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Photo highlights of Kenya

In September-October 2007, I visited Kenya including the Turkana District (Lokichoggio, Kakuma refugee camp, and outlying areas); Mt. Kenya; Nairobi; the Maasai Mara; and the Loita Hills.





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Warthog



Infant elephant



Orphaned elephant drinking milk at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust



Infant elephant



Light pink lily



Turkana



Turkana



Turkana



Turkana



Turkana



Turkana



Turkana



Turkana girl



Turkana woman inside her home



Tiny magenta-colored spider



Giant Rosette Plant (Lobelia keniensis)



Lobelia telekii



Blue, orange, and green beetle on Mt. Kenya



Orange lichen



Senecio keniodendron, endemic to Mount Kenya



Mt Kenya with the endemic Senecio keniodendron in the foreground



Mt. Kenya at dawn



Mt. Kenya in the early morning



Strange plant on Mt. Kenya



Sykes's Monkey, Cercopithecus albogularis



Suni (Neotragus moschatus) on Mt. Kenya



Purple flower



Sunbird



Black Colobus monkey (Colobus angolensis)



Frog



Pair of plains zebra



Mara sunset



Red sunset



Helmeted guineafowl



African elephant (Loxodonta africana) covering its eyes with its trunk



Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)



Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)



Lion approaching a wildebeest herd



Ruppell's Vultures (Gyps rueppelli)



African Wattled Plover (Vanellus senegallus)



Impala (Aepyceros melampus )



Water buffalo



Bohor Reedbuck doe



Bohor Reedbuck doe licking her ankle



Southern Tree Hyrax with baby



Female Southern Tree Hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus) with baby



Male Defassa waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) chewing on grass



Spotted hyena



Fireball lily



Vegetation of the upper alpine zone of Mt. Kenya



Giant Rosette Plant (Lobelia keniensis)



Maasai Mara sunset



Maasai Mara sunset width buffalo



Rainstorm approaching across the Mara savanna



Sunbeams over the Mara



Maasai elder



Fireball Lily (Scadoxus multiflorus)









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