54 countries
Africa, wide open.
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Africa, wide open: 54 countries to explore
Thousands of landscapes, cultures and experiences. The map of Africa follows this introduction.
The path to Africa
Explore the continent of tomorrow.
54 countries, and almost every landscape on the planet: beaches, mountains, deserts, savannah, rainforest. Viafro documents them one by one, with sources, so you can picture yourself there and then book without surprises.
- Countries
- 54 Islands included
- Regions
- 5 From the Maghreb to the Cape
- Credited photographs
- 1,077 Free licences and the Viafro bank
Four countries to begin with.
The oldest traditions live here.
- Morocco
The knowledge and practices linked to couscous have been on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list since 2020, in the name of Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.
UNESCO · Patrimoine culturel immatériel
Explore Morocco
- Egypt
Egypt welcomed about 13 million international visitors in 2019, according to the World Bank.
Explore Egypt
- Kenya
The great wildebeest migration crosses the Maasai Mara mainly in August and early September.
Explore Kenya
- Cape Verde
Morna, the archipelago’s song, poetry and music, has been on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list since 2019.
UNESCO · Patrimoine culturel immatériel
Explore Cape Verde
Places to picture yourself.
The Viafro journal
Stories written after the journey.
- Journal
Lalibela, the town carved towards the sky
Eleven churches cut into living rock, a king who wanted his own Jerusalem, pilgrims in white at dawn: a notebook at 2,500 metres.
- Journal
Meroë, the pyramids of the other Nile
Two hundred pyramids in the Sudanese sand, a kingdom that stood up to Rome, warrior queens and a treasure hunter: the Kush notebook.
- Journal
Kilimanjaro, five climates up to the snow
The roof of Africa is climbed on foot, without a rope, in a week: the story of an ascent, from the Chagga banana groves to the last glaciers.
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Five regions, one continent.
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