{"id":110,"date":"2013-05-15T14:08:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2019-02-09T22:16:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T19:16:42","slug":"local-village-connection-while-on-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/local-village-connection-while-on-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Village Connection while on Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For too long, the only interaction many travelers had with locals came in the form of awkward photo ops with &#8220;tribesmen&#8221; costumed in traditional garb. But safari operators such as Kenya&#8217;s <a title=\"Kenya tour operators\" href=\"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\"><strong>African Sermon Safaris<\/strong><\/a> are making local interactions more meaningful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114\" alt=\"tips and tricks being passed down from a masai moran to a tourist kid\" src=\"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tips-and-tricks-being-passed-down-from-a-masai-moran-to-a-tourist-kid1-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tips-and-tricks-being-passed-down-from-a-masai-moran-to-a-tourist-kid1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tips-and-tricks-being-passed-down-from-a-masai-moran-to-a-tourist-kid1-142x190.jpg 142w, https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tips-and-tricks-being-passed-down-from-a-masai-moran-to-a-tourist-kid1-60x80.jpg 60w, https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tips-and-tricks-being-passed-down-from-a-masai-moran-to-a-tourist-kid1-251x335.jpg 251w, https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tips-and-tricks-being-passed-down-from-a-masai-moran-to-a-tourist-kid1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They offer visits to nearby villages that are less about gawking and more about hanging out. The tourists engage in various local dances and sample Kenya or Tanzania authentic food. They start to explore the similarities and not the differences between cultures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-112\" alt=\"masai showing their dance moves to tourists\" src=\"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/masai-showing-their-dance-moves-to-tourists1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"377\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For too long, the only interaction many travelers had with locals came in the form of awkward photo ops with &#8220;tribesmen&#8221; costumed in traditional garb. But safari operators such as Kenya&#8217;s African Sermon Safaris are making local interactions more meaningful. They offer visits to nearby villages that are less about gawking and more about hanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,97,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa-safari-tours","category-general","category-kenya-safari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africansermonsafaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}