{"id":439,"date":"2014-05-02T18:49:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/?p=439"},"modified":"2014-07-28T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:12:23","slug":"day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Day 15 &#8211; Arusha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em>6 km, 5657 km from Cape Town<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><strong>RAIN FOREST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It rained fiercely all night but dawned fine and warm. Today was a non-riding day and we got to the stuff of laundry and bike and gear maintenance. We needed to go down to the village to get supplies and this three km journey took twenty minutes of sliding and bouncing over the ruined road and the then the steep, muddy return.<br \/>\nIt was our intention to try and go see Mount Kilimanjaro which is about 80 kms distant but we were advised that the persistent rain and mist would make it invisible, so we decided to go back to Lake Manyara, which is on the plains and thus likely to be drier.<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Tango<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The slopes of Arusha&#8217;s accommodation were full of bird life. Kingfisher, barbets and shrikes were spotted in the overgrown bush. The lush tree life attracts Tanzania&#8217;s birds in profusion.<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Sierra<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_927\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_15_20140413_192454_s_100_9353.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"size-large wp-image-927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_15_20140413_192454_s_100_9353-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Braai night in Arusha\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_15_20140413_192454_s_100_9353-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_15_20140413_192454_s_100_9353-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_15_20140413_192454_s_100_9353-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_15_20140413_192454_s_100_9353.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Braai night in Arusha<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 km, 5657 km from Cape Town RAIN FOREST It rained fiercely all night but dawned fine and warm. Today was a non-riding day and we got to the stuff of laundry and bike and gear maintenance. We needed to go down to the village to get supplies and this three km journey took twenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tanzania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}