Destination
Burundi
Burundi holds no World Heritage site, ten nominations still waiting, and one inscribed tradition: the ritual dance of the royal drum.
The Rift Valley, Indian Ocean coast and the great safari landscapes. Country guides for Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia and their neighbors.
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Eritrea
A modernist city built as a colonial capital, inscribed together with the unplanned neighborhoods the planners did not design.
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Djibouti
No World Heritage site, ten nominations filed in 2015 and still waiting, and a system of oral customary law that is inscribed.
Destination
Ethiopia
The walled city of Harar and the Gedeo agroforestry landscape: two of twelve inscriptions, read against travel advice that closes much of the country.
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Uganda
Mountain gorillas in Bwindi, the royal tombs at Kasubi, and forests that climb from the plains toward the snowline of the Rwenzori range.
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Rwanda
Nyungwe’s rainforest, primates at altitude, and four genocide memorial sites now on the World Heritage List: Rwanda asks to be understood, not only visited.
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Tanzania
Kilimanjaro, the medieval trading ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani, and seven World Heritage sites across a country of mountain, plain and coast.
Culture
Afar: Human Origins, Salt and Fire in Ethiopia's Rift
The Afar Depression in northeastern Ethiopia holds one of the deepest records of human origins anywhere, alongside a working salt trade, an acid hydrothermal field and a persistent lava lake. It is also a region the US, UK and Canadian governments currently advise against.
Heritage
Ngorongoro Conservation Area: A History Between Human, Heritage and Wildlife
The crater is one part of an 809,440-hectare World Heritage property that also holds Olduvai Gorge, the Laetoli footprints, Maasai pastoral communities and an unresolved argument about who conservation is for.
Heritage
Tanzania: A Land That Echoes with Rich and Diverse History and Heritage
Archaeological sites, rock shelters, Swahili coastal towns and a language spoken by 200 million people: a guide to the heritage landscapes of Tanzania, and how to travel among them responsibly.