{"id":2686,"date":"2010-08-28T09:59:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T13:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_travel_adventures\/?p=591"},"modified":"2012-08-28T21:08:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T01:08:27","slug":"kilimanjaro-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/kilimanjaro-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilimanjaro Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you can\u2019t make it to Africa, the next best thing is found at Animal Kingdom at the Kilimanjaro Safari.\u00a0 There\u2019s just not too many places you can see these animals that are roaming free and not in a zoo, which makes it even more special.<\/p>\n

We recently rode this shortly after the park opened, which is a great time for good animal viewing.\u00a0 This attraction also has Fastpass so if the standby time is long then you can always get your Fastpass ticket and come back later.\u00a0 The best animal viewing seem to usually be early or just before the park closes.<\/p>\n

You start your 2-week journey in a 32-passenger, open-air safari vehicle.\u00a0 There are signs in there showing you what animals you might see and your guide is excellent at pointing them out as you continue on your safari.<\/p>\n

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Around the first bend you\u2019ll usually see bongo, opaki, impalas, sable antelopes and maybe some other hoofed animals then the black rhinos.\u00a0 They were eating breakfast as we went by so we got some great photos.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll then pass some hippo and Nile crocodiles on your way to the impressive savannas.\u00a0 The view as you come around the corner is breathtaking, as you see the serengi grasslands spread out below with several kinds of animals eating, resting or just roaming around.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this area you can spot the thompson gazelle, sable antelope, ankole cattle and everyone\u2019s favorite, the reticulated giraffe\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0 Our guide tells us that reticulated means net, as they look like they have a net over them making their design.<\/p>\n

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After the grasslands we round the bend and see a couple of baboon\u2019s out in the open.\u00a0 My last few safaris I hadn\u2019t seen them at all, so this was quite a treat.\u00a0 But the real treat was to come around the next corner.\u00a0 We always see elephants, or at least one, but this time I think they were all out.\u00a0 One was eating hay and had about as much hay on his back as he was putting in his mouth.\u00a0 The hay and mud on his back are to keep him cool, and in the hot summer, you take anything you can get!\u00a0 Another group of elephants was just wandering along when out ran a baby!\u00a0 He was so cute and so full of life.\u00a0 He spotted some birds and off he went, ears flopping, as he tried to catch first one, then another.\u00a0 We sat for a short time watching him play and I know we could have sat there for hours, but unfortunately we got word of some poachers up ahead so we had to keep moving to try to catch them.<\/p>\n

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As we pass the island (which is a hidden Mickey) full of pink flamingos we see ostrich, kudu, eland\u2019s and a couple of cheetahs that usually stay pretty well hidden in the back but are in an area where we can see them plainly.\u00a0 The warthogs were in their burrows so we only saw a small part of one, as were the lions.\u00a0 My last safari the lions were out in full view, which doesn\u2019t happen often.<\/p>\n

At this point we hear from Wilson that the poachers are just ahead, so we take off to catch them and save Little Red.\u00a0 With the help of our guide we ran the poachers straight to Warden Wilson, who captures them and we see Little Red safe in the back of a truck.\u00a0 All is well, but with this detour our two-week safari has to end early.\u00a0 We\u2019re taking to the nearest warden\u2019s post where we can make our way back to Harambe Village.\u00a0 It was a great safari, though, with many good animal spottings and our guide Ed was one of the best.\u00a0 Kwaheri everyone (which is\u00a0 good-bye in Swahili).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you can\u2019t make it to Africa, the next best thing is found at Animal Kingdom at the Kilimanjaro Safari.\u00a0 There\u2019s just not too many places you can see these animals that are roaming free and not in a zoo, which makes it even more special. We recently rode this shortly after the park opened,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[507,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walt-disney-world-resorts","category-walt-disney-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}