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June14th to June 28th 2008

A walking Safari with Undiscovered Destinations

The journey is split up as follows.

Around Dar Es Salaam

Getting to the Selous National Park

Around Kilwa

Birds of the Selous National Park

Other Wild Life

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Around Dar Es Salaam

After a delayed arrival from the Comoros Island I met the group,  Liz and David, Victoria and Simon, myself and our guide Jim Bond. 

Bagamoyo.  This is an important cultural site for Tanzania and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  Famous for its slave and ivory trade it was the first capital of Tanzania under German Colonial rule until it moved to Dar Es Salaam in 1892.

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Travel to Selous National Park

We left for the railway station for our departure at 0900.  Quite civilized even if the seats were rather hard.  Arriving at our 'station' (no platform) at 1325.  Drove to our nicely set up camp and had a walk before supper (Impala Kebabs).

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A circular walk around the camp with a stop for lunch.  Saw two Lioness amongst other wild life.

 

Second walk

A lateral walk with a stop mid-day beside an interesting pool.

 

Third walk

Two walks with lunch at camp.

 

Fourth walk

After a drive to avoid the Black Cotton Soil we had a good long walk.

 

Fifth walk

A good walk to a lake before lunch followed by a short drive and then a long walk beside the lake.

 

Sixth walk

 

Drove a short way before walking beside the river to the Rufiji River Camp.

 

Safaris by boat and jeep.

Photos of Selous National Park

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Long drive to Kilwa

 

Around Kilwa

We stayed at the Kilwa Ruins Lodge beside the ocean and visited Kilwa Kisiwani.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilwa_Kisiwani 

Birds of the Selous N P

Order of Birds is as in Birds of East Africa by T Stevenson and J Fanshawe

 

Common Squacco Heron

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Little Egret

Great Egret

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Grey Heron

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Black-headed Heron

Hamerkop

 
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Yellow-billed Stork

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African Open-billed Stork

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Marabou Stork

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Sacred Ibis

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Hadada Ibis

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African Spoonbill

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Egyptian Goose

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Black Kite

African Fish Eagle

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Palm-nut Vulture

African White-backed Vulture

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Black-chested Snake Eagle

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Brown Snake Eagle

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Dark Chanting-Goshawk

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Bateleur

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Martial Eagle

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Dickinson's Kestrel

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Helmeted Guineafowl

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Red-necked Spurfowl (Red-necked Francolin)

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African Jacana

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Black-winged Stilt

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Water Thick-knee

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Violet-tipped Courser

Spur-winged Lapwing

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White-crowned Lapwing

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Crowned Lapwing

Kittlitz's Plover

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Three-banded Plover

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African Skimmer

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Emerald-spotted Wood-dove

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Namaqua Dove

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Ring-necked Dove (Cape Turtle Dove)

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Red-eyed Dove

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Brown-headed Parrot

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White-browed Coucal

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Verreaux's Eagle-Owl (Giant Eagle Owl)

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Spotted Eagle-Owl

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Pearl-spotted Owlet

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White-rumped Swift

Speckled Mousebird

Blue-naped Mousebird

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Pied Kingfisher

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Striped Kingfisher

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Grey-headed Kingfisher

Brown-hooded Kingfisher

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Woodland Kingfisher

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Malachite Kingfisher

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Little Bee-eater

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Böhm's Bee-eater 

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White-throated Bee-eater

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Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

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Lilac-breasted Roller

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Racket-tailed Roller

Green Wood-hoopoe

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African Hoopoe

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African Grey Hornbill

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Crowned Hornbill

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Trumpeter Hornbill

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Southern Ground-hornbill

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Red-fronted Tinker-bird

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Mosque Swallow

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Wire-tailed Swallow

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African Pied Wagtail

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Common Bulbul

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White-browed Robin-Chat

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Spotted Morning-Thrush

Grey-backed Camaroptera

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Chin-spot Batis

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Black-headed Batis

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African Paradise-flycatcher

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Shelley's Sunbird

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Amethyst Sunbird

Common Fiscal (Fiscal Shrike)

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Long-tailed Fiscal

Tropical Boubou

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White-crested Helmet-shrike

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Fork-tailed Drongo

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Pied Crow

Red-billed Oxpecker

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Glossy Blue Starling

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House Sparrow

White-browed Sparrow-weaver

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Black-headed Weaver

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Green-winged Pytilia

Red-billed Quelea

Southern Cordon-bleu (Blue Waxbill)

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Red-billed Firefinch

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Eastern Paradise-Whydah

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Village Inigobird

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Other Wild Life of the Selous N P

 

Banded Mongoose

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Buffalo

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Crocodiles

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Giraffe

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Hippopotamus

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Impala

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Kudu

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Lions

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Olive Baboons

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Nile Monitor Lizard

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Spotted Hyaena

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Unstripped Ground Squirrel

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Wild Dog

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Waterbuck

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Wildebeast

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Warthog

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Zebra

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Insects

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Plants

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Baobabs

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