Burundi

Burundi: Bujumbura

Downtown Bujumbura, from the Burundi Palace Hotel

Monument at spot where Stanley found Livingstone

Graham gatecrashes Stanley-Livingstone meeting

Thierry (Guide) + Graham

Fishing boats on Lake Tanganyika

Digging clay for bricks To be later fired.

Oil palm fruit

Pressing out the palm oil

Independence Monument

Louis Rwagasore, Hero of Independence Asassinated after two weeks as PM

Unity Monument Sticks bound together are strong

Burundi: Source du Nil

Commemorative Pyramid for the Source of the Nile

Pyramid Plaque (1938)

Graham at the Nile Pyramid

View NW, over the Nile watershed

The source spring itself! Starting off on a 4000 miles journey North

Behold, the Source of the Nile!

Burundi: Gitega Area

Busy market day at a small town

Gitega: National Museum

Gitega: National Museum

Burundi: Gishora Drummers

Formet Royal hut/palace

Drum Procession

Post-drumming group photo

Seychelles

Seychelles: Victoria

Small Clock Tower A replica of "Little Ben" on Vauxhall Bridge Rd, London

National Museum: 17th c ship cannon

Modern "portrait" of famous pirate Olivier le Vasseur, hanged 1730

18th c "Tresure Chest" found in 1994

Liberty Monument

Unity Monument

Seychelles: Victoria Botanic Gardens: Aldabra Giant Tortoises

Seychelles: Island Tour

Anse Royale Beach

Coco de Mer "The world's largest seed"

Cocoa tree, with pods Pods growing directly off branches

Aldabra tortoise

Aldabra tortoises at play They were quite noisy, too.

Sauzier Waterfall

Island view

Mauritius

Mauritius: Dodos

Mauritius Institute: Home of the Dodo Gallery

Charming animatronic dodo It wiggles its wings and opens its beak

Complete Dodo skeleton

Dodo skeleton

Re-imagined dodo

Mauritius: Port Louis

Queen Victoria Statue

Port Loius, from Fort Adelaide

Rather grim Fort Adelaide

Jummah Mosque

Mauritius: South-West Tour

View from Westin Turle Bay Resort

Grand Bassin: Giant Shiva statue

Grand Bassin: Ganesh statue

Gran Bassin

Grand Bassin

Spiky Mountain

Alexndra Falls

Black River Gorges view

Andu's Waterfall

Chamarel Waterfall

Chamarel "Seven colored Earth" (ho hum)

More Aldabra tortoises

Pieter Both mountain With head-shaped boulder perched on top

Nairobi

Nairobi National Museum

Turkana Boy skeleton

Comoros

View from Itsandra Beach Hotel

Resident tortoise at Itsandra Beach Hotel

Moroni Mosque

Debris from 1977 lava flow

Where 1977 lava entered the ocean

Ourovéni fishing village

Foumbouni mosque

Old Foumbouni

Foumbouni waterfront

Chindini Beach

Iconi old city

Iconi mosque

View from Iconi

Ruins of Iconi Palace

Colorful spider in Iconi Palace ruins