{"id":5372,"date":"2009-03-21T05:44:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2009-03-21T06:16:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T13:16:18","slug":"cycling-mt-bike-cycling-through-wild-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5372","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Mt. Bike – Cycling through wild Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“A journey of giraffes!” someone shouted, pointing to a dozen of the creatures cantering the shoreline of a shimmering white salt plain. Then came cries of “troop of baboons!” and “sounder of warthogs!” Spend your days cycling amid a plethora of plains in a Sahara of sand in the parched outback of Namibia, and you learn a whole new lexicon – from the Latin name for the bizarre, two-leafed indigenous Welwitschia mirabilis plant to textbook terms for packs o’ critters.<\/p>\n

A dazzle of zebras. A crash of rhinos. I think the heat was getting to us.<\/p>\n

Our slim and trim “manic mechanic,” Tjipe (“Chippy”), who kept our full-suspension mountain bikes in working order, pulled off the bumpy dirt road ahead and flagged us off-piste into the shade of a dry riverbed where – voila! – a lavish lunch had been laid out, complete with icy beers and chilly wines to wash down 30 dusty miles….\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“A journey of giraffes!” someone shouted, pointing to a dozen of the creatures cantering the shoreline of a shimmering white salt plain. Then came cries of “troop of baboons!” and “sounder of warthogs!” Spend your days cycling amid a plethora of plains in a Sahara of sand in the parched outback of Namibia, and you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5401,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/5401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}