69 city guides · 3-day history itineraries
3-day city guides centred on historical sites, monuments, old quarters and untold stories.
Zuma Rock, the 1828 Habe court at Suleja, Ladi Kwali's kilns and the square where the army gave Nige…
Ga sea shrines, Dutch and Danish forts, Basel mission quarters and the 1948 shootings that set Ghana…
From Lucy's 3.2-million-year-old bones to Menelik's palaces, Haile Selassie's throne room and the un…
The 1540 Ottoman-era kasbah, the earthquake memorial city and the Amazigh granary strongholds of the…
Catacombs, Roman theatres and a Mamluk fort built on the ruins of the Pharos — the layered past of E…
From the Casbah's Ottoman deys to the bomb-making cellars of the Battle of Algiers, told through the…
From the zebu-blood ramparts of Ambohimanga to the 1947 martyrs' mausoleum, a chronological walk thr…
From the Kohaito rock churches and Ottoman-era Massawa trade routes to the Fascist boulevards, the B…
Ge'ez parchment on Lake Tana's islands, the 1626 Portuguese bridge over the Blue Nile, and Haile Sel…
From Neolithic rock art on the Point G escarpment to the exiled libraries of Timbuktu and the monume…
From the 5th-century BCE Greek colony of Euesperides to the Duomo, the war graves and the courthouse…
From the presidency of the Orange Free State to the concentration camps of 1901 and the courtroom wh…
From de Brazza's mausoleum and the 1880 Makoko treaty to Free France's wartime capital, the Basiliqu…
From Djoser's Step Pyramid and Sneferu's experiments at Dahshur to Fatimid Al-Muizz Street, Coptic B…
From the 1679 VOC castle and the Slave Lodge to District Six, Tuan Guru's mosque and Langa's pass of…
From the 18th-century medina walls rebuilt after the Lisbon earthquake to the Anfa hill where Roosev…
The 1471 citadel of Moulay Ali ibn Rachid, the Andalusian refugee quarters of 1492, and the Spanish …
Gorée's slave house, colonial Plateau architecture, IFAN's ethnographic vaults and the Lébou fishing…
From 15th-century pillar tombs and Sultan Majid's coral-block boma to the hall where Nyerere took of…
From UNESCO-listed Kondoa rock shelters to caravan-route mosques, the 1910 German railway station an…
Royal tombs, the Bell pagoda, colonial railway sheds and mission churches along the Wouri estuary…
From the 1824 trading camp at Farewell Square to Gandhi's Phoenix Settlement and the school where Ma…
From the 859 university of Fatima al-Fihri to Saadian cannon, Marinid tombs and the 1438 Jewish quar…
From Iron Age stone walls at Tlokweng to the 1895 London petition of three chiefs and the 1966 birth…
Beyond the plateau: Djoser's stepped tomb, Dahshur's experimental pyramids, Memphis's fallen colossu…
From 2,000-year-old San rock shelters on granite domes to the township halls and the stadium where t…
From a 1905 pearl-diving hamlet and the Roman emerald mines of the Eastern Desert to Nasser-era oil …
From the 1829 refugee war camp at Oja'ba to Africa's first television mast — walking the layers of N…
Hominin caves, the 1886 mining camp and the Soweto streets where 1976 happened — Johannesburg's hist…
Coronation hills, royal burial grounds, martyr shrines and the palace cells Idi Amin used as a tortu…
From the 7th-century iron smelters of Dala Hill to the 1913 colonial grid, walked ward by ward with …
From the Christian Nubian capital at Soba to the Khalifa's mud-brick house and the Kerreri battlefie…
From nail-studded Kongo power figures to the toppled bronzes of Leopold II, the Palais where Lumumba…
Founding shrines, royal mausolea, the 1900 siege, and the mud-and-thatch temples of the Asante Empir…
From the Oba's palace on Isale Eko to the Badagry slave ports and the monuments of Nigeria's indepen…
From the 1849 landing of the freed Elizia captives to Léon Mba's mausoleum and the Fang reliquary ar…
From the 1576 Portuguese founding and the Atlantic slave trade to Agostinho Neto's mausoleum and the…
From Union Minière smelter chimneys and Belgian Élisabethville villas to the graves of the Katanga s…
From the 1905 railway siding named after headman Lusaaka to the Freedom Statue, State House and the …
West Bank necropolis, Ramesside battle reliefs, the tomb-cutters' own village and the archaeology of…
Trace 700 years of Indian Ocean trade from Gede's abandoned coral city to the Portuguese chapel, Swa…
From the red-brick fortress of Delagoa Bay to the mausoleum of the independence heroes and the tin-r…
Nine centuries of Berber dynasties, Andalusian craftsmen and French Protectorate architecture, walke…
Rock-cut temples at Wadi Sikait, the Ptolemaic harbour of Berenike and Ottoman Quseir, read through …
From Ibn Battuta's 14th-century trading port to Ajuran wells, Italian colonial avenues and the ruins…
Coral-block mosques, a Portuguese fortress shaped like a man, Mazrui tombs and the railway that buil…
From an 8th-century Aghlabid frontier fortress to the tomb of the man who invented modern Tunisia.…
Terracotta from the vanished Sao civilisation, the French fort that became a capital, and the monume…
Leakey fossils, the Uganda Railway camp, Blixen's coffee farm and the ground where Kenya's flag firs…
Saharan ksour archives, Almoravid copper, independence-era monuments and the drought quarters that g…
From the Almohad ramparts and Ottoman Bey's palace to the Spanish presidio, French cathedrals and th…
From the 15th-century Mossi royal court to Thomas Sankara's assassination site and the museums that …
From a 1647 Portuguese galleon and an 1799 stone redoubt to Bethelsdorp's Khoi mission and the grave…
From 17th-century Wakirike war-canoe houses to Lugard's 1913 railhead, the Biafran front line and th…
From the Dutch landing that killed the dodo to the Aapravasi Ghat steps where half a million indentu…
From Pharaonic canal precursors and Damietta's Ayyubid coast to the 1869 opening, the 1956 Suez Cris…
From the bleached coral ruins of Ottoman Suakin to the 1905 British colonial grid of Port Sudan and …
From the world's first tropical colonial city and its marble pillory to the barracks where Portugal …
From a 220,000-year-old crater and Mrs Ples to Kruger's ring of forts, Marabastad's forced removals …
From the Roman city of Sala Colonia to the Almohad ramparts, corsair republic quarters and the makin…
Walk the most intact Arab city walls in North Africa, from the 849 AD Great Mosque minaret to Roman …
From the 6th-century monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai to Ottoman fortresses on Tiran and the war…
From Roman Cotta and Phoenician rock tombs to the Kasbah palace, the Interzone consulates and the ca…
An armchair-first historical route through Oea's Roman core, the Ottoman-Karamanli medina and the mo…
From Carthage's Phoenician harbours and Roman baths to Ottoman palaces, Andalusian villages and the …
From the 1843 Hudson's Bay palisade to Dunsmuir's sandstone castles, walked in the order it actually…
Tracing Namibia's past through German colonial forts, genocide memorials, liberation-struggle archiv…
From the German Jaunde station of 1889 through French mandate hill quarters to the monuments of inde…
Coral-stone palaces, the Omani slave trade's last market, Persian bathhouses and the ruins of the wo…