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Thanks for reading! As you can see, we had an incredible time on our journey!

Here are our favorites and not so favorites....

Favorite Swahili Phrase: Moja Pombe (one beer)
Fun words: Coconut, Kidude, Bububu
Favorite geckos: Mongo & Pongo
Best Hotel: Ras Nungwi
Best Lodge: Lake Manyara Serena
Best Rustic Lodge: Buhoma Homestead
Favorite Animals: Cheetah, Lion, Hippo, Gorilla, Chimp
Best Park: Serengeti
Runner Up Park: Masai Mara
Scariest Spider: Hairy Tarantula looking thing in the Maasai Mara Sopa bathroom
Worst Accommodation: Kibale Treehouse
Most Hoity Toity: Giraffe Manor
Best Bad Experience: *Tie* Mike Getting his backpack stolen & returned, Begging for $$ in Zanzibar
Scariest Experience: Mike face to face with a silverback gorilla
Best Restaurant: The Carnivore
Favorite Driver: Michael
Best Vehicle: The Attack Van in Kenya
Best Waiter: Rogers at Buhoma Homestead (Bwindi, Uganda)
Best Soda: Fanta...Orange & Pineapple
Best Beer: Nile Special
Most Fun Game: Bao
Best Nightlife: The Streets of Stone Town, Zanzibar
Best View: View of Ocean from our Ras Nungwi Porch, Runner ups are the Ngorongoro Crater from the our sun room at the NC Sopa and the view of Maasai Mara from Balloon
Most strenuous walk: Day 2 Gorilla Trek
Best Local Foods: Ugali & Matooke
Best Breakfast: Everywhere was good! Ras Nungwi was best though.
Favorite Giraffe at the Manor: Jock
Best kitties: Moivaro Coffee Plantation

Animals Seen:
Agama Lizard
Baboon
Bat Eared Fox
Blue Monkey
Bottlenose Dophin
Buffalo
Bushbuck
Cheetah
Chimpanzee
Crocodile
DikDik
Eland Gazelle
Elephant
Giraffe
Gorilla
Hartebeest
Hippo
Hyena (Spotted)
Hyrax (Rock)
Impala
Grant Gazelle
Jackel (Golden)
Jackel (Silver Backed)
Leopard
Leopard Tortoise
Lion
Lion (Tree Climbing)
Mongoose (Banded)
Mongoose (Dwarf)
Mongoose (Marsh)
Mongoose (Slender)
Oribe
Python
Red Colobus Monkey
Rhino (White)
Salvol Cat
Thomson Gazelle
Topi
Uganda Antelope
Vervet Monkey
Warthog
Waterbuck
Wildebeest
Zebra

Birds Seen:
-Black & White King Fisher
-Augur Buzzard
-Crested Hoope
-Crown Crane
-Dark Chanting Goshawk
-Egyptian Goose
-Fischer's Lovebirds
-Fish Eagle
-Flamingo
-Goliath Heron
-Gray Headed Kingfisher
-Gray Heron
-Great White Egret
-Guinea Fowl
-Hadada Ibis
-Kori Bustard
-Lilac Breasted Lola
-Little Egret
-Maribou Stork
-Mouse Bird
-Nubian Vulture
-Ostrich
-Pelican
-Red-Cheeked Cordon Bleu
-Red Egret
-Red legged Spur Fowl
-Redbill Hornbill
-Sacred Ibis
-Sand Grouse
-Secretary Bird
-Superb Starling
-Watercress
-White Backed Vulture
-White Heron
-Yellow Billed Stork

Beer Tally:
Serengeti
Kilimanjaro
Safari
Nile Special
Bell
Club
Pilsner Lager
Tusker