{"id":4581,"date":"2020-11-07T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2020-11-28T09:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T07:57:48","slug":"valley-of-desolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4581","title":{"rendered":"Valley of Desolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Valley of Desolation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safarinow.com\/destinations\/Graaff-Reinet\/PopularAttractions\/Valley-of-Desolation.aspx\">is often described as a part of the Camdeboo National Park<\/a>, but in fact it&#8217;s not in the park at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201108-084208-1100-T-IMG_8935-20201108-084220-1100-T-IMG_8938_fused.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4583\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201108-084208-1100-T-IMG_8935-20201108-084220-1100-T-IMG_8938_fused.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What the park has is a high lookout point which gives you a view of the Valley of Desolation, which happens to be pretty much the scenery you drove over to get to the park in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4587\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201108_091054rr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Valley of Desolation is often described as a part of the Camdeboo National Park, but in fact it&#8217;s not in the park at all. What the park has is a high lookout point which gives you a view of the Valley of Desolation, which happens to be pretty much the scenery you drove over to get to the park in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kruger-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4581"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4588,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}