{"id":12096,"date":"2014-07-02T08:39:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T16:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=12096"},"modified":"2014-07-02T08:42:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T16:42:38","slug":"12096","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/02\/kilimanjaro\/12096\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Climbers Heading For The Serengeti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 2, 2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12097\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Hanging-out-with-their-Maasai-camp-guard-Eben-Reckord.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[12096]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12097\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12097\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Hanging-out-with-their-Maasai-camp-guard-Eben-Reckord.jpg\" alt=\" Hanging out with their Maasai camp guard (Eben Reckord)\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Hanging-out-with-their-Maasai-camp-guard-Eben-Reckord.jpg 640w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Hanging-out-with-their-Maasai-camp-guard-Eben-Reckord-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Hanging-out-with-their-Maasai-camp-guard-Eben-Reckord-620x410.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Hanging-out-with-their-Maasai-camp-guard-Eben-Reckord-195x129.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Hanging out with their Maasai camp guard (Eben Reckord)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Craig John reports that the Kili team made it down safely, had a nice wrap up BBQ in Moshi after the climb, and after a well-deserved rest have now begun the safari.\u00c2\u00a0 The little Arusha airport is the gateway to the vast Serengeti, and the Cessna 208 Caravan is the workhorse airplane.\u00c2\u00a0 It may be only a 45 minute flight, but it is like going back in time.\u00c2\u00a0 I always thought of it as what the Great Plains of the USA must have looked like 200 years ago when they were covered with bison.\u00c2\u00a0 The IMG team will be doing our super authentic luxury camping safari the next three days with their own drivers and camp\/cook staff\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.not standing in the buffet line at a lodge with 200 other tourists. \u00c2\u00a0When you post a Maasai tribesman as a camp guard (with a lantern and a spear) during the night, to shoo away the animals, you are not in Kansas anymore!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 2, 2014 Craig John reports that the Kili team made it down safely, had a nice wrap up BBQ in Moshi after the climb, and after a well-deserved rest have now begun the safari.\u00c2\u00a0 The little Arusha airport is the gateway to the vast Serengeti, and the Cessna 208 Caravan is the workhorse airplane.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12100,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions\/12100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}