North Africa & Islands

A flat, warm island of beach hotels and old villages, best used as the rest at the end of a…

Steep, wet mountain rainforest on the RN7, with twelve lemur species and hard walking.

A lagoon-ringed volcanic island in the Indian Ocean, built for a beach week with a few good walks in it.

Eroded sandstone canyons and natural pools in the dry south, and the best walking country on the RN7.

A windy Atlantic port town, and the coolest place in Morocco in high summer.

A 556-metre basalt headland with a hard history, the island’s best kitesurfing beneath it.

A line of enormous baobabs on a dirt road near Morondava, and the image that sells Madagascar.

The densest concentration of ancient monuments anywhere, strung along one river, plus some of the best diving in the world…

The last substantial patch of native forest on the island, and the only place to see its endemic birds.

A forest of limestone blades you cross on harnesses and rope bridges, and the hardest place in the country to…