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Kiyomizu-dera, in Kyoto

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I can’t explain the skeptical look

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Detail

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Wade looked at all our options for our remaining time in Japan, and decided - somewhat to my surprise - that what he most wanted to do was climb another volcano. So we climbed Mt. Fuji!

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We took a nighttime cruise around Yokohama harbor, which is ringed by a range of different industrial facilities.

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Our first day in Tokyo, we visited a cat cafe. I think Wade really missed Jade & Grem.

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A less floofy resident of the cafe

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Pingxi, Taiwan - Wade decorating our “sky lantern”

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The finished drawing

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Preparing to launch

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Up it goes!

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Taipei 101 - the tallest building in the world …for a few years, until the Burj Khalifa was completed.

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The view from the top

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The tuned mass damper near the top - protection against typhoons and earthquakes, since both are pretty common here.

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We were just walking along in this public park, in Bangkok, when we saw this ~3-4 ft long Water Monitor Lizard wandering past.

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Aaaand then we saw this much larger fella, ~5-6 ft long. That’s a large lizard to encounter in a public park.

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Bangkok, Thailand - Wade and I both really enjoy the aesthetic of tumbledown building along the river side.

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That’s all the photos I’m gonna post of India because I’m mad at it. 😂

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At the Taj Mahal, on Wade’s 17th birthday. The craziest, most impressive thing about the Taj is the intricate inlay work in the marble … which we didn’t capture in photos at all. Nevertheless.

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Agrasen Ki Baoli, in Delhi - a stepwell built in the 10th century to provide people with access to water during dry periods

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An African Wolf, according to the Internet; a Golden Jackal according to our guide.

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A Black-Backed Jackal

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Thompson’s Gazelle. These guys are everywhere in Serengeti.

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A Baobab tree in Tarangire National Park.

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Cape Buffalo

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We saw a couple of hyenas, but I didn’t get any pictures. I did get this one, though, of a hyena’s footprint, left overnight, right outside our “luxury tent” accommodations. The buffalo also left tracks there, and we heard but did not see jackals.

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Big Birds

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Medium-size Birds. (Crowned Cranes)

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Cheetah!

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A shrike. They apparently make a habit of impaling prey on plant spikes, both as food storage and to impress mates. (Look it up!)

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Rock Agama. Pretty amazing color.

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I did not know that Vervet Monkeys have turquoise testicles, but they do!

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A mature male lion, taking a break from his mating duties (his lady was chilling nearby).

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Many hippos. Generally, our guide told us, they spend all day floating and snoozing, then come out to graze at night.

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Big ole crocodile

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Waterbuck

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Pumba

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Camo Donkeys

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Kori Bustsrd

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Ground Hornbill. What a dinosaur-looking bird.

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Serengeti sunset

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Vervet Monkey

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Impala

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Bizarre long-necked megafauna

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Topi

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Hippos!

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Egyptian Goose with goslings

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Mongoose (No relation)

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Hyrax. Jus a lil’ guy.

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After a couple of days of rest, we started our safari in Serengeti. One of the first animals we saw was one of the ones Wade was most looking forward to, as a cat-lover: a serval!

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