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MONKEY!
2008.12.31
Kilimanjaro peeking through the clouds.
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Kilimanjaro peeking through the clouds.
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Me at Springlands Hotel outside of Sean's room. Nifty vertical wide angle lens effect, oooOOOoooOOOo!
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Me at Springlands Hotel outside of Sean's room. Nifty vertical wide angle lens effect, oooOOOoooOOOo!
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Weaver bird nests at the hotel. I keep forgetting to go back during the morning to get shots of the actual birds. D'oh!
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Weaver bird nests at the hotel. I keep forgetting to go back during the morning to get shots of the actual birds. D'oh!
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Dario with his badass sunglasses. ;)
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Dario with his badass sunglasses. ;)
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Sean has a crush on the EEE.
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Sean has a crush on the EEE.
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I guess I got one bird after all!
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I guess I got one bird after all!
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Dario takes a pic of Kili from behind the hotel, just before we began our jungle walk.
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Dario takes a pic of Kili from behind the hotel, just before we began our jungle walk.
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Tracks of the now-defunct railroad, out behind the hotel. Dario thinks railroad tracks and people on bicycles are very "African," lol.
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Tracks of the now-defunct railroad, out behind the hotel. Dario thinks railroad tracks and people on bicycles are very "African," lol.
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Local kids enjoying a bit of a splash. Most of them were very accommodating about the camera and the 2 goofy tourists, jumping over and over again into the water so I could get action shots. This is not really one of those shots, but it is the best framed and everyone pictured had swimming trunks on (not everyone there did).
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Local kids enjoying a bit of a splash. Most of them were very accommodating about the camera and the 2 goofy tourists, jumping over and over again into the water so I could get action shots. This is not really one of those shots, but it is the best framed and everyone pictured had swimming trunks on (not everyone there did).
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The local mosque.
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The local mosque.
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Papayas!
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Papayas!
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Climbing a large papaya tree. Wow, such agility!
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Climbing a large papaya tree. Wow, such agility!
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Kili over the rice paddies. The bird was a bonus!
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Kili over the rice paddies. The bird was a bonus!
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Eliya, our guide, was a great, friendly fellow. Not so much with the photography, though. ;)
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Eliya, our guide, was a great, friendly fellow. Not so much with the photography, though. ;)
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I'm having flashbacks to Nam and I've never even been there. Quick, someone call in a dustoff!
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I'm having flashbacks to Nam and I've never even been there. Quick, someone call in a dustoff!
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Mmmm! Bananas! So fresh and so delicious!
...6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot bunch!
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Mmmm! Bananas! So fresh and so delicious!
...6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot bunch!
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Sacred Ibis in the rice paddies. So beautiful. (An egret, too! ;)
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Sacred Ibis in the rice paddies. So beautiful. (An egret, too! ;)
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Wow wow wow. So picturesque, just lovely.
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Wow wow wow. So picturesque, just lovely.
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Two adorable children who were keeping their mothers company in the rice paddies. Thanks to the mothers who said yes to letting us take photos. Omg, they were soooo cute, giggling the whole time.
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Two adorable children who were keeping their mothers company in the rice paddies. Thanks to the mothers who said yes to letting us take photos. Omg, they were soooo cute, giggling the whole time.
Eliya, with stick in hand, beating the bushes below the trees: "MONKEY! ...MONKEY!"
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Eliya, with stick in hand, beating the bushes below the trees: "MONKEY! ...MONKEY!"
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Hangin' out.
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Hangin' out.
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Enormous fig tree, small and warped Dario (wide angle lens), 51 M tall, approx 180 years old in 2000. Wow!
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Enormous fig tree, small and warped Dario (wide angle lens), 51 M tall, approx 180 years old in 2000. Wow!
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Dario with Eliya. We got to see him with partial Maasai garb later in the evening. Most of the Maasai people who work for Zara don't wear traditional clothing or jewelry while at work, unless they are working security. I guess there is something rather intimidating about a Maasai warrior in full gear!
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Dario with Eliya. We got to see him with partial Maasai garb later in the evening. Most of the Maasai people who work for Zara don't wear traditional clothing or jewelry while at work, unless they are working security. I guess there is something rather intimidating about a Maasai warrior in full gear!
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On Eliya's suggestion, I took a picture of this bunch of bananas. "Probably tonight's dinner." :D
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On Eliya's suggestion, I took a picture of this bunch of bananas. "Probably tonight's dinner." :D
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New Year's Eve in Tanzania. Woohoo! What a great way to start the year!
Dario and I arrived on the 30th, so today was our first full day in Africa. We had fun with the wide angle lens on the camera, with Sean taking some pics on the upper story of the hotel. Great view of Kilimanjaro up there.
On Sean's recommendation, we paid a very small fee to one of the local guides for a walk through the rice paddies and jungle behind the hotel. There were Colobus monkeys! Our guide, Eliya, is Maasai and lives in Arusha. Fortunately for us, he was in Moshi for a while. He was great! Very friendly, teaching us Swahili words and making sure we found some monkeys. Indeed, he would get them to move into better positions by rattling a stick in the underbrush and yelling, "MONKEY!" HAHAHAHA! It was great!
Apparently he had done the same for Sean the day before, so it became our war cry on safari when hoping an animal would move into a better position. Fabian, our driver-guide, was a little confused at first. "MONKEY!" we'd yell. "Uh, no, that is a lion." Hahahahaha!
Hugs and Happy New Year!
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Comments
#5 is nice,the color of pants match the ground, and the dress matches with the blue sky. The picture taker was taken by other. Great.
I love these pictures and especially your narrative such as the Vietname comments. Was disappointed in your censorship of National Geographic - like pix. How was the weather?
Kathi · 2009-01-24: 08:21
As I said, that was one of the best framed pics from that area anyway. And just because it's reasonable and logical and natural doesn't mean that the puritanical, US, enforcer-types who are Keeping Us All Safe would see it that way. :P
