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Sun's rays and baobab tree in the Ruaha National Park of Southern Tanzania.
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Sunrise through the hole made in a baobab tree by an elephant in the Ruaha National Park of Southern Tanzania.In dry weather,elephants eat the bark and fibrous pith of these trees,which have a high mineral and moisture content.
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Sunrise through the hole made in a baobab tree by an elephant in the Ruaha National Park of Southern Tanzania.In dry weather,elephants eat the bark and fibrous pith of these trees,which have a high mineral and moisture content.
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Sunset with silhouettes of Doum palms.The Manyara escarpment a western wall of Africa's Great Rift Valley is clearly visible in the background..
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A baobab tree silhouetted against the rays of a setting sun in a stormy sky.
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An early morning mist silhouettes acacia trees along a seasonal watercourse in Tanzania's vast Serengeti National Park. The mist will soon evaporate beneath the rays of the rising sun to herald a scorching day. .
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Sunset with a doum palm (Hyphaene coriacea) silhouetted in water at the northern end of the ephemeral alkaline lake,Eyasi,which lies in a false arm of the Great Rift Valley southeast of the Ngorongoro Highlands.
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Sunrise over Ol Doinyo Lengai, The Maasais Mountain of God, which is the only active volcano in the Gregory Rift.An important section of the eastern branch of Africas Great Rift Valley.
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Watching the sun go down behind Longido Mountain on a game drive from Tortilis Camp.
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Watching the sun go down behind Longido Mountain on a game drive from Tortilis Camp.
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Surf rolls onto a deserted beach near Bloubergstrand with Cape Town and Table Mountain behind
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A dog runs out of the surf on a beach near Bloubergstrand with Cape Town and Table Mountain behind
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Zambia,South Luangwa national park. Yellowbilled storks return to colony at sunset (Mycteria ibis) .
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Zambia,South Luangwa national park. Yellowbilled storks return to colony at sunset (Mycteria ibis) .
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Dawn over Ol doinyo Lengai, The Maasais Mountain of God, which is the only active volcano in the Gregory Rift, an important section of the eastern branch of Africas Great Rift Valley.
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View of acacia tree and safari jeep silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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View of acacia tree and safari jeep silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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Kenya,Chalbi Desert,Kalacha. A Gabbra herdsman presents a lonely figure standing under a flat-topped acacia tree on the edge of the Chalbi Desert at sunset. The Gabbra are a Cushitic tribe of nomadic pastoralists living with their herds of camels and goats around the fringe of the Chalbi Desert.
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A Gabbra herdsman presents a lonely figure in the Chalbi Desert at sunset. The Gabbra are a Cushitic tribe of nomadic pastoralists living with their herds of camels and goats around the fringe of the Chalbi Desert.
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At daybreak,cone-shaped hills accentuated by ground mist dot the foothills of the 7,000-foot-high Chyulu Hills. This beautiful range is of relatively young volcanic origin.
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Sunrise over Lake Naivasha with the Aberdare Mountains rising to a height of 13,000 feet in the distance. Lake Naivasha is the highest lake of Africa's Great Rift Valley and has the reputation as an ornithologist's paradise.
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In clear dawn light,a chain of dormant volcanoes stretches 100 miles to the east of Empaakai,one of the highest volcanoes of the Ngorongoro Highlands. First in line is Kerimasi,then Kitumbeine,and finally Kilimanjaro,Africa's highest snow-capped mountain,whose 19,340-foot-high cone-shaped peak is called Kibo . .
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A Dassanech woman carries a bundle of wood home at sunset. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) are Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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Zambia,Tongabezi Lodge,Zambezi River. Sundowners at Tongabezi,looking across the Zambezi river
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View of acacia tree silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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View of acacia tree silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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View of two trees silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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View of acacia tree silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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View of acacia tree silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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Last light over Poi,a prominent rock feature in the Ndoto Mountains of Northern Samburuland.
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Daybreak over Lake Baringo with a Goliath Heron (Ardea goliath) silhouetted in the reeds.
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At nightfall,a Turkana man fishes for tilapia and Nile perch off a spit on the barren eastern shoreline of Lake Turkana. He must be on constant lookout for crocodiles,which abound.
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Dawn breaks over Mount Meru (14,980 feet). As its shape indicates,Mount Meru is a volcano,which was formed some 20 million years ago during earth movements that created Africa's Great Rift Valley. It lasted erupted only 100 years ago. The acacia tree the attractive flat-topped thorn tree of the African plains is an Acacia tortilis.
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Two fishermen paddle home as the blood-red glow of the setting sun reflects in Malawi's vast inland sea. .
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Sunset over Mount Mulanje (9,840 feet) from the Zomba Plateau. Mulanje is the highest point in Malawi and in all of Southern Africa north of Lesotho and the Drakensberg Mountains. Rising steeply from the surrounding plains,it is a place of great natural beauty. .
