Africa – Curious Cat Travel Photo Blog https://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net Sat, 06 Mar 2021 16:29:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 Decorated House in Nigeria https://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/2021/04/06/decorated-house-in-nigeria/ https://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/2021/04/06/decorated-house-in-nigeria/#respond Tue, 06 Apr 2021 16:22:45 +0000 https://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/?p=925 decorated clay house in Nigeria

Photo of this decorated house in Nigeria (or maybe Niger) by Bill Hunter (see more photos by Bill Hunter).

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Art by John Hunter when I was in Nigeria (and was 10 years old).

Related: A younger me – 911 Memorial, New York City (Ceramic Tiles on a Fence) – Stuart Davis Painting, Los Angels County Museum of Art – Buenos Aires Street Art

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This is a photo (by my father) of my early experience with vanlife. My family took this VW Van in Kenya when I was a kid. We only spent a couple weeks in Kenya before living in Nigeria for a school year.

I remember at one point getting stuck in a dried out riverbed in a game park after having passed a small herd of elephants just a short while before. We had to get out and push the van free and watch it zoom forward to safe ground while I thought about the elephants getting curios and deciding to see what the fuss was about. It was quite fun once I was back in the van.

Related: Exploring Vanlife in the USA – Cheetahs in Kenya – Kenya Game Park Safari photos – Elephants, Kenya (on a later trip)

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This site had a large number of statues and other art displays. Photo by William Hunter.

“Susanne Wenger, a European, who has lived in Oshogbo, Nigeria, for many years, has been interested in religious symbols, dreams, fairy tales of the Yoruba. These images are syncretized in her work as shown in these two aspects of a fence and stairway in front of her home in Oshogbo.”

page 24-25, Contemporary African Arts and Crafts by Thelma Newman

Related: Egytian Statue in Front of the The Temple of Dendur at the Met in NYC – Statue of King Mankaure and His Queen (Egypt) – Cheetahs in Kenya

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Leopard at the Timbavati Game Reserve in South Africa by Justin Hunter.

Related: Cheetahs in Kenya – Elephants at a salt lick in Kenya – Kenya Game Park Safari

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Egyptian Hieroglyphs at the Met in New York City

From the Met’s Egyptian collection.

Related: Boston Museum of Fine Art – Curious Cat Egyptian travel photos – Egyptian Geese for Sale

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Elephants in Kenya

Elephants at the Ark, Aberdares National Park, Kenya. A watering hole and salt lick draw in animals for very close viewing. Later in the night a pack of lions stalked a water buffalo.

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Cheetahs in Kenya

4 cheetahs in Kenya by John Hunter. My photo safari to Kenya was absolutely fantastic. I also visited Egypt on that vacation.

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Egyptian Geese

Geese for sale in Egypt – outside of Cairo. See more photos from my trip to Egypt.

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