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Travelogues => Travel Diaries => Topic started by: elsa hoffmann on June 25, 2015, 13:25:20
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I visit 3 National Parks in Tanzania in 2010.
Opting to go for inexpensive (yes I am cheap) I went with a local outfit.
I had:
1 - 4x4 vehicle
1 - driver/guide
1 - cook
And we travelled together for 3 days solid.
I wont tell you about the food - except to say I think I had 3 oranges in 3 days but then I was seriously full from spending a week in a 5* hotel in Dar es Salaam just before this trip. In the tented camp - showers were *&^* - well... lets just say I stayed more clean by not showering.
Three Very different locations. And since I was by myself with the 2 guys - shooting from the Jeep was a pleasure
But this is Africa. True Africa. You dont want to see the airports either. I am surprised any pilot could find the runway - never-mind his passengers.
Parks I visited -
Ngoro Ngoro - absolutely amazing - everything from a swamp, savanna, forest and anything in-between in this Caldera
Tanrangire National Park and Manyara National Park. All three were really good.
I used a 70-200 with 2 x TC. its about all I owned at that time and I must have used the D3x. Now I look back and once again think the images suck :)
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That zebra is so *cute*. (I'm a big fan of zebras, by the way).
Please, tell us more.
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I like your definition of "suck"...
Most people that go on Safari would be happy to have your shots.
Yes, more from that trip please!
cheers
afx
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I wonder about the definition of "suck" too. I find the pictures 1 and 6 especially pleasing.
I doubt that I will ever take pictures that "suck" like these...
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#1 is something special. The low contrast, the dust that whispering the details. I can almost feel the fine sand between my teeth. Yes, that picture has some magic, at least for me.
And as a long time Linux-user, gnu is a special animal for me ;)
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#1 is such a telling story. Most pictures are worth a thousand words, but #1 is a book.
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Re #1 - remember I photographed it the way I wanted it to look :) (thanks Bjørn)
but that is also my favourite of the whole safari.
I didnt manage to include the Great Migration - or Kilimanjaro - not near enough to where I was and would have cost a lot extra time and money
1. familiy photo
2. definitely a female zebra
3. Bird of prey looming nearby where we had lunch. They are known to rip your lunch from your hand - with your hand.
4. couldnt get closer - had no longer lens.
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3. Bird of prey looming nearby where we had lunch. They are known to rid your lunch from your hand - with your hand.
Ouch, never experienced that so far, only Vervet Monkeys chasing across a restaurant terrace and grabbing all sugar bags...
Love the elephants!
cheers
afx
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All images are very artisitc, way more than fine snapshots. I like your aesthetic.
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Thank you guys - especially for the opportunity to share it with you all.
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Thanks for sharing these interesting images, Elsa. We are seriously thinking about spending a week or two in southern Africa next year, and Ngoro Ngoro looks like a pretty good candidate for a few days. Long way from Tokyo, though.
We haven't taken a holiday in Africa before. I did spend a few weeks in Johannesburg about 10 years ago doing some consulting work for ESKOM - that's the closest I have ever been to African wildlife.
I don't have much interest in the DRC or Rawanda - thanks for your commentary!
Mike.
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Mikes, Ngoro Ngoro is really great, and doing the great migration of Buffalo is also a bucket list thing for many people - and then Kenya's wildlife is legendary. I can always point you in some directions where you are ready. I am not sure if you can sleep inside the NgoroNgoro caldera - or if you have to sleep outside. There is something about that. You need to google. But talk to me if I can help you decide :)
Regarding Eskom - it must be YOU that are responsible for all our Eskom troubles !! :P :-[ - we have load shedding here just about every night these days. Eskom is bankrupt and can not supply sufficient power. And it will be a while before there is another power station up and running. And the have just asked for a 25% increase price increase . Talk about living in Africa.
The images in this post is all Ngoro Ngoro, as well as the pelicans posted earlier - so you can see all this in one hole :)
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Mikes, Ngoro Ngoro is really great, and doing the great migration of Buffalo is also a bucket list thing for many people - and then Kenya's wildlife is legendary. I can always point you in some directions where you are ready. I am not sure if you can sleep inside the NgoroNgoro caldera - or if you have to sleep outside. There is something about that. You need to google. But talk to me if I can help you decide :)
Regarding Eskom - it must be YOU that are responsible for all our Eskom troubles !! :P :-[ - we have load shedding here just about every night these days. Eskom is bankrupt and can not supply sufficient power. And it will be a while before there is another power station up and running. And the have just asked for a 25% increase price increase . Talk about living in Africa.
The images in this post is all Ngoro Ngoro, as well as the pelicans posted earlier - so you can see all this in one hole :)
Thanks, Elsa, for the helpful information and the additional images. It looks very tempting. We have not decided on dates yet, but it will probably be between April and June. I will take up your offer of more information as soon as we have settled on dates.
"Regarding Eskom - it must be YOU that are responsible for all our Eskom troubles !!" Nah, not me. It used to be a pretty good outfit, in fact, one of the best power utilities in the world. Disappointing to hear that it has slipped so much. I must admit, though, that there were some ominous signs at the time of my involvement, with a newly introduced program called "localisation" or something like that.
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Quite surprised by reading "the images suck" and then scroll down and see the first image and go "wow, I want my images to suck too!"
I really like the way it tells a story of a tough place to survive in. I have also never seen a zebra like that before.
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Mikes - you hit the nail on the head. And Eskom (or we call it Eksdom - which means I am dumb) is seriously in sh*t. And its not getting better. but life goes on and we learn to make a plan. Generators, inverters, solar power :) which is already not a bad idea
Jørgen - I swear I think my image quality is just not up there. The contents may be good. But oy vey - I can do better!
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Elsa, I am not a safari person. I like to see/feel all the excitement through some of the wonderful images you have posted.
Is zebra meat yummy? ;)
Take care.
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Thank you Faris !
Apparently Zebra is quite yummy. I dont like horse meat :o