The grand finale

South America
August 11th 2007

Published: August 12th 2007

After a whole month of travelling, I seem to have been brought back to earth with a bump. I'm back in Quito, living with my evil stepmother of a madre, and suddenly everyone is leaving Ecuador. I have four days left to go, and everything seems strangely surreal.As you can imagine, a month of travelling is quite a mouthful, so I'm just going to give you the highlights and some nice piccies to look ... Read Full Entry

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Buenos Aires!

Lovely lovely lovely.

The snowy pass

Chile is just over the horizon...

Teleférico!

What a wondrous trip that turned out to be.

Sunset in Viña del Mar

A bit shakey, but you get the picture.

A handsome moai

Near Hanga Roa.

A petroglyph

Scary.

Imogen holding up a moai

At the volcano quarry.

Fifteen moai!

Apparently they belonged to a very important family with very big heads.

The Navel of the Earth

I think I should have taken it more seriously.

Palm trees on the sacred beach

Ok, it's a bit cloudy, but it was really very nice.

Crater at Orongo

Nice and swampy.

Bird-man islands

The one in the background was where the sacred tern egg was to be found. What an effort!

Rapa Nui coastline

Check out that horizon.

Seaside ahu

Could that be sun, breaking through the clouds?

12th August 2007

maman et papa
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bravo!!
Nous avons lu ce blog chez Penny et Steve. Quel marathon!! Nous revenons en Angleterre demain après des vacances très relaxantes mais moins intéressantes que six mois en Amérique du Sud. A jeudi!

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