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Street market en route
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Arrival at Shaba
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Vervet Monkey Permanent residents at Sarova Shaba Lodge
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The accommodation
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The view from my room
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and another
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and another with Marabou
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Not known
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Hornbill I think
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Grevi's Zebra Recognised by the narrow stripes that do not meet unser the belly.
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Plains Zebra (Common or Burchell's Zebra With broader stripes that do go under the belly.
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Grant's gazelles I think
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Just a view.. ..but what a view!
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Plains Zebra
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Grevy's Zebra
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Warthog, handsome fellow
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Grevi's Zebra and Grant's Gazelle
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Interesting cloud formation - lenticular
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Lone, lazy lioness
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Those fangs!!
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Portrait pose
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Her lunch This is why she appeared lazy, she'd just had lunch. Our guides tell us...
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Another view.. ..there are lots of these
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Young Secretary Bird?
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Eagle
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Black-Backed Jackal
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View
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A young maleThompson's Gazelle
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More interesting cloud
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Zebra crossing British viewers will understand.
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The bar at Shaba Lodge a most welcome sight upon arrival back at the lodge from a long day's safari
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Gerenuk or Waller's Gazelle - Profile...
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...and full frontal...those ears!!
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View
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Reticulated Giraffe
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Ditto
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Ditto, but closer
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Secretary bird, ready for departure
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Cleared for take-off
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Guenther's Dik-Dik The Dik-dik is a dwarf antelope not much bigger than a hare, this one...
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best view
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or is this one the best?
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or this?
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?
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Welcome dance visiting local village
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Single this beautiful girl has a head-dress that signifies that she is still...
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Men's welcome dance The young man who can jump the highest is considered the best bet and...
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Local villagers
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the inevitable market in the village
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the Village from afar
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Breakfast at Shaba Lodge wonderful atmosphere
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More of Shaba Lodge
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Another resident ..the lodge is situated on the river bank..
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the accommodation...again so easy to duplicate..
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Grant's Gazelles
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Male Impala getting some shade
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Waterbuck
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Oryx
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?
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Vulture grouse?
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Elephant herd
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Buffalo
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?
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Oryx
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Elephant
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close
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closer
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Mum and baby
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Rothschild's Giraffes
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Mount Kenya
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Camels
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Me on the equator again see also Galapagos Holiday 2004
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Waiting in the wings
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Outspan Hotel and garden
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and the view therefrom
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the same, zoomed in a bit
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see sign!
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Treetops
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Starlings
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Atop Treetops The storm just missed us by the way..
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Treetops dining room
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Evening watering
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He said he was a witch doctor but he wanted 100 Kenya shillings for each photo taken - no problem!
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Thompson's Falls
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A tea plantation
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Pelicans at Lake Nakuru National park
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and Flamingoes
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and Flamingoes
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and Flamingoes and a Pelican
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and Pelicans and Flamingoes
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White Rhino a misnomer for the wide-mouthed or square-lipped Rhinoceros
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Buffallo
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Buffalo
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Male defassa waterbuck
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Ditto, close-up
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Plains Zebra
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Agama lizard
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Bird! ....sorry, that's all I know!
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The gang showing the blue hue caused by not re-setting the White Balance
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Vervet monkeys the young one was getting quite agitated at our presence and hid under...
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Some of the gang.. ..starting a sunset trip on Lake Naivasha
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Hippo on Lake Naivasha
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Close up
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Lake Naivasha
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More hippo
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Lake Naivasha note the halo colours near the Sun
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Crane?
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Crane, definately
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the rest of the gang
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Waterbuck
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Sunset on Lake Naivasha
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View
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Cheeta
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Topi
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Elephant
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family
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close up
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the baby
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Leopard! very rare
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Masai Giraffe
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ditto
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Sunset over the Maasi Mara ..but where's the obligatory Umbrella Acacia tree in the foreground?
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Wildebeast
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Plains Zebra and Wildebeest
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Impala
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Thompson's Gazelle
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Grant's Gazelle
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Camel tortoise compare with my Galapagos Holiday 2004
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Ostrich
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safely back on terra firma .this lot have just landed from a most fantastic balloon flight over...
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arrival for lunch
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A tame wart hog
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Two lazy lionesses
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close-up
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close up
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the rest of the family seeking shade too
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close up
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A Leopard's dinner? couldn't find the owner though....this time.
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How we did most of our viewing
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Coke's Hartebeest
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Cheeta and son
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Close up
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the youngster
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together
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Marabou
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Impala From this angle you can see why they are nicknamed one-elevens!
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Mara Sopa Lodge from afar
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and from very close! the water was freezing!
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the view from Mara Sopa
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Maasi Warriors village welcome dance this was outside the village before we went in.
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Close up - interesting head gear
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in the village
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the ladies dance for us too but this was in the cattle paddock in the centre of the village where...
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Our host David, by his front door David spoke near perfect english, educated in the local village school by an...
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Bat-eared foxes
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another Dik Dik
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Another Cheeta posing for us on a mound from where he could survey the savanna for miles
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A tree....but what's in it?
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Another Leopard!
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Here he/she is again
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Male lion We were just getting to the end of the last day with minutes to spare and we...
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Portrait pose
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Thirsty
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Posing again ...sorry it's a bit out of focus
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Casual he was totally un-phased by our presence, but then he is the King....
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Out of focus, I know, but.... ...what a fantastic climax to a fantastic holiday.
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