Discover Africa

A continent of extraordinary range — from the Sahara's dunes and the Nile's ancient temples in the north, to the Serengeti's great migrations and Cape Town's coastline in the south, with the Indian Ocean's coral islands lying just offshore.

This site's own Africa grouping spans a deliberately wide slice of the continent — Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia in the north; Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia across the east and south-central regions; South Africa at the continent's southern tip; and the Indian Ocean island nations of Mauritius and Seychelles — each offering a genuinely different kind of trip within one continent.

Africa, as grouped on this site, spans four of the continent's major regions rather than attempting the whole landmass at once: North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia), East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania), south-central Africa (Malawi, Zambia), southern Africa (South Africa), and the Indian Ocean island nations of Mauritius and Seychelles.

Few regions on Earth offer this much genuine range within reach of each other: Egypt's pyramids and Nile Valley civilization sit within the same broad grouping as the Serengeti's wildebeest migrations, Victoria Falls' thundering spray, Cape Town's Table Mountain, and the coral atolls of the Indian Ocean.

This is also a continent whose human history runs exceptionally deep — East Africa holds some of humanity's oldest known fossil and archaeological evidence, while North Africa carries millennia of continuous civilization, trade, and cultural exchange with the wider Mediterranean and Islamic worlds.