Camping Mihinoa Easter Island

Yippee! Easter Island! This was a place I really wanted to go to and it has certainly been worth it! We arrived at the airport to be met by a girl from the campsite who presented us with flower garlands so that was cool and we were off to a good start! We were driven to the campsite along with a German couple Siri and Andew where we all pitched our tents then went to explore Hanga Roa the islands only town. It was a pretty town and even had a few Moai, the giant stone statues built by the ori...

So this entry is pretty later. But the poetry essay i am "writing" right now is even later, so i guess i will try and prioritize better next time... On October 14th, after a sleepless night trying to finish my assigned essay (late) I climbed onto a bus to Santiago with 5 kids from my program with all of our backpacks and a really heavy cooler. Yes, a cooler. Apparently, Easter Island is way the heck out there in the middle of nowhere, literally the most remote inhabited island in the world an...

22nd - 26th June 2008 Sorry about delay guys! Easter Island/Rapa Nui/Isla de Pascua (whatever you want to call it!) Well we decided to take a chunk out of our budget and fly to Easter Island which although it is a part of Chile its actually a 5 hour ish flight from Santiago. We landed at about 10pm at the only airport on the Island and were picked up by a guy from camping Minhoah which is where we were staying. The airport was tiny just one gate for all departures and arrivals, the guy picked...

Mysterious Rapa Nui, or Easter Island as its better known. The most remote inhabited place on earth, 2000km from the nearest inhabited island and 3700km from the coast of Chile. Best known for the megalithic statues of Moai found all over the island.

This was a place that we will never forget.

To start, a good luck story for a change...We had pre-booked a cheap double room online as Easter Island can be VERY expensive so we really hacked for the cheapest options - it was at a c...

What a weirdly amazing place! When we flew to Easter Island, we flew over the ocean for 5 hours to get there. Just ocean...nothing else. This is one of the remotest places in the world. The next closest place in Tahiti! It is surprisingly small. You can drive from one end to the other in less than 30 minutes...and then there is nothing but ocean for thousands of kilometers. On our first day we did a 9km hike from the town up to this incredible volcano crater. Its perfectly round and MASSIVE a...