{"id":8153,"date":"2012-10-03T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T19:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2012-10-03T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T19:19:57","slug":"now-serving-water-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/03\/kilimanjaro\/now-serving-water-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Serving&#8230;Water Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 3, 2012<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8154\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Lion-breakfast-buffet.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8153]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8154\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8154\" title=\"Lion breakfast buffet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Lion-breakfast-buffet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Lion-breakfast-buffet.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Lion-breakfast-buffet-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lion breakfast buffet. (Note the lion in bottom right of photo.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chris just called in from camp near the Ngorongoro Crater.\u00c2\u00a0 This is their last night.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ll be driving back to Arusha tomorrow, getting in some final shopping and having an early supper before their flight.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what he had to say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During this morning&#8217;s game drive, our safari guides delivered the highlight of the three days &#8211; a pride of 10 or so lions feasting on a fresh buffalo kill!\u00c2\u00a0 The photo isn&#8217;t zoomed in quite close enough but shows how close the Land Cruisers were able to get.\u00c2\u00a0 We were able to maneuver close in, and got some unbelievable viewing and photos.\u00c2\u00a0 Quite the visceral experience.\u00c2\u00a0 Then on to Ngorongoro crater for herds of wildebeest, zebras and just about all the other residents there.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a full day but everyone was happy to soak in as much as possible before heading home tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 We toasted the climb and the safari over dinner tonight and even started pondering the next big adventure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 3, 2012 Chris just called in from camp near the Ngorongoro Crater.\u00c2\u00a0 This is their last night.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ll be driving back to Arusha tomorrow, getting in some final shopping and having an early supper before their flight.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what he had to say: &#8220;During this morning&#8217;s game drive, our safari guides delivered the highlight [&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-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","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=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8157,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}