These women are at a Maasai Cultural Boma in Tanzania near Ngorogoro Crater. The palisade behind them is the inner of two palisades. The mud houses are in between the outer wall ...

Giraffes are cool. If you don’t know that then you probably have not seen one loping across the horizon. They are a symbol for peace in Tanzania (two giraffes with necks entwined) ...

I have posted photos and video of my visit to this Maasai Boma. I liked this picture that was not of the show that was being put on but instead of someone ...

These 3 ostriches look somewhat like a mythical hydra to me. You can I trust, after watching all that animal planet as a kid, spot the male ostrich in the middle (from ...

Watching a troupe of baboons walk down the road is truly one of those “I must be in Africa” moments. This photo was shot at Lake Manyara park in northern Tanzania.

The cheetah is an amazing animal to watch. It is, as you have no doubt heard, very fast. We had a chance to see this beautiful cheetah in Tanzania’s famed Ngorogoro Crater ...

These pastoral women in Tanzania are herding their donkeys. I suspect they are Maasai because of where I saw them by Lake Manyara as well as by the blue fabric that Maasai ...

Mzungo – Swahili – Person of European decent, white person. Literally translated it means “someone who roams around aimlessly”. I love this photo by Mary Fields my friend and fellow traveler on ...

This photo of an elephant from Lake Manyara in Tanzania is both an argument for the new large photo size on the Amateur Traveler as well as an argument for taking a ...

I want to focus this week on strange encounters with food while traveling. Sometimes this will be encountering strange food but in today’s photo the food was normal but the encounter was ...