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Liberia
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A heritage experience in Grand Bassa County, Liberia, centred on the historic Americo-Liberian settlement of Edina and the tri-confluence of the Benson, St. John and Mechlin rivers near Upper Buchanan, offering a walking tour through nineteenth-century homes and churches founded by freed Black Americans.
OpenA coastal lagoon in Grand Cape Mount County connected to the Atlantic by a narrow opening at the town of Marshall, supporting significant birdlife, a productive local fishery, and a coastal landscape of mangroves and coconut palms.
OpenLiberia's principal museum, in Monrovia, housing pre-colonial carved masks and figures alongside civil-war-era artifacts and photographs of the Americo-Liberian founding era.
OpenThe island at the mouth of the Farmington River where the first group of freed American slaves landed in 1822 to establish the settlement that became Liberia, marking the origin point of the nation.
OpenA small coastal town at the edge of Liberia's northwestern coast where the Atlantic meets Cape Mount, known for a consistent reef break and a growing reputation among West African surfers.
OpenLiberia's largest protected tropical forest and one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in West Africa, home to endangered forest elephants, pygmy hippopotamuses, and West African chimpanzees.
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