{"id":770,"date":"2015-01-01T23:40:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/?p=770"},"modified":"2015-01-02T00:21:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:21:01","slug":"new-years-in-pofadder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/new-years-in-pofadder","title":{"rendered":"New Years in Pofadder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dorje, Anique and I spent a few days at the <a href=\"www.sanparks.org\/parks\/augrabies\/\">Augrabies Falls<\/a>, the largest waterfall in South Africa. My body had just got used to Rovaniemi in the Arctic, where the December average temperature is -7, before being thrust into the heat of Augrabies, where the December average is 41.<\/p>\n<p>So, most of the time was spent inside the air-conditioned cottagers (I shudder to think what those camping must have experienced) trying to get through the two boxes of boardgames I packed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/boardgames-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Board games\" width=\"560\"\/><\/p>\n<p>When we did venture out during the day (the main point was to see the falls, after all), it didn&#8217;t take long before we were on hands and knees crawling back to shelter, being eyed out by the birds of prey.<\/p>\n<p>The park is far more than just the falls though, and we ventured out on a cool evening (probably a mere 34 degrees or so) to go on a game ride. The park includes leopard, giraffe, kudu, eland, and the highest concentration of lizards imaginable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/augrabies_game_drive-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Game ride\" width=\"560\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Coming back from Augrabies on the 31st, it was tempting to give Dorje the experience of a lifetime &#8211; New Years in Pofadder (the local equivalent of the English Timbuktu or America&#8217;s Kalamazoo). But I was overruled by Dorje and Anique&#8217;s fears that New Year&#8217;s supper would be another toasted cheese consisting of stale white bread, margarine and non-melted grated cheese (our stopover in Springbok on the way up will be forever remembered for its remarkable cuisine), and we drove on, making do with a photo instead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pofadder2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Pofadder\" width=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorje, Anique and I spent a few days at the Augrabies Falls, the largest waterfall in South Africa. My body had just got used to Rovaniemi in the Arctic, where the December average temperature is -7, before being thrust into the heat of Augrabies, where the December average is 41. So, most of the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}