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Kumasi Home Base
Bonwire Kente Weaving Community
Bonwire is a weaving community near Kumasi where kente's colour and pattern emerge from skilled work at the loom. Visit for the craft and …
Explore Place →Samburu Region Home Base
Buffalo Springs National Reserve
The southern half of the Samburu reserve cluster, where arid plains and wooded riverbanks meet along the Ewaso Nyiro.
Explore Place →Freetown Home Base
Bunce Island
Bunce Island holds the ruins of a British slave-trading fort active from the late seventeenth into the early nineteenth century.
Explore Place →Rundu Home Base
Bwabwata National Park 1 video available.
A river-to-river protected landscape spanning the Okavango and Kwando, with conservation core areas, a resident community, and a public highway corridor.
Explore Place →Buhoma Home Base
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
A steep Albertine Rift rainforest whose biodiversity and forest-edge communities are as important to its identity as its mountain gorillas.
Explore Place →Cape Town Home Base
Cape Agulhas 1 video available.
The southern tip of Africa, reached on the R319 detour before Cape Town.
Explore Place →Cape Coast Home Base
Cape Coast Castle
Cape Coast Castle is a museum and World Heritage site whose rooms and coastal position bear direct witness to commerce, colonial power, Atlantic enslavement …
Explore Place →Man Home Base
Cascade de Man
A forested waterfall near Man and one of the clearest, most accessible expressions of the western highland landscape.
Explore Place →Monrovia Home Base
Centennial Pavilion
The Centennial Pavilion belongs in a Monrovia journey as civic geography: a place to discuss how national ceremonies, leadership and public memory are staged …
Explore Place →Lodwar Home Base
Central Island National Park 1 video available.
A volcanic island national park in Lake Turkana, known for crater lakes and stark black-sand shorelines.
Explore Place →Maun Home Base
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Fossil river valleys, grasslands, pans, and scrub extend across a vast protected reach of Botswana's Kalahari interior.
Explore Place →Stone Town Home Base
Changuu (Prison Island) 1 video available.
A small island reached by boat from Stone Town, with historic structures, giant tortoises, and surrounding water.
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