Travel to Africa

Travel to Africa - to an area of more than 1/5 of the total land mass. Most of the continent is a plateaus. In the northern part of the continent lay Sahara, the largest desert in the world, or rather, a whole system of deserts. To the south of the equator are Kalahari and Namib deserts. In the southern Sahara Desert and has vast area of grassy savannah with huge space, giant trees, Vast herds of hoofed, elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes, lions and leopards, with all that, in fact, Africa is in a majority of people. In the equatorial zone of the continent, in the basin of the Congo and in some other parts of the developed vlazhno-tropicheskie forest. Africa is rich in natural resources. The continent concentrates 70% of the world's diamonds, 55% gold, the largest deposits of rock phosphates, copper, nickel and iron ores. North Africa is a vast oil reservoir. Many researchers believe that it is Africa 5-7 million years ago was the cradle of humanity. Nile Valley, the birthplace of the Egyptian empire, one of the most ancient and great civilizations on Earth. The ethnically and culturally homogenous population of Africa, compared with other parts of the world, is the most complex system. There were at least 3,000 ethnic groups to visit during travels to Africa and more than 1,000 languages.