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This is an alpaca named, Adam. A special thanks to Andy and Debbie Torgerson who own LooseEnds Alpaca Farm near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota for letting me photograph some of their beautiful alpacas. They are magnificent creatures!

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I also spent some time on Friday afternoon at the Denver Zoo. It was a hot day, and this Grizzly Bear was just trying to chill like everyone else.

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A zebra colt rests in Ngorongoro Crater.

See the complete post-climb safari set here.

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Late afternoon view from Lake Manyara Lodge in Tanzania as the rains fall on the lake and Rift Valley below.

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A hippo opens wide in a pool near Lake Manyara in Tanzania.

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It’s sunset at Tarangire Safari Lodge in Tanzania, and the end of a rewarding day in Tarangire (pronounced Taa-raa-nghee-reh) National Park. Today, we watched giraffes, baboons, impalas, eagles, elephants, elephants and more elephants. The lodge is built on a high bluff overlooking the Tarangire River and plains below.

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As luck would have it, on day one of our post-climb safari, we arrived at Tarangire National Park in Tanzania just as a baboon troop was beginning its karaoke hour. Pictured above is one of the troop’s more talented members attempting “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”

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A view from the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater into its Eden-like interior. We didn’t go down into the crater on the way to The Serengeti, but we planned on coming back on Feb. 17th after the climb of Kilimanjaro to do just that.

Serengeti Safari Flickr photo/video set here.