Great Rift Valley
2018年1月31日, ケニア ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Back on the road, beginning in Nairobi on 20 January. Today is the first chance I have had to have WIFI that would allow me to upload pictures.
These few pictures are taken from the roadside on theもっと詳しく
The Masai Village
2018年1月31日, ケニア ⋅ ⛅ 7 °C
The Masai are the native people in this part of Africa. We visited a traditional Masai village where we were welcomed with the village's own welcome dance where they got us all to participate. We wereもっと詳しく
Masai Mara
2018年1月31日, ケニア ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
National park maintained and protected by the local Masai people as it is part of their historic lands. This large is essentially an extension of the Serengeti into Kenya. Lots of wildlife that willもっと詳しく
Masai Mara lions
2018年2月2日, ケニア ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
The last 2 are an afternoon nap and a coupke cubs peeking over a rock ledge
Masai Mara cheetahs
2018年2月2日, ケニア ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
The last 2 pictures are of a cheetah having lunch. I don't know for sure what the prey was, but was likely a gazelle. What you don't see is 2 trees full of vultures waiting their turn
Masai Mara elephants
2018年2月2日, ケニア ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
The last picture appears to be a couple juveniles acting like a mating ritual
Masai Mara hippos and Nile crocodiles
2018年2月2日, ケニア ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Resting near each other in the Mara River
Masai Mara giraffes
2018年2月2日, ケニア ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Masai Mara black rhino
2018年2月2日, ケニア ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Very rare and very hard to see. Look closely, he's is hiding in the bushes, which is where they typically hide and why they are hard to find
Masai Mara antelopes and gazelles
2018年2月2日, ケニア ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Masai Mara other fauna
2018年2月2日, ケニア ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
wart hog, ostrich, hyena, guinea fowl, zebra, buffalo
Lake Nakuru
2018年2月2日, ケニア ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
If you've seen TV shows where flamingos are "dancing" in a salt lake, this is such a place. The downside right now is that about every 50 years, the water level rises in the lake, diluting theもっと詳しく
Lake Nakuru Park
2018年2月2日, ケニア ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
If you look closely at the map, you will see that Lake Nakuru is part of a national park. In addition to the flamingos, other species are present. The rhinos here are white rhinos
The equator on the way to Uganda
2018年2月2日, ケニア ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Sunset on the White Nile
2018年2月2日, ウガンダ ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Now in Uganda in the town of Jinja
Murchison Falls
2018年2月2日, ウガンダ ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Called the most powerful falls in the world, not the biggest, but the falls with the most water passing through a narrow rock cut. Hence the highest power. Pic are from below and from above theもっと詳しく
Cruise on the Victoria Nile
2018年2月2日, ウガンダ ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
In Murchison Falls National Park. The Victoria Nile feeds into Lake Albert. When the Nile leaves Lake Albert it is known as the Albert Nile. It becomes the Blue Nile when it gets to Khartoum.
This isもっと詳しく
Cruise on the Victoria Nile II
2018年2月2日, ウガンダ ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Besides birds, there were many hippos and elephants, including one group of elephants bathing. And some more birds. The red throated birds are bee eaters
Chimp Sanctuary
2018年2月2日, ウガンダ ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C
The chimps are in the trees feeding. They are hard to see. So look closely.
Rhino Sanctuary
2018年2月2日, ウガンダ ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
A preserve set up to rebuild the populations of white rhinos. They have received adults from a ranch in Kenya and Disneyworld's animal park. It turns out that the first calf born at the reserve a fewもっと詳しく
Gorilla tracking
2018年2月2日, ウガンダ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
This was one of the toughest hikes I've ever done. Walking in the rain forest up and down some pretty steep hills, crossing streams on logs and rocks (sometimes), ankle deep in mud, slippery roots andもっと詳しく
Zanzibar, Stone Town Slave Market
2018年2月21日, タンザニア ⋅ ☁️ -5 °C
Zanzibar was the major slave trading center in East Africa up until about 100 years ago. The Stone Town market was closed in the late 19th century, but the trading continued clandestinely for someもっと詳しく
Nairobi
2018年2月21日, ケニア ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
A view of the skyline with Uhuru (Freedom) Park in the foreground. This is where a major events in Nairobi take place, most recently the swearing in of Raila as "People's President." Pictures of theもっと詳しく
Lake Bunyonyi Uganda
2018年2月21日, ウガンダ ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
One of the largest, deepest lakes in Uganda, formed behind a lava dam. Various view of the lake taken on a boat ride to a pygmy village (see next post). The first pic is anohther boat on its way toもっと詳しく
Pygmy Village on Lake Bunyonyi
2018年2月21日, ウガンダ ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
The pygmies had originally lived where the gorilla park now is . When that park was established, the villages were moved out of the park. This is one of the relocated villages. We were welcomed withもっと詳しく



















































































































































