{"id":65603,"date":"2025-07-14T19:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65603\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T19:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:01:15","slug":"carolina-wilga-german-backpacker-reveals-she-dropped-12-kilograms-while-lost-in-wa-outback-for-12-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65603\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Wilga: German backpacker reveals she dropped 12 kilograms while lost in WA outback for 12 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">German backpacker Carolina Wilga has revealed she lost 12 kilograms during her harrowing 12-day ordeal in the WA outback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The 26-year-old returned to social media on Monday night, posting a photo from her hospital bed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">In the image, Ms Wilga is seen smiling, surrounded by food gifted to her by the German Consulate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cWhen you need to gain 12 kilograms back,\u201d the photo caption read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Ms Wilga was miraculously found alive on Friday after going missing for nearly two weeks in the remote Wheatbelt bush.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6722a08653d1354d5feac0ad42d7063e2e941d30.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina Wilga all smiles as she recovers in hospital.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconCarolina Wilga all smiles as she recovers in hospital. Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Breaking her silence about the traumatic experience, Ms Wilga explained that she became lost after losing control of her van, hitting her head, and wandering away from her bogged vehicle in a state of confusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cSome people might wonder why I even left my car, even though I had water, food and clothing there,\u201d she said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cThe answer is: I lost control of the car and rolled down a slope. In the crash, I hit my head significantly. As a result, I left my car in a state of confusion and got lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1b53c2ef559a54ea2b90f0cb34944177b538a901.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina Wilga\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconCarolina Wilga Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">She survived by drinking rainwater from puddles and sleeping in a cave, before being rescued by farmer Tania French.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Ms French had been driving along Mouroubra Road in Bimbijy \u2014 about 24km northwest of where the bogged van was found \u2014 when a dishevelled Ms Wilga flagged her down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Ravaged by mosquitoes, dehydrated and covered in cuts and bruises, Ms Wilga was taken in by police before being flown to Perth for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">She is expected to remain at Fiona Stanley Hospital for a few more nights as her condition continues to improve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1602i1f-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\"><a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/wa\/carolina-wilga-german-backpacker-breaks-silence-after-being-lost-in-wa-outback-for-12-days-c-19350310\" rel=\"noopener\">READ HER FULL STATEMENT HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German backpacker Carolina Wilga has revealed she lost 12 kilograms during her harrowing 12-day ordeal in the WA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,14736,50,14737,8632],"class_list":{"0":"post-65603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-disaster-and-emergency","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-perth","12":"tag-wa-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114853136503619818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}