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While on safari in Kenya & Tanzania, we accompanied a couple of lionesses on their hunt for zebra. Rest assured, the presence of cars in this stage of the hunt did not stop them for catching and eating an actual zebra.

I liked the pattern these columns formed in Park Güell, Barcelona. Took some patience to capture it "people-less": it was Mayday, which is a holiday in Spain, so lots of Barcelonians were out and about as well as the tourists.

As I wrote in my travel report back in 2002 about this photo:

"Then, something moves on the horizon. At first, to our unexperienced eyes, it looks like a thick brush with lots of sticks jutting up. Our guide, on the other hand, recognizes it as a group of ostrich chicks. Baby ostriches? How can there be so many of them!

The guide explains that each male will herd several females to a nesting hollow, where they will lay up to 30 eggs. Only one female, the major hen, will incubate the eggs along with the male.

The chicks are in a state, since their parents and caretakers are on the other side of the road and they are afraid to cross. They continue to run up and down on the plain, never breaking formation, even long after we have passed."

While visiting a Maasai village in Amboseli National Park (Kenya), these men demonstrated their fire-making skills.