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Cheli & Peacock safari guide, Simon Ball, with Laikipiak Maasai during a camel trek at Sabuk.

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Laikipiak Maasai on a Kopje at Sabuk.

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Laikipiak Maasai on a Kopje at Sabuk.

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Laikipiak Maasai on a Kopje at Sabuk.

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Laikipiak Maasai on a Kopje at Sabuk.

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Laikipiak Maasai on a Kopje at Sabuk.

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Beaded cross-belts worn by a Laikipiak Maasai elder.

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A Laikipiak Maasai warrior looks out over the spectacularly wild country at Sabuk.

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Approaching elephant on foot during a camel trek at Sabuk.

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One of the camels at Sabuk.

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A Laikipiak Maasai with his camel at the beginning of the day during a camel trek at Sabuk.

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Laikipiak Maasai lead the camels during a camel trek at Sabuk.

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The party strung out along a rock ridge during a camel trek at Sabuk.

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The party strung out along a rock ridge during a camel trek at Sabuk.

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Laikipiak Maasai lead the way during a camel trek at Sabuk.

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A camel trek in the spectacularly wild country at Sabuk.

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Laikipiak maasai lead the camels on a Camel trek at Sabuk.

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Laikipiak maasai lead the camels on a Camel trek at Sabuk.

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Laikipiak maasai lead the camels on a Camel trek at Sabuk.

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Breakfast in the bush whilst out on a camel trek at Sabuk.

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Breakfast in the bush whilst out on a camel trek at Sabuk.

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Sitting round the campfire in the evening at a fly-camp whilst out on a camel trek at Sabuk.

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Flycamp on a camel trek at Sabuk with a panoramic view.

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Main sitting room at Sabuk looks out over the Ewaso Nyiro River.

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Samburu morani (warriors) paint each other with ochre using a small wooden blade that they carry tucked into their hair.

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Children tuck into a bush breakfast beside the Ewaso Nyiro River, Cheli & Peacock mobile safari.

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Coffee beside the Ewaso Nyiro River, Cheli & Peacock mobile safari.

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Verandah of tent with washing & shaving bowl, Cheli & Peacock mobile safari.

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Bush breakfast from Elsa's Kopje.

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Bush breakfast from Elsa's Kopje.

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Looking out across Meru towards the Nyambeni Hills from the top of Elsa's Kopje.

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Maasai warrior framed by a flat topped acacia tree and Mt. Kenya (17,050 ft) .

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Built on a granite outcrop, Elsa's Kopje has panoramic views over Meru.

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Sundowners at the "Rock Bar" at Elsa's Kopje, with panoramic views across Meru to the Nyambeni Hills.

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White rhinoceros (Diceros simus).

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Dinner by the swimming pool at Elsa's Kopje has panoramic views out over Meru.

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The swimming pool at Elsa's Kopje is built into the granite rock and has a panoramic view out over Meru.

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The bar at Elsa's Kopje.

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The bar at Elsa's Kopje.

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Open fronted main sitting room at Elsa's Kopje.

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Deck of bedroom (No1) at Elsa's Kopje looks out over Meru.

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Open fronted bedroom (No1) at Elsa's Kopje looks out over Meru.

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Beaded headdress of a Samburu woman .

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Swimming pool at Il Ngwesi Camp, Laikipia.

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Sunset over Observation Hill.

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Young elephant bulls engage in playful (and later not so playful) fights to establish dominance.

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Young elephant bulls engage in playful (and later not so playful) fights to establish dominance.

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Elephant in acacia thicket.

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A bull elephant with a broken tusk.

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A herd of elephants feed in the shade of an acacia Tortilis beside the Ewaso Nyiro River.

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From the safe vantage point of a landrover, a child watches an elephant during a Cheli & Peacock mobile safari.

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Wilderness Trails Bush Home Bedroom.

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Maasai warrior at Lewa Downs with Mount Kenya in background.

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A Samburu warrior blows on the embers of his fire.

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Service in the bush - kerosene lanterns light the pathway to your tent on a Cheli & Peacock mobile safari. - Not to be sold to safari operators

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Cottar's 1920 Safaris. Camp writing table overlooking the Masai Mara

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Service in the bush - on a Cheli & Peacock mobile safari guests' clothes are ironed with an old coal-filled iron. - Not to be sold to safari operators

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Service in the bush - on a Cheli & Peacock mobile safari guests' clothes are ironed with an old coal-filled iron.

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Elaborate headdress and body adornments worn by Samburu moran (warrior).

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"Gun" chats to Samburu morani (warriors) who drive and pick up birds on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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"Gun" chats to Samburu moran (warriors) who drive and pick up birds on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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Vulturine guinea fowl, shot on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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Relaxing after a morning's guinea fowl shoot.

