Africa

Medinas, Saharan dunes and the Atlas Mountains — a feast for every sense.

Pyramids, Nile cruises and Red Sea reefs in the cradle of ancient civilisation.

The Great Migration, Big Five safaris and warm Swahili coast hospitality.

Serengeti plains, Kilimanjaro's summit and the spice island of Zanzibar.

Safari, vineyards and Cape coastlines in a country of staggering diversity.

Roman ruins, Saharan oases and Mediterranean beaches steeped in history.

Rock-hewn churches, dramatic highlands and the cradle of humankind.

Lagoon beaches, lush peaks and a blend of cultures on an Indian Ocean idyll.

Angola is one of Africa's last great frontiers — a vast, oil-rich Atlantic nation of dramatic waterfalls, desert-meets-…

Benin is West Africa's spiritual and historical heartland — the birthplace of Vodun (voodoo), home to the extraordinary…

Botswana is the connoisseur's safari — the watery wilderness of the Okavango Delta, the elephant herds of Chobe and the…

Cape Verde is a sun-baked Atlantic archipelago where African, Portuguese and Brazilian influences swirl together into s…

The Comoros is one of the world's least-visited nations — a fragrant volcanic archipelago in the Indian Ocean between A…

Djibouti is a tiny, otherworldly nation at the mouth of the Red Sea — a surreal landscape of blindingly white salt lake…

Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) is a tiny, welcoming kingdom that packs mountains, wildlife and living tradition into one…

Gabon is Africa's great rainforest secret — a sparsely populated, heavily forested nation where pristine jungle meets t…

The Gambia is West Africa's 'Smiling Coast' — a tiny sliver of a country threaded along its namesake river, famous for …

Ghana is West Africa's warm, welcoming gateway — a stable, friendly country of golden beaches, sobering slave-trade for…

Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is West Africa's dynamic, fast-rising star — a stable, increasingly prosperous nation of pa…

Lesotho, the 'Kingdom in the Sky', is a mountainous marvel entirely above 1,000 metres — the highest low point of any c…

Madagascar is a world apart — an island continent adrift for 90 million years, where lemurs leap through spiny forests,…

Malawi, the 'warm heart of Africa', is defined by its genuinely friendly people and by Lake Malawi — a vast, clear inla…

Mozambique is the Indian Ocean's uncrowded treasure — a 2,500-kilometre coastline of palm-fringed beaches, world-class …

Namibia is raw, cinematic Africa — apricot dunes plunging into the Atlantic, the ghostly Skeleton Coast, and Etosha's w…

Nigeria is Africa's giant — the continent's most populous nation and a powerhouse of culture, from Afrobeats and Nollyw…

The 'Land of a Thousand Hills' is Africa's great comeback story — a clean, safe, strikingly green country where you can…

Senegal is West Africa's cultural powerhouse — the birthplace of a golden age of music, a land of teranga (legendary ho…

The Seychelles is a scattering of 115 granite and coral islands in the Indian Ocean — the stuff of desktop wallpapers m…

Sierra Leone is West Africa's beautiful, resilient comeback — a lush, mountainous country blessed with some of the cont…

Togo is a slender ribbon of a country packing remarkable diversity into its narrow frame — palm-fringed Atlantic beache…

Uganda, Churchill's 'Pearl of Africa', packs astonishing variety into one green country — mountain gorillas and chimpan…

Zambia is the home of the walking safari and one of Africa's last great wilderness secrets — raw, remote and uncrowded.…

Zimbabwe pairs one of the natural wonders of the world — the mighty Victoria Falls — with superb, uncrowded safaris in …