There were in a wood on a roadside giraffes, as the ghosts combined from patches of light of the sun and shadows of foliage. In height about the two-storeyed house, and at once you will not make out. They cost at a track, as the lifted barriers! And, as before a barrier, it is necessary to brake. Giraffes do not pass a track, and as though in a slowed-up way fly. Surprising gait - any fluid and deliquescent fluctuation.
Has passed, having buried in the ground a nose, black-backed jackal: to a floor-fox, a floor-wolf. Red, with a dark saddle on to a back. Black-backed, gold, saddled, a black back - here how many at it names. Perceptible an animal!
Mince wart-hog. The flat muzzle bear cautiously as if a tray with glasses, - spill are afraid. “Glasses” - four cut canines from under lips. All muzzle in tuber and knobs: two tubers under the eyes, two a nose. On eyes the predatory bang, on cheeks shaggy whiskers. A kind desperate. Lives wart-hog in the ground. An earthen wild boar: in a hole sleeps, in a hole of pigs deduces, in a hole it is hidden. On run short legs flash. At a hole will by all means be developed and will squeeze into it back. By itself a hole will stop up. And towards will expose from a hole pineal a muzzle with canines-daggers. Not at each leopard on such the paw will rise…
In the party under acacias elephants. Hunched extinguish as a heap of dark boulders. One passes a track, being mown and swinging a head. Goes easily and silently, as if legs at it rubber. Politely makes way. Also it seems, all understands: very intelligent eye looks at you through “keyhole”!
Wide gleam in a wood, the red, trampled clay. And in the middle - muddy small lake. An animal watering place. But while animal soul. Coast all studded hoofs. The cow traces of giraffes, only twice it is more, shy heart hoofs impala, dents of curve hoofs of a gnu, rough hoofs of buffalo s, horse not heeled hoofs of zebras, traces of the heavy hippopotamus. Elephant’s traces, hoofs a clumsy wild boar wart-hog, the cat’s, soft trace of a lion, jackals.

On will much opens. Here you understand, why animals such. Why the giraffe is similar to a bell tower, and at wart-hog are erased knees. For what to a bird-rhinoceros a beak-horn. Why the hippopotamus on legs- dumpling.
Black fenny coast are trampled by hoofs of buffalo s. Bunches of a green marsh grass stick out. Huge coal bags was stuck in a pool dirty buffalo s. Lay: chew in doze, and a number white herons.
At coast in small lake “hummock” has emerged. On it two protruding eyes natterjack eyes. A hummock with eyes! The hippopotamus it is not visible, from above only eyes, ears yes nostrils. And it sees all, all hears. Easily and conveniently to it in water: the hippopotamus in weightlessness! It is not necessary to hold on legs- dumpling I extinguish in three tons.
Crocodiles do not touch hippopotamuses: very much they thick-skinned! And hippopotamuses of crocodiles cannot suffer. Also manage to have a bite half-and-half: canines at hippopotamuses on three kg! They are especially well visible, when hippopotamuses yawn: such yawning dredges.
And still a dry snag and on it two strange birds - open-billed stork. Beaks at them are not closed densely, always hardly opened - therefore and open-billed stork. Beaks are similar to long nippers for caustic nuts. It and really nippers, only split them bowls of snails. Open-billed stork at all gawk, will not miss the . Beaks-nippers sharp-sightedly peer at their grass green lizard eyes, on call.
Another time above savanna shined the sun. Herds of lungs impala as shoal red grasshoppers, jumped over road. At them dry small heads and the enormous plush ears. And harmonious long necks. And legs in golden stockings with black webs. The most beautiful antelopes of Africa!
Having skipped away aside, the herd has stopped, gauging and looks. Herds of impala-goats protect goats. Horns-lyres only at them. In their horns on run the wind sings it. They pay off with a head for fine horns there where still allow to hunt.

The savanna - the African steppe, in translation with Portuguese means « steppe with trees ». Bushes and trees grow In savanna: bushes - thickets, trees - groves. Acacias stick out as if the umbrellas thrust in the ground, and refer to - umbellate acacias.
In the summer savanna damp and green, in the winter - yellow and dry. Numerous large animals are found. Zebras are grazed together with giraffes and understand each other about a floor of a sight. Will be guarded Giraffes - and zebras will set ears. Giraffes and the general herd like observant towers: eyes so are planted, that all around see also a head it is not necessary to twirl. When the herd of zebras and giraffes moves in thickets, to count it is impossible neither those, nor others. Sides, necks, heads, legs - all mixes up and dispatched on strips and spots.
Up to what zebras are good! Strong, as if hardly pumped up; and holds apart them from surplus, vital forces. Lift up each other, kick, go for a drive by the ground, only hoofs in a dust flash also strips on a skin it is not visible. But a wind as the careful groom, will quickly clear a skin up to shine.
With fractional footfall the herd of zebras from road - and in opinion of flashing before eyes will rush! And suddenly will stand, spring, ears and a mane upright. Bright and appreciable, as if striped columns on abrupt turn of highway.
Having lowered to the ground horse muzzles, dusted in steppe herd of antelopes of a gnu. Up to what a silly animal! With a muzzle of a horse, horns of the bull, a body of an antelope. Goatee and a horse tail. Fantastic small horse. The gnu are full of care and curiosity. Straining a hard neck and throwing up, by bony back, a gnu at a meeting are carried away in steppe. But it is fast, being covered with bushes, come back, putting out from branches, bearded heads.
The gnu with zebras, giraffes and antelopes impala are grazed. And too understand each other. Herds of animals converge, miss, mix up. Here only you understand, for the sake of what people are started up in long trips.

