67 city guides · 3-day highlights itineraries
3-day city guides covering the essential highlights every visitor should experience.
Aso Rock, Zuma Rock, the National Museum and the best suya in Nigeria…
Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, Jamestown lighthouse, Cape Coast slave castles and Ghanaian food…
Lucy's skeleton, Merkato, the Ethnological Museum and the Ethiopian coffee ceremony…
Morocco's Atlantic beach capital: the bay rebuilt after the 1960 earthquake that killed 15,000 in 15…
Alexander's city of libraries and lighhouses: the modern Bibliotheca, the catacombs blending Egyptia…
The White City of the Mediterranean: the UNESCO Casbah (the Ottoman urban fabric where the Battle of…
The most biodiverse capital in the world: the Rova royal palace on the 1,466m hill (ruling a kingdom…
Africa's forgotten city of elegance: the UNESCO Italian Modernist city (1935–1941, more intact than …
Lake Tana (the source of the Blue Nile, 37 islands with medieval Ethiopian Orthodox monasteries and …
The capital of world-class live music (Salif Keita, Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté and his 21-stri…
The oldest city in Libya (Greek colony Euesperides, 5th century BCE), renamed Berenice after the Pto…
South Africa's judicial capital (the seat of the Supreme Court of Appeal), the birthplace of J.R.R. …
The world's two closest capitals (Brazzaville and Kinshasa face each other 4km apart across the Cong…
Pyramids at sunrise, Tutankhamun's golden mask, Khan el-Khalili bazaar and felucca on the Nile…
Where two oceans meet beneath a flat-topped mountain: Table Mountain cableway, Nelson Mandela's 4.5 …
Morocco's economic powerhouse (not the Rick's Café you imagined): the Hassan II Mosque (210m minaret…
The most photogenic city in Africa: the entire medina painted in a thousand shades of blue (from pow…
The westernmost African capital — the most Atlantic-positioned city on the continent: the African Re…
East Africa's fastest-growing city: the Kariakoo Market (the most chaotic market in Tanzania — named…
Tanzania's deliberately relocated capital (moved from Dar es Salaam to the geographic centre of the …
"Africa in miniature" — the commercial capital of the most biodiverse single African country: the Do…
The most perfectly medieval city in the world and the most intact ancient medina in the Arab world: …
The peaceful diamond capital of Africa's most successful post-independence story: the Three Dikgosi …
The world's most ancient tourist destination — only surviving ancient Wonder of the World: the Great…
Zimbabwe's high-plateau capital — Shona sculpture, the largest African stone city, and highveld suns…
Egypt's Red Sea diving capital — coral reefs, sea turtles, desert sunrises, and the real Old Town…
West Africa's Yoruba city — Nigeria's first university, the bronze-casting origin of Ile-Ife, and su…
South Africa's gold city — Apartheid Museum, Soweto's Nobel Prize street, and the fossil caves of hu…
Uganda's seven-hills capital — Kasubi Tombs UNESCO, the Martyrs' Shrine, and the Source of the Nile …
Nigeria's ancient Hausa city — 1,000-year market, 500-year dye pits, and the trans-Saharan trade ter…
Sudan's Nile capital — Blue and White Nile confluence, Nubian pyramids at Meroe, and Whirling Dervis…
Congo River megacity — Soukous live music, Sapeurs fashion society, and the world's deepest river…
Ghana's Ashanti royal capital — the Golden Stool, kente cloth weavers, and West Africa's largest mar…
The most dynamic city in Africa: Nollywood, Afrobeats at the Africa Shrine, suya from the charcoal g…
Gabon's equatorial capital — gorilla tracking at Lopé, leatherback turtle beaches, Fang art, and nye…
Angola's oil capital — Slavery Museum, Eiffel's Iron Palace, Ilha do Cabo beaches, and kizomba at th…
DRC's copper city — Copperbelt mining heritage, Benguela Railway, Luba Kingdom art, Congolese rumba,…
Zambia's copper capital — Kafue game drive, Victoria Falls UNESCO, orphaned elephant nursery, nshima…
Ancient Thebes — Valley of the Kings, Karnak hypostyle hall, hot air balloon at dawn, Hatshepsut tem…
Swahili Coast Heritage & Coral Reefs…
Africa's Most Elegant Capital…
Djemaa el-Fna at night, the Majorelle Garden and a hammam in the Medina…
Red Sea's Pristine Dugong Coast…
East Africa's Ancient Indian Ocean Port…
Swahili Coast: Dhows, Forts & Red Elephants…
Tunisia's Ancient Ribat & Roman Sahel…
Sahel Capital & Gateway to Ennedi…
Lions with a city skyline, baby elephants, nyama choma and the world's finest long-distance runners …
Where Sahara Meets the Atlantic & Desert Manuscripts…
Raï Music, Camus's Plague City & Spanish Clifftop Fort…
Africa's Film Capital: FESPACO, Mossi Royalty & Painted Houses…
Gqeberha: Elephant Park, World Surf Break & African Penguins…
Nigeria's Oil Delta: Floating Villages, Gas Flares & Banga Soup…
Mauritius Capital: Dodo Island, Seven Colours & Indian Ocean Creole…
Suez Canal Gateway: 12% of World Trade & 1869 Belle Époque City…
Red Sea: Cousteau's Reef, Suakin Coral City & Beja Desert…
Cape Verde: Saudade, First Tropical City & Barefoot Diva Morna…
Executive Capital: Mandela Inauguration, Boer Republic & Jacaranda City…
Tunisia's Finest Intact Arab Medina, Kerkennah Island Fishing & El Jem Roman Africa…
Red Sea Coral Reef World Capital, Mount Sinai Sunrise & Blue Hole Freediving Mecca…
Cap Spartel Where Atlantic Meets Mediterranean, Paul Bowles's Literary Tangier & the Caves of Hercul…
⚠️ DO NOT TRAVEL – Libya Is Currently Unsafe. Historical Context: The Roman Arch of Marcus Aurelius,…
UNESCO Medina, World's Best Roman Mosaics at Bardo, Carthage Ruins, Sidi Bou Said Blue-White Village…
Butchart Gardens (55 Acres in a Former Limestone Quarry), Orca Whale Watching, Royal BC Museum First…
Christuskirche (German Colonial Lutheran Church 1907), Herero Genocide Memorial, Daan Viljoen Oryx &…
Mefou Primate Sanctuary (310 Chimpanzees, 30 Gorillas), National Museum in Former Presidential Palac…
Stone Town (UNESCO 2000, the Most Intact Swahili-Arab Trading City), Anglican Cathedral on the Slave…