The African Ground Hornbill…
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Monthly Archives: November 2012
We saw many herds of Eland… usually from the back end. These were at least somewhat cooperative.
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This is as close as we got to a Hyrax…. Much bigger than they look when they are scampering about in the rock cliffs. This one obviously is quite habituated to humans.
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When the road is not barren and rocky, it is windy and rocky….. all day we drove across this plain toward the Serengeti National Park.
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Some young Maasi warriors on the trail across the Serengeti Plain toward the Serengeti National Park. They paint themselves after they go through a particularly gruesome and painful circumcision ceremony. Then they go into the bush (if there were a bush around) for weeks to live on their own and with what they can find out there (not much!). When they return, they have completed the first steps toward being warriors. Note the territory behind them…. Where did they come from? Where are they going? What can they find to eat out there?
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Our bush plane leaving the Serengeti on a dirt strip……
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The pilot looks like he is about 16…. No co-pilot. But he did fly the airplane very well. Later, in the Okavango Delta we had a 23 year old pilot in an even smaller airplane…..
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We feel fine about knowing what to do if an emergency develops; but what if a Mlango Wa Dharura happens?
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We feel safer knowing that the safety instructions are on board…..
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As we enter the Serengeti, what do we see but two cheetahs as comfortable as could be walking down the road….. such as it is.
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