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Serengeti Serena Lodge -- Broken Railing
Normally, I've been trying to put most or all of the "lodge" photos together, even if they come out of sequence. However, I'm making an exception here.
While we were at dinner the previous night, there was an incident involving a leopard who had entered one of the rooms. The manager of the lodge was injured while he was trying to drive (or lure) the leopard out of the room. He was injured in a fall when a balcony railing gave way.
This photo (taken from my room balcony) shows the remains of the railing on the ground (adjacent to the next "hut" containing guest rooms.
Also, note the carved post at left that is part of the balcony in my room.
The next two photos also show aspects of this broken railing. These photos were taken the morning after the leopard incident.
There is more about the leopard incident in the writeup on this trip in the "Writing" section of this web site.
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Serengeti Serena Lodge -- Broken Railing
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Serengeti Serena Lodge -- Broken Railing
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Early Morning View From Room
This shot and the next one are two more photos taken from the room balcony early the next morning, before we left on the morning game drive.
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Early Morning View From Room
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Probably a Topi
My memory is failing me a bit with respect to this morning.
We did a morning game drive, then came back to the Serengeti Lodge for lunch. Then we left that lodge and drove to the Kirawira Tent Camp. Since both the Serengeti Lodge and the tent camp were both in the Serengeti National Park, the drive to the tent camp was also a game drive, in effect.
I believe this photo (and the several that follow) are from the morning game run. However, it is possible that the first few that follow are actually animals that came into the lodge area, and thus were taken before the actual game run began. The lodges in Tanzania are not fenced like those in Kenya. Thus there are more large animals actually INSIDE the lodge area.
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Probably a Topi
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Probably Topi
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Probably Topi
These would be young ones. Both sexes have horns.
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Probably Topi
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Serenteti
I was probably trying to capture the immensity of this place here.
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Thompson's Gazelles
This is probably a high zoom setting photo of a portion of the field of view of the previous photo.
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Thompson's Gazelles
Again, probably a higher level setting of the field of the previous photo.
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Thompson's Gazelle
This is probably cropped from a photo similar to the previous one.
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Zebras and Wildebeests
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Zebra -- Mother and Child
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Zebra -- Mother and Child
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Zebra -- Mother and Child
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Zebra
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Baby Zebra
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Zebra
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Giraffes and Zebras
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Giraffe (Backlit)
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Impalas
They sure look like impalas, but this guy does not have very curvy horns to have such a large harem of females.
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Line of Zebras
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Zebra
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Giraffe
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Giraffe
Cropped version of previous photo.
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Giraffe
I haven't been noting the type of giraffe in these photos. These are probably Masai Giraffes.
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Giraffe
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Giraffe
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Southern Ground Hornbill ?
I think the purpose of this photo was to show what kind of tree a bird was in. Telephoto shots (with zoom lens) of the bird itself are in the next few photos.
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Southern Ground Hornbill ?
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Southern Ground Hornbill ?
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Southern Ground Hornbill ?
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There is a Hippo in This Pool
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Hippo
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Probably Egyptian Goose
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Probably Egyptian Goose
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Probably Egyptian Goose
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Not Sure What This Is
Possibly a vulture, but I did not spot one in the ID books with this underside coloration.
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Elephant Family
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Elephant Family
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Elephant Family
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A Visitor Center Inside the Park
Not at a park gate. They had an interesting video about the wildebeest migration playing on a continous loop here.
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Visitor Center
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Candelabra Tree
I THINK that's what these are called.
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Hyrax
There are two kinds, a rock hyrax and a tree hyrax (later: there may actually be a third kind too). I'm guessing this is the rock kind, since there were more rocks than trees around this place. But that's purely a guess.
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Visitor Center
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Possibly a Weaver Bird?
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Another Hippo Pool
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Another Hippo Pool
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Possibly a White Stork
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Possibly a Starling of Some Type
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Probably a Sandpiper (or Similar Bird) of Some Type
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Probably a Sandpiper (or Similar Bird) of Some Type
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Sleeping Lion
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Clouds
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Clouds
Cropped version of previous photo.
In these extended plains, which went from horizon to horizon, I noitced something that turned out to be difficult to capture in a photograph (although I tried at several places -- this may be the best one, although none of them turned out to show the concept as well as it seemed "on the spot").
What I noticed was that the bottom surface of these clouds kept seeming to be closer and closer to the horizon, the farther from the observer the clouds were. I assmume those bottom cloud surfaces were all at the same altitude (and the ground was clearly level -- or almost so). If I looked at those lower cloud surfaces long enough, I could "see" (or, at least, visualize -- or convince myself I was "seeing") that the lower surfaces of the clouds were curved. That is, the lower surfaces of the clouds seemed to form a curved "bowl" over the plain. Then, if I envisioned that all of the clouds were the same distance above the surface of the earth (which was "level" -- in the sense that there were no visible hills or ridges), then the earth's surface must also be curved.
