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Rock paintings in Tassili show swimmers, cattle and hippos, proof the desert was green within the last 10,000 years.
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Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria · Africa
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Chefchaouen's lanes are painted in dozens of blue shades, a tradition variously credited to Jewish refugees and to repelling insects.
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Chefchaouen, Morocco · Africa
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Fes el Bali is one of the largest car-free urban areas in the world, where goods still move by donkey.
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Fes, Morocco · Africa
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The Noor complex uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight and can store heat in molten salt to generate power after sunset.
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Ouarzazate, Morocco · Africa
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In southwest Morocco goats climb argan trees for the fruit, a sight that has become a roadside attraction.
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Souss, Morocco · Africa
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One of the longest trains in the world hauls iron ore over 700 kilometres across the Sahara, and travellers ride it free on the ore cars.
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Mauritania · Africa
External reference (site language): Transport in Mauritania ↗
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All ten Cape Verdean islands are volcanic, and Fogo's cone still has villages farming on its crater floor.
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Cape Verde · Africa
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The Bijagos archipelago has around 88 islands, most uninhabited, and is a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
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Bijagos, Guinea-Bissau · Africa
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Liberia was established in the 1820s as a settlement for freed African Americans and declared independence in 1847.
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Liberia · Africa
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Portuguese sailors named the peninsula for mountains whose thunderstorms sounded like roaring lions.
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Sierra Leone · Africa
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Togo is only about 110 kilometres wide but stretches 550 kilometres inland from the Gulf of Guinea.
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Togo · Africa
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Around 20,000 people live in Ganvie entirely on stilts above Lake Nokoue, moving by pirogue.
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Ganvie, Benin · Africa
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The Kalandula Falls drop about 105 metres across a 400-metre curtain and see a fraction of Victoria Falls' visitors.
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Kalandula, Angola · Africa
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Namibia was the first African country to write environmental protection into its constitution, and its entire coastline is now protected.
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Skeleton Coast, Namibia · Africa
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Dunes here reach over 300 metres, coloured deep red by iron oxide that has been oxidising for millions of years.
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Sossusvlei, Namibia · Africa
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The camelthorn trees died around 900 years ago but the air is too dry for decomposition, so they still stand black against white clay.
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Deadvlei, Namibia · Africa
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The Hoba meteorite weighs about 60 tonnes and has never been moved from where it landed roughly 80,000 years ago.
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Hoba, Namibia · Africa
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The Okavango River never reaches the sea. It spreads into the Kalahari and evaporates, creating a vast seasonal wetland.
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Okavango, Botswana · Africa
External reference (site language): Okavango Delta ↗
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Around a third of Africa's savanna elephants live in Botswana, concentrated in the Chobe region.
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Botswana · Africa
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These salt pans are the bed of a superlake that dried up thousands of years ago, and they are visible from orbit.
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Makgadikgadi, Botswana · Africa
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Victoria Falls is neither the tallest nor the widest, but its combined height and width create the largest sheet of falling water.
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Victoria Falls · Africa
External reference (site language): Iguazu Falls ↗
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When the river is low, a natural rock lip forms Devil's Pool, where swimmers sit metres from a 100-metre drop.
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Livingstone, Zambia · Africa
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Great Zimbabwe's walls were built from fitted granite blocks with no mortar and gave the modern country its name.
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Great Zimbabwe · Africa
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Lake Malawi contains more fish species than any other lake, with hundreds of cichlids found nowhere else.
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Lake Malawi · Africa
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