{"id":4708,"date":"2011-09-22T09:50:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T17:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2011-09-22T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T17:50:41","slug":"its-safari-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/22\/kilimanjaro\/its-safari-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Safari Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 22, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4709\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DCP_1841.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4708]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4709\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4709\" title=\"Giraffes on the Serengeti  (Photo by Eric Simonson)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DCP_1841-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DCP_1841-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DCP_1841-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giraffes on the Serengeti  (Photo by Eric Simonson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can tell you&#8217;ve  shifted gears when a day after walking out of Kilimanjaro National Park you are  sitting in the Arusha Hotel, eating a buffet that must have been created for  kings and queens, and your biggest concern is making your flight out to the  Serengeti.<\/p>\n<p>After landing at the  Seronera \u00e2\u20ac\u0153airport\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 (a gravel strip) in the Serengeti we were met by two kind  and enthusiastic game drivers.\u00c2\u00a0 James and Emmanuel helped us to get our luggage  into the safari vehicles and not fifteen minutes after landing we were on the  road and looking for critters.\u00c2\u00a0 The three hour drive to the lodge allowed us to  capture a peak at four of the Big Five:\u00c2\u00a0 cape buffalo, elephant, lion, and the  elusive leopard.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Today we drive to the Ndutu area and are hoping to see more  lions, maybe a cheetah and if we&#8217;re lucky more leopards (along with many other  animals). \u00c2\u00a0For the rhinos, we probably won&#8217;t get a chance to see them until we  get to Ngorogoro (where they have armed rangers patrolling for poachers).\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll  keep you posted!<\/p>\n<p>Eben  Reckord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 22, 2011 You can tell you&#8217;ve shifted gears when a day after walking out of Kilimanjaro National Park you are sitting in the Arusha Hotel, eating a buffet that must have been created for kings and queens, and your biggest concern is making your flight out to the Serengeti. After landing at the Seronera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","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=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4711,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}