{"id":2725,"date":"2014-06-13T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2014-06-13T08:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T06:00:54","slug":"weird-safari-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/weird-safari-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Safari Experiences!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly an outsider on the bucket list for Africa, but the Getting Stamped blog duo had a rather more unusual safari experience in the Ngorongoro Crater &#8211; proof that there should be a top ten for weird, but nevertheless top notch moments on the game drive.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more here (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettingstamped.com\/2014\/05\/28\/getting-peed-on-by-a-lion\/#sthash.ZdQzxd8d.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gettingstamped.com\/2014\/05\/28\/getting-peed-on-by-a-lion\/#sthash.ZdQzxd8d.dpuf<\/a>)!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?attachment_id=2726\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2726\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2726\" alt=\"IMG_4060 (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_4060-2.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBlog written by: Acacia Sales and Marketing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly an outsider on the bucket list for Africa, but the Getting Stamped blog duo had a rather more unusual safari experience in the Ngorongoro Crater &#8211; proof that there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,32,20],"tags":[48,50,75,94,128,188,249,301,305,329,342,421],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-about-acacia-africa","category-acacia","category-acacia-on-the-road","category-overland","category-tanzania","tag-adventure","tag-africa","tag-big-five","tag-camping","tag-culture","tag-game-viewing","tag-local-responsible-travel","tag-overlanding","tag-photography","tag-safari","tag-serengeti","tag-wildlife"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Weird Safari Experiences! 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