Activities and experiences, from markets and classes to outdoor trips and evening entertainment, for filling your time in a destination.
87 places · Updated November 12, 2026
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A long day trip north from Luxor to Abydos, where the Temple of Seti I holds some of Egypt's finest reliefs, the Abydos King List and the mysterious Osireion.
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Contemporary art gallery founded in Kampala in 2002 by artist Daudi Karungi, showing changing exhibitions by artists living and working across Africa.
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The finely carved 12th-century Almohad gate to the royal Kasbah, starting point for a walk along the medina's earthen ramparts in the southern old city.
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A day trip to the historic coastal town 75 km north, once a caravan port and the first capital of German East Africa, with the Kaole ruins nearby.
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A 187-metre lattice tower on Gezira island, completed in 1961, with an open-air observation deck giving 360-degree views over the Nile and the city.
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Below the Twelve Apostles, Camps Bay's wide Blue Flag beach is lined by palm trees and a strip of restaurants and bars along Victoria Road.
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Zanzibar's only national park, a 50 sq km reserve of forest and mangroves that protects the endemic Zanzibar red colobus monkey, popular as a day trip from Stone Town.
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A glassblowing studio and artists' compound on the plains south of Nairobi, where visitors watch glassblowers at work, cross a swaying bridge and eat at the café.
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A fishing village beach west of Accra that has become the city's surf hub, with lessons for beginners, canoes on the sand and a relaxed weekend scene.
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At its Umhlanga headquarters the KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board runs a 26-minute shark film and a live dissection, plus early-morning boat trips to watch staff service the shark nets.
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The sandy beach and seafront of La Marsa at the end of the TGM line, a relaxed residential suburb with cafés, restaurants and old palaces.
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Melville Koppies is a ridge-top nature reserve in Emmarentia with indigenous highveld plants, Iron Age remains and city views, open with guided and self-guided walks on Sundays.
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A large seafront shopping centre at the end of the Corniche, opened in 2011, with more than 350 stores, the Aquadream aquarium, a musical fountain and an ice rink.
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A women's craft enterprise near Goreangab Dam in Katutura, making embroidery, batik and jewellery, with a shop, restaurant and simple accommodation.
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Ruined 14th-century royal tombs on the hill above Fes el-Bali, the city's favourite sunset viewpoint and a place to hear the call to prayer.
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Founded in 2003, Terra Kulture is a Victoria Island arts centre whose 450-seat Arena stages Nigerian musicals and plays, alongside a gallery, bookshop and restaurant.
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A vast walled royal estate of orchards and reservoirs south of the medina, founded by the Almohads in the 12th century and listed by UNESCO.
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Casablanca's historic zoo, reopened at the end of 2025 after a full redevelopment, with around 500 animals in Africa, Asia and South America zones.
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A trip south of Luxor to Edfu's Temple of Horus, one of the best-preserved temples in Egypt, completed under the Ptolemies and once buried in sand.
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Built by the Portuguese in 1482, Elmina's St George's Castle is the oldest surviving European building in sub-Saharan Africa, toured with a guide through dungeons, chapels and ramparts.
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