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Hello, we were just in Kenya. When we got there, we met up with our guide David. David was going to spend more than a week with us and I was excited because from the minute we met him, he was really cool.

The first place David took us was Amboseli National Park. We flew there in the morning and we were able to see Mount Kimimanjaro, which is the biggest mountain in Africa. There was a big herd of elephants there and one of them was named Echo. Echo is a famous elephant because somebody has been researching her for a long, long time and even made a movie about her. Echo is easy to pick out because she has really big tusks and one of them is crooked. She's the leader of a big herd and we got to see her and her family pass right by our jeep.

On one of the game drives, we saw a whole bunch of hyenas relaxing on some rocks by the water, so we called it "hyena beach." Later that day, we saw a really newborn wildebeest! We were all excited to see the baby get up and walk, but because it was so windy, it had a hard time. It takes humans about a year to walk, but this baby wildebeest walked after only 15 minutes. It was super duper cool to see. The next day when we were walking around our lodge we met some of the workers who were taking care of an orphaned wildebeest baby they found. It was really cute and they allowed us to pet it.

Hello everybody. I was just at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia. At CCF, their job is to take in injured or orphaned cheetahs and bring them back to health. Sometimes the cheetahs have problems, like not being able to hunt, so CCF has to keep them for their entire lives, or give them to a zoo. Right now they have 50 cheetahs that live there. They also educate farmers about co-existing with the cheetahs, so that more cheetahs can live safely in the wild.

On our first day at CCF, we met Bruce (the general manager of CCF), who took us to feed their three five-month-old cheetah cubs, named Phoenix, Seria, and Quasar. They were like adorable little housecat-sized cheetahs. We got to feed them by putting a little piece of meat in our palm and they would come and eat it off our hand. We even got to pet them. It felt really amazing to be with baby cheetahs, because it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Even though they've been raised by hand since they were three days old, you can really tell that they are still wild, so petting them was really exciting.

Hello out there! I just came from Namibia where we went to the Cheetah Conservation Fund--CCF for short. At CCF, they take care of cheetahs when they can't survive in the wild, like if they are orphaned as babies and haven't been taught how to hunt by their mother. They also breed Anatolian herding dogs, which they give to farmers to protect their cattle. The dogs are trained to scare cheetahs away by barking at them real loud. They grow up to be really huge dogs. Since the dog scares away the cheetahs, the farmers don't shoot them. So that's the purpose of CCF ... protecting the cheetahs.

When we arrived, we met three five-month old baby cheetahs. Their names were Quasar (the leader), Seria (the only girl in the group), and Phoenix (the independent one). We even got to feed them little chunks of meat. When they would eat it, there would be a little juice on our hands, so they would lick it off. Cheetahs' tongues feel like sandpaper and it tickles a lot. Whenever we got to see and feed the baby cheetahs we called it "cubby time." And we were really lucky because we had cubby time every day we were there, which was super fun.

Hello people. We just spent seven great days on safari in Botswana and spent most of it with the same guide named Charles. He was really nice and had a great personality. Charles came with us to two different camps, so we had two different trackers when we were with him. Our first tracker (they look for the animals) was Mr. Mo and he was really good at spotting stuff. Our next tracker was "Kenny the Cat." He was really amazing at spotting big cats.

The first camp we stayed in was called Lebala, which had really nice tents. On our first day there we saw a big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big herd of elephants. We saw babies playing and male elephants pretending to fight. I was amazed watching all of them together in such a huge area.

Hello everyone. Let me start out by describing the tiny airport in the city of Kasane, Botswana.  When we got called to board our flight, we were really surprised that we weren't getting on a normal plane like the ones you enter through a gate and all. Ours was a six-seater prop plane that was no longer than 15 feet! It was really cool to be in such a small plane and even cooler to be able to look down the aisle and see the pilot working all the controls of the plane.

After the 45-minute flight, we landed at an airstrip that was no more than a dirt clearing for the plane to land on. When we got off, we were greeted by Charles, who would be our guide for the next five days. He drove us for about 15 minutes through the African bush to Kwando's Lebala Camp, where we spent our first three nights in Botswana.  

After settling into the camp, we went for our first game drive. One of the first things we saw was a huge herd of elephants. There were easily over one hundred of them. There were some young male elephants in the group that would play fight and it looked like they were having a wrestling match with their trunks. At one point, a big male elephant came right up to our tracker, Mr. Mo, who sits in a small chair off the hood of the jeep, and tried to intimidate him by swinging his trunk around. Mr. Mo knew it was all a big show and didn't budge. Eventually, the elephant left us alone.