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A Dassanech girl leaning against a bale of cattle fodder on a raised platform is silhouetted against the evening sky at a settlement alongside the Omo River. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) are Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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A Dassanech girl leaning against a bale of cattle fodder on a raised platform is silhouetted against the evening sky at a settlement alongside the Omo River. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) are Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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Palm trees in silhouette at dawn, Jambiani, Zanzibar, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Sunrise over the Nile in the Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Waterhole at sunset, Namutoni Camp, Etosha National Park, Namibia, Africa
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Early morning ground mist surrounds Fischer's Tower,an ancient volcanic plug,in a region of Kenya where the latent signs of volcanic activity are still evident. The Aberdare Mountains rise in the far distance. The tower was named after a German explorer,Gustav Fischer,who was the first European to reach the area in 1883.
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Traditional rafts of the Il Chamus people at sunset. Related to the Samburu,the Il Chamus live on the islands of Lake Baringo. They make a unique raft from the light wood of the Ambatch tree that grows in swampy ground around the lake.
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A Gabbra herdsman drives his camels across the Chalbi Desert at sunset. The Gabbra are a Cushitic tribe of nomadic pastoralists living with their herds of camels and goats around the fringe of the Chalbi Desert.
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Camels belonging to the Gabbra in the Chalbi Desert at sunset. The Gabbra are a Cushitic tribe of nomadic pastoralists living with their herds of camels and goats around the fringe of the Chalbi Desert.
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Camels belonging to the Gabbra in the Chalbi Desert at sunset. The Gabbra are a Cushitic tribe of nomadic pastoralists living with their herds of camels and goats around the fringe of the Chalbi Desert.
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At daybreak,a jahazi ( a wooden sailing boat,smaller than an ocean-going dhow) sails out of Mombasa Old Port,past the battlements of Fort Jesus. The Portuguese built the fort at the entrance to the harbour between 1593 and 1598. In the first half of the 20th century,it was used as a prison but it is now a national museum.
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Sunrise against a silhouette of an acacia (flat-topped thorn tree) festooned with weaver birds nests.
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Philippines,Palawan Province,Busuanga Island,Coron Town. Sunset over Coron Bay and fishing boat.
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An elephant looks menacing in front of a baobab tree in the Ruaha National Park of Southern Tanzania.In dry weather,elephants eat the bark and fibrous pith of these trees,which have a high mineral and moisture content.
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An elephant looks menacing in front of a baobab tree in the Ruaha National Park of Southern Tanzania.In dry weather,elephants eat the bark and fibrous pith of these trees,which have a high mineral and moisture content.
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Hungry seagulls silhouetted againt the sunset in the harbour at Essaouira. The seagulls are atracted to the area where the market workers clean the fish.
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Botswana,Okavango Delta,Moremi Game Reserve. Male Lechwe (Kobus lechwe) silhouetted against lagoon at sunset. Lechwe's hooves are splayed and adapted to bounding through muddy water.
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Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kazinga Channel, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Walking safari from Bilimungwe Bushcamp cross the Kapamba River at sunset,Zambia
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Zambia,Lower Zambesi National Park. A couple canoeing on the Zambesi River under a mackeral sky.
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USA,Utah,Bryce Canyon National Park. Sunset on Bristlecone Pine Trees aged at about 3000 years old
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Early morning ground mist surrounds Fischer's Tower,an ancient volcanic plug,in a region of Kenya where the latent signs of volcanic activity are still evident. The Aberdare Mountains rise in the far distance. The tower was named after a German explorer,Gustav Fischer,who was the first European to reach the area in 1883.
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Dassanech children play on the bank of the Omo River at sunset. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) are Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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Ethiopia, Southwest Ethiopia, Omo River.Sunset on the banks of the Omo River near a Dassanech village.Two dome shaped granaries are just visible in the trees.
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Sunset over the fumaroles of Lake Abbe.Lake Abbe, on the border of Djibouti and Ethiopia, is the last in a line of alkaline lakes in which the Awash River dissipates. The jagged pinnacles and spires close to the lake were formed thousands of years ago when volcanic gases bubbled up through the bottom of an ancient lake that was 100 feet deeper than it is today.
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View of acacia tree silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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Colorful cloudy sky just before sunrise, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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View of topi (Damaliscus lunatus) and tree silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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Sahara Desert, Hoggar Mountains, sunrise over Assekrem, Algeria, North Africa
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Gabbra tribesmen watch over their camels at a water hole on the edge of the Chalbi Desert. The Gabbra are a Cushitic tribe of nomadic pastoralists living with their herds of camels and goats around the fringe of the Chalbi Desert.
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Mount Kenya at sunrise. At 17,058 feet,Mount Kenya is Africa's second highest snow-capped mountain. Its peak is the hard plug of a huge ancient volcano that was active 5 million years ago.
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