I don't recall seeing this (or noticing this) at any other place (although I have probably seen it before, but never noticed it). It MIGHT be "easier" to see in Kenya and Tanzania because of the extensive plains AND the relatively moist air, which perhaps makes clouds more frequent that in the US (where the extensive plains may tend to have fewer clouds because they are a dryer climate).
I'm still unsure how much of this I was really SEEING rather than having my mind "construct" the curved sky because I knew it had to be there (in some way). The fact that it shows up so poorly in the photos may be providing a clue it was an effect that perhaps existed in my head moreso than in reality.
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Crocodile
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Crocodile
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Guinea Fowl
Saw (and photographed) these in several places. However, the colors seemed to show up in this photo (and the next one) more that at other places. I'm not sure if this is a male or a female.
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Guinea Fowl
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Possibly White-backed Vultures
Not being able to see the back complicates things.
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Possibly White-backed Vultures
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Monkey
Vervet, I think.
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Grazing Hippo
Saw (and photographed) these out of the water on a few occasions, but not many. Apparently, they do leave the water perhaps once per day to feed. I supect they food supply in the pools is not sufficient to feed several of them in a single pool.
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Elephant Family
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Elephant Family
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Elephant Family
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Elephant Family
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Elephant Family
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Giraffes
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Giraffes
If my memory is correct, the lodge in the background is different from the one we stayed at.
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Giraffe
It's difficult to see in this photo, but this giraffe had two birds "riding" on it. See the next photo in this album.
Probably a Masai, since it seems to have spots below the knee. However, it has a much less irregular spot pattern than many Masai.
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Giraffe With Bird Companions
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Giraffe
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Giraffe
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Giraffe
Note how several safari jeeps were lined up watching these two. I KNOW there are too many photos of elephants and giraffes here, but I never got tired of watching them. In the wild, it is a much different experience than in a zoo (and I realize that a national park is not completely the same as "the wild").
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Another Hippo Pool
How many hippos in (and around) this pool?
This is a trick question. I don't know the answer, but it's a LOT. Look closely at the photo. Then look at the next several photos in this album. They use zoom lens and photo editing (cropping) effects to more closely examine selected areas shown in this initial first photo.
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Another Hippo Pool
There is a group in the middle of the pool, a second group in the background, on the bank above the pool, and a third group in the middle background on the right hand side (behind a small tree).
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Another Hippo Pool
Telephoto/zoom of one of the groups.
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Another Hippo Pool
Later, one of these guys had moved slightly
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Another Hippo Pool
This is the group over on the right in the initial photo. Notice there is a croc there too.
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Another Hippo Pool
Close-up of the group in the center of the pool in the first photo.
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Starling?
This COULD be one of the other types of starlings (other than the superb one).
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Date Time : 2012:10:14 04:05:13
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Zebra (Small) Herd
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Date Time : 2012:10:14 04:17:19
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Lunch Break at Serengeti Serena Lodge
We came back to the Serengeti Lodge after the morning game drive for lunch. I left these in the sequence to serve as a place mark. After lunch, we checked out of the lodge and drove to the tent camp. Both places were inside the Serengeti National Park.
This is a daylight photo of one of the carved pillars in the diniing area of the main building of the lodge.
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Lunch Break at Serengeti Serena Lodge
This was a packet of brown sugar. It listed East Africa countries that have Serena hotels and lodges.
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Lunch Break at Serengeti Serena Lodge
Dik-dik on the grounds of the lodge. Again, there are no fences around the lodges in Tanzania.
Fully grown (as this one probably is) they are about the size of a medium-sized dog. Wikipedia says they run 12-16 inches high at the shoulder. That seems high for an average. Perhaps some of the ones I saw WERE babies.
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Possibly a Long-crested Eagle
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Date Time : 2012:10:14 06:45:27
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Warthogs (including babies)
This is probably something where you had to be there, but baby warthogs are really cute (although it may not come acrossi in this photo). I suspect it is how their little legs move very fast in order to keep up wiht the adults.
I'm pretty sure we saw babies in at least one other location. However, this is probably the best photo I got of a baby warthog.
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Warthogs (including babies)
Probably wilebests in the distant background.
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Jackal
Dining?
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Possibly a Hammerkop
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Wildebeest Migration?
We passed an enormous herd of wildebeests in a wide line all moving in one direction (but I'm not sure what direction this was). I thinik we were there at the time of year when the ones in this region would normally be moving south into Tanzania (we WERE in Tanzania when this was taken).
I should have edited this photo to make the line of wildebeests more level. I think the "slant"effect was due to camera tilt, not that they were moving downhill.
