Orongo Easter Island

Well, I finally made it!!! Woo Hoo!!! Easter Island. Someplace I have wanted to go to for a long, long time. Finally broke down and made the long flight from Santiago. All I have to say is so far TOTALLY COOL!!!!!!

Can you tell I'm excited to be here? Ok, just a little.

After getting up at 5am, (yes, after arriving around midnight …

... a 6 hour flight away and the remotest inhabited island in the world, we were actually staying in Chile, just leaving Santiago.  Our destination: Easter Island/Rapa Nui.  I had been looking forward to going to Easter Island since we booked the ...

Greetings from the town of Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island) Well, this certainly wasn't part of the plan! In fact I'm now on about plan J I reckon, plans A to I having fallen by the wayside, but this is one big vote for maintaining ...

... to the sound of the waves crashing against rocks not 10m from our tent. Andrew Edit - It had been a great day and a great introduction to Easter Island, our Polynesian stop, the sunset was just as amazing as the sunrise however Erica, was fast ...

... the US and Canada over the next few months. You can follow his travels here, as well as watch some of his videos from Easter Island: Drew's Walkabout Drew and I rented push-bikes (one day we biked around the entire island in eight hours, it's that ...

... be Atlantis!) and the short ears from the Marquesas islands. It`s also thought that the Maoris from New Zealand are descendents from Easter Island. The early settlers called the island "Te Pito O Te Henua" (Navel of The World). And Patricio took us to ...

... left a bit of a bitter taste in our mouth so we were really looking forward to experience the mysteries of the statues at Easter Island. Flying across the Pacific we had a fair bit of turbulence, with the Captain flicking on the seatbelt sign a number ...

I don't think I've ever been to a place that's so isolated than Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it's called by the locals. It was quite amusing seeing our flight path from Tahiti - it was literally from one dot to another and the rest of the screen was ...

... water where Rapa Nui people used to come down here to obtain fresh water since there are no river on the island. Next we head on over the Orongo village where we see the ruins of former birdman cult houses and some nice petroglyphs. The moai building ...

... . He met his girlfriend on the Island and she has finally moved in with him from their long distance relationship between Easter Island and Santiago. He speaks fluent French, English and Spanish and undertakes our guide in English and Spanish. His ...

... return to this tropical island 4000 km from anywhere else.    So far we had flown from Santiago de Chile to Rapa Nui (Easter Island), 3600 km from the South American continent.  Now we were flying from Rapa Nui to Tahiti, which ...