The Seacliff Hotel in Dar Es Salaam, where we spent the first night of our honeymoon
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The view from our room at the Seacliff
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The Cessna 208 Caravan which runs a daily scheduled service to the Selous game Park
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Taking off from the airstrip at the Selous Safari Camp
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A lizard
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The hunnymooners on a safari boat
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Hippo
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Some Eland
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A hippo splashing around
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Hippos cooling off
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Are they floating logs?
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...or are they hippos?
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Hippo in the bushes
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Hippo
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Close shot of a hippo
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Herd of elephants
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Heffalumps
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Wild dog
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Wild dog
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Wild dog
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Two impala. Rear end sponsored by MacDonalds?
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Quite a few impala
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Lions
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Pussy cat relaxing
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Stalking some prey
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I can smell something...
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A bit close for comfort?
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Oops, must have run over something sharp
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Soon have it fixed
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Warthogs
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Baboons
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Twiga
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Another twiga
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Tembo
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More tembo
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This one was a bit curious about our tent
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so he came for a closer look. Notice the guy rope.
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A young twiga, in kindergiraffen
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Water buffalo
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More giraffes
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Nellie the elephant packed her trunk...
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...and said goodbye to the circus...
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...off they went with a trumpety trump...
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Doing it like they do on the Discovery Channel
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Baobab tree
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Baobab tree
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Hyenas and vultures getting stuck in to a dead wildebeest
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The vultures waiting around like... well, vultures
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A couple of stripey horses
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Zebra and wildebeest
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Pride of lions
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Simba
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More lions
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Lions
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Water buffalo
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Water buffalo
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Hunnymooners with a guide and driver. Neat safari truck
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Dave having a refreshing bitter lemon
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Croc
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Crocodile
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Croc going for a swim
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Hippo in the fast moving Rufiji River
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Count the crocs
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Sunset over the Rufiji River
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Purr
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Our dinner's out there somewhere
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Think I'll have a snooze
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Lion
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Lion
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Lion
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A few cubs
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Playing with a stick, just like a kitten
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Lions of all ages
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Several giraffes
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Luxury tent accomodation
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Double bed, electricity, all comforts...
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basin with running water, flush wotsit...
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firm comfy bed with a view
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the shower (hot and cold) in the little tent at the back, and on the left the water boiler
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The "Ark". Where we ate, drank and socialised.
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The inside. The guy sitting at the bar is Sal, the manager
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The view from up there
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The Caravan coming back to pick us up
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5H-HOT on the ground at the strip, engine still running
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Approaching one of the other strips in the Selous
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The airport at Zanzibar
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Stone Town, Zanzibar
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