{"id":69,"date":"2012-03-08T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T10:20:00","slug":"back-on-the-open-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/back-on-the-open-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on the open road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well well well it has ben along time since my last post. Having finished our trip in Nairobi on the 16th February TJ and I have had a relaxing time of it making our way down to Livingstone to begin our next tour. Usually after finishing in Nairobi we would nip next door to Uganda for a couple of weeks to visit the Gorillas but alas there has been some rescheduling which has seen us heading down south to begin a trip here in Zambia which will have us finishing up in Cape Town. 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