Africa

Travel guides to Africa: country and city guides, destinations and itineraries, with practical advice on when to go, getting around and planning your trip.

FANOUSS covers 17 African countries, from Morocco, Egypt and Kenya to Botswana, Madagascar and Mauritius. City guides include Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Chefchaouen and Fes, and destination guides cover Merzouga and the Sahara dunes, Sossusvlei and Zanzibar. Each country guide explains when to go, entry rules and how to get around.

Countries

Capital: Victoria

Seychelles

Granite boulders and white beaches on Mahé, Praslin and La Digue, rare coco de mer palms…

Capital: Dakar

Senegal

Atlantic light, mangrove deltas and the warm welcome of teranga

Capital: Kigali

Rwanda

Mountain gorillas, misty volcanoes and a calm, orderly capital

Capital: Antananarivo

Madagascar

Lemurs, baobabs and limestone tsingy on the world's fourth-largest island

Capital: Gaborone

Botswana

Okavango waterways, Chobe's elephants and the vast silence of the Kalahari

Capital: Port Louis

Mauritius

Lagoons, sugar-cane hills and a Creole, Indian and French table in the Indian Ocean

Capital: Cairo

Egypt

Millennia of history along the Nile: pyramids, temples, and the Red Sea coast.

Capital: Kampala

Uganda

Mountain gorilla trekking and the source of the Nile.

Cities

Rwanda

Kigali

A green, hilly capital of memory, markets and modern Rwandan cafés

Destinations

Tanzania

Zanzibar

Spice-island beaches and Stone Town's Swahili-Arab history.