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14 Stunning Photos: Majestic Giraffes, Breathtaking Sunrises, and Thrilling African Adventures

14 Stunning Photos: Majestic Giraffes, Breathtaking Sunrises, and Thrilling African Adventures

INSTAGRAM – Kicking off this week is a tour around the vast lands of the imposing and magnificent African continent. From early sunrises and evening sunsets, to beautiful images of the African wildlife, there's so much to love about an African safari.

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COMING UP NEXT: ISLAND HOPPING

Instatrip is a Sunday roundup of the best Instagram photos of the destination we're featuring that week. Next up: islands. Tag your best Instagram photos in the Caribbean, the Maldives, Fiji, on a boat with #FathomInstatrip before Friday. (And follow us on Instagram if you're not doing so already.) We'll publish the best ones we find on Fathom.


Travel Notes
  • Unforgettable South Africa Safari: Thrilling Big Five Adventures at Singita Boulders Lodge

    SOUTH AFRICA - Last month, I ditched chilly New York City for two glorious weeks of adventure and summer sunshine in South Africa with my husband. I started my trip with a safari at the stylish and secluded Singita Boulders Lodge, which did not disappoint this safari first-timer. I saw all of the Big Five (lions, elephants, buffalo, leopards, and rhinoceros) by the end of my first day, ate some of the best meals of my trip, indulg

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    OUAGANDOUGOU, Burkina Faso – Finding your way around Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, should be easy to do. Wide, ramshackle boulevards radiate from plazas and monuments — this is French Africa, after all — and even the hovel-lined dirt alleys are organized into a relentless grid. Buzzards perch on top of the street lamps that line the avenues, making you feel, as you drive down the street, like a fl

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