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Kenny enjoyed standing up in the truck | | Baobab tree with a big hole in it |
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Our first ostriches | | Hanging out in the shade |
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The wood of the baobab tree is very soft | | Our very first lion! |
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Our little tent | | Inside it was quite comfortable, with a toilet and bathroom. There was electricity just a few hours a day, but there were a few solar powered lights |
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Yech - a monkey had gotten inside the tent, and pooped on the tank of the toilet! | | Zebra |
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| | Lilac breasted roller |
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From 6 PM to 9 PM, you could charge cameras and phones in this charging area in the lobby, which was a hot mess of cables | | The zipper to our tent lodges had these funny attachments, which were meant to prevent the monkeys from opening the zipper, which otherwise they were apparently good at |
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| | Nursing baby elephant |
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| | Evening at the lodge |
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Morning view of the valley | | Scary bridge |
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| | Peter took this picture of a giraffe |
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Lots of oddly shaped termite mounds | | A classic |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5761.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5772.jpg) | 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 | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5773.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_3666.jpg) | | | At Lake Manyara National Park - there were so many birds that some trees were white with bird droppings |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_3679.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5801.jpg) | These cattle were frequently on the side of the road | | Triple decker bunks in the dormitories. The students had just come back from vacation, so things were still in disarray |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5810.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_3681.jpg) | 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 | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_3694.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_3707.jpg) | They gave a presentation on the school | | The players |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5845.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_3740.jpg) | Secretary bird | | Peter was tired with the early morning wake-ups |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5864.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5875.jpg) | The first time we saw hippos! They weren't hard to find, and always stay in the well-marked "hippo pond" | | For lunch we "circled the wagons" |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5898.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5909.jpg) | | | Lots of Masai villages between the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Serengeti National Park. It was an extremely rough, unpaved washboard road |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_3868.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5924.jpg) | | | Having lunch. There were hundreds of safari tourists |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5964.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_3948.jpg) | Delux - elephants trooping past the balcony | | The pool, with an elephant watering hole behind it |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5971.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5976.jpg) | Dessert time | | Our early morning balloon ride - getting ready to get in the balloon |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5999.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6002.jpg) | | | Our balloon pilot (in tie) was an ex Portuguese army paratrooper |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_4115.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_20170706_082028342.jpg) | We got a tour of the facilities at the Four Seasons - this is their dry goods warehouse | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_20170706_082202362_hdr.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6107.jpg) | | | Lots of women walking and carrying objects on their head |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_4257.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5345.jpg) | The whole tour group | | Back at the same lodge in Arusha |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6116.jpg) | | | Lots and lots of used clothing from Europe and the US for sale | | | | | | | | | |