Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, stands as a landlocked country nestled in Southern Africa, positioned between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers. It shares its borders with South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.

Zimbabwe

Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe

The Zambezi River turns into a foaming and roaring, cliff-dropping cascade of water from one of the most magnificent waterfalls, which is literally a wall of water about 1,675 metres long and 107 metres high. When the Zambezi River is full, 7,500... read more

Zimbabwe

Zambezi National Park

Zambezi National Park is located just a few kilometres upriver from Victoria Falls. Here visitors can enjoy the spectacle of elephants, hippos, crocodiles, zebras and many exotic birds, as well as seeing herds of the rarest sabre-horned antelope.<... read more

Zimbabwe

Victoria Falls National Park

Victoria Falls National Park covers the area immediately behind the falls and includes an endless number of crevasses that were part of the falls in earlier centuries. Visitors can enjoy a sunny day on the Zambezi River, take a boat trip on the ri... read more

Zimbabwe

Lake Kariba

One of the outstanding engineering achievements of the last century was the construction of the 112 metre Kariba Dam in Zimbabwe, which dammed the mighty Zambezi River and created one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. The shores of the l... read more

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Egypt

Khan Al-Khalili Market

Khan-Al-Khalili is a large market in the Muslim neighbourhood of Cairo, one of the city's striking landmarks. The square that Khan-Al-Khalili occupies was originally the site of the Saffron Tomb mausoleum, the burial place of the Fatimid caliphs. Emir Al-Khalili ordered the destruction of the Fatimid cemetery in 1382 in order to build a large caravanserai. At that time, this was the central... read more

Greece

Ancient Agora

In the heart of Athens, northwest of the Acropolis, lie the ruins of the Ancient Agora. During the period of ancient Greece (from about the beginning of the 6th century BC) it was the political, financial, administrative, cultural and religious ce... read more

Mali

Niono

The city of Niono is known as the "Venice of Mali" because of its system of canals and channels that criss-cross the entire city, and the local brick mosque is almost as famous as the famed Djenné Mosque.