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EXPLAINED: Brave backpacker recovering after days lost in bush | Vintage Vibes

Backpacker Carolina Wilga has had a "good night's sleep", food and a shower since being rescued. (HANDOUT/ABC)

A German backpacker survived on minimal food and water for 11 nights in the rugged outback before finding a road and flagging down a motorist by "sheer luck". 

Carolina Wilga, 26, is recovering in hospital with cuts and bruises and suffering from dehydration and fatigue after a near two-week ordeal in the Western Australian wheatbelt.

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