{"id":1236,"date":"2018-09-11T01:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T01:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2018-09-11T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T21:35:06","slug":"monday-september-10-2018-camel-ride-date-farm-musical-performance-fossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"Monday, September 10, 2018 ~ Camel Ride, Date Farm, Musical Performance, Fossils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We rode camels on the Sahara this morning. \u00c2\u00a0The temperature was pleasant when we rode them at 9:39 this morning.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3666.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1226\" height=\"640\" width=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3666.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3666-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3669.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1227 size-full\" height=\"640\" width=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3669.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3669-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We visited a farmer who had 100 date palms. \u00c2\u00a0He showed us how he hand pollinated each branch. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0We also saw how he irrigated them. \u00c2\u00a0Then he climbed up one of the trees. \u00c2\u00a0He is very agile at 64 years old.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3714.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1228 size-full\" height=\"640\" width=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3714.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3714-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is date harvesting time.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3723.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1229 size-full\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3723.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3723-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We went to Kahmlia where we heard a group play percussion and sing some Moroccan songs. \u00c2\u00a0It reminded me of the times I played Afro-Cuban rhythms in drum circles.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3750.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1230\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3750.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3750-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our tent at the OAT tented camp where we stayed two nights.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3780.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1231\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3780.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3780-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New OAT Sahara Camp opened this summer &#8211; dining tent and meeting tent<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3788.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1232 size-full\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3788.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3788-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the sleeping tents<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3785.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1233\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3785.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3785-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sahara sunset that I saw on the second night<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3771.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1234\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3771.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3771-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My henna tattoo against the Sahara sand during the sunset<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3756.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1235 size-full\" height=\"640\" width=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3756.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_3756-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We rode camels on the Sahara this morning. \u00c2\u00a0The temperature was pleasant when we rode them at 9:39 this morning. We visited a farmer who had 100 date palms. \u00c2\u00a0He showed us how he hand pollinated each branch. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0We also &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/?p=1236\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}