{"id":960,"date":"2009-11-04T10:45:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T14:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/?p=960"},"modified":"2009-11-04T10:47:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T14:47:31","slug":"on-safari-mosi-o-tunya-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/2009\/11\/04\/on-safari-mosi-o-tunya-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"On Safari &#8211; Mosi-O-Tunya National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"img_5929monochrome by sgetgood, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4003022360\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2518\/4003022360_670f378154.jpg\" alt=\"img_5929monochrome\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday September 15 2009 &#8211; afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>We took our first game drive that afternoon. Mosi-O-Tunya National Park in Zambia is the nation&#8217;s smallest national park. It also has no predators.<\/p>\n<p>Our lovely Bushtracks Africa guide, Purity, managed to show us quite a lot in about three hours. Starting with a herd of elephants even before we got into the park.<\/p>\n<p>My full set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/sets\/72157622562416158\/\" target=\"_blank\">photos from the drive <\/a>is on Flickr, but here are some of the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> A family of zebra &#8212; pictured at the top of the post. The one lying down is a heavily pregnant female, and her daughter is checking to be sure she is okay.<\/li>\n<li> A ranger guards the male rhino to protect the rhino from humans (poachers) not to protect the humans from the rhino.<\/li>\n<li> Toward the end of the drive, we saw a group of very young baboons playing and teasing each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also saw many giraffe, impala, a few warthogs, various birds and a herd of Cape Buffalo. All in all a terrific introduction to African wildlife.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"img_5870 by sgetgood, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4001648678\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3424\/4001648678_c13798acd6_m.jpg\" alt=\"img_5870\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><a title=\"img_5983 by sgetgood, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98336388@N00\/4002985606\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2529\/4002985606_f0bb09f736_m.jpg\" alt=\"img_5983\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday September 15 2009 &#8211; afternoon We took our first game drive that afternoon. Mosi-O-Tunya National Park in Zambia is the nation&#8217;s smallest national park. It also has no predators. Our lovely Bushtracks Africa guide, Purity, managed to show us quite a lot in about three hours. Starting with a herd of elephants even before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,27,20,141],"tags":[144],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}