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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cape Town Home Base

Cape Agulhas 1 video available.

The southern tip of Africa, reached on the R319 detour before Cape Town.

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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 …

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Man Home Base

Cascade de Man

A forested waterfall near Man and one of the clearest, most accessible expressions of the western highland landscape.

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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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