{"id":1386,"date":"2012-09-21T05:28:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T05:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2012-09-21T05:32:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T05:32:35","slug":"the-south-pacific-the-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/09\/the-south-pacific-the-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"The South Pacific \u2013 The Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Countries visited: only three (Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu) although it felt like dozens in a region where the village over the hill probably speaks a different language<\/li>\n<li>Flights taken: 16 in six weeks. Of which we only had to charter one ourselves (or we would be bankrupt by now). Locals medevac-ed for urgent medical treatment in our spare seats: two<\/li>\n<li>Longest period without a hot shower: two full weeks, although cold showers, hot lava-warmed buckets and using industrial-strength insect repellent as deodorant go a long way (please think of this, when we are being gleeful about our posh flight tickets!)<\/li>\n<li>Nights spent sleeping on the floor with no bedclothes: two. Both in the rain, one in a leaky tent. Never again<\/li>\n<li>Number of naked boobs seen: several hundred. We have started to see them when we shut our eyes. The Horror. The Horror.<\/li>\n<li>Number of naked men seen. None, as a single banana leaf technically counts as being appropriately dressed on Ambrym<\/li>\n<li>Number of birds of paradise slaughtered to make headdresses for the Mount Hagen show: apparently none \u2013 apparently all the feathers are antique. So it only <em>looks<\/em> like thousands of these rare birds have been killed for your amusement<\/li>\n<li>Time it took to get comfortable with <em>everybody<\/em> being armed with a bloody great machete: shorter than you might think!<\/li>\n<li>Number of times robbed at knifepoint: zero. Number of times we thought someone might be <em>about<\/em> to rob us at knifepoint\u2026<\/li>\n<li>Occasions on which we fled the country under threat of police action: one. We love Port Moresby (hi Brian!)<\/li>\n<li>Active volcanoes climbed: two. Active volcanoes actually seen: one<\/li>\n<li>Meals consisting solely of bread or crackers, peanut butter and jam: a dozen? Maybe more \u2013 memory is merciful<\/li>\n<li>Mind-bendingly incredible experiences you couldn&#8217;t get anywhere else in the world. Half a dozen? The Mount Hagen show; a good couple along the Sepik river; the Ambrym festival; Mount Yasur volcano on Tanna; diving on WW2 wrecks in the Solomons. Absolutely amazing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries visited: only three (Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu) although it felt like dozens in a region where the village over the hill probably speaks a different language Flights taken: 16 in six weeks. Of which we only had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/09\/the-south-pacific-the-stats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}