Manutara Hotel Easter Island

... space cos they enlarged the runway so that the space shuttle could land there if it needed. now that's part of the first pub quiz fact about the place-by enlarging the runway, it allowed concorde to land there and also until recently, made it the largest runway in that part of the world (no. 1 spot now goes to some place in brazil). interesting fact no.2 is that the island strangely looks just like scotland, but with some palm ...

Joe says: Arrived after a 5 and a half hour flight from santiago, the flight was actually quite compfortable as it had movies and stuff so it just flew. arrived at the airport and were greeted by a girl from our hostel. She gave us some flower necklaces (just like ud see in Hawaii) good start. We got to our hostel and were shown to our room which wasnt great to tell the truth but what the hell we were only spendin 3 days there ...

... the sea. It was then time to return to the ship, although the sea conditions had become somewhat more favourable they still were choppy, but once back on board we set sail for our next stop of 'Pitcairn' - which requires another 2 days sailing. As we were rather late getting back on board we decided this evening to dine up in the buffet before watching the show which was a compilation of the juggler who we had seen earlier in the week along with the 'West End' singer Annette Yeo.

... and unremarkable, covered with groves of omnipresent eucalyptus trees. That dull appearance, however, yielded its place to a magnificent view of the caldera from the rim - a wide cauldron with precipitous walls and a shallow overgrown lake at the bottom. On the highest point of the rim was perched Orongo - ceremonial village of the late island dwellers, probably the last relic of bygone civilisation. It was still too early by Rapa Nui standards (10am or so), the village was ...

... football in the living room and he was teaching me that in English the name of the sing** of "Born in the USA" is not Bruce Espringsteen.....and now he is the fath** of two and expecting a third one. Live goes by vee**y fast, so enjoy it!!! Marisa, we are coming!!!!!! Brigitte - Hallo od** Ia Orana auf ost**inlaendisch!!! Sorry fu** die fehl** beim Tippen, dieses keyboard in tahiti bringt mich zum v**zweifeln, dah** nur auf klein jetyt; ja die ost**insel hatte uns ...

... before heading back to the hostel and had the leftover pasta from yesterday. Again I was too tired to head back to Ahu Tahai to check out the sun set, so I stayed in the hostel and slept early. 31/10/2008 (FRI) It's ...

... is very rugged with high cliffs and rocky plateaus, and the waves here are monstrous and relentless.    At the edge of one of the cliffs was a rocky platform with what initially seemed like a row of large slabs of rock with several boulders. As we neared the platform, it turned out that this was indeed an ahu with toppled moai.    There were many wars among the various clans on the island and many of the moai were destroyed or toppled. In 1960, a massive ...

Here´s my belated Bolivia / Chile / Easter Island Blog (July 18-31)... Hello folks, well just when I though I had experienced it all, along comes the Andean Altiplano region of Peru-Bolivia-Chile, which served up more extremes in 1 week, than I've lived on this entire trip... So I crossed the border into Bolivia, travelling along the Lake Titicaca to Copacapana before moving on to La Paz (highest capital city in the world at approx 4000m ...

... to anything but the dog. He was barking a lot - obviously we were near his territory! Eventually he left us alone - thankfully. <br><br>We chose to eat at Pea - as much for it's location as anything else. It is on a pier that juts out over the sea. We watched a beautiful sunset, wine in hand and enjoyed a lovely meal of tuna steak and accompaniments. Very nice and relaxing. No dog on exit either!<br><br>On the way back we sat out at one of the bars on the coast ...