Durban
2018年4月13日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
3rd largest city and largest port. Views are over the city, the beach and the skyline. Sunrise over the Indian Ocean is from my hotel room.
Kwazulu Natal Coast
2018年4月13日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Hluhluwe–Umfolozi Game Reserve. More critters. Interesting is a rhino face off.
St Lucia Estuary
2018年4月13日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Still on the Kwazulu Natal coast. Hippos, crocs and a fish eagle. The dark line in he water in the 3rd pic is a swimming croc
Swaziland
2018年4月13日, スワジランド ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Some countryside and some critters
Bourkes Luck Potholes
2018年4月14日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Part of the Panorama Route near Kruger National Park along with Blyde River Canyon and God's Window (see other posts). Bourke was a gold prospector who found no gold but did locate this site. This isもっと詳しく
Bylde River Canyon
2018年4月14日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Unfortunately, we were here on a hazy, drizzly day.
God's Window
2018年4月14日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Spectacular views, or would be in better weather. The top was in the clouds the day we were there. My camera doesn't do this justice in the mist.
Kruger National Park
2018年4月14日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Crown jewel of South Africa's National Parks. Over 7500 square miles. To start, a few pictures of the park.
Kruger Critters 1
2018年4月14日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Female Kudu, wildebeast (gnu), pair of fish eagles (they mate for life), red billed stork, cape buffalo, yellow beak hornbill (zazu, for you Lion King fans)
Kruger Critters 2
2018年4月14日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Zebras in the trees, a bird whose name I've forgotten, dwarf mongoose, giraffes, lilac breasted roller, male impala
Kruger Critters 3
2018年4月14日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Tawny eagle, elephant, family of hyenas on a lion kill with young at play, rock springer, white rhino, pied kingfisher in flight/hovering
Antananarivo
2018年4月14日, マダガスカル ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The capital of Madagascar. The view from the hotel balcony, independence square, an alleyway, independence blvd and some market pictures
Rova, Antananarivo
2018年4月21日, マダガスカル ⋅ 🌬 22 °C
The queen's palace before the French colonialization took over. The building was burned out during a political uprising n the 90s. The shell remains and is under restoration, work being done inもっと詳しく
South from Antananarivo
2018年4月22日, マダガスカル ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Traveling on the N7, the major national highway to the south of the country. Shots are of scenery. Most of the fields are rice. It is the harvest season now.
Antsirabe
2018年4月22日, マダガスカル ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C
City south of Antananarivo. A produce market, a rickshaw ride to see the Thermal Hotel (there are hot springs here) and an outdoor market (closed--it was Sunday) and an indoor market, active onもっと詳しく
South of Antsirabe
2018年4月22日, マダガスカル ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
This bridge is the only connection between Antananarivo and the southern part of the country. After a contested election (probably with manipulated results), we were told, the government blew up thisもっと詳しく
Silk in Sandranahy
2018年4月22日, マダガスカル ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Village producing silk. The first pic is of the silk worms and cocoons. To the left (the larger ones) is the native Malagasy silk worm, cocoon and moth. The smaller ones to the right is the importedもっと詳しく
More Silk
2018年4月22日, マダガスカル ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
In the previous post, a couple steps in the preparation were skipped over as they were demonstrated later. The cocoons are boiled and washed, to break apart the fibers before spinning. Some of theもっと詳しく
Ranomafana
2018年4月22日, マダガスカル ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Our first visit to a national park. Ranomafana is a wet rain forest. (Yes, there is dry rain forest. I get there, too.) Saw about 8 species of lemur. They were rather hard to see and harder toもっと詳しく
On the road south
2018年4月27日, マダガスカル ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
A look at some of the countryside
The plateau in south central Madagascar
2018年4月27日, マダガスカル ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
The south central region of Madagascar is an flat open plateau with occasional rock formations, They also have sunsets
Isalo National Park
2018年4月27日, マダガスカル ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
One way to describe Isalo is to say it has two parts: an upland portion at the edge of the south central plateau and a lowland, wet section. This post is the upland section. It is mostly view ofもっと詳しく
Isalo, part 2, lowland
2018年5月1日, マダガスカル ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
This being Madagascar, I gotta start with lemurs: ring tailed and common brown, respectively. The others are in a beautiful canyon that ended in a couple small pools/grottoes that are nothing short ofもっと詳しく
