Sierra Leone

Three islands off the Freetown Peninsula — summarily named Banana, Whale and Galway — offering white-sand beaches, transparent water and the ruins of a 19th-century colonial settlement, accessible by boat from the mainland.

An 18th-century British slave-trading fort on a small island in the Sierra Leone River, preserved as a ruin and one of the most historically significant slave-trade sites in West Africa.

A historic kapok tree at the heart of Freetown, associated with the city's founding in 1792 by formerly enslaved Africans. The tree was knocked down by a storm in May 2023, leaving the stump and a portion of the trunk standing as a national memorial at the Siaka Stevens Street roundabout.

Sierra Leone's principal national museum, in a 1940s building in central Freetown near the Cotton Tree, housing artefacts from the country's major ethnic groups and a significant collection related to the transatlantic slave trade and the civil war.

Sierra Leone's oldest and most remote national park, covering over 70,000 hectares of forest, savanna and river in the north of the country near the Guinean border, home to elephants, hippos and the western chimpanzee.

Sierra Leone's primary chimpanzee rescue and rehabilitation centre, set in forested hills in the Western Area Peninsula above Freetown, home to over 80 chimpanzees rescued from the illegal pet and bushmeat trade.