{"id":199,"date":"2010-12-05T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T10:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2014-03-09T08:51:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T08:51:20","slug":"ruhengeri-day-19-and-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2010\/12\/ruhengeri-day-19-and-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruhengeri, Day 19 and 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the excitement of the Gorillas\u00a0it was\u00a0good day to have a chill out day and take it all in.\u00a0\u00a0 Also a good day to spend cleaning clothes after that muddy trek.\u00a0\u00a0 It was the final day on the trip\u00a0for 3 of the <strong>&#8220;<em>guys<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong> (OH NO\u00a0. .. I used that word again . . .pause for pushups as imposed on day 10!).\u00a0\u00a0A\u00a0cocktail party was organised for the farewell for Madie, Steph and Lydia followed by a local meal at our lodgings.\u00a0\u00a0 The rest of the evening was taken in by celebrations and sharing memories of our travels so far.<\/p>\n<p>The following day we said our final goodbyes to the\u00a0<strong>&#8220;<em>guys<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong> (grrrr. . .. .more pushups!!!) as they departed\u00a0from Kigali and we then headed on to cross into Tanzania. We all had a great time with the girls and we wish them the best in their future travels.\u00a0\u00a0 Take it easy\u00a0<strong>&#8220;<em>guys<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong> (I am starting to see why the group want\u00a0to punish me for that word . . . . .biceps growing) \u00a0and hope to see you somewhere in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Madie\u00a0 ended her trip wearing the chain of shame<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tip of the day:<\/em><\/strong> Ruhengeri is a wet town at the base of rainforest mountains so don\u2019t expect to get your clothes dried in a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the excitement of the Gorillas\u00a0it was\u00a0good day to have a chill out day and take it all in.\u00a0\u00a0 Also a good day to spend cleaning clothes after that muddy trek.\u00a0\u00a0 It was the final day on the trip\u00a0for 3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2010\/12\/ruhengeri-day-19-and-20\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[555,40,557,556,339,151,554,142],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14th-nov-2010-absolute-safari-on-shaggy-denis","tag-a-cocktail-party","tag-absolute-africa","tag-african-adventures","tag-celebrations-and-sharing-memories-of-our-travels-so-far","tag-gorillas","tag-kigali","tag-ruhengeri","tag-tanzania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}