{"id":16746,"date":"2026-05-17T23:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/05\/17\/there-are-only-2-countries-starting-with-z-and-why-travellers-should-explore-them\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:50:22","slug":"there-are-only-2-countries-starting-with-z-and-why-travellers-should-explore-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=16746","title":{"rendered":"There are only 2 countries starting with \u2018Z\u2019 and why travellers should explore them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-131153515,imgsize-143134.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<p>Think of the letter \u201cZ\u201d and only zebra comes to mind! But did you know there are two countries in the world starting with Z and these are dream international holiday destinations. These are Zambia and Zimbabwe, both South African countries dotted with some stunning landscapes and national parks, wondrous waterfalls and heritage sites. Both the nations are known for their adventure tourism opportunities. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s have a closer at these two nations:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/life-style\/travel\/destinations\/there-are-only-2-countries-starting-with-z-and-why-travellers-should-explore-them\/photostory\/131153515.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of the letter \u201cZ\u201d and only zebra comes to mind! But did you know there are two countries in the world starting with Z and these are dream international holiday destinations. These are Zambia and Zimbabwe, both South African countries dotted with some stunning landscapes and national parks, wondrous waterfalls and heritage sites. Both&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}