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Waterfalls, mountains, deserts, lakes. 7613 destinations across the continent.

8. Main Falls
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Zimbabwe

8. Main Falls

Victoria Falls · Matabeleland North

The world's largest sheet of falling water, over a kilometre wide, dropping into a basalt gorge.

Mount Cameroon
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Cameroon

Mount Cameroon

Buea · Southwest Region

West Africa's highest peak and an active volcano, rising straight out of the Gulf of Guinea.

Nyiragongo
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DR Congo

Nyiragongo

Goma · North Kivu

One of the world's largest lava lakes, glowing inside an active volcano above Goma — a two-day trek.

Fish River Canyon Viewpoint
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Namibia

Fish River Canyon Viewpoint

ǁKaras Region · Southern Namibia

Africa's largest canyon, a 160 km gorge cut by the Fish River, walked on a five-day trail.

Amas coquiller de Fadiouth
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Senegal

Amas coquiller de Fadiouth

Joal-Fadiouth · Thiès Region

Village cemetery built on centuries of discarded clamshells, shared by Muslim and Christian graves.

Große Spitzkoppe
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Namibia

Große Spitzkoppe

Erongo Region

A granite inselberg of bald domes rising from flat plain, nicknamed the Matterhorn of Namibia.

Kahuzi
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DR Congo

Kahuzi

Kahuzi-Biega National Park · South Kivu

Volcanic peak naming a UNESCO park sheltering eastern lowland gorillas, found nowhere else on Earth.

Le Morne Brabant
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Mauritius

Le Morne Brabant

Rivière Noire District

The UNESCO basalt peninsula of Le Morne Brabant, memorial to enslaved people who sought refuge in its cliffs.

Mount Kenya
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Kenya

Mount Kenya

Central Highlands

Africa's second-highest peak — 5,199 m of glacier ice on the equator. Trekking circuits ring three summits and pass alpine tarns above the moorland.

Victoria Falls Bridge
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Zambia

Victoria Falls Bridge

Southern Province · Zambia–Zimbabwe border

A 1905 cantilever bridge spanning the Batoka Gorge, linking Zambia and Zimbabwe over the Zambezi.

Chinhoyi Cave
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Zimbabwe

Chinhoyi Cave

Mashonaland West

An underground lake of deep blue water in a collapsed dolomite cave, sacred to local communities.

Ngonye Falls
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Zambia

Ngonye Falls

Western Province

A horseshoe of cascades on the upper Zambezi, sometimes called the mini Victoria Falls.

Black River Peak
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Mauritius

Black River Peak

Rivière Noire District

Mauritius's highest point at 828 m, reached via endemic ebony forest trails in Black River Gorges NP.

Curieuse
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Seychelles

Curieuse

Inner Islands (near Praslin)

Curieuse Island marine park — home to 300+ free-roaming Aldabra giant tortoises, mangroves, and coral reefs.

Mount Nyangani
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Zimbabwe

Mount Nyangani

Nyanga · Eastern Highlands

Zimbabwe's highest peak at 2,592 m, a windswept Eastern Highlands summit above the Honde Valley.

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Djibouti

‘Ad‘êla

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‘Adabiyyo

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‘Adâd Ḏâḏer

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‘Adâday

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‘Aḏahradde Kôma

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‘Addey

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‘Addô

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‘Adgellou

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‘Ado ‘Ale

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‘Alanley

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‘Ali Sagar

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‘Alloumbôr

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‘Alloumẖârale

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‘Alloumme Dag

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‘Amayle

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‘Ammêli

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‘Anâbo Kôma

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‘Anâwelli

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‘Ânôd

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‘Armâlé

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‘As‘alé

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‘Asa ‘Ale

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‘Asa Dô

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‘Asa H̱arka

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‘Asa H̱edlou

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Eritrea

'Asara'tou

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‘Asâro

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‘Asḏo‘

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‘Assadô Kôma

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‘Êrolé

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‘Ingirre Kôma

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‘Issale ‘Assale

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Lesotho

'Makholo

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South Africa

'Makholo

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Lesotho

'Malehloane

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Lesotho

'Mamakula

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Lesotho

'Mamokhorong

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'Manonyane

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'Maqukhu

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'Matsaile

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‘Oumar Fêra

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Eritrea

‘Ounḏa Ganga

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‘Ounḏa Garra‘ta

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‘Ounḏa Hémed

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Cabo Verde

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volcano

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