Hello. Today we watched the sun rise over Mt. Kilimanjaro (means mountain of snow). At over 19,000 feet high it dominates the landscape and is beautiful. We couldn't see it yesterday afternoon because of the clouds so we were very happy to see it at 6:30 this morning. We are in Amboseli park and we have seen lions, elephants, giraffes, wildebeasts, hyenas, gazelles etc. There are no leopards here anymore because all of the trees are dying. They are being killed by the long horned beatle. They drill hundreds of holes in the wood and then the tree crumbles. Its a very sad sight to see... trees lyiing down all over the place. For some reason they don't care too much for the palm trees. It was very interesting to watch the animals late yesterday
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