Amboseli NP is on the Tanzanian border, just North of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
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Elephants? Amboseli has hundreds of them.
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We spotted these guys on the road into the park.
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A superb starling -with superb coloration.
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Zebras hardly noticed us.
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Amboseli has many herds of Impala.
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And wildebeest by the thousands.
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Gazelles, Grants Gazelles, I believe.
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Springbok gazelle.
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Another iconic African safari image, the land rover headed down a dirt road, kicking up dust.
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Elephants and baboons, and the specs in the sky are not dirt but hundreds of birds over the wetlands.
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Elephants and baboons, and the specs in the sky are not dirt but hundreds of birds over the wetlands.
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Wildebeest. The famous migration starts a couple of months after we were there.
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Female ostrich.
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Male (L) and female ostrich
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These are crowned plovers. Plovers are shore birds in the US but are common in the bush in Africa.
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We stayed in the Amboseli Serena Lodge which was similar to the Tsavo Lodge but surrounded by trees full of monkeys like these two guys. (vervet monkeys)
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Two on top of the building grooming.
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They were not at all afraid.
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They just looked at you.
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While we were at lunch, one opened the door to our room, opened Karen's backpack to steal a sandwidch, neatly unwrapped it and was eating it when we returned. I never moved until it was finished.
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I was sitting on the pation with my legs up when along comes a small female who sits on the edge of the patio and puts her legs up just like me.
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She looked terriby uncomfortable, but stayed there as long as I did, ignoring Karen shooting pictures.
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How would you like to wake up and see a rhino?
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See the bird nesting in the top of the acacia?
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We saw lots of warthogs. Ugly #$%^&*s.
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Look closely right in the center of the picture.
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It's a lioness.
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Who gets up and walks toward us.
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Yeah, that close.
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