{"id":287,"date":"2010-07-16T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=287"},"modified":"2011-09-22T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T14:15:51","slug":"16-july-day-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"16 July (Day 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a well deserved rest day after the last few days of heavy riding. We spent the day exploring the edges of Lake Manyara, its wildlife and the local nomadic fishing village. The Lake retreats approximately 1km during the dry season (now, and hence the nomadic nature of the fishing village) and leaves a massive area of dried out marsh that is flat enough to play cricket on.<\/p>\n

The lake borders onto the local game reserve so there is an incredible diversity of animal and birdlife but none of the big 5.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we have a short run of approximately 100km to Karatu where we will leave our bikes at the Manor at Ngorogoro and be collected by the Crater Lodge ( http:\/\/www.ngorongorocrater.com\/default.php<\/a> ) where we will spend the next 2 nights.<\/p>\n

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Local fisherman cleaning fish\u2026and hungry scavengers standing by (this pic is not photo shopped)<\/p>\n

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Massive flat dry marshland from where the lake retreats.<\/p>\n

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Storks in flight.<\/p>\n

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Beauty (flamingo) and the Beast (maribou stork)<\/p>\n

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Dugout canoes at the nomadic fishing village on the edge of the lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was a well deserved rest day after the last few days of heavy riding. We spent the day exploring the edges of Lake Manyara, its wildlife and the local nomadic fishing village. The Lake retreats approximately 1km during the dry season (now, and hence the nomadic nature of the fishing village) and leaves a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capetocairo","category-day-by-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t