{"id":30922,"date":"2015-02-20T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/?p=30922"},"modified":"2015-02-20T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:39:07","slug":"volunteering-africa-elephants-mud-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/volunteering-africa-elephants-mud-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering in Africa : Elephants and Mud Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volunteersa.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-30910 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/VSA-Logo.png\" alt=\"VSA-Logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a>Continuing on with my incredible <span style=\"color: #b08f0c;\"><a style=\"color: #b08f0c;\" href=\"http:\/\/volunteersa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Volunteer Southern Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/span> <strong>Living with Big Cats<\/strong>\u00a0program, here we have video number <strong>#2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttfmake-embed-wrapper aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EPIC AFRICAN MUD WRESTLING \/\/ South Africa\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WcHLYswGjRk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The morning elephant walk was just incredible, I honestly could not believe how fast elephants\u00a0moved! They just walk along at a casual pace and we have to almost run behind to follow along and keep up!<\/p>\n<p>This was easily one of my favorite parts of the Living with Big Cats Program, as I think it&#8217;s awesome we can have a bit of interaction with the Elephants, without invading their space too much. Also, after the morning walk the elephants get to roam around for the whole rest of the day, how awesome is that?!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Elephant-Thumb-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Elephant-Thumb-01-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Elephant Thumb-01\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Living-with-Lions-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30930 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Living-with-Lions-02-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Living with Lions-02\" width=\"940\" height=\"940\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Living-with-Lions-01-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Living-with-Lions-03-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Living with Lions-03\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Living-with-Lions-01-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30923 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Living-with-Lions-01-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Living with Lions-01-2\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/OTw6AYH3Uip\/embed\/simple\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.vine.co\/static\/scripts\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\nYes I did take a dip in a real, actual mud hole. And yes it did take days for the dirt to wash off my cloths and out of my hair.<\/p>\n<p>I do it for the video!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mud-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mud-01-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Mud-01\" width=\"940\" height=\"940\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sigNadineSykora.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-29179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sigNadineSykora-600x218.png\" alt=\"sigNadineSykora\" width=\"303\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking the elephants, training cheetahs, wrestling in the mud and more at the Living with Big Cats Volunteer Southern Africa Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,27],"tags":[931,1681,1701,1903,2482,2741,3057,3058,3059,3079],"class_list":["post-30922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-volunteer","tag-elephants","tag-lions","tag-living-with-big-cats","tag-mud-wrestling","tag-south-africa","tag-tigers","tag-volunteer-in-africa","tag-volunteer-programs","tag-volunteer-southern-africa","tag-walking-with-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}