Visit Berbera

Whitewashed Indian Ocean port town of coral-stone houses.

White-sand beach south of Mogadishu, popular for Friday picnics.

Vietnam’s beach resort capital — a long city beach, island snorkelling trips and Cham towers on the hill.

Zanzibar’s liveliest beach, dhow builders and turquoise shallows.

Seventeen kilometres of white sand and casuarina trees south of Mombasa, with kite-surfing and colobus monkeys in the trees.

Coral islands and old Swahili towns.

Mogadishu's lively city beach.

Memorial arch on the beach where enslaved people were forced onto ships.