West Africa

One of the smallest capitals in Africa, on an island at the river mouth.

Rainforest 30 km inland from Cape Coast, with a rope-and-plank canopy walkway 30 metres above the forest floor.

A plateau at about 1,500 metres in the Cross River highlands, cool enough to need a jacket.

The Ashanti capital, and the place to understand that the Asante kingdom is a functioning institution rather than a historical…

A forest of shrines and sculpture along the Osun River, and the site of a two-week festival each August.

Ghana’s largest park, in the northern savannah, where you can track elephants on foot with an armed ranger.

A lagoon capital with serious nightlife, a colonial port town on the UNESCO list, and one of the last large…

Hill country on the Togo border, with the country’s tallest waterfall, its highest peak and the western shore of Lake…

The commercial capital of francophone West Africa, built around a lagoon, and the best nightlife in the region after Lagos.

Atlantic coast, the Sahel and the Senegal River, with Gorée Island and a capital that is the centre of music…