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Cloaked in a tangle of ragged vegetation, the steep flanks of this ancient extinct volcano in northern Tanzania give little indication of what lies within its crater's walls. The silence of the thin air some 6000ft (1800m) above sea level is ...

Across the broad, flat surface of Lake Turkana, a 'river highway' snakes its way between silt banks so regular that they appear man-made. More than 3 miles (5km) from the lake shore, the highway ends in a dramatic, sprawling delta, shaped ...

In the parched heart of southern Africa lies an oasis that once a year grows larger than Wales, and brings pulsating life to the surrounding desert. This is the Okavango Delta, a wilderness of waterways, swamps, islands and emerald reed beds ...

The popular image of an oasis is a romantic picture - waving palms beside a crystal-clear pool where nomads replenish their water supplies before moving on. It is an idyllic but not entirely true vision, for some oasis, such as Ouled ...

In the Sahara, at least when the sun is high, there are no horizons - only a milky vagueness whose bounds might be either near or far. Driving south though, from the oasis of In Salah towards the centre of the ...

Source The railway journey up into the high mountains of Mexico's backbone seems stupendous enough. On its ascent towards the Copper Canyon, the train swings round the hairpin bend and crosses bridges raised high above the ground. It plunges into the ...

Cradled between the eastern and western ranges, or cordilleras, of the Andes mountains, is a series of high plateaus stretching some 1500 miles (2400km) from central Peru into Argentina. Nowhere do they drop below 10,000ft (3000m), and generally they lie much ...

There are two entirely distinct worlds in south-east Venezuela's small equatorial rainforest. Gigantic, flat-topped sandstone cliffs tower like impervious fortresses above the dense jungle - a reserved, cloud-wrapped 'Otherworldly place' encircled by a rackety underworld alive with screeching macaws and Jabbering ...

Travellers ascending Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa's highest peak) can now upload their triumphs instantly on their favourite social media platform; following a move by the authorities in Tanzania to provide high-speed internet on Africa's Highest mountain. Mount Kilimanjaro, nestled in northern Tanzania, ...

Seen from afar, the peaks of the Virunga Mountains stand in awe-some magnitude in a mist of clouds. Rising sharply to dominate the plains of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Cango, these mountains evoke a spine-tingling awareness of the ...

Amid the dusty, searingly hot Crater Highlands of northern Tanzania, in a region spattered with hot springs and steaming sulphur jets, stands a grey mountain known as Ol Doinyo Lengai. This is a Maasai name that means 'Mountains of God'. {image-mt-oldoinyo-lengai-1661242080.jpg ...

There came a time when the ancient Romans became so salted with the cornucopia of Africa's marvels that they greeted the latest travellers' tale with a polite 'Well, there's always something new out of Africa'. The truth was, of course, they ...