{"id":2310,"date":"2026-07-16T17:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:07:16","slug":"week-770","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/week-770\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 770"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The week of Jun 22, 2026 \u2013 Jun 28, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday: <\/strong>Burchell&#8217;s morning game drive. Very cold. Afternoon drinks at the Train Station at Skukuza. Braai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tuesday: <\/strong>Day trip to Graskop and Harrie&#8217;s Pancakes, God&#8217;s Window and Berlin Falls. Grocery shopping in Hazyview. Drinks at the hotel. Braai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday: <\/strong>A lazy morning. Game drive in the afternoon. We saw lions and southern ground hornbills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday: <\/strong>Morning game drive. Very cold, not much game viewing. Arrived back with a headache and needed a lie-down. Afternoon visit to Skukuza and Lake Panic. Yet another good braai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday: <\/strong>Checked out of Burchell&#8217;s and travelled to Lower Sabie. An exciting sighting of a leopard along the way. The rondavel accommodation was basic but sufficient. Nice to stay inside the park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday: <\/strong>Morning drive to a picnic spot and a different bird hide. Sunset game drive organised for the evening. Fantastic sighting of lions mating, and a few other little things including an African wildcat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday: <\/strong>By 7:30 we were checked out and on the road to the airport via Crocodile Bridge Gate. Long wait at the airport. Flight back to a cold and rainy Cape Town. Good to be home and reunited with Loki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week of Jun 22, 2026 \u2013 Jun 28, 2026 Monday: Burchell&#8217;s morning game drive. Very cold. Afternoon drinks at the Train Station at Skukuza. Braai. Tuesday: Day trip to Graskop and Harrie&#8217;s Pancakes, God&#8217;s Window and Berlin Falls. Grocery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/week-770\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311,"href":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}