(Click pic for interactive Gmap)
Google Sightseeing is a blog that shows close-up satellite and aerial images from around the world, as found and submitted by users of Google Earth.
Today's update includes the shot above of a few hundred hippos wallowing in the mud, and is a compilation of several animal images from the National Geographic African Megaflyover Project.
There is an LJ feed for the Google Sightseeing blog at