{"id":14906,"date":"2009-07-16T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/pandaw-cruises-rajang-river-rapids-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T11:42:00","slug":"pandaw-cruises-rajang-river-rapids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/07\/pandaw-cruises-rajang-river-rapids-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandaw Cruises: Rajang River Rapids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the hairy bit. River level was down, rocks poking out everywhere, but the local skipper just kept the boot in and a huge 1000hp twin turbo MTU marine diesel just screamed. The boats are easily 30m long, so they&#8217;re not dinghies. The guy hanging on for all crap in front of me is a retired Rear Admiral!<\/p>\n<p>This is a typical vessel, built on an old Soviet design and common on the Mekong too.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/Sl8Tjnlz9CI\/AAAAAAAAG3k\/wsaKzWOCuGM\/s1600-h\/fastferry.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/Sl8Tjnlz9CI\/AAAAAAAAG3k\/wsaKzWOCuGM\/s400\/fastferry.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the hairy bit. River level was down, rocks poking out everywhere, but the local skipper just kept the boot in and a huge 1000hp twin turbo MTU marine diesel just screamed. The boats are easily 30m long, so they&#8217;re not dinghies. The guy hanging on for all crap in front of me is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-14906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pandaw-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}