18thDecember
John
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Africa

Etosha, Namibia

Etosha National Park offers excellent game viewing with the many waterholes attracting endangered black rhinoceros, zebra, lion, elephant, large numbers of antelope and many other species Etosha, meaning ‘place of dry water’, is encloses a huge, flat calcrete depression (or pan) of about 5 000km². The ‘Pan’ provides a great, parched, silver-white backdrop of shimmering mirages to an area of semi-arid savannah grassland and thorn scrub. The pan itself contains water only after very good rains and sometimes for only a few days …

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18thDecember
John
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Africa

Chobe, Botswanna

Chobe in Botswana has one of the largest concentrations of game in the whole of the African continent. It is also one the world’s largest remaining wilderness areas and offers the most diverse array of wildlife out of all of Botswana’s national parks. By size, it is the third largest park of the country, after the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Gemsbok National Park. It is also the country’s first national park. We spent most of our few days in Chobe along and on the Chobe River which …

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06thNovember
John
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Aerials

Ballooning on the Mara

We did two balloon flights while in the  Mara. The first flight was on the Eastern side of the park and was in the company of another balloon and then the other flight was on the Western side of the park with the landing site close to Tanzania’s Serengeti boundary. This a quiet and pleasant way to see the savanna and wildlife without alarming them unduly.

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19thOctober
John
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Africa

Masai Mara, Kenya

A true gem for wildlife photography, the Mara (as it is popularly known) is well known for the Wildebeest migration as they move from the Masai Mara in Kenya across the Mara river where they run the gauntlet of the lurking crocodiles on their way to the Serengeti in Tanzania. Some of the Wildebeest are taken by the Crocodiles but many are drowned in the melee of the crossing. Zebra accompany the Wildebeest and quite cunningly wait until the Wildebeest …

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12thOctober
John
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Africa

Lake Nakuru, Kenya

This is a great park with lots of birds and animals throughout and we could have easily spent more time here. It is also where the movie ‘Out Of Africa’ was filmed. The following is taken from Wikipedia: Lake Nakuru is one of the Rift Valley soda lakes at an elevation of 1754 m above sea level. It lies to the south of Nakuru, in the rift valley of Kenya and is protected by Lake Nakuru National Park. The lake’s abundance of algae attracts the vast quantity of flamingos that famously line the shore. Other birds …

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