{"id":180,"date":"2010-12-01T16:23:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2014-03-09T08:59:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T08:59:21","slug":"rwanda-day-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2010\/12\/rwanda-day-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda, Day 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crossing into Rwanda means that we are close to the mountain gorillas.\u00a0 We first need to explore the more serious side of Africa and in Rwanda it is the Genocide museum.\u00a0 Africa is a wonderful place and once under your skin hard to get out.\u00a0 However, it is also a place where not so nice things have happened and also some very sad things.\u00a0 It would be an injustice to our humanity not to learn from the errors made in the past and we need to remind ourselves that the human beings\u00a0are capable of terrible brutality, that people are capable of doing such things all around the world.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The afternoon is spent in preparation for our next day\u2019s hike into the Virunga Mountains to get close and personal to the mountain gorillas. The mountains can be seen in the distance from Ruhengeri and gives a very prehistoric feel to this upcoming experience.<\/p>\n

Tip of the day:<\/em><\/strong> As a race of people we will only benefit if we take the time and reflect at such places as the Genocide Museum in Rwanda. Please take your time and do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crossing into Rwanda means that we are close to the mountain gorillas.\u00a0 We first need to explore the more serious side of Africa and in Rwanda it is the Genocide museum.\u00a0 Africa is a wonderful place and once under your … 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":[40,21,563,554,149,159],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14th-nov-2010-absolute-safari-on-shaggy-denis","tag-absolute-africa","tag-african-journal","tag-genocide-museum","tag-ruhengeri","tag-rwanda","tag-virunga-mountains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","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=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}