{"id":15033,"date":"2016-02-18T09:09:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=15033"},"modified":"2016-02-18T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:31:56","slug":"ngorongoro-crater-does-not-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/18\/kilimanjaro\/ngorongoro-crater-does-not-disappoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngorongoro Crater Does Not Disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 18, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Dustin reports:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15033 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Safari-Sunset-Dustin-Balderach.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[15033]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Safari-Sunset-Dustin-Balderach-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Safari Sunset (Dustin Balderach)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-15034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Safari-Sunset-Dustin-Balderach-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Safari-Sunset-Dustin-Balderach-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Safari-Sunset-Dustin-Balderach-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Safari-Sunset-Dustin-Balderach-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-15034'>\n\t\t\t\tSafari Sunset (Dustin Balderach)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elephants-Dustin-Balderach.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[15033]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elephants-Dustin-Balderach-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Elephants (Dustin Balderach)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-15036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elephants-Dustin-Balderach-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elephants-Dustin-Balderach-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elephants-Dustin-Balderach-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elephants-Dustin-Balderach-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-15036'>\n\t\t\t\tElephants (Dustin Balderach)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Herd-of-Buffalo-Dustin-Balderach.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[15033]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Herd-of-Buffalo-Dustin-Balderach-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Herd of Buffalo (Dustin Balderach)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-15035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Herd-of-Buffalo-Dustin-Balderach-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Herd-of-Buffalo-Dustin-Balderach-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Herd-of-Buffalo-Dustin-Balderach-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Herd-of-Buffalo-Dustin-Balderach-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-15035'>\n\t\t\t\tHerd of Buffalo (Dustin Balderach)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&#8220;We are spending the morning relaxing at the Lodge\u00c2\u00a0and after lunch will head towards the airport doing some shopping in route. After numerous early mornings waking up to view wildlife everyone appreciated a leisurely morning before the flights back home\u00c2\u00a0tonight. Everyone is all smiles after an incredible day in the crater yesterday. 5 rhinos, lions, buffaloes, elephants all in the crater plus countless other amazing animals. We were all blown away.\u00c2\u00a0Passed through a herd of Buffaloes and wildebeests on the way to the crater as well as a male lion perched on a rock. It was one of the single bests days I&#8217;ve had in all my safaris this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and I forgot to mention&#8230; The flamingos have returned to the crater. This past summer we didn&#8217;t see any flamingos in the crater due to low water levels. Well they are back in force. There were easily over 10,000 flamingos in the lake. Amazing!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 18, 2016 Dustin reports: &#8220;We are spending the morning relaxing at the Lodge\u00c2\u00a0and after lunch will head towards the airport doing some shopping in route. After numerous early mornings waking up to view wildlife everyone appreciated a leisurely morning before the flights back home\u00c2\u00a0tonight. Everyone is all smiles after an incredible day in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15037,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033\/revisions\/15037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}