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Marty being inducted
into the Kikuyu tribe
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Barbara is presented
with a portrait as thanks for her support of the Syathuna Disabled Self
Help Group in Kenya.
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Some of our group,
Henry our guide, and the guide at the US embassy site in front of the
wall where the names of the victims are engraved.
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A Rothschild giraffe
- an endangered species - at the center where they are being bred.
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The chef at the Carnivore
restaurant in Nairobi where we dined on ostrich, crocdile, wart hog,
and a few more traditional meats.
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A roadside market outside
of Nairobi
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The tent I stayed in
the first night - not too primitive.
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This Maribou stork
was the boldest of the lot at Sweetwaters.
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We say a pride of lions
- some young cubs and this older male - during a night drive at Sweetwaters.
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Frank and MArsha pose
with a rescued rhino at Sweetwaters. (If the rhino was so tame, why did
the ranger stand around with a rifle while we were all getting our pictures
taken?)
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The rhino and me.
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Rhinos are poached
for their horns to make dagger handles for Yemeni males. At $2000 per
kilo a typcial 6 kilo horn is a good day's work for a poacher. There are
two rhinos in the Ngorongoro crater - and they each have full time armed
guards.
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A little village along
the road.
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At Amboseli National
Park, Kenya, we dined outdoors.
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And were entertained
by Maasai dancers.
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A baboon and her baby.
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We crossed the border
into Tanzania at Namanga.
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A shortly thereafter,
on the road to Arusha, got a flat tire.
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In Arusha we stopped
at a market which sold lots of various crafts, but whose specialty was
Tanzanite from the Tanzanite mines which are just a few kms. away.
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At Gibbs Farm, a former
coffee plantation, we went on a hike and saw this dung beetle.
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This little bird this
little Malachite kingfisher flew into a window. He knocked himslef out,
came to after a few minutes, and looked a little confused. We were told
later that shortly after we left he flew away.
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We came across this
elephant on the road around Lake Manyara.
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This same elephant
decided to stop on the bridge to much some of the tender acacia that was
growing up from the river. It was a standoff for a while, but the elephant,
after finishing off the tree, decided to let us pass.
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