1 Hidden Destination in Africa

Kenya

Destinations

Gede Ruins

Kenya · Coast Province

Deep within a coastal Kenyan forest, a once-thriving medieval Swahili city lies swallowed by the jungle, its secrets whispered only by the wind through its crumbling stone walls.

Gede is the remarkably preserved, yet mysteriously abandoned, remains of a 12th-to-17th-century Swahili-Arab settlement. Unlike many archaeo...