Elephant Land

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With the first rays of light coloring the sky in the Serengeti park in Tanzania, the silhouette of the great African elephant rises in the meadow, imposing itself as if it were the sole owner of the great grasslands of the endless steppe.

Serengeti Park, Tanzania (Google Maps)

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 28-70mm F2.8.

African Woman

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Walking and meeting a Masai woman with the first rays of the sun over the landscape in the African steppes of Tanzania. Take the photo where this town has lived for so many years, with its brightly colored clothing that contrasts the dark winter ground.

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 28-70mm F2.8.

By The Water

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The Tarangire National Park (Tanzania) must be one of the places with the most diversity of African fauna, as shown by the photo of relaxed zebras drinking water while deer watch them with total indifference.

Tarangire Park, Tanzania (Google Maps)

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 400mm F4.5.

Hunter's Look

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One of the richest experiences has been living with the African natives: The Hadzabe tribe, the last hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. Being able to witness the last 1000 inhabitants separated into small groups. Capture their gaze that is the same, from their ancestors, in a continuous present where the future stops.

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 80-200mm F2.8.

Giraffe One

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One of the first parks one visits is Arusha. It is a reserve located in the North of Tanzania. It is the territory of Mount Meru, which is home to a rich variety of flora and fauna on its grounds, such as this group of giraffes, one so curious that I couldn't resist taking a photo of it as if I were posing.

Arusha Park, Tanzania (Google Maps)

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 80-200mm F2.8.

I'm Looking You

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Being able to witness in the impenetrable jungle in Uganda, the gaze of the mountain gorillas, where the silverback Alpha male is the boss, the caretaker of a pod of 16 members, where the juvenile gorillas sneak behind their mother's back or they play with other members on branches of trees with high vegetation where from time to time that almost human look of primates meets our eyes.

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 80-200mm F2.8.

Picasso's Look

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Be attentive in the parks of Tanzania, so that in a moment images like that of zebras emerge and you capture in that fraction of seconds works of art as only nature in its entirety gives you.

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 400mm F4.5.

Mighty Rhino

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Uganda must be one of the countries where they have had the most success in rhino reproduction. Like the Ziwa sanctuary that was founded in 2005. Sadly, some of the species of these mammals are in danger of extinction. It is estimated that the sanctuary shelters approximately 50 white and black rhinos in its 7,000 hectares. In the photo a white rhinoceros.

Ziwa Sanctuary, Uganda (Google Maps)

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 80-200mm F2.8.

Future of Africa

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Being able to visit a Masai tribe in Tanzania, and see the school where the children attend as hope for the best future that their people and every corner of Africa deserves.

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 80-200mm F2.8.

Giraffes Walk

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Witnessing the walk of such a colossal and at the same time so elegant living being, blending into the early morning landscape, is just being grateful for that great moment.

Tanzania, Africa (Google Maps)

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 28-70mm F2.8.

Mystical Tree

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Tarangire National Park has the baobad tree, an icon of Tanzania known for its inverted appearance. They are native to the African continent. As someone says, the baobab tree is certainly not in a hurry. And why should it be? If you have all the time in the world. These bulbous woody giants can live between two and three thousand years, although some are thought to be up to four thousand.

Tarangire Park, Tanzania (Google Maps)

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 28-70mm F2.8. 

Nice Scratch

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It is not surprising to come across herds of elephants in the Tarangire National Park, where a tree can be used to scratch and thus deworm itself from ticks and other insects by rubbing its wrinkled skin against the bark.

Tarangire Park, Tanzania (Google Maps)

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 80-200mm F2.8.

Holy River

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The OI Doinyo Legai volcano is located south of Lake Natron. It is nicknamed the God Mountain and is a sacred place for the Maasai, who believe in their God, Eng'ai. In the photo the Maasai guide guiding us next to the slope.

OI Doinyo Legai, Tanzania (Google Maps)

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 28-70mm F2.8.

Carry Me, Mom.

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High mountain gorillas again in Uganda. The mother carrying her little one on her lap and his expression trusting in maternal love.

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 80-200mm F2.8.

Inmortal Elephants

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Finding the angle when two elephants cross paths in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to immortalize that moment in an image in the middle of the steppe where the end cannot be seen.

Serengeti Park, Tanzania (Google Maps)

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 80-200mm F2.8.

Zebra's Spot

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Zebras in Tarangire National Park crossing the imposing ancient baobad tree in Tanzania.

Tarangire Park, Tanzania (Google Maps)

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 28-70mm F2.8.

Marital Quarrel

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Ngorongoro National Park (Tanzania) is a protected area in northern Tanzania. In addition to housing the extensive Ngorongoro volcanic crater, it serves as a habitat for the big five animals that were once hunted: elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos and rhinos. These hippos were photographed in the middle of a dispute over a piece of the swamp where they live.

Ngorongoro Park, Tanzania (Google Maps)

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 400mm F4.5.

Is This an Ambush?

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As I already mentioned in the presentation of this section, I took this photo of the cheetah on my 66th birthday in Tanzania. It was a magnificent morning, where the slender feline posed on top of a termite head, observing the Serengeti steppe with total indifference. A group of wildebeests remained on alert for the speed king of the African continent.

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 400mm F4.5.

Coexistence

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Another photo of Tarangire, a national park in Tanzania, where biodiversity is on display as you walk through the park. Lagoons where water is concentrated, it is a good place where everyone gathers, especially in winter, dry season without rain.

Tarangire Park, Tanzania (Google Maps)

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 80-200mm F2.8.

African Sunrise

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Dawn in the middle of nature, among the foliage of the trees, typical landscape of the endless pampas of that corner of Africa, appreciate the ocher colors that color the sky that covers immense grasslands from where you can hear the laughter of the lurking hyena, The growl of the lion, its main enemy, as if disputing the sovereignty of the Serengeti, is simply the best of experiences.

Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2. Lens: 28-70mm F2.8.