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Archive for October, 2011

The Best Free Tourist Maps of Africa

Friday, October 7th, 2011

If you’re having a tough time finding a good map of Africa you’ve come to the right dot com. Most Africa maps on the internet only show countries, cities and towns, but often as a traveller if you can find a map that points out all the landmarks and ‘must see sights’, you’ve struck gold.  Check out these four websites. They offer maps of Africa, great tips and advice for travellers and provide detailed information about various regions and attractions.

Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet have a great flash interactive map of Africa. By clicking on the map you get valuable information on all the countries in Africa, and get great travel tips from the travel ‘bible’ for all travellers of the Lonely Planet.

lonely-planet-map

Overlanding Africa

Yes, Overlanding Africa! We offer an excellent map of Southern Africa showing all our available adventure tours. The map displays solid information and pictures on various tourist destinations in that region. Very cool.

ovelanding-africa-map

Google Earth

Google Earth is amazing. You can check out any inch of the world from a bird’s eye view and now, even in some locations, 3D street view! Google Maps is a feature of Google Earth and offers the most detailed maps as well as info on the roads and geography of the region. This is the best map of Africa. Without a doubt.

google-map

So now that you have the map issue sorted, its time to check out where in Africa you are going to go exploring!

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