There's no need to be afraid of wild animals - leave them be and they'll just ignore you. And generally on African safaris you stay inside a vehicle and the animals barely notice you're there.
Beautiful pictures, Dancing_in_rain. It's good to see someone who appreciates travel, and Africa truly is a magical place... there's no better way to see wildlife since it's just so abundant. I'll try to post my pictures from Kenya if I can find the damn things (taken in 1999, so they're not digital).
In the meantime here are some photos of my more recent travels:
A roadside slaughterhouse in Azerbaijan, Jan 2007
Myself in Baku, Azerbaijan
The village of Arabba, Italy (where I spent last Christmas)
My sister and I in Verona, Italy
And some wildlife photos from my visit to Alaska last year...
Seals
A squirrel
Bald eagles
A sea otter
A breaching humpback
And a bear.