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Samburu morani (warriors) drive and pick up birds on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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Samburu morani (warriors) drive and pick up birds on a bird shooting safari.

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Samburu morani (warriors) drive and pick up birds on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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"Gun" & Samburu moran (warriors) who drive and pick up birds on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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Samburu moran (warrior) with a vulturine guinea fowl shot on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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Samburu moran (warrior) with a vulturine guinea fowl shot on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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Samburu moran (warrior) with a vulturine guinea fowl shot on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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Samburu moran (warrior) with a vulturine guinea fowl shot on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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Samburu moran (warriors) drive and pick up birds on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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"Gun" & Samburu moran with vulturine guinea fowl shot on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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Shooting guinea fowl on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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Shooting guinea fowl on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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Shooting guinea fowl on a Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari.

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Samburu moran (warrior) tying up a brace of yellow-necked spurfowl shot during Cheli & Peacock bird shooting safari

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Mark Jenkins, Warden of Meru National Park, with some of his Kenya Wildlife Service rangers.

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Elephant & calf crossing road.

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Green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus).

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Vehicle safari from Elsa's Kopje passing between doum palms - a signature tree of Meru.

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Vehicle safari from Elsa's Kopje crossing one of the thirteen rivers that flows through Meru.

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Walking safari from Elsa's Kopje crossing one of the thirteen rivers that flows through Meru.

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Looking at baobab tree on a walking safari from Elsa's Kopje. Baobabs are rare in Kenya.

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A walking safari from Elsa's Kopje amidst the grass plains and doum palms.

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Safari guide, Graham Ravenshill, on a walking safari from Elsa's Kopje.

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Climbers Abseil down Mackinder's Gendarme Nelion Peak of Mount Kenya.

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Climbers on ridge line above Baillie's Bivouac, North East face of Nelion.

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The principal peaks of Mount Kenya, Batiaan, 17,050ft and Nelion.

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Ice climbing on the Lewis Glacier C16000ft.

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Climber abseiling over the mouth of an ice cave, Lewis Glacier.

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A climber abseils over the mouth of an ice cave at the foot of the Lewis Glacier.

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Trekking up the Teleki Valley towards Mount Kenya.

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Puffin on steps to monastery

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Terrace Bar at The Four Seasons Resort Hotel

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A maid makes up the bed in one of the standard suites

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel, fountains, courtyards and staircases interconnect rooms and suites

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel view over roofs to the Red Sea

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel, maid service collects laundry from a guest room

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel, main building of the hotel with courtyard in front

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel, plunge pool at the outdoor spa

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel - bar at the main swimming pool

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel - bar at the main swimming pool

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel , view over the courtyards and rooftops to the Red Sea

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel, view over the rooftops to the Red Sea

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel, Plunge pool in private outdoor area of the spa at night

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel, view towards the Red Sea from the lobby

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel, water feature in the gardens

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Four Seasons Resort Hotel, courtyard at night

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Guest chalet at Four Seasons Resort Hotel

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The toes of a massive statue of a pharoah

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The carved head of a monumental statue at The Temple of Karnak

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Feluccas sailing on the River Nile

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St Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai desert

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Bow of ship pointing up the Suez Canal.

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Camel in front of the Giza pyramids

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Temple complex

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Hieroglyphs in the Temple of Karnak.

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Signpost to the tomb of Tutankhamon in the Valley of the Kings

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Carving of Pharoah on entrance pylon to Temple of Karnak.

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The massive columns of the Temple of Karnak

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Hieroglyphics on entrance to the Temple of Karnak

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An Egyptian woman stands in the doorway of her house in the Nile Valley

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Local smallholder in Nile Valley.

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Donkey driver at pyramids of Giza.

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Eastern White Pelican (Pelicanus onocratalus) splashes with its wings on the River Nile

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Eastern White Pelican (Pelicanus onocratalus) shakes its wings on the River Nile

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Northbound ship convoy in the Suez Canal.

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Bow of ship heading north up the Suez Canal

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Small Christian monastery on the pilgrim route to St Catherine’s Monastery

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An Egyptian man steers his felucca on the River Nile

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Feluccas on the Nile

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Details of carved face in Temple of Karnak

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Massive feet on a statue in the Temple of Karnak

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Stella in the Temple of Karnak

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Detail of frieze at Temple of Karnak

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Stella in the Temple of Karnak

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The Sphinx and pyramd at Giza

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Eastern White Pelican (Pelicanus onocrotalus)

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Jungle

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Poling a mokorro along a narrow channel in the Okovango

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Lioness with cubs

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Batswan children of Khwai Village

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Poling a mokoro through the delta

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Safari guide, Gavin Ford shows a lion skull to a client

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Aerial view of the Okavango

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Tin cans form part of the wall of a mud and wattle hut

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Aerial view of the Okavango

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Safari Lodge Camp staff - Hostess

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Watching elephant during a walking safari

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Batswan safari guide

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Mokoro being poled through the papyrus reeds

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Washstand in luxury tent, Abercrombie & Kent mobile safari

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Sunset over the Kalahari

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Sunset over the Kalahari.

