Angola

A narrow-gauge colonial railway terminus on the Atlantic coast at Lobito, originally built to carry copper from the Congolese belt to the sea and now a living museum of early 20th-century rail engineering.

A thundering curtain of water on the Lucala River in northern Angola, among the largest waterfalls on the African continent by volume.

Angola’s most accessible wildlife reserve, spread across the high savanna plateau above the Kwanza River about 70 km from Luanda, restocked with elephants, giraffes and other game after the civil war.

A landmark concrete cantilever bridge on the EN-230 national road crossing the Kwanza River, the longest river entirely within Angola, on the approach to Kissama National Park.

A broad Atlantic bay and seaside promenade at Namibia’s southern coastal city, where the cold Benguela Current creates a muted palette and the Namib Desert begins its advance from the south.

A spectacular knife-edge fissure in the Great Escarpment near Lubango, where the Huíla plateau plunges more than a kilometre toward the Namibe lowlands.