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This area covers 400,000 hectares and includes 289 villages.
The Tellem people lived here, mostly in caves, between the 11th and 16th centuries.
The Dogon people succeeded the Tellem and live in the region to this day.
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This town is East Africa’s oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement.
Buildings were constructed with traditional Swahili techniques using coral, lime and mangrove poles.
This community has been continuously inhabited…
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The dunes here have red, brown, violet, green, blue, purple and yellow sand.
This is the only place in the world that has earth in seven colors.
The sands settle into layers to show bands of colors.
Weathered volcanic basalt…
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This attraction is part of Africa’s largest conservation area.
The name of this area translates literally as “dead-end marsh.”
A nearby river fills the large salt-and-clay pan during exceptional rainy seasons.
Surrounding…
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This rare major inland delta system does not flow into an ocean or sea.
The site has about 600,000 hectares of permanent swamps and about 1.2 million hectares of seasonally flooded grassland.
Wildlife here has adapted its…
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This former Roman colony was founded in the first century, during the reign of the Emperor Nerva.
The site has a large collection of mosaic pavings, illustrating myths and daily life.
At 900 meters above sea level, the site…