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Lone male gemsbok

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Bull elephant on bush track.

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Bull elephant walks along a bush track

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A male Black korhaan

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Tourists on safari watch a male lion carry the springbok that it has killed

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Male lion carries a springbok that it has killed

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Lion & lioness shelter from desert heat under shade of a thorn tree

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Lioness shelters under a thorn tree during a dust storm

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Male lion resting in the evening sun

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Male lion

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Luxury tent, Abercrombie & Kent mobile camp

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Luxury tent, Abercrombie & Kent mobile camp

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Bull elephants streaked white with desert sand

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Gavin Ford, safari guide, holding a gemsbok skull,

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Approaching Baines' Baobabs, a copse of ancient Baobabs in the Kalahari Desert, view from inside vehicle

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Baines' baobabs, an isolated copse of ancient baobabs in the Kalahari Desert.

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An African fish eagle looks out over Jesse's Pool. Often seen in pairs, conspicuous and noisy, perched on exposed waterside trees.

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Red lechwe grazing by side of pool

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Southern giraffe drinking

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Young bull elephant stands his ground

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Lioness stretching

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Lioness relaxes on branch of a tree during the heat of the day.

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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) rest in shade of acacia tree during heat of day, Chief's Island,

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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) stretching in shade of acacia tree during the heat of the day on Chief's Island

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Tourists on safari watch a pride of lions from their game-viewing vehicle, Chief's Island

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Gavin Ford, safari guide, leads walking safari on Chief's Island

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Gavin Ford, safari guide and Director of Mobile Operations for Abercrombie & Kent Botswana

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A herd of elephants walk through the cathedral mopane

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Bull elephant taking a mud bath

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Bull elephant throwing dust on himself after a mudbath

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Bull elephant throwing dust on himself after a mudbath

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Buffalo rubbing against a mud-bank beside the Chobe River at sunset

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Hippopotamus in the Chobe River showing aggression

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Hippopotamus in the Chobe River

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Pied kingfisher sitting on a reed. Pied kingfishers are most often seen hovering over water while fishing then diving to seize their prey

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Banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) Greyish-brown mongoose with traverse dark bands along the body; lives in small packs of up to 12.

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Impala rams fighting to establish dominance during the rutting season

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Large herd of impala on bank of the Chobe River

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Female Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros)

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Young bull Greater Kudu

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Pack of African Wild Dogs, eyeing up some prey. The Wild Dog is distinguished from other African dogs by its large size and mottled black, brown and cream coat. Highly sociable living in packs of up to 20 animals. Ferocious hunters that tear apart their prey on the run. Threatened with extinction, Wild dogs are the most endangered of Africa's great predators

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Male ostrich leading chicks along dirt road

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Male ostrich leading chicks along dirt road.

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Lion cub

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Lion cub suckling from its mother

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Red lechwe females feeding on the edge of a lagoon. Their hooves are splayed and adapted to bounding through water

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Male kudu standing in shade

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Giant Eagle Owl silhouetted against red sky at sunset. Common Large Grey owl with pink eyelids and dark brown eyes at all ages, has ear tufts but not always raised. Lives singly in large trees in bushveld especially along rivers and watercourses

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Pels Fishing Owl. Uncommon and very large owl with cinnamon underparts and rufous-brown upperparts. Fishes in quiet pools or slow running water from a low perch dropping feet first onto its prey

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Male lechwe silhouetted against lagoon at sunset. Lechwe's hooves are splayed and adapted to bounding through muddy water

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Bull elephant drinking reflected in water of Khwai River

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Water lilies carpet much of the Okavango's channels

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Lydia Daka, one of camp staff at Kwara Camp

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Poling a mokoro (dug-out canoe) through the waterways of the Okavango

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Poling a mokoro (dug-out canoe) through the narrow waterways in the Okavango

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Tent ladies and managers of Pom Pom Camp greet new guests

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Safari vehicle crossing the Khwai river bridge

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Aerial view of the delta

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Aerial view of the delta

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Gavin Ford, safari guide, underneath one of Baines' Baobabs, an islolated copse of ancient baobabs in the Kalahari desert.

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Baines' Baobabs, an islolated copse of ancient baobabs in the Kalahari desert.

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Baines' Baobabs, an isolated copse of ancient Baobabs in the Kalahari desert.

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Bathroom of luxury tented room, Chief's Camp, Chief's Island.

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Interior of main sitting room at Chief's Camp, Chief's Island.

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