Colburn's Travels

10 hours ago we were on watching giraffes...now we are at a las Vegas type casino in Johannesburg.  Indoor rollercoaster, indoor mall, food courts, etc...as good or maybe better than any Las Vegas casino.

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Looking at tracks and identifying animals.  It was impressive how the guide could follow the animals movement history 

This is the truck we used with a 2000 year old Baobab tree in the background. This is the same toe of tree the 'built' at Disney's Animal Kingdom.

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Saw this bush bok and monkey just outside our cabin.  Hyenas and elephants walked by at night. 

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We drove for over an hour where there is no road...we are very impressed with landrovers...we literally drove over trees.

Then will literally drove through water. The truck has a pipe 4 feet above ground so it can get air for the engine. The muffler was under water and sounded like a boat. 

Then we drove through sand...:I was surprised we did not get stuck.

Our guide was following lion tracks...he could tell the age of the track by how wind broken it was.

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Elephant, buffalo plus much more

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We wart hogs, impalas. Crockodiles, baboons, antelopes, giraffes right away.

The highlight was to see a leapord...a vert rare occurance.

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We arrived into Seba Botswana in the Okavango Delta...the largest inland delta in the world.   It took 3 little airplane rides...about 5 hours in little airplanes is a lot.

Our room is 2 tents with a toy room between them and a swimming pool in front of it. It front of that is a pond with the resident hippo and crockodile.

It is surprisingly comfortable and a little cold in the morning. Also not that many mosquitos considering all the water around us.

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The 'Microsoft screen saver' dune.  Look for it under screen saver perfrences.

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The sand dunes of Namibia....the main attraction we saw.

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Alex quote of the day 'how come we in the middle of nowhere?'

24 hours ago we were in Hong Kong....in the middle of the building jungle.

View from our room...and view at sunset.  Surprisingly good temperature in the shade, but the sun really hits you out of it.

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We took a small airplane to the Sossusvlei desert wilderness camp.

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Made it to S Africa. Waiting for our flights to Namibia for 2 nights and Botswana for 3 nights.

Might not have internet for a few days....

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We finished the day with fireworks at Disneyland ... We stayed to closing at 7:30pm. 

Then a  quick 30 minute tour of Hong Kong and still 3 hours to our 13.5 hour flight to. S Africa.

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Our last bed was in India...our next bed is in Africa... and we are in Hong Kong.

It is a small world after all.

They are opening this ride next week....we were testers.

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Dancing High School Musical.

A lot less people...but the park looks the same.  Been to space moutain with 5 min lines 3 times.

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We decided to turn our long layover into somethnig useful....Disneyland Hong Kong.

It was a surprise for the kids. They were excited.

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Observatory in Jaipur.

Largest sundial in the world accurate to 2 seconds.

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2 of the kids were very scared.

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With elephant ride and all. 

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In Agra, India.

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Eric very excited about seeing some Ferrari cars traversing India...never mind the camels next to the road.

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From the 16th century.

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Yet one more pict.

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Taj Mahal

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The Taj is smaller than you think ... Not ... (234 feet)

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Very beautiful...smelly at the entrance :)

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Arrived in India.

Tumb of Akaba, leader 5 centuries back,  5 hours south of Delhi...with Hummer and all.

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In Hong Kong on a long layover to India. Watching 'lost in space' series on an iPod.

Flight in was very bumpy...I thing a typhoon is near buy. 

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We ate at the fish market...pick a fish...have a restaurant cook
it...unless you are eating sashimi.

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After a very very long day we went to the Peking opera.

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No more to say.

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Different chambers of the Ming tombs. Around this area (17km) there are 13 tombs.

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Elephant at the Ming tombs.

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Forbiden city.  

Everyone is very interested in the kids...been in a lot of pictures.

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"what did we see before the teriyaki warriors?"

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The kids are very popular here.

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Built to protect the emperor during the Qin dynasty after death. There are about 8000 and were discovered by accident 1974.

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In Xian

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1.5 kids asleep.

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After a long flight.

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K12 is the home school program we have been using ... Also the gate in Chicago :)

Now we are off to our 14:30 hour flight...might be the longest we have been.

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First stop on our 36 flights is Shanghai.

Funny story...still in the jetway Rebeca say she needs to go to the bathroom, but we will will have to go upstairs because the closest one is closed for repairs. ... she know the airport well.

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