{"id":4393,"date":"2011-09-28T14:15:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T12:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/taking-a-walk-on-the-%e2%80%98wild%e2%80%99-side\/"},"modified":"2011-09-28T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T12:15:25","slug":"taking-a-walk-on-the-%e2%80%98wild%e2%80%99-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/taking-a-walk-on-the-%e2%80%98wild%e2%80%99-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Walk on the \u2018Wild\u2019 Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><\/p>\n<p>Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism (NMBT) celebrated World Tourism Day today by promoting green and sustainable tourism.<\/p>\n<p>A group of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/T_,045_From_Tables_to_Tyres\/Tourist_Information_,045_see_Visitors_Information_Bureaux\/nelson_mandela_bay_tourism_4477.html\" target=\"_blank\">NMBT<\/a> employees and members walked the Guinea Fowl Hiking Trail which meanders along the edge of the Baakens River flood-plain \u2013 an easy walk below the city suburbs in the midst of wildflowers, trees and blue water lilies. The hike was part of the September Tourism Month celebrations which are focused on finding one icon for the city.<\/p>\n<p>NMBT chief executive Mandlakazi Skefile said that both green tourism and encouraging a love of the city in the locals is high on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/T_,045_From_Tables_to_Tyres\/Tourist_Information_,045_see_Visitors_Information_Bureaux\/nelson_mandela_bay_tourism_4477.html\" target=\"_blank\">NMBT<\/a> agenda for the next few months. \u201cWe chose to do the Guinea Fowl Hiking Trail today to highlight the fact that we are one of the few city destinations in South Africa that has a green belt running right through the middle of the inner city \u2013 this is really one of our unique selling points,\u201d said Skefile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/bc35b_Guinea_Fowl_Trail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8083\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/bc35b_Guinea_Fowl_Trail.jpg\" alt=\"Guinea Fowl Trail\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guinea Fowl Trail<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism (NMBT) celebrated World Tourism Day today by promoting green and sustainable tourism. A group of NMBT employees and members walked the Guinea Fowl Hiking Trail which meanders along the edge of the Baakens River flood-plain \u2013 an easy walk below the city suburbs in the midst of wildflowers, trees and blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-4393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}