{"id":21402,"date":"2018-12-30T16:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T00:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=21402"},"modified":"2018-12-30T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T00:23:29","slug":"celebration-and-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/30\/kilimanjaro\/celebration-and-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration and Safari!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 30, 2018<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-21402 gallery-columns-2 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\/2018\/12\/The-whole-team-back-at-the-Mweka-Gate-Trailhead-with-their-Chagga-porters-and-guides-Phunuru-Sherpa.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[21402]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-whole-team-back-at-the-Mweka-Gate-Trailhead-with-their-Chagga-porters-and-guides-Phunuru-Sherpa-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"The whole team back at the Mweka Gate Trailhead with their Chagga porters and guides (Phunuru Sherpa)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-21403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-whole-team-back-at-the-Mweka-Gate-Trailhead-with-their-Chagga-porters-and-guides-Phunuru-Sherpa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-whole-team-back-at-the-Mweka-Gate-Trailhead-with-their-Chagga-porters-and-guides-Phunuru-Sherpa-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-whole-team-back-at-the-Mweka-Gate-Trailhead-with-their-Chagga-porters-and-guides-Phunuru-Sherpa-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-whole-team-back-at-the-Mweka-Gate-Trailhead-with-their-Chagga-porters-and-guides-Phunuru-Sherpa-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-1-21403'>\n\t\t\t\tThe whole team back at the Mweka Gate Trailhead with their Chagga porters and guides (Phunuru Sherpa)\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\/2018\/12\/All-cleaned-up-back-at-the-hotel-with-summit-certificates.-Congratulations-climbers-Phunuru-Sherpa.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[21402]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/All-cleaned-up-back-at-the-hotel-with-summit-certificates.-Congratulations-climbers-Phunuru-Sherpa-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"All cleaned up back at the hotel with summit certificates. Congratulations climbers! 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Congratulations climbers! (Phunuru Sherpa)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Phunuru reports that the Kilimanjaro team had a nice hike this morning down to the Mweka Gate trailhead, followed by a mini bus ride back to the hotel in Moshi.\u00c2\u00a0 After lunch, showers, and some beers (not necessarily in that order) everyone was cleaned up and feeling good.\u00c2\u00a0 They kept the party going into the evening with their local Chagga guides at a celebration dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 Well done team!<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow morning the team will drive to the airport in Arusha, then fly by airplane about an hour to the west to the Seronera airport in the middle of the Serengeti National Park.\u00c2\u00a0 Upon landing they will be met by their drivers and start their 3 night \/ 4 day wildlife safari.\u00c2\u00a0 If you are going to go all the way to East Africa, spending a few days on safari is the perfect way to put a bow on the trip!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 30, 2018 &nbsp; Phunuru reports that the Kilimanjaro team had a nice hike this morning down to the Mweka Gate trailhead, followed by a mini bus ride back to the hotel in Moshi.\u00c2\u00a0 After lunch, showers, and some beers (not necessarily in that order) everyone was cleaned up and feeling good.\u00c2\u00a0 They kept the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21402","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\/21402","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=21402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21405,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402\/revisions\/21405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}