We are sitting in the hotel’s breakfast room finishing off a bottle of vino blanco while an interview is being filmed next to us. I have no idea what it is about or who is being interviewed, but we haven’t been asked to move and are sitting only just out of shot.
Today was very quiet. [...]
Today is Day 4 of the 5 day tour and is a “day at leisure”. The sea is too rough to go diving, hiring a car would see us driving to places we have already been and we have visited at least ¾ of the shops in the village. There is not a lot to [...]
Today we have two half day tours with the two remaining Australians. There was a three hour break in the middle. We visited more huas and the ceremonial village of Orongo. It was just near here that I failed to find my second cache on Easter Island. Ground zero was an opening under a pile [...]
Today we had a tour a tour with the six other Australians. Every site seeing spot involved stone statues in one form or another. We began at the sparse but interesting anthropology museum to learn all about the Rapa Nui people and the main periods in their history. (Before the Maoi, building the Maoi, smashing [...]
The flight to Easter Island was great because it was on a 767-300 refitted with a new entertainment system. It had both video and audio on demand with a choice of over 70 movies and TV shows and 300 CDs. There were also video games.
At Easter Island our bags were almost the last on the [...]
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