Twenty-five thatched farmhouses and a kabuki stage moved from across Japan into a wooded park — the old countryside in one walk.
Desert town and old religious centre.
Highland market town of Ottoman flavour.
Hausa palace of banco walls and painted geometry in Zinder’s old quarter.
Reconstructed thatched palace of the Rwandan kings, complete with the long-horned Inyambo cattle kept for ceremony.
Whitewashed covered alleys of a Saharan oasis town, the "pearl of the desert".
Swahili island town of donkeys, dhows and carved doorways.
Earthen palaces of the kings of Dahomey, a UNESCO site.
Wind-tower houses, the Dubai Museum and an abra boat across the Creek to the gold and spice souks — Dubai before the towers.
Red riverside warehouses and wooden lanes in Finland’s second-oldest town.
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