{"id":28,"date":"2007-03-06T14:57:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T22:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2007-03-06T15:11:51","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T23:11:51","slug":"south-africa-kruger-park-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"South Africa &#8211; Kruger Park Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of my stay in South Africa was my tent safari\u00c2\u00a0in\u00c2\u00a0Kruger National\u00c2\u00a0Park. Staying up all night, meeting everyone at 4:30am, a 2 hour flight, and a 6 hour bus ride kicked off 3\u00c2\u00a0amazing days of camping and animal viewing. We had 4 game drives (3 in the day and 1 at night) in which the 18 of us were split into 2 groups of 9. The groups constantly changed and each group had different and unique\u00c2\u00a0experiences\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; I managed to be one of the few lucky ones to have the best combination of groups. Reasons why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saw a leopard<\/li>\n<li>Had a run-in with an elephant who urinated in front of us<\/li>\n<li>Saw a really small baby baboon<\/li>\n<li>Saw lions!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah. The only thing I missed out on was hyenas, which isn&#8217;t so bad as I still\u00c2\u00a0got to experience one of them while it was\u00c2\u00a0raiding our camp in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of my stay in South Africa was my tent safari\u00c2\u00a0in\u00c2\u00a0Kruger National\u00c2\u00a0Park. Staying up all night, meeting everyone at 4:30am, a 2 hour flight, and a 6 hour bus ride kicked off 3\u00c2\u00a0amazing days of camping and animal viewing. We had 4 game drives (3 in the day and 1 at night) in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-port-recaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}