This line was a few hundred yards from the road, so we did not get a good view of it. I'm guessing (from these photos and from memory) the "line" of them was probably 8- to 10-abreast, I'm pretty sure the line was at least a half-mile long (and perhaps longer -- and it could have extended outside the field of view we had of it (we were seeing this thru gaps in trees in the foreground).
This was the first large herd like this that we saw. Saw comparable things during the next few days -- sometimes they seemed to line up four across, sometimes two across, and sometimes single file. I don't know why or why they sometimes did one way and sometimes another.
I tried to get this on video. Haven't yet looked at the video closely (as this is written in early Feb 2013), but I don't have high hopes for it. Conditions were not great for photography.
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Wildebeest Migration?
Same "line" of wildebeests as the previous photo. In this section the "line" seemed fewer across and was more "broken" (with a loose herd alongside what seemed to be the main "line")
If I had a nickel for every wildebeest I saw, I would have enought to pay for this trip. Well, maybe not, but a dime for each one might do it.
I eventually developed some theories about this wildebeest migration, but I'll defer writing about them until the next national park, after we crossed back into Kenya. There were even MORE wildebeests there -- many, MANY more.
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Yet Another Ellephant Family
The title or caption here might be a bit misleading. The first three photos (this one and the next two) are "time stamped" around 8:06 (which would have been about 4:06 pm local time -- I left the cameras on US Eastern Daylight Savings Time). The several after that are "time-stamped" several minutes later. Thus these MIGHT be two separate families, I can't remember.
The guy in this photo is a male (note his quite prominent "fifth leg"). I'm not sure if he is (1) a mature male who just happened (by coincidence) to be feeding near the family of females and (2) a not-quite-fully-mature male who has not yet been expelled from his birth family.
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Yet Another Ellephant Family
Nice little dance step. I think this is the same male who was in the previous photo, but I'm not certain.
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Yet Another Ellephant Family
Her in this cropped (but apparently non-zoom) photo, you get some idea of how many were in this group.
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Yet Another Ellephant Family
This is a few minutes later, and (as indicated in conjunction with an earlier photo) might be a different group of elephants.
Here it is pretty clear this one large female is knows were are around and is keeping an eye on us (and somehow keeping her baby close to her). I don't claim to be able to judge the age of baby elephants, but I'm pretty sure this is not anything like a newborn.
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Yet Another Ellephant Family
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Yet Another Ellephant Family
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Yet Another Ellephant Family
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Yet Another Ellephant Family
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Yet Another Ellephant Family
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Kirawira Tent Camp
Most of the signs in this camp called it the "Kirawira Luxury Tent Camp" -- and it was.
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Kirawira Tent Camp
This is the dining area (in a fairly large tent).
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Kirawira Tent Camp
This is the dining area (in a fairly large tent).
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Kirawira Tent Camp
Individual guest tent exterior.
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Kirawira Tent Camp
Individual guest tent exterior. Side of the tent.
A lion killed a wildebeest right in this area one night while we were here. Heard it, but did not see it. It's described in the trip write-up in a different section of this web site.
I took photos of the ground in this area the next morning, where there seemed to be a couple footprints indicating (or suggesting) where the kill had taken place. However, the tracks did not show up as very dramatic (and perhaps not very convincing) in the photos. I did not include those photos in this gallery. Similarly, the dead animal was left on the ground in a clump of small trees perhaps 20-25 feet away from the tent's porch steps. I'll spare you that photo too.
As can be seen here, the tent is on a "permanent" foundation. It's more a tent-cabin than just a tent.
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Kirawira Tent Camp
This was taken the next day, after the kill. The photo is of one of the animal tracks near the tent, but (as you can see) it did not come out very well. I forget if we thought this was a track left by the predator or the prey.
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Date Time : 2012:10:15 22:52:10
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Kirawira Tent Camp
Individual guest tent exterior. Each guest tent had a nice porch area (probably called a verandah in a top-$ place like this).
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Note the name of the tent-cabin.
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Kirawira Tent Camp
The name was written in Swahili on the opposite side of the sign.
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Kirawira Tent Camp
View from porch toward distant hillside.
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Kirawira Tent Camp
View from porch. Note visitor.
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Kirawira Tent Camp
Individual guest tent interior,
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Kirawira Tent Camp
Individual guest tent interior, The white "curtains" are mosquito netting that hung from sort of a four-poster frame that actually encircled both twin beds (one mosquito net for two beds, each bed did not have an individual mosquito net).
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Kirawira Tent Camp
Individual guest tent interior,
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Kirawira Tent Camp
In the in-tent bathroom. There were solid, walls, about 6.5 feet high, around the toilet area and the shower stall, which were both inside the tent.
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