{"id":26969,"date":"2023-06-29T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=26969"},"modified":"2023-06-29T11:42:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T19:42:29","slug":"safari-heads-to-the-western-serengeti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/29\/img-news\/safari-heads-to-the-western-serengeti\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari heads to the Western Serengeti!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 29, 2023<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26970\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Flamingos-on-the-river-in-western-Serengeti-Phunuru-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[26969]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26970\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Flamingos-on-the-river-in-western-Serengeti-Phunuru-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Flamingos-on-the-river-in-western-Serengeti-Phunuru-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Flamingos-on-the-river-in-western-Serengeti-Phunuru-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Flamingos-on-the-river-in-western-Serengeti-Phunuru-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Flamingos-on-the-river-in-western-Serengeti-Phunuru-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Flamingos-on-the-river-in-western-Serengeti-Phunuru-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Flamingos-on-the-river-in-western-Serengeti-Phunuru-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Flamingos-on-the-river-in-western-Serengeti-Phunuru-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Flamingos-on-the-river-in-western-Serengeti-Phunuru-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Flamingos-on-the-river-in-western-Serengeti-Phunuru-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flamingos on the river in western Serengeti (Phunuru)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26971\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cheetahs-phunuru-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[26969]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26971\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cheetahs-phunuru-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cheetahs-phunuru-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cheetahs-phunuru-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cheetahs-phunuru-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cheetahs-phunuru-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cheetahs-phunuru-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cheetahs-phunuru-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cheetahs-phunuru-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cheetahs-phunuru-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cheetahs-phunuru-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheetah escaping the sun (Phunuru)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26972\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Elephants-getting-water-Phnuru-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[26969]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26972\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Elephants-getting-water-Phnuru-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Elephants-getting-water-Phnuru-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Elephants-getting-water-Phnuru-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Elephants-getting-water-Phnuru-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Elephants-getting-water-Phnuru-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Elephants-getting-water-Phnuru-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Elephants-getting-water-Phnuru-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Elephants-getting-water-Phnuru-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Elephants-getting-water-Phnuru-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Elephants-getting-water-Phnuru-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elephants getting a drink (Phunuru)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26973\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wildebeast-heards-phunuru-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[26969]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26973\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wildebeast-heards-phunuru-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wildebeast-heards-phunuru-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wildebeast-heards-phunuru-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wildebeast-heards-phunuru-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wildebeast-heards-phunuru-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wildebeast-heards-phunuru-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wildebeast-heards-phunuru-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wildebeast-heards-phunuru-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wildebeast-heards-phunuru-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/wildebeast-heards-phunuru-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildebeest heard on the Serengeti (Phunuru)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Serengeti is an enormous ecosystem, and Seronera (where the team is staying) is practically in the center.\u00c2\u00a0 Phunuru reports that today the Kilimanjaro team headed west from Seronera in their 4WD safari vehicles to successfully intersect the great migration, which is currently moving towards the north for their crossing of the Grumeti River (this is where the crocs attack the herds). They saw lots and lots of animals including the big herds of wildebeest and zebra, cheetahs chasing Thompson gazelles, lions chasing warthogs, more elephants, and many other critters.\u00c2\u00a0 Now they are back to the luxury wilderness camp.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow they go east to Olduvai Gorge, and then drop down into the famous Ngorongoro Crater, before checking in to their safari lodge for the final night.\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds like a fun time!<\/p>\n<p>Audrey Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 29, 2023 The Serengeti is an enormous ecosystem, and Seronera (where the team is staying) is practically in the center.\u00c2\u00a0 Phunuru reports that today the Kilimanjaro team headed west from Seronera in their 4WD safari vehicles to successfully intersect the great migration, which is currently moving towards the north for their crossing of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-img-news","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26969","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=26969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26974,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26969\/revisions\/26974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}