点评:My wife and I toured this remote site this morning located 38km SE of Kolonia. We were fortunate to encounter betel nut chewing Herbert(Waido Taxi) when going to Palikir at 8:15AM to see the new Supreme Court and Capital Buildings. He mentioned he took 2 clients to this remote site yesterday and would be happy to take us for $80.
The Circle Island Road was in good paved condition, until branching off on Temwen Access Road (signposted at 2.5 miles from the Nan Madol site), then deteriorated rapidly into a pothole crawl.
Herbert stopped at a house in the jungle where I gave $2 to an older man, then later at a dead end, he called at a house where I gave an even older man $6. Herbert led off on the downward trail into jungle where we saw our 1st large stone wall, then on through the mangroves where coral was laid with several wood bridges to continue over the mud flats at low tide. He stopped to view 2 large Mangrove crabs as we continued to a sandy stream where we took off our shoes and crossed the ~50’ to enter the huge Royal Ceremonial Center of which many pictures here describe.
Returning to Kolonia, Herbert led us to a home where I paid $10 each to access the nice trail to the remarkable 66’ tall Kepirohi Waterfall, under full flood with all the recent rain.
It rained going back to our 7 Stars Hotel at 1:15PM, making a full, tiring but fruitful 5 hour morning tour of Pohnpei.
翻译:今天早上,我和妻子参观了这个位于科洛尼亚东南 38 公里处的偏远地点。我们早上8:15去帕利基尔参观新的最高法院和首都大厦时,很幸运遇到了嚼槟榔的Herbert(Waido Taxi)。他提到他昨天带了 2 位客户来到这个偏远的地点,很乐意以 80 美元的价格带我们去。
环岛路的铺装状况良好,直到在 Temwen Access Road 分岔(路标距离 Nan Madol 工地 2.5 英里处),然后迅速恶化,变成坑坑洼洼的道路。
赫伯特在丛林中的一所房子前停了下来,我给了一位年长的男子 2 美元,后来在一个死胡同里,他来到一所房子,我给了一位更年长的男子 6 美元。赫伯特沿着向下的小路进入丛林,在那里我们看到了第一堵大石墙,然后穿过红树林,那里有珊瑚和几座木桥,在退潮时继续越过泥滩。当我们继续前往一条沙溪时,他停下来观看了两只大红树林蟹,在那里我们脱掉鞋子,穿过约 50 英尺,进入巨大的皇家仪式中心,这里的许多照片都描述了这个中心。
回到科洛尼亚后,赫伯特带我们去了一户人家,我每人付了 10 美元,沿着这条漂亮的小路到达了 66 英尺高的 Kepirohi 瀑布,由于最近的降雨,瀑布被洪水淹没了。
下午1点15分回到七星级酒店时,下着雨,我们度过了充实、疲惫但富有成效的5小时波纳佩早上之旅。