The historical geography of Africa is saturated with a variety of climates, geographic features, and cultures, and has been home to many civilizations.
Lake Malawi, aka Lake Nyasa, is the southernmost lake of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. It fills a chasm in the Earth’s crust, at the edges of which are now the states of Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. Of all the African Great Lakes, Nyasa is distinguished by its beautiful beaches. Nyasa is very […]
The Gulf of Suez, one of the two large gulfs of the Red Sea, stretches from the Strait of Jubal in the south to the city of Suez in the north, connecting to the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal. Even in the most ancient times people tried to connect the Red Sea and the
The Great Rift Valley (or Great Rift) is a vast geologic structure that is a system of tectonic faults that extends vast distances across East Africa and Asia. The valley was formed by the movement of lithospheric plates and active volcanism. East African Rift Valley The Great Rift Valley (East African Rift Valley) is a
The warmest ocean on Earth The James Bond Islands, located off the southern coast of Thailand, have a unique look due to the bizarre shape of the rocks. These islands became famous as the filming location for one of the episodes of the movie “The Man with the Golden Gun”. The Indian Ocean is the
Kilimanjaro is a mountain range of volcanic origin on the East African plateau, which is located in the most attractive area for tourists in Africa – Tanzania, near the border with Kenya. Kilimanjaro is one of the tallest standing alone mountain ranges on the globe. Kilimanjaro is most often photographed from the Kenyan side. This
The giant caldera of the extinct volcano Ngorongoro is located within the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, on the edge of the Serengeti Plain, adjacent to the famous Olduvai Gorge with its valuable anthropological finds of the Olduvai culture and the active “soda” volcano Ol-Arinyo-Aengai. The fresh crater lake Magadi in the center of
The Red Sea is a narrow sea located between Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Sudan, Jordan and Israel to the north, and Djibouti, Eritrea, Yemen and Somalia. It is connected to the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal in the north. The Red Sea is rich in biodiversity and its coral reefs are among the most
Lake Tanganyika is the largest and second deepest freshwater lake in the world. It is located in East Africa and is part of the Great Rift Valley. Lake Tanganyika is located between four countries: Tanzania, Zambia, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. History Lake Tanganyika – one of the deepest lakes in the world
Five thousand years ago, the richest capital of a great state – Ancient Egypt – was located here. The mystical symbolism of this place is that a huge necropolis – the city cemetery, well preserved for its venerable age, has remained from it. Under the scalding desert sun scattered glowing tombstones, under which the former
The Sahara is expanding uncontrollably farther south, and each drought claims the lives of hundreds of thousands of Africans. No one knows how to stop the desert from advancing. Giant dunes make the sands of the Sahara look like a yellow sea. Storms constantly change the face of the desert. And although the conditions here
