{"id":135,"date":"1992-11-20T18:20:31","date_gmt":"1992-11-21T01:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/?p=135"},"modified":"2009-05-15T18:29:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T01:29:16","slug":"great-zimbabwe-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Great Zimbabwe Ruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> I took my five minute courtesy look and got back in the truck. A few stayed   behind in the truck because they thought it&#8217;d be boring, and they were right.   The dung beetles rolling their ball down the steps was more interesting. Once   everyone was back if was off to Bulawayo, driving all day to get there. We   were trucking along when BOOM! Our other rear tire had experienced a sudden   increase in road temperature, combined with almost no tread, causing a large   explosion. (That&#8217;s just a long-winded way to say &#8220;blow out&#8221;) Our second time   &#8211; now we really couldn&#8217;t believe it. Changed another tire before rolling into   the City of Bulawayo campsite. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> We set up camp then went out to dinner. We then had the first of many a smoking session with Steve the driver. Off to bed, for the next morning we were going on our first big game hunt. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Woke up the morning of the 23rd ready to go find some Rhino. We were off to the <strong>Rhodes Matapos National Park<\/strong> to check out some black and white rhino. The only thing is that the rangers have been de-horning the rhinos to try to prevent them from being poached, so the rhinos hide when they hear vehicles approaching. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I took my five minute courtesy look and got back in the truck. A few stayed behind in the truck because they thought it&#8217;d be boring, and they were right. The dung beetles rolling their ball down the steps was more interesting. Once everyone was back if was off to Bulawayo, driving all day [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-zimbabwe","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}