Kivu not only most beautiful of great lakes of Africa, is a unique large reservoir on all continent, not populated by crocodiles and hippopotamuses.
In waters of lake on depth from 350 up to 480 m in huge quantities the dissolved carbonic gas, methane and other substances contains. In superficial layers of these substances meets a little so for the person they are imperceptible. Nevertheless it is enough of them to not allow the harmful elementary to occupy lake Kivu.
The quantity of natural gases in Kivu gradually grows, as at the bottom of a waste hollow which borrows lake, the decaying fossils getting from the top layers have accumulated many. Their concentration speaks, on the one hand, huge hydrostatic pressure which is created with huge water thickness of deep lake, with another - stagnant character of deep waters which do not mix up with top. Stocks of methane reach here 50-60 billion м3, and the government of Rwanda assigns greater hopes for its use. Meanwhile the huge water gasholder supplies with fuel only located in Kisenii a brewery. But on methane Kivu the whole branches of the heavy industry could work. The government of Rwanda has addressed to neighboring countries with the offer to construct on the cooperative beginnings an interstate metal works where Rwandan methane could be used as an oxidizer.
The coast Kivu Rwandan seems where more beautifully Congolese. Woody mountains rising from water as though part, and between them in the east distances of savannas open.
Small coffee plantations the dark greens sharply contrast with allotments of peas and beans - the basic food of farmers - hootoo.
Here and there on coast the massive buildings of Catholic missions combined from a dark red brick tower; a cathedral, a number school, a hostel, hospital.

Kisenii - small Rwandan small town, a resort and the shopping center located on coast of lake Kivu.
We approach on lake from the north where last eruptions of a volcano burned out a wood and have covered the ground with the monotonous reservation grey tuffs. The heated lava has gone down in lake, has boiled its water па distance of 40 m from coast and has formed long deserted cape.
If not the bright sun, royal palm trees along coasts and flaring bright-red colors bougainvilleas at inputs in private residences Kivu it would be quite possible to accept for the Norwegian fjord. Each eruption of volcano Niragongo put forward new small peninsula or cape in lake, gave rise to new bays and gulfs, created whimsical outlines of its modern coastal lily.
Overgrown moistureloving woods of a rock break directly to transparent waters which, washing away soft tuffs, create freakish grottoes and caves. In the narrow gulfs deeply pressing mountains shaded from above by crones of trees, always easy, darkly and mysteriously. And on small islands - rocks solar patches of light start up cheerful hare, and the easy breeze breaks about them the waves, scattering diamonds splashes.
Living among mountains of east coast Kivu people of a tribe hoonde, every day observing as the sun sits down in red lake, have combined a legend. In it the sun spend the night in Kivu is spoken that. It warms up its bottom, and the fused ground mixs up with water, searches for an output. And then living under mountain to a floor a giant - demigod Gongo orders to spirits to open a muzzle of a volcano. « Then eruption begins, - assure hoonde.-And red light which in the evenings is visible above Niragongo, is gleam the sleeping sun ».

On the western borders of Republic Chad one nominal lake - one of the most interesting reservoirs of Africa is located.
The lake Chad is shallow and differs surprising inconstancy of a water level and outlines of coast that is connected with fluctuations of quantity of dropping out deposits and the charge of water in the rivers feeding lake.
The area of lake annually varies from 12 up to 26 thousand км2. Depth also varies from 4 before 11 m.
The lake Chad laying at height of 280 m, has slightly saltish water, and close mouthes the rivers - fresh. In lake constantly there is a change of water owing to the big underground outflow feeding subsoil waters of adjoining areas.
The western and southern coast of Chad low, boggy also are covered by dense grassy vegetation, northern and east - the most picturesque - are cut strongly up. In this part of lake especially many the sandy islands formed drowned dunes. Marshiness complicates approaches to lake. Places the cover of interwining reeds and other marsh plants happens is so dense, that maintains weight of the person. The local population moves on lake in pies by means of long poles.
The river Shari with inflow of Logone bears the waters in lake Chad. Fluctuations of charges of water in the river are rather significant. At N’Djamena, near a confluence of Logone, Shari in the beginning of June has width of 84 m, at flood in November its width reaches 600 m.
Shari by the right is considered one of the most fish rivers on the ground. The largest fish named by the captain, can reach two-meter length and 80 kg of weight, besides it is very gentle on taste.
Area of headwaters of Shari - the most fertile and salted in the country. Population density here reaches 15 person on 1 км2 (at average density in Republic Chad 3 persons on 1 км2).
The republic Chad shares on two parts: northern and southern. In the south there live the Negro tribes speaking on set of languages and adverbs. One of them profess christianity, others are true to local traditional cults. The population of the south is engaged in agriculture. Fertile soils allow to grow up here alongside with food the valuable commercial crops going on export.
Northern part of Chad is basically deserts and semideserts. There there is no fertile ground. The population long since is engaged in nomadic cattle breeding.
Tormented by the long-term civil war imposed by intervention of France, people of Chad requires the world and calmness.