The African continent begins to awaken to tourism offering a range of possibilities that cover all colors, shapes and tastes. Natural parks, bustling cities or dream beaches are some of the highlights that encompass this review of the 10 places in Africa you must visit at least once in your life.
Jemaa el-Fna (Morocco)
Morocco is not only the most open country in the Magreb but its cheap prices and its proximity to Europe allow us to enjoy its exoticism just two hours away by flight. For this reason, choosing Marrakech as a city to visit in Moroccan territory is one of the best options, especially when it comes to visiting Jemaa el-Fna, the most glorious square in North Africa thanks to the amalgamation of colors, scents, snake charmers, henna tattooists, food stalls and jugglers concentrating on this huge designated urban microcosm Unesco heritage.
Pyramids of Giza (Egypt)
The most idealized image of North Africa can be found in the charismatic Egypt, the cradle of one of the most important cultures of antiquity; that of the vain pharaohs, the grotesque mummies and the retinues of workers who, we still do not know for sure, erected the Egyptian pyramids. Iconic monuments that find their best representative in the great Pyramid of Giza, which measures up to 150 meters high and was completed around 2.570 BC in the vicinity of the city of Cairo. Essential.
Nyiragongo volcano (Congo)
After years of guerrillas and conflicts, the Congo begins to show its natural wonders to the rest of the world. The most astonishing lies at Meters 3.500 and it's called Nyiragongo, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, in the Virunga National Park. Its crater, almost 2 kilometers in diameter, houses inside the largest lava lake in the world, with 400 meters in diameter; a spectacle of reddish colors whose sighting requires our full attention given the lack of security measures in the African Mordor.
Okavango Delta (Botswana)
Located in southwestern Africa, Botswana is a country of noble people and astonishing landscapes as the Okavango River Delta, a channel that never reached the sea when absorbed by the kalahari desert. A curious formation that would give way over time to its own ecosystem that goes from the only swimming lions in the world even hippos that dwell in the waters that fishermen ply daily in their mokoros.
Deadvlei (Namibia)
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According to experts, Namibia is the most emerging African country on the continent thanks to its safety, its status as a mecca for safaris or its peculiar settings. The most famous, and possibly the one that has best exported the image of this country located together with South Africa to the rest of the world, is the Dead Blvei tree graveyard, in the Namib-Naukluft Park. A clayey wasteland where these famous acacias that have fainted for almost a millennium lie wrapped in the orange colors of a mystical desert that extends to merge with the Atlantic.
Cape Town (South Africa)
If there is an African city that every mortal should visit at least once in his life, it is Cape Town. A globalized capital that collects the witness of apartheid abolished in 1994 with places like Robben Island (in which Nelson Mandela remained locked up for 27 years), the color of the Malay neighborhood of Bo-Kaap, its globalized gastronomy, the penguins from the south that live on its beaches or the presence Table Mountain, the enormous mountain that presses the city against the coast and where they live from ostriches to flowers that seem transplanted from another planet.
Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
The most idealized image of Africa was always that of orange sunsets interrupted by the necks of giraffes or lions crouched in the bushes waiting for the movement of antelopes. A picture that comes to life throughout the famous park of the Serengeti, the most famous nature reserve in Africa and abode of a tribe, the maasai mara, which welcome the tourist in their ecolodge inviting them to be part of their tribal customs. A must see along with climbing to the Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa (5882 m), also in Tanzania.
Victoria Falls (Zambia / Zimbabwe)
With 108 meters high and more than a kilometer wide, the largest waterfall in the world together with the Iguazú falls, it distributes its presence between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe, the latter being the best to see them as it comprises 75% of the total number of falls. Formed by the flow of the Zambebe River as it plunges into the void, the Victoria Mountains are possibly one of the most impressive natural attractions on the African continent.
Bazaruto (Mozambique)
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The largest of the six islands that make up the Bazaruto archipelago80 kilometers southeast of the mouth of the Save River, it is the best-hidden secret of versatile Mozambique, the cradle of Portuguese, Arab, Indian and African cultures. Bazaruto is the closest thing to a paradise on earth, one where sun loungers are suspended over a beach and the sea merges with sand dunes, creating scenes of new colors.
Gondar (Ethiopia)
"Africa" and "medieval" are two concepts that the visitor would rarely link in the same context, but that is because surely you still did not know the Camelot of Africa, better known as Gondar, a stone city that in turn includes Fasil Ghebi citadel, declared a Unesco heritage site in 1979. The "West" of Africa is located to the north of the coffee country and began with the construction of a first castle by a nomad named Alam Sagaz in 1632. Years later a group of abbeys, castles and stone houses would make up this peculiar scenery turned into capital of the kingdom of Ethiopia until the XNUMXth century.
