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Category 1a: Oooh what an amazing view! Category 1b: Oooh what an amazing view! But there's a guy blocking it... Category 2b: Flora & fauna. And also people. Category 3a: People, with or without silly expressions Category 3b: People, with or without silly expressions, but with drinks Category 4a: Arts, architecture and engineering Category 4b: It is, indeed, a continent with history and contemporary politics Category 7: Contributed by others
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Category 1a: Oooh what an amazing view! |
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| Cape Town seen from Table Mountain | Devil's Peak | Going up the cable car | ||
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| View from Table Mountain | Rock on! | Cliff at Cape | ||
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| A Cape of some good hope | Table Mounting boiling over | Buffalo Bay had a certain lack of buffaloes | ||
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| Cintsa | Howick Falls | Kolkgate Potholes | ||
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| Kolkgate Potholes | Blyde River Canyon was somewhat misty | Good morning Boma | ||
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| Gweru Antelope Park | Gweru Antelope Park | Gweru Antelope Park | ||
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| I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with... R | I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with... MBR | Vic Falls as seen from a motorcycle | ||
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| Motorcycle? It's a chopper baby. | A chopper. | Gorge-ous | ||
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| Victoria falls. Heavily so. | Victoria keeps falling | The main falls | ||
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| Roaring like a thunderstorm. Check out the lo-res video | Bridge over troubled water | Sunset on the mighty Zambezi | ||
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| Scenic pee stop. The blue thing is Lake Malawi | Mountains surrounding the beaches of Lake Malawi | Dar-es-Salaam as seen from the water | ||
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| The Indian Ocean caught the setting sun | Sunset from Zanzibar | Paradise on Zanzibar | ||
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| Zanzibarian paradise | Ngorongorongorongorongoro | A crater | ||
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| Serengeti | ||||
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| Category 1b: Oooh what an amazing view! But there's a guy blocking it... | ||||
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| 'I really should get a haircut.' | 'There. Isn't this better?' | I decided to put the caption in the actual photo | ||
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| If I'm cycling again, am I recycling? | On ruin's edge | I am the Lizard King! | ||
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| Martin regretted not bringing a towel. The clothes line thing took forever. | Without an exit visa, Martin had to go through extreme measures to get out of Zimbabwe | 'Sir, please come look at my bonsai water fall. Looking costs nothing.' | ||
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| The hordes of sandflies on the other side of the lake had already spotted tonight's hapless victim | Martin decided to hide in the shadows so as not to ruin another 'Ooooh-what-an-amazing-view'-photo |
'Is my hat on right?' 'Sure. It's not on backwards or anything. Honest.' |
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| A unique shot of a grazing Moeritherium, believed to be extinct for 20 million years. A unique shot if it wasn't for the annoying Swede blocking it. | ||||
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| Category 2a: Flora & fauna | ||||
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| Did you know: The rock dassie's closest relative is the elephant. | It was decent enough, but Jack wanted to check out a few more apartments before he signed anything | This species of penguin is called Jackass penguin. Let's just call these two Belle and Sebastian. | ||
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| The Antarctican tourists are bloody everywhere nowadays | Baby baboon bouncing boldly on back | The only type of tree in Africa the locals don't have a million uses for | ||
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| Buffalo. Now drink up! | Look Mr Frodo! Olyphaunt! | Vervet monkey | ||
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| This is a female. You can tell by the shape of the forehead and the thin tusks. Also the lack of penis. | Horses by the river | The laziest animal ever | ||
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| These were busy days for the firebrigade. Too many kittens caught up in trees | Lions on an anthill | Time for a drink | ||
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| Mmmm... ostrich... | Totally tuskless | Wildebeest | ||
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| Kudu. Or possibly donkey. | Hippie Lions | Beatnik Lions | ||
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| Time for lunch | Mmmm... fast food... | Tantor walked just a few metres from our tents | ||
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| Rhinosauruses... saurusis... sauri... ah, rhinos | Hey look, a bird! | More rhinos | ||
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| MBR | EMBR | Be sure to wash separately first time | ||
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| Lizzie getting ready for the gay pride parade |
'What about second breakfast?' Check out the lo-res video of fiendish felines here |
Zambezi hosts not only booze cruises, but also crocodiles | ||
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| That's not a cloud, that's a swarm of flies | Sometimes bush pees can be risky business | Baobab tree | ||
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| The one to the left is Meg, to the right we have Jack | Thompson Twins. Or rather triplets | Marabou is a brand of chocolate. Also a stork. | ||
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| Flamin' goose | 'Gaah, I'll never drink again. Your turn to order pizza! | Lionesses gossiping | ||
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| MBL | Ngorongoro plains | Gnu | ||
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| Dirty Hyena | A giraffe | The same giraffe | ||
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| Hey, it's that blue balled monkey again! | Hiding hydrophile hippos | A landhippo | ||
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| Embracing the vulture | Which is the most religious fowl? -The birds of pray! | |||
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| Category 2b: Flora & fauna. And also people. | ||||
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| Elephant and Martin | Lions and Martin | Seb, Martin, Russ, Bella, Rowie and Jodie with the lions | ||
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| Last one to let go wins the lion | Everyone was standing in line to rest a while on the comfy anthill. But Leona took her time. | The elephant trainers were well trained | ||
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| Martin on elephant | Look! Tantor has a human-shaped growth on his back | Everything's OK! | ||
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| After the bath, Tantor still hadn't gotten rid of the German and Swedish parasites | Aaaah, they're so cute! | ...and so are the lion cubs. | ||
