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101. Daan Viljoen Game Park
A 40-square-kilometre game park in the Khomas Hochland hills 24 km west of Windhoek, with hiking trails among zebra, kudu, oryx and around 200 bird species.
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A 40-square-kilometre game park in the Khomas Hochland hills 24 km west of Windhoek, with hiking trails among zebra, kudu, oryx and around 200 bird species.
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Shady colonial-era gardens on Samora Avenue, laid out in 1893 by Franz Stuhlmann, with indigenous and exotic plants including the Seychelles coco-de-mer palm.
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University museum inside Haile Selassie's former palace, showing Ethiopian ethnography, music, religious art and the emperor's private rooms.
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A reservoir in western Abuja, built to supply water to the young capital, that now draws residents for boat rides, lakeside walks and weekend events.
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A red-and-white 1930s lighthouse in old Jamestown, about 28 metres tall, whose spiral stairs lead to wide views over the fishing harbour and Accra's coast.
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Johannesburg Zoo on Jan Smuts Avenue has been open since 1904 and houses more than 2,000 animals of over 300 species in leafy grounds beside Zoo Lake.
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The Juma Masjid on Dr Yusuf Dadoo Street, founded in 1881 and rebuilt from 1927, is Durban's landmark mosque, with gilt-domed minarets above the Grey Street district.
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Uganda's oldest Anglican cathedral and mother church of the Church of Uganda, a brick building completed in 1919 on Namirembe Hill with views across the city.
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A restored 121-hectare wetland and forest park opened in 2022, with 10km of paths, ponds, a medicinal garden and more than 100 bird species.
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Casablanca's largest central park, laid out by Albert Laprade in the protectorate era and reopened in 2021 after a major renovation, with palm avenues beside the Sacré-Cœur.
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The late 16th-century burial complex of the Saadian sultan Ahmad al-Mansur and his family, walled off for centuries and opened to visitors in 1917.
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Twin-spired Roman Catholic cathedral built by French missionaries in the 1890s and modelled on Marseille Cathedral, tucked into the lanes of Baghani.
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Built over the old Lagos Race Course and opened in 1972, Tafawa Balewa Square is a 14.5-hectare parade ground on Lagos Island known for its giant horse sculptures.
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The eighteenth-century mausoleum of the Husainid beys in the southern medina, the largest funerary monument in Tunis, reopened in 2023 after restoration.
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Cape Town's working harbour has been redeveloped into a waterfront district with shops, restaurants, hotels, the Zeitz MOCAA museum and the Robben Island ferry terminal.
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The shrine of Idris II, the ruler regarded as the founder of Fes, with the tallest minaret in the old city and a green-tiled roof seen across the medina.
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A 25-metre concrete gateway on Airport Road, built in 1991 to mark the move of Nigeria's capital from Lagos to Abuja, crowned with the flag and coat of arms.
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