{"id":52284,"date":"2023-02-01T23:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/02\/papua-new-guinea-is-an-amazing-tourist-destination-more-australians-should-visit"},"modified":"2023-02-01T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:00:34","slug":"papua-new-guinea-is-an-amazing-tourist-destination-more-australians-should-visit-stefanie-vaccher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52284","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea is an amazing tourist destination, more Australians should visit | Stefanie Vaccher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being less than a two-hour flight from Australia, fewer than 80,000 people visited the country in 2019. Here\u2019s why you should make the trip<\/p>\n<p>Last June, I spent four days snorkelling in crystal clear water, swimming with dolphins, and learning to cook freshly caught fish on heated rocks. I wasn\u2019t in Fiji, Vanuatu or New Caledonia \u2013 some of the favourite Pacific holiday destinations for Australians \u2013 but in Nyapio, a tiny island in Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>I have been incredibly fortunate to live in PNG for the past two years. Travelling for work and pleasure, I have visited 15 of the country\u2019s 22 provinces. There is hardly a holiday you can\u2019t do in PNG.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/02\/papua-new-guinea-is-an-amazing-tourist-destination-more-australians-should-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being less than a two-hour flight from Australia, fewer than 80,000 people visited the country in 2019. Here\u2019s why you should make the tripLast June, I spent four days snorkelling in crystal clear water, swimming with dolphins, and learning to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-travel","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52291,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52284\/revisions\/52291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}