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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swissboy" data-source="post: 3519229" data-attributes="member: 4926">Last day: day 16 was mostly another transfer day, only a bit of birding in the morning. Somewhere along the road there are the Kaku ponds where we stopped for a few minutes. Apparently, in November these were almost dry. Now, there was quite a bit of water and there were lots of birds, though no definite new species. But we were a bit far as getting closer makes one lose the overview. At any rate, this place had an impressive number of birds in an equally impressive variety. A scope was definitely needed, however. I had brought along my own scope, and Deo had one as well. So we were very comfortably equipped whenever it made sense to use a scope. As part of our wanting to be able to really see the birds well approach, the scopes were ideal. Finally, I'm including three typical roadside impressions: fruit/vegetable stands were usually concentrated in some places. Our guides replenished their food supply to bring home. Busses are often rather pushy, and the Global Coaches in particular. Thus, it's not so clear whom the "SURVIVOR" is addressed to, their passengers or the cars they just passed. They have a number of different slogans that I did not pay attention to at first. Roadside selling includes a wide variety of items, the depicted clothes being particularly colorful.As our flight was an early afternoon flight, there would not have been enough time to securely catch it on the last day of the tour. So we spent another night at the hotel where we had started out from. There had been some rains on return, thus clearing the haze and smoke traces that had accompanied us for the whole tour. So we finally got to see Lake Victoria from the hotel as its name implied.</blockquote>

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