According to wholevehicles, Tswana is the capital of South Africa. Many people know its old name – Pretoria, but in 2005 the mayor’s office decided to rename the city and district in Tswana in honor of the leader, in whose possessions the capital “grew”. Today, only the historical part of the city is called Pretoria. The largest diamond in the world was once found in Tswana, and today the tallest building in the country is located here. The city has…
Zambia is located in southern Africa and borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana and Namibia. The country offers spectacular landscapes and breathtaking waterfalls as well as magnificent national parks where amazing wildlife viewing can be experienced. See andyeducation for education in Zambia. Capital City Lusaka Size 752,614 km² Resident 17,351,822 Official Language English Currency kwacha Time Zone UTC+2 Telephone Area Code +260 Fast facts to know The Victoria Falls are among the largest and most…
The East African landlocked country Rwanda is a rather small but densely populated piece of Africa and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. At the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century, Rwanda was also a German colony for almost 30 years. Also politically and historically part of Rwanda, the restless and cruel years of the genocide that took place in this country. Today, however, travelers encounter a stable holiday destination that is worth visiting…
Basic travel information Wreck dive sites in the Red Sea – Thistlegorm, Rosalie Möller and the wrecks of Abu Nuhas! The Thistlegorm wreck was sunk in June 1941 and is one of the most spectacular wrecks in the world. The wreck is 120m long and 18m wide.Thistlegorm lies at the bottom at a depth of 30m and is thus easily accessible with recreational diving equipment. The wreck was discovered by Jacques Cousteau in 1956 and has since been the target…
Visions of freedom and prosperity accompanied the transition to independence. Some visions, based on the Western world, led to private-sector models of further development, others to »African socialism«, to a state-planned economy or were looking for a third way. In terms of foreign policy, membership in the United Nations meant the first opportunity to articulate one’s own interests in front of the world. Attempts to unify the continent in the Organization of African Unity (OAU) served to better represent their…
Far more insidious than the territorial contrasts was the vigorous development in many countries of the area of Islamic fundamentalism, which was particularly strong in Algeria where the fundamentalists responded with the guerrillas to the cancellation of the electoral round of 1992 in which a victory of the Islamic front was looming. The protraction for years of a terrorist practice and without political outlets allowed, however, a slow but continuous recovery of consensus for the new president (1994) Zéroual who spared no means,…
Tanzania is a land of white sandy beaches, stunning mountains and stunning national parks. In search of wild nature According to countryaah, Tanzania is a country of about 38 million residents in East Africa. Breathtakingly stunning nature, Tanzania is one of Africa’s most popular tourist destinations – with spectacular national parks as well as long sandy beaches and mountain scenery within the same borders. Many travelers travel to Tanzania in pursuit of national parks to participate in safaris. Seeing wildlife…
TRAVEL DESTINATIONS IN TANZANIA Beach holiday in Zanzibar Zanzibar is a tropical archipelago off the east coast of Tanzania which is short for TZA by abbreviationfinder in the Indian Ocean, with the most popular beach resorts being Unguja and Pemba. When we talk about the island of Zanzibar, we often refer to Unguja, which has managed to preserve its integrity in an admirable way – the island has quiet beaches and an authentic African atmosphere. The old part of Stone…