Africa

General Information
Accommodations in Africa

Countries
(When you click on the links of the countries on this list, you will be leaving the Getting Away site and going to The Africa Guide. Click on the country name to go to The Africa Guide, and then click on GUIDE that is found in the links at the top of the page. I believe this to be a very good site, and one that you can depend upon normally being up to date. However, please remember to return to Getting Away. Thanks, Jim.)

Benin
Burkina Faso
Djibout
Eritrea
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Gambia
Guinea Bissau
Ivory Coast
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Niger
Reunion
Rwanda
St. Helena
Sao Tome and Principle
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Sudan
Togo
Zaire
Zanzibar
Zimbabwe

Africa

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Travel information and tips on Africa including passport information, accommodations, transportation to and around Africa, attractions and things to see and do, restaurant suggestions, tours, and much more. "Getting Away With Jim Bruner" - your first stop for travel information on Africa! To visit the countries of Africa, click on the country on the map below. If you are not good at maps, CLICK HERE to go to the alpha list below the map.

africa map

Algeria - Angola - Botswana - Burundi - Cameroon - Cape Verde
Central African Republic - Chad - Comoros and Mayotte - Congo - Egypt
Ethiopia - Ghana - Guinea - Kenya - Lesotho - Morocco - Mozambique
Namibia - Nigeria - South Africa - Swaziland - Tanzania - Tunisia - Uganda - Zambia

If you are unable to find the country you need on the map, check the list of countries at the left. If the country you are looking for is not on the map or under the list of countries, I have do not yet have information about that country.

Visit Libya - Libya is a country located in North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea in the north and shares borders with Egypt to the east, Chad and Niger to the south, Sudan to the southeast and both Algeria and Tunisia to the west. Ninety percent of the country is desert and its size makes it the fourth largest country in Africa. Its capital is Tripoli, with a population of 1.7 million people. Libya’s total population is 5.7 million people. There are three traditional parts of the country: Fezzan, Cyrenaica and Tripolitania. Additional information can be found at http://www.visitlybia.com.

The Africa Guide also has some good information. Click on Libya to find out more.

Visit Madagascar - Madagascar is an island nation on the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world and is singularly the home of more than five percent of the world’s plant and animal species, more than eighty percent of which are endemic to the area. Madagascar was a French colony until 1958. Additional information can be found at http://www.visitmada.com

The Africa Guide also has some good information. Click on Madagascar to find out more.

Click on the satellite picture above for Africa weather information.
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Click here for language helps, dictionaries, electronic translators, language software and other helps for learning a foreign language. Being able to speak at least some of the language in the country you are visiting will help you have a better time and enjoy your trip more. Jim.

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