May Grand Vacation 2012 – Manjara National Park – baboons and antelopes

If Blue monkeys have elegant coat, Vervet monkeys have turquoise balls, but to find most bright part of baboons you should look from behind. Fist – female, behind her – male.

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May Grand Vacation 2012 – Manjara National Park – monkey

There are two species of monkey in the park – Blue (Samango) and Green (Vervet) (first one really has grey-blue color, but Green on actually has sandy color). Blue (Samango) monkeys (ака Cercopithecus mitis) prefer be alone just near park entrance. You can come really close to them.

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May Grand Vacation 2012 – Manjara National Park – warthogs

Warthog family on the lawn. Dad with huge fangs on the left, mom in the middle and two pigs.

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May Grand Vacation 2012 – Manjara National Park – elephants

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Africa must have elephants. And it has them. For beginning I was captured by mother-elephant with a baby.

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May Grand Vacation 2012 – Manjara National Park – zebras

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Zebras are most abundance and noticeable mammals in African savanna. They look completely as cartoon persons – white-black striped skins, stout springy butts and full of life bangs. They live by the groups, usually . . . → Continue reading May Grand Vacation 2012 – Manjara National Park – zebras

May Grand Vacation 2012 – Manjara National Park

In May 2012 we were on big vacation with the main aim to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. The summit was successfully reached, but presence in Africa is definitely must involve the meeting with wildlife, and after the descent from Kili we spent two days on safari in . . . → Continue reading May Grand Vacation 2012 – Manjara National Park

Skagit Valley – tulip festival

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Last year tulip festival in Skagit Valley I liked a lot, and in this year we decided to do it again. That was done in the middle of the April. The garden of Roozengaarde . . . → Continue reading Skagit Valley – tulip festival

Mount Hood

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We tried climb Mount Hood that is in the Oregon state in last October, but was stopped very close to the summit by strong rockfalls. This debt didn’t give us to sleep peacefully, so . . . → Continue reading Mount Hood

Mount Hood – first attempt – October 2012

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The first attempt to climb Mt Hood was made six month ago, in the beginning of October 2012. When I have climbed Mt Adams, St Helen and other mountains of the Washington State south, the . . . → Continue reading Mount Hood – first attempt – October 2012

Mount Baker and Snow Owls

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These photos were taken in the middle of January. Second year snow owls spend a winter on the northern west coast. This time it was difficult to come close enough, but at leas the view . . . → Continue reading Mount Baker and Snow Owls