Durban
13 april 2018, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 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
13 april 2018, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Hluhluwe–Umfolozi Game Reserve. More critters. Interesting is a rhino face off.
St Lucia Estuary
13 april 2018, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 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
13 april 2018, Swaziland ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Some countryside and some critters
Bourkes Luck Potholes
14 april 2018, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 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 isMeer informatie
Bylde River Canyon
14 april 2018, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Unfortunately, we were here on a hazy, drizzly day.
God's Window
14 april 2018, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 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
14 april 2018, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 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
14 april 2018, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 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
14 april 2018, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Zebras in the trees, a bird whose name I've forgotten, dwarf mongoose, giraffes, lilac breasted roller, male impala
Kruger Critters 3
14 april 2018, Zuid-Afrika ⋅ ☀️ 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
14 april 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The capital of Madagascar. The view from the hotel balcony, independence square, an alleyway, independence blvd and some market pictures
Rova, Antananarivo
21 april 2018, Madagascar ⋅ 🌬 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 inMeer informatie
South from Antananarivo
22 april 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 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
22 april 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 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 onMeer informatie
South of Antsirabe
22 april 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 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 thisMeer informatie
Silk in Sandranahy
22 april 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 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 importedMeer informatie
More Silk
22 april 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ☀️ 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 theMeer informatie
Ranomafana
22 april 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ☀️ 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 toMeer informatie
On the road south
27 april 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
A look at some of the countryside
The plateau in south central Madagascar
27 april 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
The south central region of Madagascar is an flat open plateau with occasional rock formations, They also have sunsets
Isalo National Park
27 april 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ☀️ 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 ofMeer informatie
Isalo, part 2, lowland
1 mei 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ☀️ 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 ofMeer informatie
Zombitse
1 mei 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Another national park, this time a dry rain forest. The first pic is a look at the dry rain forest. Then more lemurs. The last is the sportive lemur, a nocturnal species resting during the day in aMeer informatie
Baobabs
1 mei 2018, Madagascar ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
If the first thing someone thinks of when Madagascar is mentioned isn't lemurs, its baobabs. The first pic is a young tree, maybe 20 years old. The others are all probably 800 years plus and more likeMeer informatie