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How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Road trip through Canadian prairies and national parks!

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I spent the past two months seeing tons of wildlife while visiting seven national parks, six states, and four provinces.

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  • Display inside Nelson Mandela's former home. Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • The cooling towers from a former power plant in Soweto, the famous township in Johannesburg, South Africa. They now contribute to tourism with their murals and a bungee jump platform between them.
  • Zebras often stand in pairs, facing opposite directions. That way they have the best chance of spotting predators.
  • Cape Town looks cool just before sunset! #southafrica🇿🇦 #cityskyline #capetown #igafrica #instatravel
  • Painted rhino statues can be found around Cape Town, especially at the waterfront. The blue one with paint splatters by artist Lionel Smit is my favorite.
  • Looking down from a lighthouse, we can see Africa's famous Cape of Good Hope, which you may know from its starring role in fifth grade social studies class!
  • An African penguin guards the nest. Smart move. I saw some thievery in this group. Some penguins would steal sticks from unattended nests and take them for their own. On this beach, it's every bird for themselves!
  • My first time seeing penguins in the wild! Boulders Beach has a colony of African penguins who swim there and raise their young on the beach and in the shrubs nearby.