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Here are some of the digital pictures I took on my trip to Africa in March 2004


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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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