Africa's World Heritage Routes
Africa holds 112 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, spread across more than fifty countries and often far from any road. Our work has been to connect them: to build routes where the logistics and the history align, so that places separated by borders and distance can be travelled, and understood, as a single coherent journey.
Four Ways to Travel a Continent
Every Southern Cross journey is a route framework, privately curated around your dates, interests and preferred rhythm. The routes fall into four families: expeditions reaching remote World Heritage by air, journeys tracing the ancient corridors of trade, routes of memory along the coasts where enslaved people were held and shipped away, and the Mediterranean and Nile World Heritage of North Africa. Each is travelled and understood on its own terms.
Light-aircraft and helicopter journeys reaching Africa's most remote natural and cultural World Heritage, across landscapes that would take weeks to cross by road.
- Southern Africa Signature
- Great Africa Crossing
- Great African Waters
- Great Rift Valley
- Zambezi-Okavango-Namib Crossing
- Cradle to Freedom
- Conservation Africa
Journeys tracing the corridors of gold, salt, ivory and exchange that connected Africa to the wider world, told through the cities and kingdoms they helped to build.
Explore Ancient Trade Routes
Journeys of memory along the Atlantic and Indian Ocean coasts where enslaved people were held and shipped away. Two separate histories, each held on its own terms.
Explore Routes of Remembrance
Journeys through the World Heritage of single nations, where the civilisations of the Mediterranean and the Nile left their deepest marks, each understood within the country that holds it.
- Morocco and its Trans-Sahara Trade Route
- Tunisia and its Mediterranean World Heritage
- Egypt and its Nile World Heritage
Each itinerary is a route framework, not a fixed departure. Routes can be shortened, extended or combined, subject to aviation logistics and operational feasibility. References to UNESCO are factual references to sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Southern Cross Experiences is an independent travel company and does not imply UNESCO endorsement of its journeys.