{"id":170,"date":"2010-12-01T16:19:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2014-03-09T09:05:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T09:05:19","slug":"queen-elizabeth-national-park-day-15-and-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2010\/12\/queen-elizabeth-national-park-day-15-and-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth National Park, Day 15 and 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Nakuru National Park is famed for its Rhino, Queen Elizabeth National Park or QENP is famed for its Hippo.\u00a0 You would have to be blind not to see a hippo in this park.\u00a0 It is a guarantee! The best way to see these animals is on a game cruise.\u00a0 The cruise travels in a channel between Lake Edward and Lake George and is said\u00a0to have the highest density of hippos anywhere in Africa.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Here it’s hippo\u2019s and buffalo\u00a0are often seen\u00a0mingling together at the lake shoreline.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>To end a day in QENP is best done by have sun downers at the Mweya Lodge, where warthogs eat grass at your feet and striped mongoose catch their last insects for the day as the sun goes down over the lake.\u00a0 Who says overlanding is all about roughing it?\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Our night is spent inside the park in our tents listening to the symphony of hippo grunts, a cacophony of hyena woops and completed with a crescendo of lion roars.\u00a0 It all makes for an entertaining night\u2019s “sleep”.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The following morning started slowly but our patients were rewarded when we stumbled into a breeding herd of elephants.\u00a0\u00a0 These elephants differ from those we had seen in Kenya as they were forest elephants, normally only found in West Africa\u00a0but pushed over into the park from DRC.\u00a0\u00a0 These elephants are smaller than the savannah elephants, a little darker and with different shaped tusks.\u00a0\u00a0 The focus was the very young elephants suckling on their mothers teats.\u00a0\u00a0A\u00a0lovely end to our time in this Park.<\/p>\n

Chain of shame\u00a0Renato\u00a0(Day 15) &\u00a0\u00a0Cheryl (Day 16)<\/p>\n

Tip of the day:<\/em><\/strong> Hippos prefer to eat in the darkness of night because they are conscience about their weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Nakuru National Park is famed for its Rhino, Queen Elizabeth National Park or QENP is famed for its Hippo.\u00a0 You would have to be blind not to see a hippo in this park.\u00a0 It is a guarantee! The best … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[557,571,564,125,569,206,182,565,570,567,172,276,566,568],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14th-nov-2010-absolute-safari-on-shaggy-denis","tag-african-adventures","tag-forest-elephants","tag-game-cruise","tag-hippo","tag-hyena-woops","tag-kenya","tag-lake-edward","tag-lake-george","tag-lion-roars","tag-mweya-lodge","tag-queen-elizabeth-national-park","tag-rhino","tag-the-highest-density-of-hippos-anywhere-in-africa","tag-warthogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}