Mozambique

Mozambique has more than two thousand five hundred kilometres of Indian Ocean coast and a marine shelf of reefs, seagrass meadows and mangroves that ranks among the richest in the western Indian Ocean. The Bazaruto archipelago keeps giant dunes, islands and turquoise shallows, and the Tofo coast is a fixed meeting point with whale sharks and manta rays. Inland, the Rift Valley crosses the centre of the country and shapes Gorongosa, a mosaic of savannah, floodplain, miombo woodland and a forested plateau that works as an ecological island. To the north, the Niassa reserve is one of the largest protected areas in Africa, with endless miombo, elephants, African wild dogs and a very sparse human presence. The Zambezi delta adds one of the largest coastal wetlands on the continent.