Images of

Africa

The Pyramids at Giza in Egypt

The Great Sphinx at Giza in EgyptThe Great Sphinx at Giza in Egypt

Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania

The Sahara DesertThe Sahara Desertthe largest desert in the world

Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe

The Nile the longest river on Earth (satellite view)

Cape Town, South Africa, & Table Mountain (3,558 feet in height)

Lake Tanganyika in The Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa

(satellite view)

The Kalahari Desert, a semi-arid savannah

region in southern Africa that is home to the largest wild

animal reserve in the world

(satellite view)

The Serengeti Plain in northern Tanzania and southwestern Kenya

Ruins of the ancient city of Great Zimbabwe built between 1100 AD and 1450 AD

A beach in Capetown, South Africa

Aerial view of the city of Casablanca, MoroccoPopulation: 2,949,805 (200,000 more than Chicago)

Campus of Cairo University in EgyptStudent Population: 200,000

A private estate in South Africa

A jungle in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The “City of Congo River,” a real estate development in the city of Kinshasa, DRC

(city population: 9,046,000; currently in development)

City of Congo River architectural rendering

City of Alexandria, Egypt

Evening view of Cairo, Egypt, including the “Tower of Cairo” building.

A view of Cairo, Egypt, population: 17,290,000

The Sahara Desert3,600,000 square miles (U.S.A. = 3,794,101 square miles)

Jamaa el Fna, a sprawling outdoor market in

Marrakesh, Marocco

Aerial view of Durban, South Africaincluding Durban Yacht Harbour

Johannesburg, South Africapopulation: 1,009,035

Lagos, Nigeriapopulation:  7,937,932

Lagos Island Business District

Satellite View of Lake Tanganyikathe world’s 2nd largest freshwater lake by volume, located in 4 countries:

Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tanzania and Zambia

The Twin Spiral Monumentlocated in Yaoundé, Cameroon, commemorates the independence of

British Cameroon in 1960 and the reunification of British and French Cameroon in 1972, the year the monument was built.

View of Luanda, the capital city of AngolaIn 2011, Luanda was ranked as the most expensive city in the world for visitors

and expatriates to live in, surpassing New York City, London and Tokyo.

The Mombasa “Tusks” in Mombasa, Kenya (population c. 1 million) are symbolic representations of entrance into the heart of the city.

The tusks were built to commemorate the visit of Queen Elizabeth to the (then) town in 1952

The ancient Roman amphitheatre of KOM AL-DIKKA, dating from the 2nd century AD, recently unearthed and restored

in Alexandria, Egypt.

A resort hotel in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, on the tip of the Sinai Peninsula. This hotel is one of 91 luxury resort hotels in this

city of 35,000.

The slums (also called “shanty towns) outside of Capetown, South Africa. As of 2005, approximately 1 billion people,

1/6 of the world’s population, lives in shanty towns or slums.

Two gorillas fighting. Gorillas live in the wild in certain areas within the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda in

equatorial Africa. These are the only places on Earth where Gorillas are found living in the wild.

The legendary Djingareyber (“Jing-gar-ray-ber”) mosque in Timbuktu, Mali. This giant structure, dating from the

14th century AD, is made out of wood and mud. The mosque is listed as one of the United Nations’ World Heritage Sites.

A satellite view of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, the largest lake in Africa and the largest tropical lake in the world. In surface area, it is the second largest freshwater lake in the world,

second only in size to Lake Superior in the United States.

The “Stone Forest” on the island of Madagascar, off the southeastern coast of Africa. This geological formation

has become a major tourist attraction in recent years.

Guinea Fowl, native to sub-Saharan Africa, have been introduced to many places around the world.