{"id":661,"date":"2013-02-18T20:29:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2014-03-07T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T19:21:07","slug":"day-3-serengeti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2013\/02\/day-3-serengeti\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3  Ngorongoro &#8211; Serengeti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Meal-birds-truckb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-666\" title=\"Meal, birds &amp; truckb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Meal-birds-truckb-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Meal-birds-truckb-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Meal-birds-truckb.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As if the previous night wasn\u2019t wild enough, as we ate breakfast the next morning kites swooped down and took the toast right from our hands!   We were all laughing at sharing our brekkie with the wildlife!<\/p>\n<p>Following breakfast we wound down the crater heading towards the Serengeti.  Stunning scenery was dotted with Maasai villages, and we stop at one of the villages to meet the Maasai people and to and learn about their culture.  A warrior asked if we had a doctor on board and showed me a huge cut to his hand.  He told me (between my limited Swahili and his limited English!) that he had cut it the day before with his spear.   I disinfect the wound and apply a bandage &#8211; it\u2019s all adventure out there!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Gameviewing-from-truckb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-671\" title=\"Gameviewing from truckb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Gameviewing-from-truckb-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Gameviewing-from-truckb-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Gameviewing-from-truckb.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Serengeti lived up to its reputation as one of the most famous and amazing National Parks in the world \u2013 we saw plenty of elephant, zebra, hippo, impala, kudu, giraffe, and even lion.  A special treat was watching a mother leopard with two tiny cubs (about 2 months old) eating a kill in a tree! It really is awe inspiring to see nature like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if the previous night wasn\u2019t wild enough, as we ate breakfast the next morning kites swooped down and took the toast right from our hands! We were all laughing at sharing our brekkie with the wildlife! Following breakfast we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/2013\/02\/day-3-serengeti\/\">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":[7],"tags":[40,19,313,312,311,133],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3rd-feb-2013-east-africa-encounter-on-sparky-leanne","tag-absolute-africa","tag-african-holiday","tag-its-all-adventure-out-there","tag-maasai-villages","tag-ngorongoro","tag-serengeti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteafrica.com\/liveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}