Africa - tourist guide for holidays

Africa offers a lot of options, how to discover it. We recommend you this method: First decide, which countries you want to visit. Then look at their pages - at MapsGuides.com - and you will find here - under the map - recommended itineraries for the selected country. And then connect the itineraries in different countries - and your final itinerary for this continent is created.

It is generally very cheap to travel thru Africa. Thanks to cheap accommodation, cheap food and cheap transport - you will spare your money everywhere. But if you want you can pay more - for luxury or just because you are a tourist. For example some tourist trips may be unbelievably expensive.

It is often possible to buy cheap meal on streets or in fast food restaurants. Medium meal in standard restaurants, expensive meal in expensive restaurants. We do not include extreme prices of accommodation and food - for example luxurious apartments in high quality hotels. (Prices are usually very different in different places and in different seasons. In the main season may be in touristic destinations the cheapest rooms unavailable.)

Are you looking for more information? On the Internet there are a lot of information. Here are some advices: Africa may have different names in different languages. For example Afrika, Afrika, L'Afrique, Africa. Use these names in search engines. It is good idea to precisely specify what are you looking for. If you need information about a place, use the name in a search engine. You may use other names of the place as well. If you need - for example - an information about history of the place, add the word history to the search engine.

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With about 922 million people (as of 2005) in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14.2% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. There are 46 countries including Madagascar, and 53 including all the island groups. Africa, particularly central eastern Africa, is widely regarded within the scientific community to be the origin of humans and the Hominidae tree (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their possible ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago – including Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A. afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilis and H. ergaster – with the earliest Homo sapiens (human) found in Ethiopia being dated to ca. 200,000 years ago. Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones. Because of the lack of natural regular precipitation and irrigation as well as glaciers or mountain aquifer systems, there is no natural moderating effect on the climate except near the coasts.
Wikipedia

If it is available then we publish here information about the territory from CIA factbook. For Africa it is not available.
CIA The World Factbook