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Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
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CAMEROON, A PARADISE OF BEES
Among the Gbayas, on the high plateaus of Cameroon, the nighttime honey harvests take on the air of sacrificial ceremonies. To harvest the honey, the men first put on heavy suits of wood fibres. The sap from the tree that produces this wood gives off a substance that repels the bees. Often, they will be guided by a larva-loving bird, the informer, which leads them right to the nests in exchange for part of the harvest. [x]
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#kenya365 #Kenya365Skies #Mombasa #nyali (at Nyali Beach Hotel)
Ghoufi Canyon in Batna, Algeria
Photo courtesy of Flickr user xpixelsign
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This past weekend, Cape Town’s flat-topped natural icon Table Mountain was officially inaugurated as the newest Seven Wonders of Nature landscape by the Zurich-based foundation New7Wonders founded in 2001 by filmmaker Bernard Weber. This is a first not only for South Africa, but for Africa as well.
“Table Mountain is not only a spectacular backdrop for Cape Town, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but also offers visitors the unique experience of walking on top of the mountain and enjoy the most awe-inspiring panoramic views,” Weber said at a ceremony at the foot of the mountain.
Located in the neighborhood of Hamma in Algeria, the Jardin d’essai El Hamma is a 34 hectare garden, which extends in an amphitheater at the foot of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Algiers.
Created in 1832, the garden is one of the test gardens - a botanical garden established in the colonies as a source for supply of seeds and plants and provide information to the farming settlers - the world’s largest of it’s kind.
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Mamah Beach
Stellenbosch cottage, Cape Winelands, South Africa.
Casa em Stellenbosch, Vinhas do Cabo, África do Sul.Photo copyright: slack12
Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, Africa’s southwesternmost spot
A man rows through Kongou Falls in Ivindo National Park, Gabon
Charlotte falls
View of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco
Photo by Oxana Pokhitonova
Lake Retba, Senegal
by yeryi
Baobab tree and the Night Sky in Mali
Photo by Roy Zipstein
Mount Nyiragongo is a stratovolcano situated in the Virunga Mountains of the Albertine Rift inside Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The volcano has an elevation of 3,470 m (11,385 ft).
The main crater is about two km wide and usually contains a lava lake (see photo) that has at times been the most voluminous known lava lake in recent history. The depth of the lava lake varies considerably. Not much is known about how long the volcano has been erupting, but since 1882, it has erupted at least 34 times with the two most recent eruptions occurring in 1977 and 2002, both resulting in destruction of nearby human habitats and loss of lives, mostly due to asphyxiation by carbon dioxide.
Activity at Nyiragongo is ongoing, but currently confined to the crater.
Nyiragongo and nearby Nyamuragira are together responsible for 40% of Africa’s historical volcanic eruptions.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to a total of five different active and extinct volcanoes.
