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| Visiting a Masai village - Kenny and Peter got to dance as well |   Fancy footwear |   They got everyone jumping... |   They had an enclosure for little kids. It had a sign saying "Masai school", with a blackboard and some numbers, but I'll bet it was just to keep the kids away when the tourists were around | A demonstration of fire-making |   We saw many of these types of villages from the road - it was interesting to get inside them |   Spear throwing |       A Masai hut |   The stove |   At Lake Manyara National Park - there were so many birds that some trees were white with bird droppings |   These cattle were frequently on the side of the road | We visited a boarding school that Tauck tours supports. |   Triple decker bunks in the dormitories. The students had just come back from vacation, so things were still in disarray |   At the library. All the books were donations from the United States (for instance, the Magic Treehouse series, etc). I wonder if the children are interested in reading books that took place in a setting so utterly unlike theirs |     They gave a presentation on the school |   Our kids played soccer with their kids, and were creamed. | The players |   A nicely painted map of Africa on the wall. |   At Tloma lodge | Eric and I tried taking a walk down the road. It was very dusty, though, with many safari trucks driving by |   At Ngorongoro Conservation Area |   It was misty and foggy higher up |   In the crater - taking a video while standing, while the roof is up |   Cape buffalo |   Secretary bird |   Crowned Crane - national bird of Tanzania | Wildebeest were everywhere |   Peter was tired with the early morning wake-ups | The first time we saw hippos! They weren't hard to find, and always stay in the well-marked "hippo pond" |   The available rest areas were quite crowded with safari trucks |   For lunch we "circled the wagons" |   Dust storms in the distance |   Baboons | View into the crater |   On the drive back to the lodge |   Coffee bushes at the lodge | They had extensive vegetable gardens |  Some pictures Peter made at a paper-making event | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||