{"id":4719,"date":"2011-09-24T08:39:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T16:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2011-09-24T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T16:39:23","slug":"a-couple-memorable-days-of-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/24\/kilimanjaro\/a-couple-memorable-days-of-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple memorable days of safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 24, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4720\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rhino-at-Ngorongoro-Crater-Eben-Reckord.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[4719]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4720 \" title=\"Rhino at Ngorongoro Crater. (Photo by Eben Reckord)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rhino-at-Ngorongoro-Crater-Eben-Reckord.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rhino-at-Ngorongoro-Crater-Eben-Reckord.jpeg 1360w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rhino-at-Ngorongoro-Crater-Eben-Reckord-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rhino-at-Ngorongoro-Crater-Eben-Reckord-1024x759.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rhino at Ngorongoro Crater. (Photo by Eben Reckord)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Serengeti was generous yesterday, giving a great day of game viewing.\u00c2\u00a0 We started our day with cape buffalo just outside the lodge property, followed up with a pride of fifteen lions, more leopards, cheetahs, elephants and we even came quite close to a collision with a giraffe.\u00c2\u00a0 We also added a few more newcomers to the list like, hirax, genets, topi, crocodiles, dik diks, a tremendous number of birds and now we all know the difference between the Grant and Thompson gazelle.<\/p>\n<p>After a full day we pulled into the Ndutu lodge near Lake Masik.\u00c2\u00a0 The team gathered in the bar to watch the sun set and talk about what&#8217;d we&#8217;d seen.\u00c2\u00a0 We ate a dinner of lamb and finished the day out by the firepit, looking up at the nights sky as tiny wild creatures scampered about.\u00c2\u00a0 Today, we headed to Ngorongoro Crater and finally got to see the elusive Rhino.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, one of them walked right in front of our safari vehicle!\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve had a great trip, but soon it will be time for the team members to say goodbye and head for the airport, to catch their homeward flights.<\/p>\n<p>Eben Reckord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 24, 2011 The Serengeti was generous yesterday, giving a great day of game viewing.\u00c2\u00a0 We started our day with cape buffalo just outside the lodge property, followed up with a pride of fifteen lions, more leopards, cheetahs, elephants and we even came quite close to a collision with a giraffe.\u00c2\u00a0 We also added a [&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-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","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=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}