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Banana Plantation and Village Walking Tour
This day started with some of us going down to the village near the entrance to the national park for a walking tour of part of a village. The village seemed to be built in amongst an orchard of planted banana trees.
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Banana Plantation and Village Walking Tour
Difficult to get a good photo bananas. The overhanging leaves put then in the shade.
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Banana Plantation and Village Walking Tour
This is to show a second tree growing out of the central portion of one that has been cut down.
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Banana Plantation and Village Walking Tour
An early point in the development of a bunch of bananas.
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Banana Plantation and Village Walking Tour
A bit later in their development.
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Banana Plantation and Village Walking Tour
This was a home in the village. Note roof made of banana leaf "shingles". Some of the houses were more modern than this one.
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Banana Plantation and Village Walking Tour
This is part of a wall made of mud plaster that is being reconstructed. It shows the woven mat of tree limbs that is the frame of the wall. Here the mud sort of clings together, so they do not need to rely on cattle dung.
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Banana Plantation and Village Walking Tour
Two construction methods were used in this house. There is mud plaster on the left and mud bricks on the right.
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Banana Plantation and Village Walking Tour
Food preparation area (a fire ring -- outside the house).
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Banana Plantation and Village Walking Tour
Two fire rings. These represent two kitchens. At one time, there were two households here -- one in each half of the house.
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Banana Plantation and Village Walking Tour
I saw this empty cigarette pack on the ground -- one of the local brands apparently.
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Banana Plantation and Village Walking Tour
Looking down rows of planted banana trees.
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Woodcarver's Work Area and Shop
This is the obligatory stop at a tourist gift shop. The guy (craftsman) is sawing an ebony log or tree branch. Ebony is the central black wood, the live (or more recently living) outer layer is lighter colored.
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Carvings for Sale
My writeup on the trip (elsewhere on this web site) has some observations/thoughts about these places).
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Carvings for Sale
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Roof of Shed Over Carving Center Gift Shop
I was interested in how the roof was "woven" so the banana leaf "shingles" overlapped one another.
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The Mosquito River
Clearly not a name chosen with future real estate sales and a tourist industry in mind.
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Footbridge
Crossing over into the a group of outdoor shops.
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Village Market Area
This is one of the more solidly constructed building in the market area. The presence of what appears to be a star of David on the sing painted on the side of the building was puzzling.
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Village Market Area
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Upside-down Tree
Taken on the road between the lodge and the park entrance.
The actual name for this tree is boabab according to the driver-guides, but it apparently has several other alternative names.
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Baboon
Again, probably an olive baboon.
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Baboon
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Klipspringer in a Tree
It is standing ona gigantic tree limb, perhaps 30 feet off the ground. The tree was on sloping ground. It's possible that on the other side of the tree (the side uphill from the base of the tree) the ends of the limbs were much closer to the ground.
I was impressed that our guide should spot what seemed (to me) to be such an improbable occurance.
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Klipspringer in a Tree
The animal is just to the left of center, facing us.
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Klipspringer in a Tree
An attempt to illustrate the sloping ground the tree was on.
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Klipspringer in a Tree
Zoom lens shot. Our driver guide had moved the jeep a bit too.
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Klipspringer in a Tree
Animal is just to the left of and below the center of the photo.
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Possibly a Female Bushbuck
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Sausage Tree
The fruit of this tree looks very much like a large sausage. There is one hanging above the top of the phoot.
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Elephants
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Baboon
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Baboon
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Baboons
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A Hornbill (Possibly a Silver-cheeked Hornbill)
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Possibly a Waterbuck
This one really doesn't look exactly like anything in the animal ID book.
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Termite Mound
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May Have Just Been Interested in Palm Tree Here
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Gazelles
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Probably a Cattle Egret
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Impala
Looks like wildebests and a zebra in the distant background.
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Luck Shot of a Bird in Flight
Not sure what the bird is -- possibly a grey-headed kingfisher, or another type of kingfisher?
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Might be a Grey-headed Kingfisher
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Impala and an "Impala Egret"
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Zebras Grazing
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Zebra
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Zebra
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Wildebeests
They often lined up like this.
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Wildebeests
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Wildebeests
May have been the only place we saw them crossing a body of water like this. This is a small "river" (thier terminology) that flows into the lake. This is probably the Mosquito River.
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Wildebeests
You can see water rolling off of one that just came out of the water.
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Wildebeests
Note the hippo in the water.
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Wildebeests
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Blacksmith Plover or Blacksmith Lapwing
Both the names Plover and Lapwing seem to be used.
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Jeep Interior
Typicql view of interior of jeep while we were movng.
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Elephant
This may have been a bull elephant, by itself (rather than a member of a larger family of elephants).
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Elephant
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Elephant
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Elephant
I believe the runny thing behind its eye is secretions out of a gland (possibly the temporal gland), not a bleeding wound.
I later read these secretions are associated with them being in musth, which is when they tend to be violent (like in deciding who is going to be the dominant male?). However, it's possible the secretions can occur when they are not in musth. Also, my understanding is that only males can go into musth. If the temporal gland secretions are also limited to males, then this is a male (consistent with it -- him?-- being the only one in this group of photos).
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Elephants
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Rainbow
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Possilby Klipspringers
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Possilby Klipspringers
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Baboons Again
This may have been the same family we saw earlier -- but now we were passing them again on our way out of the park.
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