{"id":582,"date":"2014-05-20T16:57:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/?p=582"},"modified":"2014-07-28T14:35:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:35:58","slug":"day-45-ain-sukhan-to-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Day 45 &#8211; Ain Sukhan to Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em>150 km, 12306 km from Cape Town<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><strong>MISSION ACCOMPLISHED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only a short distance to complete our safari and it was done swiftly on an empty three lane highway that sweeps you toward Cairo and before you know it the city outline is there and the highway becomes an elevated freeway that slices through the heart of the city. Towering apartment blocks on either side whip past as you spped along trying to match thje traffic pace which is the only way to survive the Cairo traffic &#8211; and then as we descended from the feeeway and twisted zand turned a bit there they were &#8211; the Pyramids.<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Tango<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1048\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_45_20140513_130542_p_20140513_130543.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1048\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_45_20140513_130542_p_20140513_130543-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"Happy crew\" width=\"1000\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_45_20140513_130542_p_20140513_130543-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_45_20140513_130542_p_20140513_130543-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_45_20140513_130542_p_20140513_130543-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/day_45_20140513_130542_p_20140513_130543.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy crew<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>150 km, 12306 km from Cape Town MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Only a short distance to complete our safari and it was done swiftly on an empty three lane highway that sweeps you toward Cairo and before you know it the city outline is there and the highway becomes an elevated freeway that slices through the heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","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=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiswayupafrica.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}