{"id":8550,"date":"2012-11-11T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/getting-the-gibbon-experience-2\/"},"modified":"2012-11-11T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T10:44:00","slug":"getting-the-gibbon-experience-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/11\/getting-the-gibbon-experience-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the Gibbon Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/leemylne.com\/images\/Lee%20Mylne%20Feb%202012.jpeg.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/leemylne.com\/images\/Lee%20Mylne%20Feb%202012.jpeg.jpg\" width=\"100\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Dispatch from <a href=\"http:\/\/leemylne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Mylne <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is World Responsible Tourism Day. To mark the occasion, here is a  story I wrote last year after travelling in Laos. This story, of which I  am very proud, was one of three finalists in the Best Responsible  Tourism Story category of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astw.org.au\/\">Australian Society of Travel Writers<\/a>\u2018  annual Travel Journalism Awards for Excellence, announced last week. It  was published in Geographical magazine in the UK. The wonderful images  accompanying this story were taken by Australian photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/paulwager.photoshelter.com\/\">Paul Wager<\/a>, who is based in Laos.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/yourstrulyleemylne.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/zip.jpg?w=523&#038;h=349\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/yourstrulyleemylne.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/zip.jpg?w=523&#038;h=349\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A guest at the Gibbon Experience riding part of the 52km of zip lines<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0READ FULL STORY AT LEE MYLNE&#8217;S BLOG: <a href=\"http:\/\/aglasshalf-full.com\/2012\/11\/07\/responsible-tourism-making-a-difference\/\" target=\"_blank\">A GLASS HALF FULL<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=10632258\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dispatch from Lee Mylne Today is World Responsible Tourism Day. To mark the occasion, here is a story I wrote last year after travelling in Laos. This story, of which I am very proud, was one of three finalists in the Best Responsible Tourism Story category of the Australian Society of Travel Writers\u2018 annual Travel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-8550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-lee-mylne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}