Africa Puzzles

About Africa

Here you can meet lions, elephants and giraffes on the plains of Kenya and Tanzania, mountain gorillas in the forests of Rwanda and Uganda and lemurs in Madagascar. There are the pyramids of Egypt, the rock churches of Ethiopia, the Roman ruins and desert peaks of Algeria, the blue streets of Chefchaouen, the red dunes of Namibia and the thundering spray of Victoria Falls.

Along the coasts and islands, the granite beaches of the Seychelles, the lagoons of Mauritius, the clear water of Lake Malawi, the beaches of Mozambique, the old stone streets of Zanzibar and the white walls of Elmina Castle on the coast of Ghana complete the journey.

In West Africa you can visit the mud-brick Great Mosque of Djenné and the cliff villages of the Dogon in Mali, the stone mosque of Chinguetti in Mauritania, Ganvié, the village on stilts in Benin, the painted houses of Tiébélé in Burkina Faso, the mud tower houses of Koutammakou in Togo, the waterfalls of Cameroon, the beaches of Ivory Coast and Zuma Rock in Nigeria.

In Central Africa you can look into the lava lake of Nyiragongo and meet mountain gorillas in DR Congo, watch forest elephants at Dzanga Bai in the Central African Republic, and see the Kalandula Falls and the Serra da Leba road in Angola, the desert canyons of the Ennedi and the Lakes of Ounianga in Chad, the wild coast of Loango in Gabon, the Gorges of Diosso in Congo, Lake Biaó in Equatorial Guinea and the volcanic spire of Pico Cão Grande in São Tomé.

In the north and east you can walk among the Roman theatres of Sabratha and Leptis Magna and the old town of Ghadames in Libya, the pyramids of Meroë in Sudan, the cattle camps of the Mundari in South Sudan, the mud-brick mosque of Agadez in Niger, the rock paintings of Laas Geel in Somalia, the salt shore of Lake Assal in Djibouti, the steam railway of Eritrea and the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Burundi.

Along the Atlantic coast you can explore the River Gambia and Kunta Kinteh Island, the hills of the Fouta Djallon in Guinea, the fort of Cacheu and the beaches of Varela in Guinea-Bissau, the hillsides and beaches of Freetown in Sierra Leone and the fishing boats of Robertsport in Liberia. In the Indian Ocean wait the beaches and old medina of the Comoros, and in the south the mountain kingdoms of Eswatini and Lesotho, with the wildlife of Mlilwane and Maletsunyane Falls.