{"id":199,"date":"2015-09-06T07:23:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T06:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/?p=199"},"modified":"2020-02-15T09:10:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T09:10:03","slug":"saturday-5th-septemberpicnics-birds-and-dining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/saturday-5th-septemberpicnics-birds-and-dining\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 5th September:<br>Picnics, birds and dining&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_0610.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_0610-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Orchids in PNG...\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_0610-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_0610.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orchids in PNG&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Port Moresby Nature Park was the first stop of the day and by 10.30 it was already about 36C and we were given a tour of the Nature Park.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was a graduation party from a primary school with 1000 people celebrating with picnics in cool boxes! Bit different from yesterday at the schoo<\/p>\n<p>I was really interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.png-orchids.com\/344992687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the orchids<\/a>, and PNG has 3,800 species.<\/p>\n<p>We then travelled to St John&#8217;s Cathedral, which was in the port area, next to the smart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandpapuahotel.com.pg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grand Papua Hotel<\/a>. Lunch there was very welcome and made us pretty sleepy for the two hour meeting that followed.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening we had a celebration meal at the <a href=\"http:\/\/lagunahotelpng.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laguna Hotel<\/a>, very elegant with an enticing pool. A lovely meal and we managed a little dancing to the two musicians with Bishop Jonathan singing on the &#8216;mike&#8217; for a while.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reverend Sue Martin<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/signoffChurchIcon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/signoffChurchIcon.png\" alt=\"Papua New Guinea 2015\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Papua New Guinea 2015 &#8211; a day of contrasts&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Moresby Nature Park was the first stop of the day and by 10.30 it was already about 36C and we were given a tour of the Nature Park. There was a graduation party from a primary school with 1000 people celebrating with picnics in cool boxes! Bit different from yesterday at the schoo I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/saturday-5th-septemberpicnics-birds-and-dining\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday 5th September:<br \/>Picnics, birds and dining&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[33,6,31,32,30,9,11,14],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-norwich","category-papua-new-guinea","category-pilgrimage","tag-cassowary","tag-faith","tag-grand-papua-hotel","tag-laguna-hotel","tag-nature-park","tag-papua-new-guinea","tag-pilgrimage","tag-port-moresby"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xUPl-3d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}