{"id":4328,"date":"2010-08-01T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T05:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walkabout.be\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2026-06-18T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:37:56","slug":"pajero-down-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/?p=4328","title":{"rendered":"Pajero down south"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 August 2010 &#8211; Pont des Japonais and the Riviere des Pirogues. July 10, 2010.<br>First attempt to cross the river, failed miserably. Rule of thumb: ALWAYS check the depth&#8230; I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Celine and Audrey managed to hitch a ride with the only car for hours, Nico went to get a tow, and I remained with the car. 4PM, there was two hours of daylight at most. My clothes were wet and the wind was biting. To avoid pneumonia, I stripped naked, leaving my wet clothes to dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There I was, alone in the middle of nowhere, naked, without water, food, fire or any means of communication. Waiting for a hypothetical car that may or may not find me in this maze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We got the car out of the water but should the engine not have started, I would have had to abandon it as the mountain was too steep to tow me up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pajero FTW !<\/p>\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following time, I went across the bridge&#8230; August 01, 2010.<br><\/p>\n\n\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 August 2010 &#8211; Pont des Japonais and the Riviere des Pirogues. July 10, 2010.First attempt to cross the river, failed miserably. Rule of thumb: ALWAYS check the depth&#8230; I didn&#8217;t. While Celine and Audrey managed to hitch a ride with the only car for hours, Nico went to get a tow, and I, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/?p=4328\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Pajero down south","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[188,94,375],"tags":[63,104,98,71],"class_list":["post-4328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-new-caledonia","category-photos","tag-4-x-4","tag-couchsurfing","tag-grande-terre","tag-pajero"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27S7o-17O","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkabout.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_4222.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47816,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions\/47816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkabout.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}