{"id":14965,"date":"2016-04-04T20:10:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=14965"},"modified":"2016-04-04T20:10:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:10:44","slug":"25088-chobe-river-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=14965","title":{"rendered":"25088 Chobe River Excursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a rest day in Kasang catching up on my posts and getting my images online whilst my Botswana SIM card still works.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14967\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-IMG_3621.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14967\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14967\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-IMG_3621-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A Yawn or get out of my way?\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-IMG_3621-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-IMG_3621-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1-IMG_3621.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Yawn or get out of my way?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Old House b&amp;b has a frontage onto The Chobe River just before it merges with The Zambezi. They offer a 3 hour river trip heading along the Chobe National Park. Obviously I took it.<\/p>\n<p>To my amazement it was just me and the driver\/guide Albert , certainly not in KG&#8217;s class for either driving or guiding skills but we got by..<\/p>\n<p>First animals were\u00a0a huge troop of monkeys swinging in the trees, rapidly followed by bathing elephants, families of hippos, water ox, crocodiles and a huge herd of antelopes prancing around like ballerinas. Plus numerous birds.<\/p>\n<p>All very interesting although somewhat marred by the poor light diue to rain clouds forming so that I couldn&#8217;t get a fast exposure time. Plus the zoom lens has now decided it won&#8217;t autofocus on maximum zoom any more.<\/p>\n<p>The scariest thing is to see just how huge hippos are and how cavernous they can make their mouths..<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;m on my bike again to do the 80km or so\u00a0to Victoria Falls passing through the Kazungula Border the only point on the planet where 4 countries meet \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/photos\/wKCrCGpu5PDh83MN9\">Todays fuxzzy pictures are here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a rest day in Kasang catching up on my posts and getting my images online whilst my Botswana SIM card still works. The Old House b&amp;b has a frontage onto The Chobe River just before it merges with The Zambezi. They offer a 3 hour river trip heading along the Chobe National Park. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-biking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}