{"id":23765,"date":"2022-09-21T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=23765"},"modified":"2022-12-19T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T16:51:08","slug":"more-from-the-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=23765","title":{"rendered":"More From The Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linda Lou Burton posting from Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania<\/em>\u2013 Rick confirms: the Crater was a great place to spend a day. \u201cThe descent road was steep,\u201d he said. \u201cThe 4×4 was right on the edge, good thing it was still dark.\u201d He couldn\u2019t give \"\"<\/a>me specifics on the route they followed during the day; mostly a hodge-podge back-and-forth depending on where animals were spotted at a given point in time and information exchanged between drivers. \u201cNot like Disneyland, where you know the Dancing Elephants will dance at 3:00 PM sharp and you buy a ticket for 3 PM!\u201d They saw the lions having breakfast early on; they ate their own Boxed Breakfast \u2013 a boiled egg and pastries \u2013 \u201csomewhere near a tree.\u201d He switched between cameras; sometimes his phone; sometimes his Sony with the zoom lens. His photos illustrate what I observed from my balcony as I studied the map I\u2019d bought the day before at the Visitor Center, trying to pinpoint specific places. The Crater has a variety of surprising landscapes! Ngoitokitok Springs with its picnic area is on the eastern edge of the Crater, \"\"<\/a>east of Gorigor Swamp; Lerai Forest in the southwest, fairly close below the Serena Lodge. My map stars a number of Points of Interest: Old German Farm Ruins; Goose Ponds and Hippo Pool in Mandust Swamp; Tatoga Ritual Site on the western edge of Lake Magadi. Senato Springs. Ololowaru Springs. Approximately 25,000 large animals live in the Crater. Large mammals include elephants, black rhinos, Cape buffalo, and hippos. Other ungulates: blue wildebeest, Grant’s zebra, eland, Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles, and \u00a0waterbucks; cheetah and leopard \u00a0are rarely seen. Absent are giraffe and crocodile. Although the Crater is a \u201cnatural enclosure” for most wildlife, many wildebeest and zebra vacate the Crater in the wet season. Cape buffalo stay; their highest numbers are during the rainy season. Take a look at some of the pictures Rick took on September 21, 2022,\u00a0 down on the Floor. A variety of landscapes, a fair number of animals, and — other folks taking pictures!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Linda Lou Burton posting from Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania\u2013 Rick confirms: the Crater was a great place to spend a day. \u201cThe descent road was steep,\u201d he said. \u201cThe 4×4 was right on the edge, good thing it was still dark.\u201d He couldn\u2019t give me specifics on the route they followed during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4318,4319],"tags":[4323,4324,4344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23765"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23821,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23765\/revisions\/23821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}