{"id":278436,"date":"2018-06-20T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=278436"},"modified":"2018-06-20T06:00:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:00:50","slug":"trip-to-the-northern-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trip-to-the-northern-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to the Northern Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-278436 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trip-to-the-northern-islands\/pagan-pix-1\/'>Pagan pix 1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-278437'>\n\t\t\t\tSmoked meat are carefully prepared by the people who live in Pagan. These are put into bags to give out to relatives living on Alagmagan and Saipan. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trip-to-the-northern-islands\/pagan-pix-2-2\/'>Pagan pix 2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-278438'>\n\t\t\t\tThere are no accommodations on Pagan so visitors are asked to camp out to experience the island organically.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trip-to-the-northern-islands\/pagan-pix-3-2\/'>Pagan pix 3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-278439'>\n\t\t\t\tA walkway of trees that leads to the south side of Pagan Island.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trip-to-the-northern-islands\/pagan-pix-4-2\/'>Pagan pix 4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-278440'>\n\t\t\t\tThe dock on Pagan built by the Japanese during World War II overlooking the volcano in the north side. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trip-to-the-northern-islands\/pagan-pix-5\/'>Pagan pix 5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-278441'>\n\t\t\t\tMiles and miles of coconut trees surround the island of Pagan that makes it a good source of copra for the CNMI.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trip-to-the-northern-islands\/pagan-pix-6\/'>Pagan pix 6<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-278442'>\n\t\t\t\tThe cleared area in the middle is where people established their homes on Alamagan Island. There are currently seven people who live on the island. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trip-to-the-northern-islands\/pagan-pix-7\/'>Pagan pix 7<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-278443'>\n\t\t\t\tHardened lava found around the north volcano of Pagan. It also blocks a portion of the runway that is why planes have a hard time landing on Pagan. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trip-to-the-northern-islands\/pagan-pix-8\/'>Pagan pix 8<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-278444'>\n\t\t\t\tPagan is made up of volcanic rocks just like all the islands in Micronesia but rock formations in Pagan are unique and majestic.\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":278437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[541],"class_list":["post-278436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fotogalleria","tag-northern-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}