Southern Africa

Victoria Falls, red dunes and big-game safaris.

Photo: Der Berzerker from Washington, DC, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

Countries

Angola

Bright red cliffs and giant waterfalls.

Botswana

The Okavango: Africa's wild water.

Eswatini

A small kingdom with big traditions.

Lesotho

The Kingdom in the Sky.

Malawi

A lake like a sea.

Mozambique

Islands and Indian Ocean reefs.

Namibia

Red dunes and desert elephants.

South Africa

Cape Town, Kruger and wine country.

Zambia

Walking safaris and the Zambezi.

Zimbabwe

Victoria Falls and ancient stone walls.

The Short List

Must-See
Nature · UNESCO

Victoria Falls

Zimbabwe

The Smoke That Thunders, the world's largest sheet of falling water, on the Zambezi.

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Must-See
Nature · UNESCO

Okavango Delta

Botswana

A vast inland delta, seen by dugout canoe.

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Must-See
Nature · UNESCO

Sossusvlei

Namibia

Some of the world's tallest dunes, with Deadvlei's black skeleton trees.

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Must-See
Cities · Table Mountain

Cape Town

South Africa

Table Mountain above an Atlantic city, with Robben Island and Cape Point.

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Must-See
Nature · Safari

Kruger National Park

South Africa

One of Africa's great parks, and easily self-drive, with luxury private reserves next door.

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Must-See
Mountains · Views

Table Mountain

South Africa

Cape Town's flat-topped icon, by rotating cable car.

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On the Map

Grey pins: guides still being written.