{"id":333,"date":"2011-01-08T09:14:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T09:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2014-03-08T18:18:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T18:18:14","slug":"chobe-river-day-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2011\/01\/chobe-river-day-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Chobe River, Day 50"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After excess adrenaline and excess partying it was time to leave Vic Falls and Zim behind. \u00a0Zimbabwe was great to us and we saw and did alot of activities during those days so it was sad to say goodbye. \u00a0However it was time to get on with the safari and head into our next country, Botswana.<\/p>\n

After the last few days it was pleasant just to take it easy with an afternoon game cruise on the Chobe River.\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a>Chobe River is part of the Chobe National Park and a great place to see elephants.\u00a0 It has been said that there are close to 100 000 elephants living or migrating into the park.\u00a0 The river also feeds into the Zambezi River and for those that do the cruise they can almost touch Namibia as the Caprivi Strip of Namibia is just\u00a0on the other side of the river.<\/p>\n

The day is chilled out. We get used to a new country and the warmer weather. It\u2019s getting hot now.\u00a0 But that should be expected, we are heading into desert country.<\/p>\n

Chain of Shame:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gracie (author)<\/p>\n

Tip of the Day:<\/em><\/strong> I know you can get a handful of condoms from the counter at immigration, please take this generosity seriously!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After excess adrenaline and excess partying it was time to leave Vic Falls and Zim behind. \u00a0Zimbabwe was great to us and we saw and did alot of activities during those days so it was sad to say goodbye. \u00a0However … 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":[468,40,79,69,470,97,110,15,104,469],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14th-nov-2010-absolute-safari-on-shaggy-denis","tag-100-000-elephants-living-or-migrating-into-the-park","tag-absolute-africa","tag-african-adventure","tag-botswana","tag-caprivi-strip-of-namibia-i","tag-chobe-national-park","tag-chobe-river","tag-namibia","tag-vic-falls","tag-zambezi-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}