Our Port of entry was Kansai International Airport – Osaka for a start of our second trip to Japan. 13 days visiting the most popular places including Kyoto and Tokyo. Plenty of photos taken and hard to choose what to post and why. Final thought on that was just to take what I personally liked not even trying to give justice to the many wonderful people we met and the magnificent places we saw.
Photos: Ulrich Jobs
Last day of our safari in Amboseli we were mocking our terrific guide Solomon that we did not see cheetahs and of course no pangolin. We could not believe five minutes after leaving Tortilis Camp four cheetahs crossed the road and started tolling around. Nearly forgot to choose a few of the best shots to post.
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After Amboseli our last safari for this year: Masai Mara. Thanks to some rain grass finally started growing and the green Masai Mara motivated gnus crossing Mara Mara river to Kenya for better food. After sighting of two crossings of course time for some shots of other animals too.
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Without any doubt the star of Amboseli is Craig, a 51 year old super tusker. We had the chance to be with him for more than one hour without any other car bothering us and Craig. This gave us a chance for low wide angle shots we will never forget. Of course we saw and photographed many other beautiful animals and people. Some pictures are shown in this post.
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End of August is no migration time here and we did not expect to see something special. And then it happened one early morning. We met a big lion pride with two males, three mothers and ten cubs. Plenty of nice shots taken but these two are different from all lion photos I have ever taken. So so lovely.
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A mother was calling out to find her four cubs after a kill. She found them and led her to the kill to feed. Later on a wonderfull male lion appeared and tried to find the feeding family but the wind was in their favour so they could finish their meal without getting chased away.
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Close to Krueger National Park and with an open border to it Timbavati Game Reserve shares all wildlife roaming freely in this huge area. We stayed at Makanyi Lodge and at Bateleur Camp enjoying amazing wildlife. Here some pictures.
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After our last visit 2017 we finally made it back to the Chobe River National Park. Famous for its elephants in the water we saw some great wildlife and enjoyed taking photos. Some of them we like to share here.
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Bryce Canyon National Park (/braɪs/) is an American national park located in southwestern Utah. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks. The red, orange, and white colors of the rocks provide spectacular views for park visitors. Bryce Canyon National Park is much smaller and sits at a much higher elevation than nearby Zion National Park. The rim at Bryce varies from 8,000 to 9,000 feet (2,400 to 2,700 m).
Photos were taken on our hike from Sunset Point down Navajo Trail and through Queens Garden up to Sunrise Point, walking back on the Rim Trail to Sunset Point. We were lucky to get into our car before the storm reached the Rim.
Photos: Ulrich Jobs
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