Why visiting Africa should be top on your bucketlist

If you were not born in Africa and have never visited this beautiful continent (oh yes Africa is not a country people :), below are some amazing facts that should -hopefully- convince you to put it top on your bucketlist....

• Africa is the second largest continent on earth, approximately 11.7 million square miles.
• Africa is the hottest continent on earth.
The oldest human remains ever discovered were found in Ethiopia. They are approximately 200,000 years old.
• The longest river in the world, the Nile (4,132 miles), is located in Africa.
• Africa has the world's largest desert, the Sahara, which is almost the size of the United States. wow!
• Victoria Falls is the largest waterfall in Africa; it is 355 feet high and one mile wide.
• Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain on the continent. It towers over 19,300 feet, which is so tall that glaciers can be found at its summit even though the mountain is near the equator.
• Madagascar, the largest island in Africa, is the fourth largest island in the world. It is in the Indian Ocean off the East coast of Africa.
• Long before humans were around (the early Mesozoic Era) Africa was joined to the other continents in a massive continent called Pangaea. Over millions of years this huge continent broke apart shaping the world landscape as we know it today.
• The worlds largest land animal is the African elephant.
• The worlds tallest animal, the giraffe, lives in Africa.
• The fastest land animal in the world, the cheetah, lives in Africa.
• Africa is home to the worlds largest reptile, the Nile crocodile.
• The gorilla, which can be found in the continents jungles, is the worlds largest primate.

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