North Africa & Islands

A walkable capital with a medieval medina, plus the scattered remains of Carthage on the coast north of it.

A small island with almost no cars, where everyone cycles, and the beach everyone photographs.

A blue-and-white clifftop village above the Gulf of Tunis, and a half-day at most.

Two protected islands off Praslin: free-roaming giant tortoises on one, a seabird colony on the other.

The most complete Roman town in North Africa, on a hillside with almost nobody in it.

The world’s largest raised coral atoll, 1,100 km from the capital, and realistically out of reach for almost everyone.

A Roman amphitheatre that held tens of thousands, standing almost whole in the middle of a small town.

An island the size of France where most of the plants and animals exist nowhere else, and where getting between…

Where the tarmac ends and the Grand Erg Oriental begins.

The easiest rainforest to reach from the capital, and where you hear the indri.