Blogs from Easter Island, Chile, South America - page 18

Today, I elected to take an orientation tour around Easter Island, which was fabulous. It was great to have a guide explaining the sights and she was excellent in making sure I understood what was being said. The group was pretty small at 10 tourists and two guides. We split into two smaller groups of 5 at each site. The tour kicked off at Vinapu, very close to the airport for a single Moai, then we moved along the east coast, to Vaihu and Akahanga, both sites had Moai to admire, both unrestored. One had fallen. afterwards, we moved to the "Moai Nursery", Rano Raraku, the quarry where the Moai were created before being moved to their Ahu. Here, it is stunning - Moai everywhere in all sorts of readiness for moving to their eventual destination. ... read more

Easter Island wa amazing, here are some pics...... read more

Easter Island Imagine a town of 4,000 people situated where Winnipeg is and its closest neighbours were in St John's Newfoundland and Victoria, BC. That's about the way it is in Hanga Roa, the town of Easter Island. Imagine ... a town more remote than Winnipeg! ... just a joke. The Island´s nearest neighbours are mainland Chile and Tahiti, each a 5 hour flight away. The island is directly south of Salt Lake City, Utah and forms one apex of the triangle in the Pacific which marks the Polynesian Islands. Fortunately I thought about going to the Easter Islands before I reached Santiago. The airline prices are more reasonable the further in advance that you book. One British fellow at the place I stayed booked the day before and paid $800. I paid $400 by ... read more

Well one day back in early April, I decided to take a peek at the LAN Chile website (www.lan.com) to get a ballpark figure how much it would cost me to go to Easter Island while traveling around South America. Easter Island is somewhere that I have always wanted to go, but the cost of the flight sets most travelers back around $800. I searched for flights at the beginning of when I had planned to head back to South America, and the price that I could back was absolutely amazing... $350 round trip for a week on Easter Island. I immediately went to the Air Canada website, where I had been many times before in the past month, reserved a ticket to fly from Ottawa to Santiago, then went back to the LAN website ... read more

Easter Island..... there is so much I want to say, but just can't describe (my English is getting rusty, but really this place is hard to put to words). So you must rely on my photos and what little else I can offer. This island is an enchanting and mystical place. I spent my first morning watching the sunrise over a row of moai (the large statues) which was spectacular in spite of being briefly interrupted by a rain storm (which seemed to just add to the mysticism). I then drove all over the island with a rental car (surprise, there are cars here) seeing the sights and hiking volcanoes (dormant but still spectacular). The one volcano, Ranu Raraku, was the birth place of the moai and all over are abandoned statues that were carved ... read more