands on a mountain pony.
Desert massif of oases and Tuareg life.
River of remote villages and carvings.
Living Swazi village and waterfall.
Highland market town of Ottoman flavour.
Reconstructed thatched palace of the Rwandan kings, complete with the long-horned Inyambo cattle kept for ceremony.
Dunes, canyons and dinosaur fossils.
Sleep in a nomad family’s felt tent on the steppe, with fermented mare’s milk and horses at the door.
Sit cross-legged in a village, clap once, and drink the peppery root brew from a coconut shell as a welcome.
Glide downriver on a 30-foot bamboo raft poled by a local captain.
High pasture lake with yurt stays.
Kassena village where the women repaint the mud houses every year with black, white and red geometric patterns.
Seven cataracts on the Congo near Kisangani where Wagenia fishermen still work huge conical traps lashed to wooden scaffolds.
Historic market in old Kuwait City.
Camp among rolling desert dunes.
Restored market of spices and falcons.
Whitewashed covered alleys of a Saharan oasis town, the "pearl of the desert".
Twice-weekly highland market of textiles and masks, with Maya rituals on the smoke-wreathed steps of Santo Tomas church.
Guna-run islands of white sand.
The "gateway to the Sahara": camel treks into the dunes and the December festival of horse races and Bedouin poetry.
Swahili island town of donkeys, dhows and carved doorways.
Green highlands of terraced villages and baboons around Abha.
Great Mud Mosque town, UNESCO-listed.
Travel the Niger by pirogue.
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