Africa

Approached from the north, the Victoria Falls announce themselves as a cloud of vapour hurled, grumbling loudly at its own immensity, into the African sky. A local tribe gave the falls the name Mosi-oa-Tunya - 'The smoke that thunders'. Soaring 1600ft ...

This eerie wasteland of salt-encrusted clay stretching away to distant horizons is known to the Ovambo people who live there as Etosha - 'the lake of mirages' or 'the place of dry water. Seen from the air it appears ...

The well-equipped come by light aircraft. The less so, or the more adventurous, approach the great wall of Algeria's Tassili mountains by four-wheel-drive truck, crossing gravel, rock and shifting sand where the air shudders above a ground temperature that can reach ...

Just beyond the grey gravel plains of northern-western South Africa, the land tilts gently down to reveal one of Nature's timeless masterpieces: an ancient sea of apricot-coloured sand that rolls on apparently forever. This is the Kalahari, an enormous plain on ...

A wilderness of white sand lies between the ancient Namib Desert and the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean in Africa. 'The coast of hell' Portuguese seafarers called this stretch of Namibia's shoreline. Now it is far-famed as the Skeleton Coast. ...

This year, eight mosques in northern Ivory Coast and Ivindo National Park in Gabon have landed one of the coveted places on UNESCO's World Heritage List. In addition to the two sites in Africa, the responsible committee at its 44th session ...