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So, here we are on safari, also known as an opportunity to sleep post-Kilimanjaro. We stopped for a picnic lunch - Chrisburger, my old friend! - before we started exploring Ngorongoro Crater National Park, and this stupid bird kept pestering me.
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Ngorongoro Crater is larger than Singapore, about the size of Chicago, a little over 20 kilometers wide, making it one of the largest calderas in the world. That's a volcano feature that's shaped like a large bowl.
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Ngorongoro Crater is also home to the Masai tribe, who are the only people allowed to live, cultivate and rear animals in the park.
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Ngorongoro Crater is one of Tanzania's most visited destinations and one of the favorite safari spots in Africa as you are supposed to be able to see most of the popular wildlife here. Very first sighting: les trois mousquetaires.
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Oscar Wildebeest.
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Warthogs. Which should be tied up and roasted over a spitfire for some tasty pork rightaway! Mm, gamey meat - a little tougher than the rest, but oh so full of flavor!
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Animals gone wildebeest.
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Wildebeest at heart.
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Wildebeest night.
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Jokers wildebeest.
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Pink flamingos! I love pink flamingos but we couldn't get close to them. :(
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Stripes.
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Is it black on white, or is it white on black?
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Gazelles, and some kind of funny birds. They belong in a cartoon.
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How cute!!
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Safari is all about sitting in a Toyota Land Cruiser, with a top that pops up so you can stand in your seat and ogle the wildlife.
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Hippos, the most boring animals on earth.
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They do nothing.
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Zebras are weird.
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My eyes started to swirl after looking at them for a while.
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Get this zebra on Howard Stern already!!
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Gazing at a gazelle.
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Zebra crossing.
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Cocky bustard.
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Duck. Where's a French chef when you need him?
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Mmm, just thinking about these guys confit'd and served on a skillet sizzling in perhaps a forest berry sauce.