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| 'Wakey-wakey! Time to hunt some brekkie!' | Mischeck overcame his leophobia | |||
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| Category 3a: People, with or without silly expressions | ||||
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| I really don't know how Aian spells his name, but I'm sure Alex does | Seb and Bella were happily unaware of the dancing zombie eying their brains | I have millions of dollars | ||
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| The river of Sadness: Before | The river of Sadness: After the river had washed the sadness away | Sebulon enjoys his hammock | ||
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| Bella enjoys Seb's hammock | The guards were instructed to shoot poachers on sight. Jodie and Seb apparently didn't fit the description | Russ and Martin with the poacher guards | ||
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| Who wants to be a poker millionaire? | Martin does. | Jodie, Rowena and Belinda on the way to the heliride | ||
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| Russell, Sebastian and Martin, also on the way to the heliride | Up, up and away! | Focus on the aerodynamics; streamline, mate, streamline! | ||
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| A combined weight of some 170 kilos assured a speedy drop | Jodie and Belle needed a little push | Bloody show-off! | ||
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| Booze Cruise #1: B & R before the Vodka Brown | Blowfish | Booze Cruise #2: Belinda and Josh, with Cyrus in the background | ||
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| Booze Cruise #2: Karin, Juzzle and Row | Now I can die happy: Martin surrounded by Lou, Justine and Yvonne | Elsbeth (aka Ellie or Flea) and Nick | ||
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| Piggy chefs | Confused schoolkids | 'Check out my dentures!' | ||
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| Not so confused schoolkids | Which doctor? The Witch doctor! | Taking care of li'l sis | ||
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| The correct way to celebrate St Patrick's day: Wear green and have a lovely lassie from the Emerald Isle by your side. | Fish market consumers in Stone Town, Zanzibar | Bart getting ready to go into Ngorongoro Crater | ||
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| There's a cheetah somewhere in the grass, but the migratory israeli, pommie and kenyan are so much easier to capture on camera | Mary, Rudy, Yvonne and Kim | It's man against machine and machine against nature | ||
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| Category 3b: People, with or without silly expressions, but with drinks | ||||
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| Sebbie, Binnie, Russie, Rowie and Tonie. Jodie is hiding. | Stroh rum | In Gweru Antelope Park | ||
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| Booze Cruise # 1 | Russ had used Bella's hair straightener | Maybe the camera should've captured whatever these guys are looking at | ||
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| When many cameras are around, it's hard to pose for the right one. Rowie got it, though. | Booze Cruise # 2 | Juzzle apparently opened the bottle in the wrong end | ||
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| 'You're my best friend' 'No, YOU'RE my best friend!' | Cheers, big ears! | Andy tried to hide | ||
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| Bad taste party with the southbound gang | ||||
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| Category 4a: Arts, architecture and engineering | ||||
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| The first hostel on this trip: The Backpack, Cape Town | An eatery at Table Mountain | Lighthouse at Cape of Good Hope | ||
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| Colourful Cape Town | Very Edwardian | Family hostels in the Township of Langa; before | ||
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| Family hostels in the Township of Langa; after | Buffalo Bay BP | Port Elizabeth, weather fine | ||
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| Cintsa in the jungle | BP Ritz, Jo'burg | View from the tallest building in the Southern hemisphere... | ||
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| ...at least according to the locals | Great Zimbabwe Ruins | Great Zimbabwe Ruins | ||
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| Great Zimbabwe Ruins | Great Zimbabwe Ruins | Great Zimbabwe Ruins | ||
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| Great Zimbabwe Ruins | Bushmen cave paintings | Bushmen cave paintings | ||
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| Paradise, Bulaweyo | I can't remember what those guys called themselves, but Rowie bought their CD | The witch doctor's private practice | ||
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| Hut in Chitchimba | Sunrise beach, Dar-Es-Salaam | Wiring in Stonetown, Zanzibar | ||
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| Karibou Inn, Zanzibar | A door. | Caption unnecessary, n'est-ce pas? | ||
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| Karen Blixen's old home | ||||
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| Category 4b: It is, indeed, a continent with history and contemporary politics | ||||
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| I'm fairly sure I wouldn't place the electric and telephone node devices like that | Shanty towns are still common | The mine in which Mandela and his co-prisoners worked | ||
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| Nelson Mandela's cell on Robben Island | Schoolkids held a song and dance concert at a school outside Cintsa | Hector Pietersen Memorioal in Soweto | ||
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| Nelson Mandelas old house | Maria showing the map of Great Zimbabwe ruins | Inflation 1: If those are the prices on soft drinks, imagine what the booze costs! | ||
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| Inflation 2: Millions of dollars were on the poker table | Inflation 3: Tanzanian shillings are not quite as hysterical as Zimdollars, but still... | Boats in Dar-Es-Salaam | ||
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| Traditional Maasai clothing | Traditional Maasai clothing | Traditional Maasai clothing | ||
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| Category 5: Travelling | ||||
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| Leaving Landvetter | Leaving the Swedish sun | Arriving at Cape Town Intl | ||
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| Cape Town Waterfront | Toni and the ATC truck | Getting ready for game drive in Kruger | ||
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| Tow, tow, tow your jeep... | On my horsey | |||
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| Category 6: Misc | ||||
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| So, exactly what are you allowed to do? | Just dessert: Poachers get treated exactly as ruthlessly as they themselves treat the wildlife | Boozing up | ||
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| That'll do, pig! | Zanzibarian seafood | |||
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| Category 7: Contributed by others | ||||
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| Wait for it... | ||||
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| Photos are mostly taken by me, except of course those I myself am featured in and those sent to me by my co-travellers. Thanks heaps to all contributors! | ||||
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