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121. Aburi Botanical Gardens

Botanical gardenAburi (day trip)

Founded in 1890 in the cool Akuapem Hills about 30 km from Accra, Aburi's 160-acre botanical garden is known for its royal palm avenue and giant trees.

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122. Adwa Victory Memorial Museum

History museum and memorialPiazza

Large memorial museum opened in 2024 at Piazza's zero-kilometre point, celebrating Ethiopia's 1896 victory over Italy at the Battle of Adwa.

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123. Bongoyo Island

Island beach and marine reserveDar es Salaam Marine Reserve

An uninhabited island in the Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve, about 30 minutes by boat from the Slipway, with a beach, snorkelling, forest trails and coconut crabs.

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124. Church of Notre-Dame de Lourdes

ChurchCentre Ville

A 1950s modernist Catholic church best known for Gabriel Loire's vast stained-glass windows, which fill the interior with coloured light.

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125. Colossi of Memnon

Ancient statuesWest Bank

Two huge seated statues of Amenhotep III on the West Bank, once guarding his mortuary temple and famous in Roman times for 'singing' at dawn.

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126. Dar Ben Abdallah

House museumMedina

An eighteenth-century medina palace near Tourbet el Bey that now houses a museum of traditional family and public life in old Tunis.

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127. El Badi Palace

Palace ruinsKasbah

The vast ruined palace of the Saadian sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, built between 1578 and 1593 and later stripped of its materials, with a giant central pool.

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128. Hamamni Persian Baths

Historic public bathsHamamni, Stone Town

Public baths built for Sultan Barghash between 1870 and 1888 by Shirazi architects, now a quiet guided visit through hot and cold bath chambers.

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129. Inema Arts Center

Contemporary art galleryKacyiru

A two-storey contemporary art gallery and creative hub in Kacyiru, founded in 2012 by artist brothers, with exhibitions, workshops, classes and a café.

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130. Johannesburg Botanical Garden

Botanical garden and parkEmmarentia

Johannesburg Botanical Garden in Emmarentia has terraced rose gardens, herb and succulent gardens and wide lawns that run down to Emmarentia Dam.

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131. Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge

Cable-stayed bridge and viewpointIkoyi

Opened in 2013, the 1.36-kilometre Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge was Nigeria's first cable-stayed bridge and is a favourite spot for joggers, walkers and photographs over the lagoon.

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132. Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan

Mamluk mosqueIslamic Cairo

A colossal 14th-century Mamluk mosque and college below the Citadel, with a towering courtyard of four iwans, sharing a ticket with the al-Rifa'i Mosque.

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133. Mosquée de la Divinité

MosqueOuakam

White, green and red mosque on the cliffs of Ouakam, inaugurated in 1997 and built by volunteers to a design its founder saw in a dream.

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134. Nairobi Gallery

Art gallery and heritage museumCentral Business District

A 1913 colonial building on Kenyatta Avenue, home to Point Zero and the Murumbi African Heritage collections of art, jewellery, textiles and furniture.

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135. National Earth Science Museum

Geology and fossil museumAviation Road

Free museum in the Ministry of Mines and Energy showing Namibian minerals, Gibeon meteorites, mining history and fossils including Otavipithecus namibiensis.

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136. Royal Palace of Fez

Royal palace (exterior only)Fes el-Jdid

The vast royal palace of Fes el-Jdid, closed to the public but famous for its gilt bronze doors and tiled gateway on Place des Alaouites.

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137. Rubaga Cathedral

Catholic cathedralLubaga

Twin-towered seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Kampala on Lubaga Hill, completed in 1925 and home to the remains of Archbishop Joseph Kiwanuka.

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138. Temple of Understanding (Hare Krishna Temple)

Hindu templeChatsworth

Opened in 1985 in Chatsworth, the ISKCON Temple of Understanding is a gold-domed Hare Krishna temple set in a moat and a lotus-shaped garden, with a vegetarian restaurant.

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139. Zeitz MOCAA

Contemporary art museumV&A Waterfront

Zeitz MOCAA shows contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora inside a 1920s grain silo converted by Heatherwick Studio and opened in 2017.

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140. Addis Ababa Museum

City history museumMeskel Square

City history museum in a former noble mansion on Meskel Square, covering Ethiopia's capitals, the growth of Addis Ababa and the Battle of Adwa.

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