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Discovery through local knowledge

Discover places through the people who know them.

Start from a Home Base, explore overlooked places nearby, and follow the journeys that connect them.

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Cultural discovery · the Across path

Journey into Culture

Across turns scattered travel and cultural content into a map of human experience.

Across is a geographic context layer for travel, culture, and human experience. Begin with a country to discover Journeys, Stories, foods, languages, traditions, local knowledge, and the people connected to each place.

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Safari discovery

Explore Safaris

Explore Africa’s safari regions through the parks, journeys, gateway towns, people and cultures that surround them.

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Countries

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Begin with a country, then choose the local Home Base that brings its nearby discoveries together.

Where Across Africa is active Countries with at least one public Home Base are highlighted.

Choose a highlighted country on the map, or use the compact list below.

Contribute local knowledge

Choose a Home Base to share a nearby Place or Story, suggest a useful local video, or propose a new starting point for review.

Share a Story → Suggest a new Home Base → Suggest a YouTube video →

Stories

A journey into culture

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People, food, memory, and local knowledge bring the map to life.

Journey story The story of AcrossAfrica.com and AcrossAsia.com A Peace Corps chapter in Nanyuki planted the idea for AcrossAfrica.com and AcrossAsia.com. Three decades later, that long-held travel and culture project is becoming … Read the Story →

Contributors

Explore the people behind the map.

See where creators, photographers, guides, and local contributors add firsthand context across Countries, Journeys, Home Bases, Places, and Stories.

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Featured Home Bases

Begin somewhere rich in local knowledge

These starting points currently offer the strongest collection of videos, mapped Journeys, and nearby Places. The selection will evolve as Across grows. Browse all 115 Home Bases.