{"id":19169,"date":"2014-11-27T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/lindblad-expeditions-in-the-south-pacifi-manihiki-island-of-pearls\/"},"modified":"2014-11-27T02:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T02:34:00","slug":"lindblad-expeditions-in-the-south-pacifi-manihiki-island-of-pearls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/11\/lindblad-expeditions-in-the-south-pacifi-manihiki-island-of-pearls\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindblad Expeditions in the South Pacifi: Manihiki, Island of Pearls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<span>#expeditioncruising <\/span> <br \/><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-V09AsgzRCik\/VHaM2Qr6pYI\/AAAAAAAAqnU\/ydcrt0od_JU\/s1600\/Manhiki_7604.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-V09AsgzRCik\/VHaM2Qr6pYI\/AAAAAAAAqnU\/ydcrt0od_JU\/s1600\/Manhiki_7604.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Manihiki Atoll in the distant Northern Cook Islands sits just under the 10 degree south parallel and actually sits atop a 4000m underwater mountain. The flat atoll is made up of around 60 tiny islets and is just a few metres above sea level.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Known widely as the &#8216;Island of Pearls&#8217;, Manihiki&#8217;s 4km wide lagoon supports an entire pearl industry and is dotted with ramshackle structures atop little outcrops that indicate oyster beds waiting to be harvested.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<i>National Geographic Orion<\/i>, we were told, is the first passenger ship ever to stop here and the locals turned out en masse to greet us with gorgeous singing children and a sampler of the energetic Cook Islands dancing that looks like hula on double fast forward.<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#expeditioncruising Manihiki Atoll in the distant Northern Cook Islands sits just under the 10 degree south parallel and actually sits atop a 4000m underwater mountain. The flat atoll is made up of around 60 tiny islets and is just a few metres above sea level. Known widely as the &#8216;Island of Pearls&#8217;, Manihiki&#8217;s 4km wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lindblad-expeditions","category-orion-expedition-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19169","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=19169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}