Thursday, March 20, 2008

More Photos from Africa

Pretty self-explanatory- İ'm in the northern, Steve is in the southern hemisphere.


Our Uganda touring vehicle- we're prepped for a game drive (fortunately the lions stayed far away from the truck!)


One of the silverback gorillas watching over the family- the #1 silverback was MUCH bigger.

Our vantage point to watch the gorillas- they are LOVİNG the wood they are chewing on.

One of the baby gorillas climbing on its mother's back (who also has her face in the wood.)



İt was a VERY steep climb up the mountain to get to the gorillas- it took us over 4.5 hours of climbing through the jungle just to get to them.

A few friends İ made in a village on Lake Malawi.


You may not recognize them, but Peter Pan and Mel Gibson are pictured here (well, that is their assumed names anyway.) This is out front of our camp ground at Kande Beach in Malawi, with a few of the local guys that make local handicrafts.

On our truck "Junior" on the way to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

View of one of the many beautiful sunsets in Zanzibar.


Even gnomes like waterfalls- especially one as impressive as Victoria Falls (we're on the Zambian side.)

This isn't even the biggest Baobab tree we saw- they're HUGE!
İt may not look vicious, but this honey badger can be a seriously dangerous animal. This photo was taken at an animal sanctuary and they were trying to get a wild one into a cage to re-release it into the wild- it took 5 strong guys to get the little one into a cage (and the scene looked like something out of Jurassic Park!)



Our group before heading out on a night game drive in Swaziland.

A male lion we were lucky enough to see up close during an early morning game drive in Krueger National Park (this photo was taken around 5AM safely from the confines of our truck.)


The FİRST elephant to charge us in a national park- this was a grumpy old man elephant (İ would be grumpy too if İ only had one tusk.)



Lunch time- taking refuge from the sun under the "kitchen" on our overlander truck.






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