Amazing Africa

Full mile wide, Victoria Falls is one of Africa's most famous sights. Accessible from both the Zambian and Zimbabwean sides of the river, Victoria Falls is at its most dramatic from March to May when it is an unbroken cascade of water, decorated by sunlit rainbows.

 

• Africa is the world's second largest continent covering about over 30 million square kilometers.
• The Sahara is the largest desert in the world and is bigger than the continental USA.
• Africa is the world's hottest continent with deserts and drylands covering 60% of land surface area (e.g. Kalahari, Sahara and Namib).

 Africa is a vast continent, an immense landscape of incredible contrasts, from beaches to mountains, deserts to wetlands, and mountains to endless open savannah. You can meet people whose way of life has not changed in centuries, and witness wildlife spectacles that have followed ancient rhythms for millennia.

The Best African Countries to Visit On Your Next Adventure

1. Morocco. Located in Northern Africa, Morocco has so much to offer. ...
2. Zambia. Zambia is a gorgeous country that has so much to see. ...
3. Tanzania. Tanzania is a country rich with nature reserves and natural beauty. ...
4. South Africa. ...
5. Namibia. ...
6. Madagascar. ...
7. Kenya. ...
8. Botswana.

Portuguese explorer Prince Henry, known as the Navigator, was the first European to methodically explore Africa and the oceanic route to the Indies.

 

Safest Places to Visit in Africa:

1. Rwanda. Rwanda is arguably the safest country in Africa, which is immediately apparent upon arrival in the relaxed and sophisticated capital Kigali. ...
2. Botswana. ...
3. Mauritius. ...
4. Namibia. ...
5. Seychelles. ...
6. Ethiopia. ...
7. Morocco. ...
8. Lesotho.

Key Takeaways. Aliko Dangote has been the richest man in Africa for nine years in a row, with a net worth of more than $10 billion. Dangote's fortune is primarily built from his company, Dangote Cement, although he started his business empire from selling commodities such as sugar, salt, and flour.

Jungle Elephant

The African forest elephant is one of the two living African elephant species. It is native to humid forests in West Africa and the Congo Basin. It is the smallest of the three living elephant species, reaching a shoulder height of 2.4 m. 

Forest elephants are an elusive subspecies of African elephants and inhabit the densely wooded rainforests of west and central Africa. ... Forest elephants are smaller than savanna elephants, the other African elephant subspecies.

 During peaceful times the ancient kings built their cities using elephants to haul heavy building material, such as granite columns, using low-bed carts. The elephant has been used for hauling logs in forest operations for some hundreds of years, before mechanization of forest harvesting technology.

But there are now around 415,000. Most countries in West Africa count their forest elephants in tens or hundreds, with animals scattered in small blocks of isolated forest.

Once it reaches adulthood, the female and male elephants are known by different terms. A male elephant is called a bull elephant, and a female elephant is a cow.

An elephant's diet typically consists of a variety of jungle plants, fruits, and vegetables. Specifically, they enjoy such delicacies as bamboo shoots and leaves, rice, bananas, sugar cane, corn, tree bark, and jungle leaves. Only 40-50% of the food elephants eat is successfully digested.

 Elephant numbers have dropped by 62% over the last decade, and they could be mostly extinct by the end of the next decade. An estimated 100 African elephants are killed each day by poachers seeking ivory, meat and body parts, leaving only 400,000 remaining.

Amazing Polar bear

Male polar bears can weigh up to 800kg, and are twice the size of females. This, in addition to the fact that they can measure up to 3 metres long, makes polar bears the largest land carnivore in the world.

Polar bears look cute, cuddly and even friendly. But don't be fooled. They're expert hunters and ferocious with it. Here are all the reasons you need to keep a respectable distance and admire them from afar.

 They're also dangerous because they're skilled apex predators: they can easily outrun a human, and knock its head off with a swing of its pawed fist. Which means, cute as it may be, the polar bear is quite functionally the great white shark of the north. It is adapted well to do its job, of eating animals.

Polar bears in the wild can live to be 30 years of age, but this is rare. Most adults die before they reach 25 years.

 Polar bears, particularly young and undernourished ones will hunt people for food. ... Truly man-eating bear attacks are uncommon, but are known to occur when the animals are diseased or natural prey is scarce, often leading them to attack and eat anything they are able to kill.

But polar bears never poo in the woods because they live on ice… they poop where they stand regardless of the place, and they scream while doing it.

Polar bears feed mainly on ringed and bearded seals. ... When other food is unavailable, polar bears will eat just about any animal they can get, including reindeer, small rodents, seabirds, waterfowl, fish, eggs, vegetation (including kelp), berries, and human garbage.

Amazing Sahara desert

The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world, and the third largest overall after the Antarctica and the Arctic. The Sahara Desert covers an incredible 9.2 million km², which is almost the same size as China, and a total of 8% of the earth's land area. 

The enormous desert spans 11 countries: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. The Sahara desert has a variety of land features, but is most famous for the sand dune fields that are often depicted in movies.

 Purely in terms of size, the Antarctic Desert is the largest desert on the planet, measuring a total of 13.8 million square kilometers (or 5,500,000 square miles). Antarctica is not only the most isolated continent on Earth but also the coldest.

 The Sahara Desert covers an area of northern Africa larger than the lower 48 United States. And it's growing even bigger. ... So some areas that were once semi-arid grassland have become desert.

 As well as being the largest and driest desert, the Antarctic Ice Sheet, which occupies around 99% of the continent, is also the coldest desert on Earth.

 The population of the Sahara is just two million. People who live in the Sahara are predominantly nomads, who move from place to place depending on the seasons. Whilst others live in permanent communities near water sources. The Sahara Desert really is an intriguing and beautiful place, waiting to be explored.

 The depth of sand in ergs varies widely around the world, ranging from only a few centimeters deep in the Selima Sand Sheet of Southern Egypt, to approximately 1 m (3.3 ft) in the Simpson Desert, and 21–43 m (69–141 ft) in the Sahara.