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These Masai are all dressed in black, with white face paint. This is characteristic of the boys coming-of-age ritual, but apparently these particular ones are fakes set up for tourists | | In the Serengeti |
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Having lunch. There were hundreds of safari tourists | | This vehicle was one of the few that were not land rovers. |
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Peter with my sunglasses | | This old outhouse had a sign saying "Counted 30 June 2012". |
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| | The lions were very close in the Serengeti |
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...and usually surrounded by a phalanx of tour vehicles | | A cheetah |
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| | ...And the cheetah's admirers |
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Delux - elephants trooping past the balcony | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_3948.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_20170706_113808005.jpg) | 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_5991.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_5998.jpg) | Hippos from the air | | Our shadow |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_4012.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_4018.jpg) | We're practically skimming the top of the grass here - very low | | Over the treetops |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6001.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6002.jpg) | The ruts where our balloon was dragged as it landed | | Our balloon pilot (in tie) was an ex Portuguese army paratrooper |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6003.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6018.jpg) | A great view, from the "loo with a view" (3 sided privacy enclosures for chemical toilets) | | This lioness looks like she just ate a meal, with the red around her jaw |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6051.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6049.jpg) | Dead gazelle - the vultures were standing by | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_4110.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6053.jpg) | The walkway to our hotel room | | The Masai guards sat here at night, and threw stones at the elephants |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6054.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_4115.jpg) | Taking a walk around the area | | 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_4118.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_4125.jpg) | The employee quarters were very nice | | Laundry |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_4129.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_4145.jpg) | Generating plant | | The walkway to one of the 2 bedroom "villas" at the hotel |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_4159.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6066.jpg) | Hippos actually moving around. Mostly we saw them immersed in the water | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_4178.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6059.jpg) | Kenny and Jackson | | Farewell dinner |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6067.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6068.jpg) | Getting ready to fly out of the Serengeti | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6070.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/06-26-2017-africa/gallery_img_6080.jpg) | | | Lots of little isolated villages out there |
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