Lonely Planet: Top 10 countries to visit in 2019

No 9 São Tomé & Príncipe

Intrepid explorers have always searched out places to boldly go where no one has gone before. This is a rare chance for you to visit a place few other travelers have even heard of.

The two-island nation of São Tomé & Príncipe – found floating in the Gulf of Guinea – is now calling. Surreal landscapes climb dramatically to the heavens, tropical waters kiss its empty beaches and jungles consume everything from colonial sugar, cocoa, and coffee plantations to sobering relics of the island's past role in the slave trade.

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